DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Sanjay Eksambekar. Jaime Dexter.

Two prehistoric sites at the Rinker Materials Plant 225 in Green Valley, Arizona were surveyed in 1999. Rock piles were identified in both the Rinker Site (AZ EE:1:291), and the Mesquacia Site (AZ EE:1:293). Although rock piles have typically been interpreted as being associated with agricultural activities of the Hohokam, they are now proposed to be agrobiological sites. Their prime function is interpreted to be the enhancement of plant nutrition and growth relative to soil management. Ten...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Linda Scott Cummings.

Forty tabular stone knives from Sites AZ U:2:73, AZ U:2:80, and AZ U:2:93 in the Lower Verde project area in central Arizona were washed for phytoliths and possible plant proteins. These knives were recovered from floors or roofs in processing areas at village sites and are believed to have been used to process agave. The phytolith washes were examined for the presence of agave raphids, and the protein residue washes were tested against agave antisera to detect prehistoric agave proteins.

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Allen Dart. William H. Doelle.

The Pima County Inventory Project was carried out by the Institute for American Research under a contract with the Arizona State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO). Three major tasks were called out in the original scope of work. They are briefly summarized here. 1. Compile all existing data on archaeological surveys and archaeological sites in Pima County. These data are to be plotted on USGS maps of Pima County, and any sites not already in AZSITE are to be coded on appropriate forms....

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This report details the results of archival research and archaeological testing and data recovery on the historical Block 180 of the original townsite of Tucson. This work was conducted by Statistical Research, Inc., for the Pima County Facilities Management Department due to the planned construction of the Pima County Public Works Center and YMCA complex on the block. The investigations uncovered extensive evidence of human occupation of the block from the prehistoric Hohokam to the historical...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Owen Lindauer.

This report describes the archaeological investigation, history, and characteristics of the Schoolhouse Point Mound site, part of the Pinto Creek Complex and the Schoolhouse Management Group. The Schoolhouse Point Mound (U:8:24/13a) is a large site with complex stratigraphy. The investigation of it reported here was intensive. The Schoolhouse Point Mound is immediately above the floodplain of the Salt River, on a mesa situated where the river makes a sweeping bend. It is also at the point...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Owen Lindauer.

The Roosevelt Platform Mound Study (RPMS) was one of three mitigative data recovery studies that the Bureau of Reclamation funded to investigate the prehistory of the Tonto Basin in the vicinity of Theodore Roosevelt Dam. The series of investigations constituted Reclamation's program for complying with historic preservation legislation as it applied to the raising and modification of Theodore Roosevelt Dam. Reclamation contracted with the Arizona State University Office of Cultural Resource...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Owen Lindauer.

The Roosevelt Platform Mound Study (RPMS) was one of three mitigative data recovery studies that the Bureau of Reclamation funded to investigate the prehistory of the Tonto Basin in the vicinity of Theodore Roosevelt Dam. The series of investigations constituted Reclamation's program for complying with historic preservation legislation as it applied to the raising and modification of Theodore Roosevelt Dam. Reclamation contracted with the Arizona State University Office of Cultural Resource...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Glen E. Rice. Erik Steinbach.

Archaeological trenching and the monitoring of demolition of existing structures in the Phase 2 area of the Frank Luke Addition project in the City of Phoenix has determined that the Hohokam site of La Ciudad, also known as AZ T:12:1 (ASM), extends into the proposed construction area for the Frank Luke Addition project. This report presents the findings of monitoring and trenching and a recommendation for a data recovery program to document register eligible resources that will be affected by...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text J. Homer Thiel.

The A-Mountain drainage system is being designed by Parsons Brinkerhoff, Inc., for the City of Tucson to alleviate flooding in the residential neighborhood between A-Mountain and the Santa Cruz River. As part of the planning process, Desert Archaeology, Inc., performed an archaeological survey and archival study of the parcel of land on which the drainage system will be placed (Thiel 1993a). On the basis of this preliminary work, Desert Archaeology recommended that an archaeological testing...

IMAGE [not managed] Legacies on the Landscape Project, Arizona State University.

Plan map of Pueblo la Plata, showing 2004 excavation units and surface collection units

IMAGE [not managed] Legacies on the Landscape Project, Arizona State University.

Plan map of agricultural features identified in the drainage between Pueblo la Plata and Control Mesa

IMAGE [not managed] Legacies on the Landscape Project, Arizona State University.

Plan Map of Agricultural Features in the Drainage South of Pueblo la Plata and Locations of Soil and Plant Samples Collected

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Melissa Kruse-Peeples.

Plan map of agricultural terraces at Bull Tank Farm, Perry Mesa.

