SHESC: Digital Archive of Huhugam Archaeology (DAHA)

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Rachel Fernandez. Charlene Collazzi.

The Center for Digital Antiquity at Arizona State University, in collaboration with the Amerind Museum, utilized a 2017 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to create a comprehensive digital library of archaeological investigations of the ancient Huhugam (Hohokam). The Digital Archive of Huhugam Archaeology (DAHA) now contains copies of more than 2,000 major archaeological reports, images and data sets made accessible through tDAR (the Digital Archaeological Record), an...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Center for Digital Antiquity.

The Center for Digital Antiquity at Arizona State University, in collaboration with the Amerind Museum, utilized a 2017 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to create a comprehensive digital library of archaeological investigations of the ancient Huhugam (Hohokam). The Digital Archive of Huhugam Archaeology (DAHA) now contains copies of more than 2,000 major archaeological reports, images and data sets. It is curated and made accessible through tDAR (the Digital Archaeological...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Joseph Tiffany.

The Archives of Archaeology Series is a 29-volume set jointly published by the University of Wisconsin Press and the Society for American Archaeology on opaque microcards, a now obsolete format. The Mississippi Valley Archaeology Center at the University of Wisconsin—La Crosse has digitized the original opaque microcards and made the digital copies available through tDAR. This article describes the digitization of the original records on opaque microcards.

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The mountainous zone below the Mogollon Rim in central Arizona was home to Apache in the pre-Reservation period (pre-A.D. 1875). Four Western Apache site components, dating between the late seventeenth and late nineteenth centuries A.D., were identified during excavations conducted in advance of the realignment of the Preacher Canyon and Little Green Valley segments of State Route 260 between Payson and Heber: Plymouth Landing, AZ O:12:89/AR-03-12-04-1411 (ASM/TNF), McGoonie, AZ...

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Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement and Power District (SRP) plans to construct an 88-mile-long 500-kV extra-high voltage transmission line linking the Pinal West, Santa Rosa, Pinal Central, Abel, and Dinosaur substations (ACC CEC Case No. 126). This report presents the results of Phase I data recovery (extent testing) and Phase II data recovery within a 40-m- (130-ft-) wide corridor at seven sites located on State Trust Land administered by the Arizona State Land Department (ASLD) (ASLD...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Robert E. Gasser.

This paper will synthesize the macrobotanical findings from the Tucson Aqueduct Project, Phase A (TAP), conducted by the Museum of Northern Arizona and will highlight some of the pollen and flotation results from the Salt-Gila Aqueduct Project (SGA), completed by the Arizona State Museum. Both projects were segments of the Central Arizona Project, a huge canal bringing water from the Colorado River to the farms and towns of southern Arizona. The ...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Frank Matero.

This report regards a documentation condition assessment of the Casa Grande at Casa Grande Ruins National Monument. It details structure analysis along with material testing and analysis. The report analyzes treatment methods. The report recalls a history of treatment and conservation and those important personalities involved since 1887. Included are detailed diagrams outlining the condition assessments by wall surface.

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text John H. Evans. Harry Hillman.

This document includes 4 versions of a report about lunar and solar events at the Great House at Casa Grande Ruins National Monument. These include: a presentation paper, a published version, a version prepared for Arizona Highway Magazine and a Science News summary. There is also a constellation chart to check Canopus alignment. The report outlines basic history and construction of the Great House that facilitates astronomical events. The report references computer data, cutting edge at...

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This report presents the results of archaeological testing conducted at three sites, AZ U:1:11, AZ U:1:262, and AZ U:1:263 (all ASM). The sites are located in north Phoenix, Arizona. The testing was done at the request of PK Development LLC, owner of the land, before development of a 500-acre parcel that included the sites. The proposed development will include residential areas, a golf course, and natural desert. The project is subject to Clean Water Act permitting (Section 404) through the...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text David A. Gregory.

This volume contains descriptive data for excavated features and materials collected from the Early Agricultural period component at Los Pozos (AZ AA:12.91 [ASM]). These data are analyzed and discussed in a companion volume (Gregory, ed. 2001), while a related volume (Gregory, ed. 1999) reports on the Middle Archaic component investigated at this same site. The site name acknowledges several Early Agricultural period wells discovered during work at the site. These data were collected as part of...

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The Phoenix Sky Harbor Center Project evolved as a result of the planned development of an area slightly larger than 800 acres west of Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. This volume focuses on the testing phase of the project undertaken by the Community and Economic Development Department of the City of Phoenix in consultation with the Arizona State Historic Preservation Office. Historic records of the area and recent studies within the project boundaries indicated that prehistoric...

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This volume, which focuses on archaeological data recovery efforts at Dutch Canal Ruin, is the second of four prepared for the Phoenix Sky Harbor Center Development Project. Investigators identified 20 individual loci during the testing phase within the Phoenix Sky Harbor Center at Dutch Canal Ruin and excavated a sample of eight loci (Areas 1 through 8). During the monitoring of the remote parking facility in the eastern portion of the project area, SWCA discovered and excavated additional...

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The following report presents the results of archaeological testing and data recovery at the Houghton Road site (AZ BB:13:398 [ASM]). These investigations provide important new insights into a virtually unknown time in Tucson Basin prehistory. The Houghton Road site represents a seasonally or semipermanently occupied hamlet that dates primarily to the Plain Ware horizon, the first period of Formative culture in southern Arizona. Excavations at the Houghton Road Site (AZ BB:13:398) add to the...

