Central Arizona Project Archaeology on the Gila River Indian Community

Part of: Central Arizona Project Indian Distribution Division (IDD)

The Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation), United States Department of the Interior, designed the Water Management Project (WMP) to bring Central Arizona Project (CAP) water to the Gila River Indian Community (GRIC). Under terms of a contract signed in 1992 with the GRIC, facilities designed and constructed by Reclamation deliver 173,000 acre-feet of water annually onto the reservation. Federal law mandated consideration of potential impacts of such projects upon cultural resources and required that necessary and appropriate steps be taken to mitigate those impacts. In accordance with these laws, Reclamation performed a complete inventory of all cultural resources that may fall within the project area.

Site Name Keywords
Olberg Site • Granite Knob Site • Chee Nee Site • Cholla Butte Site • AZ U:14:181(ASM) • Grewe-Casa Grande Site • Siphon Ruin • West End Ruin • Pueblo Pasado • Cemetery Ruin

Site Type Keywords
Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex • Settlements • Hamlet / Village • Resource Extraction / Production / Transportation Structure or Features • Agricultural or Herding • Canal or Canal Feature • Non-Domestic Structures • Ball Court • Archaeological Feature • Artifact Scatter

Other Keywords
Awl • Pendant • Knife • Debitage • Core • Cobble • Chopper • Bone Awl • Worked Shell • Projectile Point

Culture Keywords
Hohokam • Historic • Archaic • Euroamerican • Historic Native American • Papago • Pima • O'odham • Sobaipuri • Pimos

Investigation Types
Reconnaissance / Survey • Research Design / Data Recovery Plan • Systematic Survey

Material Types
Ceramic • Chipped Stone • Fauna • Fire Cracked Rock • Glass • Ground Stone • Metal • Shell • Wood • Building Materials

Temporal Keywords
Historic • Prehistoric • Pioneer Period • Colonial Period • Sedentary Period • Classic Hohokam period • 20th Century • Sacaton • Classic Period • Protohistoric

Geographic Keywords
Arizona (State / Territory) • United States of America (Country) • North America (Continent) • Gila River Indian Reservation • USA (Country) • Pinal County (County) • Maricopa County (County) • Gila River • Pinal (County) • McClellan Wash