IMAGE [not managed] Legacies on the Landscape Project, Arizona State University.

Plan Map of Baby Canyon Pueblo and architecture in the saddle immediately south of the pueblo

IMAGE [not managed] Melissa Kruse-Peeples.

Plan map showing the agricultural features of Bull Tank Farm, in relation to Speedway Pueblo, Fortified Garden Racetrack, and the Fortified Garden site.

IMAGE [not managed] Melissa Kruse-Peeples.

Plan map showing the agricultural features of Bull Tank Farm, in relation to Speedway Pueblo and the Fortified Garden site.

IMAGE [not managed] Legacies on the Landscape Project, Arizona State University.

Plan Map of Perry Mesa and Sites where 2007 Research Took Place

IMAGE [not managed] Will Russell.

Plan map of Pueblo de las Mujeres (Perry Mesa), showing pueblo corner construction

IMAGE [not managed] Melissa Kruse-Peeples.

Plan map of Sections 1, 2, 3, and 4 within the Pueblo la Plata Agricultural Field

IMAGE [not managed] Legacies on the Landscape Project, Arizona State University.

Plan Map of Pueblo la Plata, Showing 2004 Random Sampling Unit Locations

IMAGE [not managed] Sara Mapes.

Plan map of Pueblo la Plata, showing corner construction

IMAGE [not managed] Will Russell.

Plan map of Pueblo la Plata (Perry Mesa), showing pueblo corner construction

IMAGE [not managed] Legacies on the Landscape Project, Arizona State University.

Plan Map of Pueblo Pato and 10 Agave Concentrations

IMAGE [not managed] Legacies on the Landscape Project, Arizona State University.

Plan Map of Pueblo Pato and Soil Sample Collection Locations

IMAGE [not managed] Legacies on the Landscape Project, Arizona State University.

Plan Map of Richinbar Ruin and Surrounding Area

IMAGE [not managed] Legacies on the Landscape Project, Arizona State University.

Plan Map of Richinbar Ruin Architecture

IMAGE [not managed] Will Russell.

Plan map of Richinbar Ruin (Black Mesa), showing pueblo corner construction

IMAGE [not managed] Legacies on the Landscape Project, Arizona State University.

Plan Map of Richinbar Ruin, Showing Soil and Plant Sample Collection Locations

IMAGE [not managed] Legacies on the Landscape Project, Arizona State University.

Plan Map Showing Agave Fields near Pueblo la Plata

IMAGE [not managed] Legacies on the Landscape Project, Arizona State University.

Plan Map Showing Archaeological Sites and Agricultural Areas Identified during Surveys near Pueblo la Plata

IMAGE [not managed] Legacies on the Landscape Project, Arizona State University.

Plan Map Showing Archaeological Sites and Agricultural Areas Identified during Surveys near Pueblo la Plata and on Control Mesa

IMAGE [not managed] Legacies on the Landscape Project, Arizona State University.

Plan map of agricultural features identified in the drainage between Pueblo la Plata and Control Mesa, showing places from which pollen samples were collected.

IMAGE [not managed] Will Russell.

In the spring of 2005, students with the Legacies on the Landscape project, under the direction of Matt Peeples, located and recorded outlying structures in the vicinity of Pueblo la Plata, on Perry Mesa. Outlying structures were mapped using the tape and compass method, resulting in plan maps by Will Russell.

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Image shows plans and profiles of Structures 4 and 5 in Compound A at Casa Grande Ruins National Monument

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Glen E. Rice. Charles Redman.

Platform mounds were built by the prehistoric Salado and Hohokam people of southern Arizona from the 13th through the 15th century A.O., the Classic period. They are basically artificial, flat-topped hills on which the ruling families of the day built their homes. Additional residences and storage rooms were built around the base of a mound, and the whole was enclosed within a compound wall. Each mound was the administrative, ceremonial, and economic center for a small-scale political system,...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. PaleoResearch Institute.

Pollen was collected and analyzed from six samples at the Dalton Site of New River, Arizona. This large Hohokam site consists chiefly of limited resource activity areas spanning the Colonial and Sedentary periods (approximately AD 550-1150). Pollen analysis was directed toward the recovery of evidence for use of indigenous or cultivated plant resources.