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This document is a brief history of the early custodians and superintendents of Casa Ruins National Monument.

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Thomas N. Motsinger. Heidi Roberts. Richard V. N. Ahlstrom.

SWCA, Inc., Environmental Consultants (SWCA), of Tucson, Arizona, conducted the Eastern Mining Area (EMA) survey project under contract to Salt River Project (SRP) between October, 1993, and February, 1994. One central purpose of the project was to create an inventory of archaeological resources to assist in the planning of future improvements and other modifications to existing SRP transmission lines. The project included 107 person-field days of Class III archaeological survey along...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Thomas N. Motsinger. Heidi Roberts. Richard V. N. Ahlstrom.

SWCA Inc, Environmental Consultants of Tucson, Arizona, conducted Eastern Mining Area (EMA) survey project under contract to Salt River Project (SRP) between October 1993 and February 1994. One central purpose of the project was to create an inventory of archaeological resources to assist in the planning of future improvements and other modifications to existing SRP transmission lines. The project included 107 person-field days of Class III archaeological survey along approximately 257 linear...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Thomas N. Motsinger. Heidi Roberts. Richard V. N. Ahlstrom.

SWCA, Inc., Environmental Consultants (SWCA), of Tucson, Arizona, conducted the Eastern Mining Area (EMA) survey project under contract to Salt River Project (SRP) between October, 1993, and February, 1994. One central purpose of the project was to create an inventory of archaeological resources to assist in the planning of future improvements and other modifications to existing SRP transmission lines. The project included 107 person-field days of Class III archaeological survey along...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text John Briggs. Katherine A. Spielmann. Hoski Schaafsma. Keith Kintigh. Melissa Kruse. Kari Morehouse. Karen Schollmeyer.

Over the past five decades, ecologists and archaeologists have dismantled two longstanding theoretical constructs. Ecologists have rejected the “balance of nature” concept and archaeologists have dispelled the myth that indigenous people were “in harmony with nature”. Rejection of these concepts poses critical challenges to both fields as current disciplinary approaches are inadequate to grapple effectively with real-world complexities of socioecological systems. In this review, we focus on the...

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This volume reports the results of excavations conducted at a small Colonial period Hohokam site in Phoenix, Arizona. Excavations were undertaken at El Caserío (AZ T:12:49(ASM)) as part of the East Papago Freeway Archaeological Project funded by the Arizona Department of Transportation under Contract 85 33. El Caserío contained several extramural surfaces, trash deposits, 20 pithouses, Decorated ceramic and a variety of miscellaneous pits. analyses and chronometric dates place the primary...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Chris D. North.

In April and May 2000, SWCA, Inc., Environmental Consultants (SWCA) conducted cultural resource surveys for EPNG's Line No. 2000 Project, surveying the former All American Pipeline in Cochise, La Paz, Maricopa, Pima, and Pinal counties for the Arizona segment. At the request of EPNG, SWCA began the cultural resources survey for this project in April 2000 in support of an Environmental Assessment (EA) being prepared by ENSR, Inc., in conjunction with a pipeline acquisition, conversion, operation...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Gregory R. Seymour. R. Thomas Euler.

This report has been prepared in conjunction with the continuing archaeological evaluation and investigation plan for Bureau of Land Management (BLM), State of Arizona, and privately held lands near Kelvin, Pinal County, Arizona. Specifically, this report provides site evaluations and the results of a testing program conducted at ten sites located near Elder Gulch in the Middle Gila Basin of central Arizona. This testing program was conducted from April 24 through May 16, 1990 by SWCA...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Douglas Mitchell. Walter R. Punzmann. Gary Huckleberry. Peg Davis. Emily Higgins Keppler. Jennifer Rich. Lesley Hudson. Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd..

ACS conducted testing at 10 sites within Reclamation’s CAP ROW seeking to resolve the National Register of Historic Places (Register) eligibility status of sites within the CAP ROW. This document presents the results of that testing.

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Douglas Mitchell. Peg Davis. Gary Huckleberry. Andrea Gregory.

In an effort to better manage cultural resources on Reclamation land, PXAO has developed an archaeological site database for the CAP canal. The database was developed using all the previous main stem survey data; however, the Register eligibility status of the majority of these sites was unknown following completion of the CAP. Additionally, an unknown number of sites were either destroyed by construction or excavation, while others are no longer within Reclamation’s CAP right-of-way (ROW). PXAO...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Michelle Hegmon. Matthew Peeples. Ann P. Kinzig. Stephanie Kulow. Cathryn Meegan. Margaret Nelson.

Change is inevitable, but some changes and transformations are more dramatic and fraught with suffering than others. Resilience theory suggests the concept of a “rigidity trap” as an explanation for these differences. In rigidity traps, a high degree of connectivity and the suppression of innovation prolong an increasingly rigid state, with the result that the eventual transformation is harsh. Three archaeological cases from the U.S. Southwest (Mimbres, Mesa Verde, and Hohokam) and new methods...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text David A. Phillips, Jr..

