Late Classic Period (Temporal Keyword)

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Northland Research, Inc., (Northland) has completed Phase II archaeological data recovery within a portion of the Cactus Forest site (AZ AA:3:214[ASM]), located near Cactus Forest, Pinal County, Arizona (Figures 1.1 and 1.2). The work was undertaken in advance of planned improvements to the intersection of State Route 79 (SR 79) and Cactus Forest Road by the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT). Northland performed the work under contract to Jones & Stokes and ADOT. The primary purpose of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Laurene G. Montero.

Archaeological test excavations have been conducted at a portion of La Ciudad de los Hornos (AZ U:9:71 (ASM)), a prehistoric multicomponent Hohokam village. The field work for this project, sponsored by AMCOR Investment Company, was undertaken during the fall of 1989 by Northland Research, Inc. pursuant to the proposed redevelopment of the Casa Fiesta trailer park. The Casa Fiesta project area consists of a 55-acre (22-ha), triangular lot. Archaeological testing consisted of cutting a series of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text John Welch. John H. Madsen.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file that consists of the AZ AA:3:156 (ASM) site, located on State Trust land. The site is comprised of depressions, a pit house (alternatively described as a room block in various documents), artifact scatter, trash deposits, and a burial ground. The file consists of a Arizona State Museum archaeological survey form and five maps of the site location. The earliest dated document is from 1986.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Bruce B. Huckell.

This report deals with the investigation of three prehistoric archaeological sites on the North: the portion of Range 1, Luke Air Force Bombing and Gunnery Range. These sites were located within the impact area of facilities associated with the Coronet Real Project, a target construction and rebuilding operation. Largest of the three was AZ Y:8:3 which was cut by a proposed road right-of-way; investigation indicated that it was a Patayan I site with some later Classic period utilization, AZ...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Margerie Green. Richard W. Effland, Jr..

At the request of Ramon Fierros of the Environmental Management Department, Arizona Public Service Company (APS), Archaeological Consulting Services (ACS) initiated a cultural resource survey for the proposed relocation of the 230 kV transmission line which links the Lincoln and Ocotillo substations (Figure 1). The Lincoln substation is located on Lincoln Street and Third Avenue in Phoenix, and the Ocotillo substation is on University and McClintock in Tempe . Relocation of the line is necessary...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Patti Fennen. V. Collins.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Dry Creek Ruin site, comprised of a limestone and river boulder pueblo with trash middens, terracing, and artifact scatter, located on Tonto National Forest land. The file consists of a cultural resource preliminary inventory form, cultural resources inventory form, one page site data overview, and map of the site location. The earliest dated document is from 1928.

DOCUMENT Full-Text A.B. Young. C. Stephens. J. S. Carey. J. S. Wood.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Dugan Ranch Site, located on Tonto National Forest land. The site is comprised of a Classic Period Hohokam compound or caserón with 43 rooms, as well as roasting pits, field houses, checkdams, terraces, artifact scatter, and burials. The file consists of a heritage inventory form, site map, two pages of field notes, an Arizona State University Site Survey Form, and a map of the site location. The earliest dated document is from 1968.

DOCUMENT Full-Text John Douglass.

"This book is in the great tradition of settlement pattern surveys . . . and is fused with the recent development of household archaeology. . . .Those who read it will find that it has great methodological significance, not just for the Maya area but also for other areas of the world as well. It is an important book." —Dean E. Arnold, Wheaton College The rural sector of agrarian societies has historically been viewed as composed of undifferentiated households primarily interested in...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Steve Fuller. William Gibson.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Howard Ruin site, located on Tonto National Forest land. The site is comprised of a Hohokam room block or pueblo with outlying compound, artifact scatter, burial pits, trash deposit, and a roasting pit. The file consists of a heritage inventory form, hand drawn site maps, maps of the site location, a page of notes, a Forest Service Archaeological and Historical Site Inventory form, and two Central Arizona Water Control Study site descriptions. The...

DOCUMENT Full-Text R. Neily. C. Donta. J. Howard.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Ister Flats site, located on Tonto National Forest land. The site is comprised of a Late Classic Sinagua room block with courtyards, trash mounds, a rock-lined pit, and artifact scatter. The file consists of a site data form, hand drawn maps of the site, maps of the site location, an artifact diversity form, a Tonto National Forest cultural resources inventory form, a Central Arizona Water Control Study site description form, and an Arizona State...

IMAGE Will Russell.

Maps generated by Will Russell as part of The Racetrack Project

DOCUMENT Full-Text Mary Ownby.

Report provides the results of petrographic analyses of pottery and sand samples from Perry Mesa, central Arizona. The samples are plain ware dated to the Late Classic (A.D. 1280–1400; Pueblo III to Pueblo IV) from four major and several smaller sites. Results indicate several specific paste recipes that could have been made on Perry Mesa, but likely not at the major sites. Some pottery was also acquired from areas to the east of Perry Mesa. Companion to Kiva article, Abbott et al. 2021, "An...

PROJECT Will Russell. Katherine Spielmann. David Abbott. Arizona State University (ASU).

Between A.D. 1250 and 1450, a large number of ceremonial racetracks were built at and between villages in north-central Arizona. This assemblage began as a relatively dispersed collection, stretching from the Sedona area down to Cave Creek and from the Bradshaw Mountains to the Mazatzal Wilderness. Over time, the racetrack network grew in intensity but became spatially focused atop Perry Mesa, along the middle Agua Fria River. In conjunction with the Legacies on the Landscape Project and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Mark Chenault. Deni Seymour. David Greenwald. Richard Ahlstrom. Thomas Euler. Kirk Anderson. Mark Slaughter. David Abbott.

The following document presents a research design for archaeological investigations sponsored by the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) at the site of La Ciudad de Los Hornos (Los Hornos). The project consists of two phases: testing and data recovery. The testing phase has been completed and a report (Chenault et al. 1991) of the results submitted to ADOT. In addition, the testing results are briefly summarized below. The proposed ADOT undertaking involves the planned reconstruction of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Banks L. Leonard. David R. Abbott. Cory Dale Breternitz. John D. Gooding. Gary Huckleberry.

Archaeological testing was conducted in seven parcels of private land in two contiguous areas in and near the large prehistoric village known as the Cashion Site, AZ T:11:39 (ASM). The area is planned for development that will result in impacts to cultural resources. Part of the project area was nominated to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) because it includes the approximate location of the prehistoric site, but the boundary of the area nominated was arbitrarily drawn using...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Deni J. Seymour.

Between March 11 and 21, 1991, SWCA, Inc., Environmental Consultants conducted a cultural resources survey of approximately 2,300 acres of Pima -Maricopa Indian Community Lands in Maricopa County, Arizona. The survey was conducted in order to locate and describe cultural remains within the project area that might be adversely affected by proposed development of the area in conjunction with the Central Arizona Project, Water Distribution Facilities. A total of 20 sites (AZ U:5:41 through AZ...