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Site AZ AA:12:869(ASM) includes a prehistoric canal. This Colonial Hohokam site yielded a radiocarbon age of AD 880 to 970 (one-sigma calibration) near the top of the canal and an age of AD 780 to 900 and AD 790 to 900 (one-sigma calibration) near the bottom of the canal. This canal came off the Rillto River. Pollen samples were examined from the modern surface in a fallow cotton field, and from the prehistoric canal beneath a large sherd and under a mano fragment. Pollen analysis was...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Seventy-eight pollen samples were examined from a variety of locations within Los Hornos primarily to address questions regarxiing subsistence and economic strategies. Various natural and cultural factors may have influenced these strategies, which are likely to have relied heavily on farming, with the addition of collected or wild plant resources. Three research questions outlined under Problem Domain IV may be addressed directly through the pollen record: 1. What economic resources were...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. R.A. Varney.

Five archaeological sites (two agricultural and three habitation) were examined in the Fort Mountain Project located in the Union Hills area north of Phoenix. Four of these archaeological sites were examined for archaeobotanic remains. Site AZ T:8:4(ASM), a residential site, yielded five pollen samples for analysis from three habitation features. Site AZ T:8:9(ASM) was comprised of numerous rock piles, five of which were examined for both pollen and phytoliths that might inform concerning...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. PaleoResearch Institute.

Eighteen pollen samples were analyzed from the Blue Point Bridge Archaological Site, a large Hohokam habitation site. The site was permanently occupied during the Sacaton phase (AD 900-1100) and possibly toward the end of the Santa Cruz phase (AD 700-900). Five functionally distinct spatial components were identified and features from three of these components were analyzed for pollen. Pollen analysis was conducted to identify specific biotic resources used at the site. In addition, data...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

The Houghton Road Site is located within the city limits of Tucson, Arizona immediately west of Houghton Road between Tanque Verde Road and Speedway Boulevard. It is situated on the flood plain at the convergence of the Tanque Verde and Agua Caliente washes. This Hohokam site has been archaeomagnetically dated to AD 400 to 600. Although it is a typical Hohokam site, some Mogollonlike architectural components are noted. This site includes large deep square houses, cremations and...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. PaleoResearch Institute.

The Toland Site. located on the eastern outskirts of Tucson, Arizona, is an open sherd and lithic scatter. Ceramics indicate an occupation during the "Middle Rincon Sub phase (AD 1000-1100) of the Hohokam chronology (Elson 1986)" (Earl Sires, written communication, February 7, 1989). The floors of two pithouses were sampled for pollen beneath trivets, a bowl, and a mano, and two manos were washed for their pollen content. Pollen analysis at this site was geared toward the recovery of...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. PaleoResearch Institute.

Pollen samples were analyzed from three sites (AZ N:4:23, PD-11, and PD-12) near Tuzigoot National Monument in the Verde Valley. Occupations include Hohokam, Sinagua, and historic Yavapai. Pollen samples collected at these sites represent living surfaces, a roasting pit, and two rock piles. Pollen analysis identified cultigens grown and addresses the subsistence base.

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Pollen and phytolith samples were examined from a variety of occupational proveniences within areas 8/9 and 14 at Pueblo Salado to examine the subsistence record. In addition to identifying vegetal elements of the subsistence base, examination of pollen from occupational proveniences provides evidence of patterns of economic activities. Pollen may contribute to an understanding of functional differentiation of space at Pueblo Salado, an element of Problem Domain I. Examination of the pollen...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

The La Lomita site (AZ U:9:67) and the Germann site (AZ U:10:2) are large Hohokam Village sites located in modern-day Phoenix, Arizona. Both areas have undergone repeated archaeological investigations. The La Lomita site represents occupation from at least the late Santa Cruz through middle Sacaton phases, while the Germann Site dates to the late Pioneer through Classic periods. Pollen analysis at these sites is limited to five samples from the La Lomita site and two samples from the...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Recovery of 165 samples for pollen analysis has been completed at 14 sites within the Hohokam northern periphery along the Agua Fria and New River drainages. Cultural resources in this area consist primarily of "small field house sites or farmsteads and associated agricultural systems" (Green 1986a:1). These sites date primarily within the Colonial, Sedentary, and Classic periods.

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. PaleoResearch Institute.

Six pollen samples were examined from two trenches at AZ T:4:35(ASM), New River Community Park. This large Hohokam site contains evidence of check dams and possible linear borders. Pollen analysis concentrated on identifying the presence of any cultigens associated with Check Dam 3 and Linear Border 3.

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

A cremation vessel recovered from a Hohokam site near the Rillito River in the western Tucson Basin was analyzed for pollen. Two samples were examined: a wash from the vessel interior and a soil sample collected from the vessel fill. Pollen analysis was undertaken to provide information concerning the contents of this vessel.

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Susan J. Smith.