Charles Di Peso believed that Paquime, the primary center for the Casas Grandes culture, succumbed to an attack in A.D. 1340. He further argued that the culture survived in the Sierra Madre, where it was encountered by early Spanish military adventurers. Other reviews of the data have come to different conclusions. In this essay, I examine and discuss the available chronometric data.

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text John Czarzasty. Glen E. Rice.

This is a report on the end of fieldwork for the data recovery program conducted on the Helen Smith property from June 27, 2005 to January 12, 2006 at the site of Las Canopas (AZ T:12:137 [ASM]) in Phoenix, Arizona. The excavation was conducted to assist the property owner in complying with Arizona Statute A.R.S. 41-865 regarding the repatriation of burials and the City of Phoenix Ordinance on Historic Preservation (Chapter 8, Section 802). The Las Canopas project is Pueblo Grande Museum...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Glen E. Rice. John Gooding.

This is a report on the end of field work for a data recovery program conducted from September 23 to November 30, 2005, at the site of Las Cremaciones (AZ T:12:220 [ASM]) in Phoenix, Arizona. The excavation was conducted to assist the K. Hovnanian Great Western Homes (GWH) in complying with Arizona Statute A.R.S. 41-865 on the repatriation of burials and the City of Phoenix Ordinance on Historic Preservation (Chapter 8, Section 802). The K. Hovnanian Great Western Homes data recovery project is...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Banks L. Leonard. Rebecca Hill.

Between May 24 and June 13, 2007, Soil Systems, Inc. (SSI) archaeologists conducted a limited data recovery and burial removal excavations for Sun America, Inc. to mitigate the adverse effects of construction in the Washington Park development in Phoenix, Arizona. The construction project was a proposed new building footprint and associated utilities along a proposed re-alignment of Monroe St, east of 44th St. Soil Systems personnel had already completed archaeological work in this area, but the...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Cory Dale Breternitz. Christine K. Robinson. Banks L. Leonard.

Between September 1997 and March 2002, Soil Systems, Inc. (SSI) conducted archaeological excavations on approximately 32.5 ac of private lands at the large Classic Period Hohokam village of Pueblo Grande in Phoenix, Arizona. The property owned by SunAmerica is referred to as Washington Park. The excavations included testing and data recovery of prehistoric features to clear the parcel for proposed building construction. The excavations recovered human burials, architecture, and other features,...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Cory Dale Breternitz. Christine K. Robinson. Banks L. Leonard.

Under contract to Higgins Development Partners, Soil Systems, Inc. (SSI) conducted archaeological data recovery excavations between February and October 2007 at AZ U:9:264 (ASM) and a portion of La Lomita [AZ U:9:67 (ASM)] on approximately 60 acres of State Trust land in Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona. This parcel of State Trust land has been leased by Higgins Development Partners (ASLD Lease No. 03-105720) to be developed as the Centergate Distribution Park. The excavations at two...

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

Archaeological data recovery was conducted in the north end of the Frank Luke Addition in the City of Phoenix within a portion of the Hohokam site of La Ciudad, also known as AZ T:12:1 (ASM). The City of Phoenix Housing Department plans to construct affordable housing on the site of the Frank Luke Addition housing project originally constructed in 1952 by the City. The project is divided into two construction phases, and this report pertains to the northern part of the Phase 2 area. The area of...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Banks L. Leonard. Brian E. Yunker. Rebecca J. Hill.

Three categories of activities are described in this report. A) Construction of a building and associated utilities would result in excavation below the grade to which previous archaeological data recovery and burial removal had occurred. In addition, the proposed construction would include modification to a landscaping easement, sidewalk, and curb along where the new street alignment would form an intersection, where no previous archaeological data recovery or burial removal had occurred....

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text David B. Tucker.

Archaeologists from SWCA, Inc., Environmental Consultants excavated within site AZ AA:12:311 (ASM) from September 4th to September 20th, 1996. A total of 41 person-days were spent investigating nine features and seven sub-features. These excavations were located along a proposed sewer line for Del Webb’s Coventry Homes. Prior archaeological testing utilized a backhoe to dig trenches in accessible areas along the line (Terzis 1996). Four features were noted in the profiles of these trenches, all...

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Archaeologists from SWCA, Inc., Environmental Consultants, conducted test excavations at site AZ AA:12:130 (ASM) on November 21 and 22, 1996. These excavations consisted of five backhoe trenches long the centerline of a planned effluent pipe outfall realignment for Pima County Waste Water Management. This document summarizes the results of archaeological testing on the segment of the pipeline that crosses the plotted location of a known Middle Archaic site. Four features were identified during...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Dana Nakase.

Prehistoric farmers in the semi-arid American Southwest were challenged by marked spatial and temporal variation in, and overall low levels of, precipitation with which to grow their crops. One strategy they employed was to modify their landscape with rock alignments in order to concentrate surface water flow on their fields. A second challenge that has been less focused on by archaeologists is the need to maintain soil fertility by replenishing nutrients removed from the soil by agricultural...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text David Phillips. Helen Wearing. Jeffery Clark.

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DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Kris Dobscheutz.

Between January 18 and July 1, 2005, archaeologists from Environmental Planning Group (EPG) conducted data recovery at a portion of the Las Canopas Site (AZ T:12:137[ASM]) within the City of Phoenix. Las Canopas is a large Hohokam village that extends more than 1 mile. Previous testing at the site identified at total of 46 features, including 5 cremations and 5 inhumations (Dobschuetz 2004b). Data recovery efforts focused on expanding those areas where human remains were identified to determine...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text David R. Wilcox.

