An Archaeological Survey of the Salt River Project Lower Buckeye Road Canal Relocation Project, Maricopa County, Arizona

Author(s): Barbara S. Macnider

Year: 1988

Summary

Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd. (ACS) conducted an archaeological survey in southwestern Phoenix along Lower Buckeye Road at the request of Judy Brunson of the Salt River Project (SRP). The survey was performed in order to provide an inventory and assessment of the cultural resources that would be affected by the relocation of the Lower Buckeye Road canal.

The project consisted of six parcels that totaled approximately 7.1 acres (2.86 ha); all parcels, except for Parcel 3, are located on privately owned land; Parcel 3 is owned by SRP in fee. The survey area was situated along the sides of roads, canals, and agricultural fields, all highly disturbed contexts.

Cite this Record

An Archaeological Survey of the Salt River Project Lower Buckeye Road Canal Relocation Project, Maricopa County, Arizona. Barbara S. Macnider. Tempe, AZ: Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd. 1988 ( tDAR id: 402869) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8402869

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Keywords

Culture
Historic • Hohokam

Material
Basalt • Buffware • Ceramic • Chert • Chipped Stone • Earth • Gila Plainware • Glass • Glycymeris sp. • Ground Stone • Laevicardium sp. • Pecten sp. • Plainware • Red-on-Buffware • Redware • Rhyolite • Sacaton Red-on-Buffware • Santa Cruz Red-on-Buffware • Shell • Vesicular Basalt • Wingfield Plainware

Site Name
Area A (MNA) • AZ T:12:17 (ASU) • AZ T:12:18 (ASU) • AZ T:12:52 (ASU) • AZ T:12:8 (MNA) • AZ T:12:8 (PG) • AZ T:12:9 (PG) • Fowler Ruin • M-1 • Phx 1:2 (GP) • Phx 1:3 (GP) • Phx 2:7 (GP) • Pueblo del Alamo • Pueblo del Rio • Riverside School • State Inventory #1191 • State Inventory #1192 • State Inventory #1201 • State Inventory #1203 • State Inventory #1207 • State Inventory #1208

Site Type
Agricultural or Herding • Archaeological Feature • Artifact Scatter • Canal • Canal or Canal Feature • Communal / Public Structure • Compound • Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex • Domestic Structures • Earthen Mound • Habitation Site • Hamlet / Village • Historic Communal / Public Structure • Linear Mound • Lithic Scatter • Midden • Mound / Earthwork • Platform Mound • Resource Extraction / Production / Transportation Structure or Features • Room Block / Compound / Pueblo • School • Settlements • Sherd Scatter • Trash Midden • Trash Mound • Village

Investigation Types
Site Evaluation / Testing

General
ACS • Basalt Metate • Bottle • Flake Tool • Glycymeris Bracelet • Jar • Lower Buckeye Road Canal Relocation • Mano • Neoclassical Style • Plainware Jar • Rhyolite Metate • Salt River Project • Shell Bracelet • SRP • Trough Metate • Vesicular Basalt Metate

Geographic Keywords
Arizona (State / Territory) • Lower Buckeye Road Canal • Maricopa (County) • Phoenix, AZ

Temporal Keywords
19th Century • 20th Century • Classic Period • Colonial Period • Historic • Prehistoric • Sedentary Period

Spatial Coverage

min long: -112.226; min lat: 33.416 ; max long: -112.168; max lat: 33.431 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): Salt River Project Cultural Resource Manager

Contributor(s): Richard Effland, Jr., Dr.; Jerry Howard

Landowner(s): Salt River Project; Private Owner

Prepared By(s): Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd.

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Contact(s): Salt River Project Cultural Resource Manager

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