Agricultural terraces from two sites on Perry Mesa (La Plata and Bull Tank) and one site at the north edge of Black Mesa (Richinbar Ruin) were investigated using pollen analysis. The samples are listed in Table 1 by site and context. The sites are located on mesas bounding canyons containing the headwaters of the Agua Fria River. Native populations of Agave parryi grown on the mesas and around sites grow hybrid agaves (Agave chrysantha x A. parryi) that are living artifacts of pre-Columbian...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Site AZ T:4:97(ASM) appears to represent a limited Hohokam occupation sometime during the Sacaton Phase or Sedentary (AD 950-1150) . Feature 1 is an L-shaped rock alignment surrounded by a relatively dense artifact concentration. A single pollen sample was collected for analysis from this feature in an effort to obtain information concerning any potential economic activity in this area.

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. PaleoResearch Institute.

Twenty extramural pits at the Krueger site (NAI9,765) in southern Arizona were examined for pollen. This Classic period Hohokam site may represent either a small village that was permanently inhabited or a seasonally reoccupied camp that appears to have been occupied during the Soho phase (AD 1100-1200).·A·variety of plant/food processing activities are assumed to have been undertaken at this site. Three research questions have been posed for the pollen (and macrofloral) analysis at this...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Thomas E. Moutoux.

Two pollen samples representing a pithouse and an extramural pit were examined for evidence of economic activity. Site AZ EE:9:117(ASM) is situated within the semi-desert grassland on the southwestern side of the Santa Cruz River approximately 3 miles northeast of Nogales, Arizona. This site represents an occupation between approximately 850-1150 AD.

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Kathryn Puseman. Jaime Dexter.

Features from two sites, AZ U:11:41 (ASM) and AZ U:11:126 (ASM) near Florence Junction, Arizona, were sampled for pollen and macrofloral remains. Both sites were excavated as a part of the Ranch 160 Project. The sites have been identified as Late Colonial Hohokam occupations, representing Santa Cruz through Sacaton time periods. Five pollen samples were recovered from five separate features in the project area. Additionally, five bulk soil samples from the same features were floated to recover...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Kathryn Puseman. Thomas E. Moutoux. Laura Ruggiero.

Limited archaeobotanic testing was undertaken at Huntington Ruin, a primary Hohokam village in the Santa Cruz River floodplain. Paired pollen and flotation samples represent hearth fill inside a pithouse. In addition, three botanic samples represent trash and a posthole in the pithouse. These samples were examined to provide subsistence information for the occupants of this Hohokam village.

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Linda Scott Cummings.

Samples from features at Site AZ BB:9:148 (ASM) in the northern portion of the Tucson Basin in southern Arizona were examined for pollen and macrofloral remains. This site is believed to have been occupied by the Hohokam during the Rincon Phase, A.D. 950-1150, based on ceramic data. Excavations concentrated on six main areas at the site. Pollen and macrofloral analyses are used to provide information concerning plant resources available to and possibly utilized by the Hohokam occupants of...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Kathryn Puseman.

Samples from several features at Pueblo Viejo, AZ T:12:73 (ASM), were examined for their pollen and macrofloral remains. This site is located in southern Phoenix, and is part of the El Reposo Park project. Features found at Pueblo Viejo include three crematoriums, thirty-two secondary cremations, two trash-filled pits, one trash area, and one probable prehistoric palisade represented by nineteen postholes. The site is believed to be a Colonial through Classic periods Hohokam mound site,...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Linda Scott Cummings. Thomas E. Moutoux.

Soil samples from five sites in the Tortolita Mountain Project in southern Arizona were examined for pollen and macrofloral remains. These sites are all Hohokam sites, probably dating between AD750-1300. Pollen and macrofloral analyses are used to provide information concerning plant resources utilized by the Hohokam occupants of these sites.

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Linda Scott Cummings. Thomas E. Moutoux.

Soil samples from Sites AZ BB:9:57(ASM),AZ BB:9:160(ASM), and AZ BB:9:189(ASM) in southern Arizona were examined for pollen and macrofloral remains. These sites are part of the Honeybee Ridge Mitigation project. Site AZ BB:9:57(ASM) may be a field house or resource processing area. Site AZ BB:9:160(ASM) is a resource processing area that appears to have been utilized during the late Colonial or Sedentary Periods of the Tucson Basin Hohokam Sequence. Site AZ BB:9:189(ASM) is a multicomponent...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Kathryn Puseman.

Samples from feature fill at Site AZ AA:12:40 (ASM) in southern Arizona were examined for pollen and macrofloral remains. The site was originally recorded as a possible pithouse village containing Rillito red-on-brown ceramics, suggesting Colonial period Hohokam. Later excavations revealed middle to late Sedentary (Rincon phase) cremations and early Classic (Tanque Verde phase) pottery from the pithouses. Recent excavations in the southeast corner of Site AZ AA:12:40(ASM) uncovered four...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Kathryn Puseman.