The close similarity in the cosmological structure of the Mesoamerican and historic Pueblo cultures is shown to extend to the Hohokam as well. P.H. Cushing's proposal of this hypothesis is reviewed and date from the Casa Grande, the site structure of Hohokam villages, and the distributional parameters of Hohokam ballcourts are brought into relation to construct a general model of the evolution of Hohokam ceremonial systems. Further comparisons with the Chacoan system are suggested and the...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text James C. Gifford.

This report provides an examination of the archaeology of northwestern Mexico, southern Arizona, and New Mexico and an exploration of the relationship between the areas to each other. In order to consider the archaeology of southern Arizona and New Mexico and that of northwestern Mexico, the extensive geographical area has been delimited into two major subareas. These areas have been termed the Sonoran Subarea and the Sinaloan Subarea. This is approached by consideration of stages suggested by...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Jeffrey Altschul. Martin R. Rose.

During the course of the San Xavier Archaeological Project over 18 square miles in the southern Tucson Basin were intensively surveyed. This work resulted in the recording of 150 sites, of which 147 contained components dated to either the prehistoric or protohistoric periods. In a previous study (Altschul and Rose, Statistical Research Technical Series 3) block cluster analysis was used to derive a site classification. Each site with a prehistoric and/or protohistoric component was classified...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Mark Slaughter. Heidi Roberts.

This volume summarizes data recovered from the Gibbon Springs site, AZ BB:9:50 (ASM), located in the northeastern Tucson Basin. This large Classic period site had a central compound surrounded by houses. Data and materials were obtained from 24 structures and hundreds of other features (e.g., pits, cremations, middens). Materials from Gibbon Springs suggest that either a non-indigenous population inhabited the site or there was another social arrangement between the Tucson Basin Hohokam and...

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

This report details archaeological investigations at AZ BB:13:74 (ASM), a Middle Rincon phase (A.D. 1000¬ 1100) hamlet. The excavations discussed in this report are part of a larger project related to the expansion of the Desert Vista Campus, Pima Community Colleges. The other portion of this project focused on the site of Valencia Vieja (AZ BB:13:15 [ASM]), a large Tortolita phase village located south and west of BB:13:74. The results of those excavations are reported in a separate volume...

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This report presents the results of archaeological data recovery at two prehistoric loci in Phoenix, Arizona. The major component investigated is a portion of the Classic period Hohokam village of Casa Buena (AZ T:12:37(ASM)). The smaller loci contains two temporal/functional components, a late Colonial period fieldhouse site and a Colonial to Sedentary period transition farmstead. The sites are located within the Squaw Peak Parkway corridor. The data recovery program was funded by the City of...

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This report presents the results of archaeological data recovery at two prehistoric loci in Phoenix, Arizona. The major component investigated is a portion of the Classic period Hohokam village of Casa Buena (AZ T:12:37(ASM)). The smaller loci contains two temporal/functional components, a late Colonial period fieldhouse site and a Colonial to Sedentary period transition farmstead. The sites are located within the Squaw Peak Parkway corridor. The data recovery program was funded by the City of...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Jesse W. Fewkes.

This document is a book by Jesse Walter Fewkes, published by the Smithsonian Institution. It details excavations done in Compound A at the Casa Grande Ruins National Monument. It contains sketches and photographs of this compound.

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Charles Miksicek.

Analysis of maize recovered from excavations at the Gu Achi site in the Arizona Papaqueria. This is Appendix B of the larger publication, "Excavations at Gu Achi: A Reappraisal of Hohokam Settlement and Subsistence in the Arizona Papagueria." The full text can be found at https://core.tdar.org/document/4250

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text W. Bruce Masse.

In the spring of 1973, the Western Archeological Center, National Park Service, conducted extensive surveys in the Papago Indian Reservation because of improvements proposed for several roadways (Stacy 1973). Among the numerous archeological features encountered were two prehistoric Hohokam sites. One of these, Gu Achi (AZ Z:12:l3 ASM) , is a major pre-Classic period Hohokam settlement a few miles west of Santa Rosa on Papago Indian Road (PIR) 34; the other site, Pisinimo, is a pre-Classic...

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This report is a result of archaeological investigations at the prehistoric Hohokam site of La Lomita Pequeña (AZ U:9:66(ASM)) by Soil Systems, Inc. (SSI), Arizona. in the city of Phoenix, The site is within the path of the East Papago Freeway, a state funded freeway system in the Phoenix being constructed by the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT). The site was tested, located initially by survey, was subsequently and was finally subjected to an intensive data recovery program sponsored...

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The archaeological excavations documented in this volume examine the Hohokam village of La Villa, AZ T:12:148 (ASM). From its founding in the sixth century A.D., until abandonment in the eleventh century, La Villa was one of the largest villages in the Phoenix Basin. Current excavations preceded the installation of a storm drain that was part of the larger Storm Drain project and provided a rare glimpse of a large pre-Classic period village. Fieldwork occurred in multiple phases. Archaeological...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Gina s. Gage. Douglas B. Craig Ph.D..

