Archaeological Investigations: Salt River Project - Coronado Generating Station Railroad Spur Line, Private Lands, Apache County, Arizona: Final Report for Archaeological Survey of Three Proposed Sub-Ballast Borrow Areas

Author(s): Mark B. Sant

Year: 1977

Summary

In September 1977, at the request of Salt River Project (SRP), an archaeological clearance investigation of three sub-ballast borrow areas along the SRP-Coronado Railroad Line, was conducted by the Museum of Northern Arizona. During the course of investigations 12 archaeological sites were recorded. A brief description of the investigations, the project area, and archaeological sitaution encountered is given. In addition, as a consequence of the preliminary results of the survey, archaeological clearance is recommended for selected portions of the proposed sub-ballast borrow areas identified by Salt River Project Resident Engineer Tony Rojas, and Railroad Archaeological Monitor Alan Dulaney.

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Archaeological Investigations: Salt River Project - Coronado Generating Station Railroad Spur Line, Private Lands, Apache County, Arizona: Final Report for Archaeological Survey of Three Proposed Sub-Ballast Borrow Areas. Mark B. Sant. Flagstaff, AZ: Museum of Northern Arizona, Department of Anthropology. 1977 ( tDAR id: 405817) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8405817

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Keywords

Culture
Anasazi • Ancestral Puebloan • Archaic • Early Pueblo III • Historic • Historic Native American • Navajo • Pueblo I • Pueblo II • Pueblo III

Material
Black-on-Redware • Black-on-Whiteware • Bottleglass • Ceramic • Chert • Chipped Stone • Early Kaituthiana Black-on-Whiteware • Escavada Black-on-Whiteware • Escavada-Gallup Black-on-Whiteware • Fire Cracked Rock • Glass • Ground Stone • Kiatuthiana Black-on-Whiteware • Metal • Plainware • Red Mesa Black-on-Whiteware • Redware • Tin • Tohatchibanded Plainware • Tularosa-Reserve Black-on-Whiteware • Tusayan Black-on-Redware • White Mound Black-on-Whiteware • Whiteware • Wood

Site Name
Ariz. K:14:35 (MNA) • Ariz. K:14:36 (MNA) • Ariz. K:14:37 (MNA) • Ariz. Q:2:31 (MNA) • Ariz. Q:2:32 (MNA) • Ariz. Q:2:33 (MNA) • Ariz. Q:2:34 (MNA) • Ariz. Q:2:35 (MNA) • Ariz. Q:2:36 (MNA) • Ariz. Q:2:37 (MNA) • Ariz. Q:2:38 (MNA) • Ariz. Q:2:39 (MNA) • NA15,350 • NA15,351 • NA15,352 • NA15,353 • NA15,354 • NA15,355 • NA15,356 • NA15,357 • NA15,358 • NA15,359 • NA15,360 • NA15,361

Site Type
Ancient Structure • Archaeological Feature • Artifact Scatter • Burial • Ceremonial Structure • Charcoal Stain • Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex • Domestic Structures • Funerary and Burial Structures or Features • Groundstone Scatter • Kiva • Kiva / Great Kiva • Lithic Scatter • Non-Domestic Structures • Pit House / Earth Lodge • Sherd Scatter • Structure • Sweat House / Sweat Lodge • Sweat Lodge • Trash Area

Investigation Types
Site Evaluation / Testing

General
Bucket • Can • Charcoal • Chert Core • Coolidge Corrugated Ware • Core • Coronado • Corrugated Ware • Flake • Metal Bucket • Nodule • Petrified Wood Nodule • Salt River Project • SRP • Tin Can

Geographic Keywords
Apache (County) • Arizona (State / Territory) • Milky Wash • Puerco River

Temporal Keywords
Historic • Prehistoric

Spatial Coverage

min long: -109.577; min lat: 34.836 ; max long: -109.456; max lat: 35.111 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): Salt River Project Cultural Resource Manager

Contributor(s): Donald E. Weaver, Jr.; Tony Rojas; Alan Dulaney; Bettina Rosenberg; Tom E. Parry; William S. Marmaduke

Sponsor(s): Salt River Project

Prepared By(s): Museum of Northern Arizona

Record Identifiers

Salt River Project Library Barcode No.(s): 00030522

Report No.(s): A-77-117

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