Samples from a burned pithouse and from a shallow roasting pit at Site AZ AA: 15:1(77 (ASM) were examined for pollen and macrofloral remains. This site is a Classic Period Hohokam field house where ak chin farming may have been practiced. Pollen and macrofloral analyses of feature fill are used to provide information concerning possible plants utilized in the pithouse and roasted in the pit.

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Linda Scott Cummings. Thomas E. Moutoux.

Samples from the Triangle Road Mitigation Project, Site AZ BB:9:87(ASM), in southern Arizona were examined for pollen and macrofloral remains. This site is a Tortolita Phase, Tucson Basin Hohokam habitation site that is believed to have been occupied only a short period of time. Charcoal samples from this site have yielded calibrated radiocarbon dates of A.D. 370 to 615 and A.D. 590 to 695. Pollen and macrofloral analyses are used to provide information concerning possible plant resources...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Kathryn Puseman.

Pollen and macrofloral samples were examined from Hohokam site AZ BB:9:171 (ASM) in the northwest Tucson Basin, Arizona. This site yielded Rincon phase and Rillito phase pottery, indicating primary occupation during the Sedentary Hohokam period.

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Kathryn Puseman.

Soil samples from a pit structure, a possible field house or outside activity area, and two areas of sheet trash at Site AZ BB:9:166 (ASM) in southern Arizona were sampled for pollen and macrofloral remains. A metate from the pit structure floor also was washed for pollen. Site AZ BB:9:166 (ASM) is a small Hohokam field house locus that appears to have been occupied for a short period of time during the Rincon phase of the Tucson Basin Hohokam, sequence (AD 950- 1150). Pollen and...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Linda Scott Cummings.

Samples from Site AZ:U:10:139 (ASM) for the Tierra Mesa Development Project in Maricopa County, Arizona, were analyzed for pollen and macrofloral remains. This site represents a small Hohokam hamlet with houses-in-pits and associated features. Ceramic artifacts suggest occupation of this site from AD 800-900. Pollen and macrofloral analyses are used to provide information concerning prehistoric diet, paleoenvironmental conditions, and land-use practices at this site to aid in understanding...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Curtis Nepstad-Thornberry. Thomas E. Moutoux.

Sites AZ V: 13:182, 185, and 186 (ASM) are located directly east of the ASARCO-Ray Mine Complex, in the Dripping Springs Mountains in southcentral Arizona. These multicomponent sites all exhibit evidence of prehistoric and historic activities. Prehistoric components at AZ V: 13:182 and 186 (ASM) are Hohokam. The historic components at these sites represent early mining activities in the region as well as possible Apachean use of the area. Pollen and macrofloral samples were collected from a...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Kathryn Puseman.

Samples from roasting pits at Sites AZ U: 15:227 (ASM) and AZ U: 15:229 (ASM) were examined for pollen and macrofloral remains. These sites are areas of roasting pit and artifact scatter that appear to be related to Hohokam specialized agricultural production. The features at Site AZ U: 15:227 (ASM) were Classic period Hohokam roasting pits, while Feature 1 at Site AZ U: 15:229 (ASM) was a deflated roasting pit dating to the Colonial period. Pollen and macrofloral analyses may provide...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Linda Scott Cummings.

Samples from the fill of a roasting-pit at Site AZ BB:9:144 (ASM) were examined for pollen and macrofloral remains. The roasting pit is believed to have been used sporadically during the Rincon Phase of the Tucson Basin Hohokam Period (A.D. 1090-1125) , based on ceramic types recovered. Pollen and macrofloral analyses may provide information concerning possible plants processed in this roasting pit.

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Linda Scott Cummings.

Samples from Sites AZ U: 1 : 31 (ASM), AZ U: 1 : 34 (ASM), AZ U: 1 : 42 (ASM), and AZ U: 1: 102 (ASM) in northern Maricopa County of south-central Arizona were examined for pollen and macrofloral remains. These sites are located immediately next to the Cave Creek Sanitary Landfill and are believed to be Hohokam sites of either the late Santa Cruz (A.D. 750-950), Sacaton (A.D. I 950-1150), or Soho (A.D. 1150-1300) phase. Sites AZ U:1 :31 (ASM), AZ U:1:34 (ASM), and AZ U:1:42 (ASM) contain...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

A small habitation site was recovered in an alluvial basin along Anegam Wash east of the Sheridan Mountains in southern Arizona. The site was occupied from Hohokam through historic Papago times. Pollen and macrofloral analysis examines a small roasting pit, and the pollen record addresses contents of a trash midden. Paleoethnobotanic analysis focuses on the identification of evidence of subsistence activities.