Northland Research, Inc. (Northland) has completed archaeological investigations within a portion of the Pueblo del Rio site, AZ T:12:116(ASM), a large Hohokam habitation site located in southwest Phoenix. The investigations were designed to collect information and analyze materials from a sample of features at the site in order to mitigate the impacts of commercial development (Moore and Stahman 2007). The work was sponsored by the Stravinski Development Group, LLC, in conformance with Section...

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

This report details the results of excavations at the Sunset Mesa Ruin, AZ AA:12:10 (ASM). The predominant occupation of Sunset Mesa Ruin was during the Middle Rincon phase (A.D. 1000-1100). However, limited use of the area was identified during the Early Agricultural period (800 B.C.-A.D. 100) and the later Tucson phase (A.D. 1300-1450). Evidence of Historic period use, first as a turn-of-the-century homestead and later as a dairy, has also been documented (Ciolek-Torrello, Huber, and Neily...

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

The slopes of the Avra Valley, lacking perennial water sources, would seem an unlikely place for a large prehistoric community. Yet during the Hohokam Colonial period (ca. A.D. 750-950), a community sprang up along the western slopes of the Tucson Mountains. Centered on the ballcourt village of Water World, AZ AA:16:94 (ASM), numerous households thrived in the area, both in the primary village and in outlying farmsteads (Czaplicki and Ravesloot 1988, 1989a, 1989b, 1989c; Dart 1994; Downum et....

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text K.J. Schroeder.

Advanced Mobile Storage, Inc . (AMS) Phoenix. Arizona, undertook upgrades and modifications to its existing storage facility in the Fall of 2007, during which time all ground disturbing activities were monitored by Roadrunner Archaeology & Consulting (RAC) staff. The storage facility is an irregular L-shaped area within a 385 x 460 ft area consisting of approximately 3.074 acres of privately owned property. In addition, an area approximately 20 x 17 5 meters of Phoenix City property was...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Charlie R. Steen.

This document is a 1963 report by Charlie Steen. It includes sketches and maps of Compound A illustrating both the outer buildings and the Great House along with charts and photographs about the artifacts found during excavation. It discusses the damage done by previous archaeologists and superintendents to the plaza in terms of future archaeology efforts and the inability to capture information going forward.

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text David A. Gregory. Michelle N. Stevens. Fred L. Nials. Mark R. Schurr. Michael W. Diehl.

The current volume, the third of four, acts as a final report for the excavations that were conducted at Los Pozos, AZ AA:12:91 (ASM) in the fall of 1998. Hoping to build on earlier work conducted by Desert Archaeology at other Early Agricultural period sites along the Santa Cruz, these volumes combine data with those from both seasons at Los Pozos and those garnered from Las Capas to explore the implications of this total body of work for current understanding of this important and lengthy...

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The Southern Avra Valley Storage and Recovery Project (SAVSARP) project examined three sites, AZ AA:16:312 (ASM), AZ AA:16:468 (ASM), and AZ AA:16:469 (ASM), and a non-site artifact concentration, Locality A, on the floor of the Avra Valley. The surface manifestations of the sites mirrored those of other sites in the valley bottom, low-density artifact scatters covering broad expanses. Locales of higher artifact density were defined as archaeological sites, but surface artifacts continued...

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

In this document, the results of data recovery at AZ BB:13:794 (ASM) are reported. The work was done prior to construction by Pima County of a paved multiuse path along the western bank of the Santa Cruz River. BB:13:794 was recommended to be eligible for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places (National Register) under Criterion D, based on the potential of Feature 32 to yield significant information about prehistoric irrigation and farming in the Santa Cruz floodplain....

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Emil W. Haury.

This publication which originally was Emil W. Haury's doctoral dissertation for the Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, is based on the work of the Hemenway Southwestern Archaeological Expedition of 1887-1888. The fieldwork was organized and overseen by Frank Hamilton Cushing. The Hemenway Expedition's work in the Salt River Valley was in truth a pioneering effort. Neither here nor in the adjoining Gila Valley had any systematic work of any sort been done. Although seen by some...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Todd W. Bostwick. J. Claire Dean.

In December 1994, an Arizona Site Steward notified the Phoenix City Archaeologist that a major rock art panel in South Mountain Park had been spray painted with graffiti. At least 700 years old, this Hohokam petroglyph panel is located on a dense, patinated, granodiorite boulder near a city street at the northern edge of the park's boundary. Spray paint graffiti had previously been placed on city structures along the street, as well as on several petroglyph boulders within the park, but this act...

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

What lies beneath the vacant lots of the Barrio Libre? This old barrio lies on the south side of the downtown core of Tucson and has been occupied as a primarily Mexican- American neighborhood for 100 years. During the Historic period, the Barrio Libre has been home to thousands of people, many of whom have left behind the physical traces of their lives in the form of architectural remains and artifacts. Archaeological excavations of homes, businesses, and the trash created and disposed of by...

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The Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT), the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), and HDR Engineering, Inc., proposed a highway- widening project along State Route 82 (SR82) in Cochise County, Arizona. The proposed project included the addition of a turn lane and relocation of the entrance into the historic Fairbank Townsite, AZ EE:8:3 (ASM), an archaeological site and historic property administered by the BLM. The project was initiated for safety issues related to visibility concerns. The...

