One Hundred Years of Archaeology at La Ciudad de Los Hornos

Author(s): David R. Wilcox; Jerry B. Howard; Rueben H. Nelson

Year: 1990

Summary

When the Salt River Project (SRP) decided to build the Lassen Substation (LSS) along the Western Canal just east of Priest Drive in Tempe, they determined to recover the significant archaeological resources that would otherwise be impacted. Thus a 2-ac parcel of the Hohokam village site known as La Ciudad de Los Hornos was excavated in 1988 by Archaeological Consulting Services (ACS); 195 cultural features were recorded. SRP also contracted with the present authors to write an overview of previous archaeological work at Los Hornos and to interpret its community patterns during the millennium of Hohokam occupation. This study would thus provide a model of the larger cultural context of the SRPLSS/ACS 2-ac sample from a site that encompasses approximately 450 ac.

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One Hundred Years of Archaeology at La Ciudad de Los Hornos. David R. Wilcox, Jerry B. Howard, Rueben H. Nelson. Soil Systems Publications in Archaeology ,16. Phoenix, AZ: Soil Systems, Inc. 1990 ( tDAR id: 427266) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8427266

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Keywords

Culture
Hohokam • Yaqui Indians

Material
Ceramic • Chipped Stone • Metal

Site Name
AZ U:9:41 (ASU) • AZ U:9:48 (ASM) • La Ciudad de Los Hornos • PGM U:9:23

Site Type
Agricultural or Herding • Archaeological Feature • Borrow Pit • Caliche Mixing Pit • Canal or Canal Feature • Cemetery • Cremation Burial • Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex • Domestic Structures • Funerary and Burial Structures or Features • Inhumation burial • Midden • Mound / Earthwork • Oval Pit House • Pit • Pit House / Earth Lodge • Refuse Pit • Resource Extraction / Production / Transportation Structure or Features • Roasting Pit / Oven / Horno • Storage Pit • Trash Mound • Trash Pit

Investigation Types
Archaeological Overview • Historic Background Research

General
Archaeological Study • Community Patterning • History of Research • Lassen Substation • Salt River Project • Site Structure • SRP

Geographic Keywords
Arizona (State / Territory) • Superstition Freeway • Tempe, AZ • Western Canal

Temporal Keywords
Classic Period • Gila Butte Phase • Pioneer Period • Santa Cruz Phase • Sedentary Period

Spatial Coverage

min long: -111.968; min lat: 33.372 ; max long: -111.916; max lat: 33.395 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): Salt River Project Cultural Resource Manager

Contributor(s): Rueben H. Nelson; Jerry B. Howard; David R. Wilcox; Cory Dale Breternitz

Sponsor(s): Salt River Project

Repository(s): Salt River Project, Tempe, AZ

Record Identifiers

PO No. (s): VV30636CDT

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