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Rabid Ruin (AZ AA:12:46(ASM), located on the geomorphic floodplain of the Santa Cruz River in North Tucson, Arizona, represents an extensive Hohokam Classic period (A.D. 1150- 1350) village. Samples from a plastered-floor pithouse were examined for pollen and organic residues, the latter using the FTIR. Pollen analyses will be used to provide subsistence information concerning plant resources utilized by the various occupants of this site. FTIR analyses will be used to provide information...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Pollen and phytolith analyses were undertaken on samples from three rock piles at AZ EE:3:48, the Cottonwood Wash Rock Pile site. These rock piles are situated in semidesert grassland and probably represent Hohokam dry farming features used during the Classic period between AD 1100 and 1300. Rock piles often are interpreted to be associated with agave cultivation, although both maize and cotton pollen also have been recovered from sediments associated with rock piles in the Tucson Basin (Fish...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Adjacent to the Valencia Road off-ramp lies the Valencia site (AZ BB:15:13[ASM]), a pre-Classic Hohokam ballcourt village encompassing a 0.5 km2 area along the eastern terraces of the Santa Cruz River, Pima County, Arizona. The village core was occupied between the Pioneer period (A.D. 475–750) and late Rincon phase (A.D. 1100–1150) of the Secondary period, with settlement components spanning the Cienega phase of the Early Agricultural period (800 B.C.–A.D. 150) through the Tanque Verde phase of...

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Pollen Data from Richinbar Ruin

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Kathryn Puseman. Thomas E. Moutoux.

Five archaeological sites (AZU:15:241,AZV:13:145,AZV:13:152,AZV:13:160, and AZ V:13:162) in the Eastern Mining Area Survey Project in east-central Arizona were sampled for pollen, phytoliths, and macrofloral remains. These sites represent mainly Hohokam and/or Salado agricultural rock-pile fields. Samples were collected from field features as well as structures. Pollen, phytolith, and macrofloral analyses are undertaken to provide information concerning possible plants that might have been...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Linda Scott Cummings.

Samples from agricultural rock piles at Sites AZ EE:6:47 (ASM), AZ EE:6:48 (ASM), and AZ EE:6:49 (ASM) were examined for pollen, phytolith, and macrofloral remains. In addition, soil from the modern surface at Site AZ EE:6:47(ASM) was collected to provide a control for the feature samples. These sites are part of the Beck Land Exchange project in southeastern Arizona. No ceramics were found associated with these sites; however, they are believed to represent Hohokam use of the area....

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Keith Kintigh. Todd Howell. Andrew Duff.

The century following the collapse of Chaco is often viewed as a time of cultural backsliding. However, imposing sites with Chaco-inspired public architecture provide evidence of large communities, dating between A.D. 1200 and 1275, that laid the organizational foundations of well-known Pueblo IV towns. This article reports on excavations at one such Zuni-area settlement. the Hinkson site. In this site, 32 residential room blocks surround a great house complex that includes an unroofed, oversize...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Harold S. Colton.

The purpose of this little book is to outline in a concise form the methods used to make bits of broken pottery contribute to the history of the Southwest. In the interpretation of archaeological finds, pottery plays a most important role because of its wide distribution in time and space, its resistance to atmospheric weathering, and the number of culture traits that can be observed in pottery fragments. The manufacture of pottery is an old human activity. In the Old World pottery has been made...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Alfred E. Johnson. William W. Wasley.

Through contracts with the National Parks Service, archaeological salvage operations were conducted by the Arizona State Museum in the area of the Painted Rocks Reservoir, western Arizona. Three separate field projects were accomplished during a period extending from 1958 to 1961. The following tables are supplement to published reports for this project and contain basic data on the provenience of sherds and artifacts recovered during the excavations. All of the major sites are represented,...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Carol A. Martin. Keith Anderson. David Wilcox.

These documents all relate to a 1975 pre-stabilization study and later follow up for the Great House and South Building in Compound A at Casa Grande Ruins National Monument. The preliminary study appears that includes sketched maps of Compound A highlighting the Great House and South Building. Cost breakdowns are shown and manpower needs are detailed. Job descriptions with daily pay rates are provided.

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Karen Schollmeyer.

Prehispanic settlements often had archaeologically visible impacts on their surrounding environments, including changes in local plant communities that affected the presence and abundance of both plant and animal species. Here, data from sites in the Mimbres region of southwestern New Mexico are used to identify evidence for such impacts around habitation sites, and to investigate four factors (site size, elevation, water availability, and occupational history) that influence the degree of...