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Between December 2000 and June 2005 Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd. (ACS) of Tempe, Arizona, completed five field sessions of archaeological monitoring, testing/data recovery I, and data recovery II. The entire airport is highly modified by grading, modern fill, paving, and building; thus, the ground surface offers few clues to what lies beneath. However, the airport is bounded by known historic and prehistoric archaeological sites, including Pueblo Salado to the immediate west and...

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Between December 2000 and June 2005 Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd. (ACS) of Tempe, Arizona, completed five field sessions of archaeological monitoring, testing/data recovery I, and data recovery II at the Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport Runway 7L-25R and Taxiways D-E (collectively referred to hereinafter as the Center Runway project). The first session monitored geotechnical boring and coring (Ryan 2001); the second through fourth seasons included additional monitoring plus...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Karen G. Harry. Richard Ciolek-Torello.

This report presents the results of a National Register evaluation of eight archaeological sites along the Rillito River in Tucson, Arizona. These sites were investigated at the request of the U.S. Army, Corps of Engineers in conjunction with a proposed channelization project along the river. One of the sites, AZ BB:9:689, has since been obscured by the channelization of Wildwood Wash by the Pima County Flood Control District. This site was monitored by SRI archaeologists during the construction...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Andrea Gregory.

A total of 3,757 faunal fragments was recovered from Phase II data recovery investigations at Pozos de Sonoqui, AZ U:14:49(ASM). The project area is situated within saltbush communities bordered by creosote-bursage with pockets of denser, shrubbier vegetation associated with drainages and areas along nearby Queen Creek, Sonoqui Wash, and the Gila River; irrigation canals were present prehistorically and upland resources are also located in proximity to the site (Chenault and Stubing 2012). The...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Jesse W. Fewkes. J. G. Owens.

The first chapter of the document provides insight into the ceremonies and rituals of Ancestral Puebloan Indians of the Tusayan Pueblos. It relates the dynamics of the rituals and ceremonies in terms of preparation and performance and significance. There are detailed sketches of sacred items used in the ceremonies along with many photographs of the ceremonies and rituals in progress. Also included are translations to English provided. The second chapter of the document regards ceremonies...

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Agave has been exploited throughout time and space for its sap, edible flesh, and fibers. Cultivation of this productive, multi-purpose plant took place within what is now Agua Fria National Monument at the pueblos of La Plata and Pato on Perry Mesa and Richinbar on Black Mesa. At these sites, the heart of the plant was removed for roasting and, subsequently, consumption. This is an experimental archaeology project that examines another aspect of agave exploitation: the fiber processing...

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

This report describes the results of the field investigations of several sites located in the vicinity of Marana, Arizona. These investigations were undertaken by the Office of Cultural Resource Management, Arizona State University on behalf of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation to mitigate the impacts on prehistoric sites resulting from the construction of the Reach 3 segment of the Tucson Aqueduct. The report provides a review of the field strategies and techniques used in the recovery of data and...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Legacies on the Landscape Project, Arizona State University.

Excavation Unit 1E is one of six surface collection units around Pueblo LaPlata. The surface collection locations were determined by visually scanning the surface and selecting areas of high artifact concentration. Unit 1E is on the east side of the pueblo, approximately 7 meters from the extent of wall fall. The unit is slightly down slope in an area of high artifact concentration.

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Katherine Spielmann.

Four graduate students (Kruse, Lei, Horn, and Schollmeyer), two undergraduate students (Osgood and Wichlacz), Hegmon and Spielmann worked at Pueblo La Plata February 6 and 7. Hegmon directed the continuation of the bonding and abutting study while Spielmann directed the initiation of the midden excavations.

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Banks L. Leonard. Donelle Huffer. Rebecca J. Hill. Andrew D. Lack. David R. Abbott. Blayne R. Brown.

In a development plan proposed in 1999, two areas were to be excavated below grade for a building foundation and a runoff detention basin and the rest of the parcel was to be resurfaced at grade. Because this parcel is immediately east of the Iarge Hohokam village site of Pueblo Grande (AZ U:9:1(ASM)), a two-phase testing program determined the distribution of intact prehistoric cultural remains and established that mortuary features with human remains would be impacted if the existing...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Bandelier Adolph.

A look at Adolph Bandelier's work done on the American Southwest.

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Robert J. Stokes.

This is part of the San Xavier Farm Rehabilitation Project. Additional entries related to this project can be found at the following link: https://core.tdar.org/collection/27482 The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) assisted the Tohono O’odham Nation’s (Nation) San Xavier District’s (District) Farm Cooperative (CoOp) in developing some 1,400 acres of new farm land along both sides of Interstate 19 south of the existing CoOp farm fields. This project was in accordance with the...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd..

As authorized under the Arizona Water Settlements Act of 2004, the San Carlos and Irrigation Drainage District (SCIDD) is undertaking a 10-year rehabilitation project of its irrigation system. SCIDD is the non-Indian irrigation component of the San Carlos Irrigation Project (SCIP), which provides irrigation water to the communities of Florence, Coolidge, and Casa Grande in Pinal County, Arizona. The initial focus of the SCIDD Rehabilitation Project is the rehabilitation of the Ashurst-Hayden...

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As authorized under the Arizona Water Settlements Act of 2004, the San Carlos and Irrigation Drainage District (SCIDD) is undertaking a 10-year rehabilitation project of its irrigation system. SCIDD is the non-Indian irrigation component of the San Carlos Irrigation Project (SCIP), which provides irrigation water to the communities of Florence, Coolidge, and Casa Grande in Pinal County, Arizona. The initial focus of the SCIDD Rehabilitation Project is the rehabilitation of the Ashurst-Hayden...

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As authorized under the Arizona Water Settlements Act of 2004, the San Carlos and Irrigation Drainage District (SCIDD) is undertaking a 10-year rehabilitation project of its irrigation system. SCIDD is the non-Indian irrigation component of the San Carlos Irrigation Project (SCIP), which provides irrigation water to the communities of Florence, Coolidge, and Casa Grande in Pinal County, Arizona. The initial focus of the SCIDD Rehabilitation Project is the rehabilitation of the Ashurst-Hayden...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Margerie Green.

This final report includes eight reports representing close to 6,000 acres of survey performed in the vicinity of the planned New Waddell Dam. The survey areas include locations for geologic test trenches, road relocations, borrow areas, spillways, and the Waddell Canal. These surveys yielded a total of 43 sites and 2018 loci of isolated artifacts. All but one of the sites were located in two borrow areas. These two study areas evidence differences in use of habitation, agriculture and artifact...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Margerie Green. R. W. Effland, Jr.. J. H. King.

This final report reflects a year of on-call Class III cultural resource surveys for Plan 6, the Regulatory Storage Division of the Central Arizona Project. Included are eight reports representing close to 6000 acres of survey performed in the vicinity of the planned New Waddell Dam by Archaeological Consulting Services for the Arizona Projects Office, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. Because New Waddell Dam is designed to be rock filled, one of the focal points of the contract was to survey proposed...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd..

As authorized under the Arizona Water Settlements Act of 2004, the San Carlos and Irrigation Drainage District (SCIDD) is undertaking a 10-year rehabilitation project of its irrigation system. SCIDD is the non-Indian irrigation component of the San Carlos Irrigation Project (SCIP), which provides irrigation water to the communities of Florence, Coolidge, and Casa Grande in Pinal County, Arizona. The Bureau of Reclamation, Phoenix Area Office (Reclamation) directed Archaeological Consulting...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Melanie Ryan. Thomas E. Jones. Robert Stokes.

As authorized under the Arizona Water Settlements Act of 2004, the San Carlos and Irrigation Drainage District (SCIDD) is undertaking a 10-year rehabilitation project of its irrigation system. SCIDD is the non-Indian irrigation component of the San Carlos Irrigation Project (SCIP), which provides irrigation water to the communities of Florence, Coolidge, and Casa Grande in Pinal County, Arizona. The Bureau of Reclamation, Phoenix Area Office (Reclamation) directed Archaeological Consulting...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Glennda Gene Luhnow.

Maricopa County Department of Transportation (MCDOT) plans to improve Northern Avenue to be a parkway in the Phoenix metropolitan area where no freeways are planned. At the request of Mr. Robin Shishido of Parsons, a cultural resource assessment of the project area of potential effects (APE) was conducted by Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd. (ACS). The purpose of the cultural resource assessment was to identify any historic properties in the APE that could be affected by the undertaking...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Glennda Gene Luhnow.

Monitoring for the Southwest Gas 2" Steel Main Replacement Project identified two features within AZ T:12:37(ASM)-Casa Buena, and three canal exposures representing two canals (designated at AZ T:12:416 and T:417[ASM]). All feature recording protocols followed those methods set forth in the approved City of Phoenix blanket work plan (Montero and Stubing 2004). ACS’ monitoring for the Southwest Gas 2" Steel Main Replacement Project resulted in the monitoring of 98 new excavations, and the...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Katherine A. Spielmann.

Final Report of the Spring 2007 Field Season - Legacies on the Landscape: Archaeological and Ecological Research at Agua Fria National Monument and Tonto National Forest

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Steven M. Troncone.

Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd. (ACS) conducted a cultural resource survey of 880 acres of private land located in the Tucson, Arizona area just south of Valencia Road approximately 4 miles west-southwest of Black Mountain. The survey, requested by the Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation), was undertaken to identify and assess the cultural resources that might be affected by the development of the Tucson Aqueduct System Reliability Investigations (TASRI) Reservoir. It was one of two...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Holly S. DeMaagd.

At the request of the Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation), Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd. (ACS) performed an archaeological survey of 320 acres on the Pascua Yaqui Reservation in southern Arizona. This survey was conducted prior to the planned construction of the Pascua Yaqui Central Arizona Project (CAP) Farm Development. It was one of two tasks identified under Delivery Order No. 3-PD-32-01820-009 of the Cultural Resources Class III Inventories contract between Reclamation and ACS...

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

Logan Simpson Design Inc. (LSD) has completed Arizona- and National Register of Historic Places (NRHP)-eligibility testing within portions of AZ P:2:8 (GP). Monitoring to identify a prehistoric canal was also undertaken. Greeley and Hansen Engineers (Greeley and Hansen), on behalf of the City of Phoenix Water Services Department, retained LSD to conduct archaeological testing to determine whether remains were present that could contribute scientifically important information on the prehistoric...