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This study is the first of two volumes that describe the results of archaeological investigations undertaken within the Tempe Section of the Outer Loop Freeway system. This work was funded by the Arizona Department of Transportation and conducted under Contract 86-102. Three sites were investigated as part of this project, including La Cuenca del Sedimento, a farmstead/fieldhouse site, and AZ U:9:69(ASM) and AZ U:9:71(ASM). All three sites were crossed by portions of the Las Acequias-Los Muertos...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Jonathan B. Mabry.

Two archaeological sites (AZ AA:16:334,335 ASM) on the edge of the Pleistocene terrace above the historic floodplain of the Santa Cruz River west of downtown Tucson, Arizona, threatened by widening of a road, were investigated to recover information prior to construction. The prehistoric rock features at site AZ AA:16:334 (ASM) were destroyed by a backhoe before this data recovery program began. On the basis of mapping of surface cultural features and artifact distributions, and total collection...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Stacey McGee.

Numerous factors affect soil composition, including the parent rock, time, rainfall, wind, and animal burrowing and wastes, but human activities undoubtedly cause the most extensive change in soil properties over the shortest periods of time. At Pueblo La Plata, intensive agricultural practices were utilized for just over 200 years, and yet, six centuries later, the legacies created on the landscape are still as visible. This paper will focus on the effects of prehistoric agriculture on soil...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Mark R. Hackbarth.

This study presents the results of archaeological investigations undertaken within the proposed corridor of State Route 87 on the Fort McDowell Indian Reservation and Tonto National Forest, in northeastern Maricopa County, Arizona. This work was funded by the Arizona Department of Transportation (Contract 89-28) and conducted under the aegis of the Tonto National Forest. Six archaeological sites were investigated for this project, including three prehistoric lithic procurement sites, a Hohokam...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Scott L. Fedick. Lyle M. Stone.

Between February 6 and 12, 1986, Scott L. Fedick and Lyle M. Stone of Archaeological Research Services, Inc. (ARS), performed an archaeological survey of approximately 525 acres of Salt River Project (SRP) owned land in the vicinity of the SRP Administrative Offices complex in northwest Tempe, Maricopa County, Arizona. This study also involved background literature and archaeological site file research, and was undertaken at the request of the SRP Environmental Services Department in order to...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text T. Kathleen Henderson.

Less than a decade ago, it seemed that the Hohokam had appeared out of nowhere. Here was a vibrant population of pottery making, irrigating, settled farmers, and the people before them: the nomadic Archaic tribes, who wandered the desert from one stand of ripening fruit to another in time with nature’s pulse. The one culture appeared so unlike the other that it seemed impossible to account for the sudden change in lifestyles. Then, in the 1980s, the first clues were found to bridge the gap...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Patricia M. Spoerl. John C. Ravesloot.

Archaeological investigations by the Central Arizona Ecotone Project in the New River area form the basis for an examination of the so-called fortified sites of central Arizona. Our interpretation of the defensive role these settlements may have played in prehistoric times differs from explanations which have been proposed for fortified sites in southern Arizona. We suggest that competition and conflict over resources led to the need for various kinds of defensive settlements in the northern...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Frank E. Bayham. D. H. Morris. M. Steven Shackley.

The Central Arizona Project (CAP) is a federal project being implemented to transport Colorado River water to large segments of central and southern Arizona. The project requires an extensive amount of construction of aqueducts, pumping stations, and canals. This report is the result of archaeological investigations along one portion of the aqueducts, the Tucson Aqueduct. This aqueduct alignment will bring water to the Picacho Reservoir region of central Arizona. Archaeological survey along...

IMAGE [not managed] Dr. Omar A. Turney.

This image is a 1922 map of prehistoric irrigation systems throughout the Salt River Valley. The map indicated where the Salt River meets the Gila River. The map labels and indicates the location of both the prehistoric irrigation canals and prehistoric settlements. Further, the map shows locations of petroglyph sites. The image also includes a short pamphlet outlining the history of the Hohokam existence and important time lines.

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Allen Dart.

This is a report that covers the prehistoric irrigation systems located within Arizona. Funded by the Arizona State Historic Preservation Office, this report describes the locations of irrigation works throughout Arizona, their use and descriptions, along with their importance and need for preservation. The appendices outline goals, strategies and priorities for future resource planning, suggested priorities for SHPO action, methods of dating, and lastly, historic properties eligible for...