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Desert Archaeology, Inc., personnel conducted phased archaeological data recovery at the Boulder Bend site. The site includes a small architectural mound located on Apache-Gravesides National Forests (ASNF) land west of the State Route (SR) 78 right-of-way, and an associated potsherd and flaked stone scatter that extends east of the SR 78 right-of-way, and is migrating down slope from the vicinity of the architectural mound. The Boulder Bend site straddles SR 78. The area of the site west of SR...

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SWCA conducted limited data recovery at 13 sites crossed by the Coolidge to Hayden segment of the larger Eastern Mining Area (EMA) 115kV Transmission Line system in east-central Arizona. The Coolidge to Hayden segment generally follows a west-to-east alignment from Coolidge, Pinal County, to Hayden in Gila County, which roughly parallels the course of the Gila River. Salt River Project (SRP) owns the transmission line system, which was constructed to serve the mining communities of the...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text A. H. Schroeder.

This document is a memorandum from Regional Archaeologist Albert Schroeder regarding Font's Room. It deals with why the room was named after him and the possibility that Font was confused with Father Kino, who actually gave mass at the ruins.

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text David E. Purcell.

Data recovery at two prehistoric archaeological sites along U.S. Highway 191 south of Safford in Graham County, southeastern Arizona.

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Ross S. Curtis. Thomas E. Wright.

Five prehistoric Hohokam sites were investigated near the base of Fort Mountain in northern Phoenix. Three of these sites were small habitation areas linked by a canal, one was a cluster of rockpiles used for agricultural purposes, and one was a a dry-farming system of rock alignments, check dams, and terraces. Collectively, the sites suggest short-term, probably seasonal occupation associated with agricultural activities during the Sedentary/Classic transition and early Classic period in the...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Scott Kwiatkowski.

The Fort Mountain Site, AZ T:8:5 (ASM) / AZ T:8:34 (ASU), is a masonry-walled Hohokam compound atop Fort Mountain, a volcanic butte adjacent to Cave Creek in northern Phoenix, Arizona. The site also includes a number of petroglyphs. Excavation results indicate that the compound included three masonry rooms, one possible ramada, two courtyards, two corridors, two extramural areas, and two surface artifact concentrations along with the enclosing masonry wall. Petroglyphs included spirals,...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text David Abbott.

Hohokam ceramics recovered during the Fort Mountain Archaeological Project in northern Phoenix, Arizona, are described and analyzed. Ceramics from five investigated sites suggest occupation during the Classic period. Phyllite-tempered plainwares dominate the assemblage. Petrographic and geochemical studies suggest at least three distinct production locales: one at or near Fort Mountain, one in the middle Cave Creek area north of Fort Mountain, and one "unknown" locale probably located in the...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Todd W. Bostwick.

On March 1, 1989, Dr. David Doyel and Todd Bostwick of the City of Phoenix Archaeology Division were accompanied by Park Ranger David Stamper on an inspection of an archaeological site located on Shaw Butte in northern Phoenix. This field trip was requested by Sarah Hall-Jara, North Mountain Park Manager, in order to evaluate a site which is present within the boundaries of the City of Phoenix North Phoenix Mountains Preserve. Because the mountain preserve is a popular place for hiking by local...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Earl W. Sires.

The Fourmile Wash Data Recovery Project (SWCA Project No. 22-88160-1) included excavation and other data recovery activities at eight archaeological sites located in northwestern Maricopa County, Arizona. The excavations were conducted between 18 April and 5 May 1988 by SWCA, Inc., under contract with Headquarters West, Ltd. The project was necessitated by the fact that these sites are located on lands administered by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) that were scheduled to be transferred...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text David R. Wilcox.

La Ciudad Phoenix was one of numerous Hohokam Indian villages that once were located about every three miles (4.8 kilometers) along extensive irrigation canals in the Salt and Gila river valleys. First founded in the early centuries A.D., La Ciudad endured for a millennium or more, evolving new forms of organization to meet life’s challenges on several scales of interaction, only to fail in the end when the Hohokam abandoned the Phoenix basin about A.D. 1450. The more archaeologists learn about...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Frank Pinkley.

This is a collection of "Ruminations" by Frank Pinkley

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Todd Pitezel.

The research presented here explores why a few people left their valley-dwelling neighbors to build and live at El Pueblito on Cerro de Moctezuma, the only hilltop settlement constructed during the Casas Grandes Media period (A.D. 1200-1450) in what is today northwest Chihuahua, Mexico. These people also constructed the only currently recognized trails to a settlement, a massive rock agricultural system and subterranean oven, and an unparalleled crowning hill summit precinct. Comparative...

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This document is the first of three volumes presenting the results of a two-phase data recovery program conducted by Statistical Research, Inc. (SRI), at 29 prehistoric sites and segments of 2 historical-period roads—Reno Road and the old Bush Highway—along a 25-mile-long segment of State Route 87 (SR 87, or the Beeline Highway), between Saguaro Lake Road and the Gila County Line. A fourth volume presents the findings of a study of the historical-period roads within the project area performed by...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Uploaded by: Tyler Sutton

This document is the second of four volumes presenting the results of a two-phase data recovery program conducted by Statistical Research, Inc. (SRI), at 29 prehistoric sites and segments of 2 historical-period roads—Reno Road and the old Bush Highway—along a 25-mile-long segment of State Route 87 (SR 87, or the Beeline Highway), between Saguaro Lake Road and the Gila County Line. A fourth volume presents the findings of a study of the historical-period roads within the project area performed by...