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Studies of Hohokam irrigation systems undertaken in the past 5 to 10 years, particularly in the Phoenix Basin, have provided a wealth of new data to be studied and assimilated by archaeologists. Recently completed and ongoing projects have required archaeologists to ask new questions and to apply a variety of investigative techniques to better understand the complexities of Hohokam irrigation systems. It is important that archaeologists studying Hohokam irrigation systems evaluate the increasing...

IMAGE [not managed] Midvale Frank.

This image reflects both prehistoric and historic landmarks as well as irrigation water ways feeding from the Gila River. In addition, the map shows roads, highways, modern canals, railroad line, cemeteries, modern buildings and their location surrounding the Gila River and Casa Grande Ruins. Every canal and ruin shown on the map was measured, photographed an dplotted to scale.

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Deborah M. Pearsall.

This paper will attempt to reconstruct the valley-wide systems of subsistence of six pueblos occupying a small valley in northwestern New Mexico around 1300 A.D. As any investigation of this nature must be, it is a hypothetical model, built using data rom a variety of sources, including archaeological excavation, settlement pattern analysis, ethnographic analogy, and the natural limitations of the environment.

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Jonathan B. Mabry. Michael W. Lindeman. Helga Wocherl.

Between 18 March and 12 April 1997, archaeologi­cal fieldwork was conducted at two sites in the Con­gress Street to Twenty-ninth Street segment of the Arizona Department of Transportation's Interstate 10 Corridor Improvement Project in Tucson, Arizona. Both sites are buried in the eastern Holocene terrace of the Santa Cruz River, directly opposite A-Mountain. In Locus 1 were stratified alluvial deposits containing features dating to the early Cienega phase (800-400 B.C.) and late Cienega phase...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Douglas B. Craig.

This report presents the results of testing and data recovery efforts at four sites in Sun City Vistoso: AZ BB:9:152 (ASM), AZ BB:9:153 (ASM), AZ BB:9:154 (ASM), and AZ BB:9:190 (ASM). All four sites are Hohokam limited activity sites dating to the Sedentary period. Testing operations consisted of excavating narrowly-spaced backhoe trenches in an attempt to identify subsurface cultural features. No subsurface features were identified at AZ BB:9:152 and AZ BB:9:154; consequently, no further work...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Michael W. Lindeman.

This document discusses the results of preliminary archaeological work for the Saguaro Knolls development project. The Saguaro Knolls project area is a 55 a tract of land that is slated for residential development. It lies wholly within a previously recorded archaeological site, AZ AA:16:3 (ASM), the West Branch site. A recent archaeological survey confirmed that archaeological remains were present on the surface of the parcel (Stephen 1997). As a result of these findings Desert Archaeology,...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Uploaded by: Sulgi Lotze

This report only contains the Appendices A - J. The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation is requesting proposals for supplementary inventory survey and mitigation of cultural resources to be impacted by construction of the Granite Reef Aqueduct and Granite Reef Aqueduct Transmission System. This aqueduct and transmission system are features of the Central Arizona Project (CAP), which is a multipurpose water resource development and management project designed to provide supplemental water to central and...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text J. Scott Courtright.

The results of backhoe trenching and data recovery excavation at the site of Pueblo del Rio within SunState Builders’ parcel. The area consists of 77.72 acres of land previously tested in 2005 (Lots 6, 7, 12, 13, and 14) and in 2006 (Lots 8, 9, 10, and 11). Following the completion of extensive backhoe trenching in the various lots, twelve feature areas containing likely habitation structures, relic canals, and burials were selected for data recovery— three along the planned road corridors in...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Sophia Kelly. David Abbott. Gordon Moore. Christopher Watkins. Caitlin Wichlacz.

Regional demographic movements during the mid 13th-14th centuries signaled corresponding changes to social and economic networks throughout the American Southwest. In the high mesa country of central Arizona large, masonry pueblos were constructed around AD 1250–1300 overlooking the vertical walls of Perry Mesa, in the Bloody Basin, and along the middle Verde River valley. As these settlement clusters coalesced, a 45 km expanse of empty land opened between the upland pueblos and the densely...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Danielle Desruisseaux. Randy Fox. Todd L. Howell. Darby Moore. Douglas R. Mitchell. David Purcell. Chris T. Wenker. Tom Yoder. Mark Zyniecki.

This report discusses the results of archaeological data recovery conducted at eleven prehistoric sites within the proposed Carlota Copper Mine (Carlota). The project area is located west of Miami, Arizona, principally on lands managed by the U.S. Forest Service, Tonto National Forest. In order to comply with the appropriate federal legislation regarding the cultural resources within the project area, Carlota contracted with SWCA to conduct archaeological investigations. A series of...