Excavations in the Santa Cruz River Floodplain: The Early Agricultural Period Component at Los Pozos

Editor(s): David A. Gregory

Year: 2001

Summary

Archaeological research reported in this volume was conducted under an on call contract between Desert Archaeology, Inc. and the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT; Contract 9446). This contract provides for documentation and appropriate treatment of cultural resources encountered during long-term implementation of proposed ADOT improvements to the Tucson area segment of the Interstate 10 corridor between the Interstate 19 interchange on the south and Tangerine Road on the north (Mabry 1993a). Several archaeological sites along this corridor have been previously investigated under this contract (Baar 1996; Clark 1993a, 1993b; Jones et al. 1994; Mabry 1993b; Mabry et al. 1997; Mabry, ed. 1998; Swartz 1997a).

The present report deals with investigations in that segment of the corridor falling between Prince Road on the south and Ruthrauff Road on the north and along both sides of Interstate 10. Following a records search and pedestrian survey of the project right-of-way, a plan for archaeological testing was prepared and subsequently carried out during January and February of 1995. Subsurface testing revealed an extensive component dating to the Early Agricultural period, as well as a much more spatially restricted and deeply buried Middle Archaic component.

Based on results of the testing program, a data recovery plan was prepared (Gregory 1995) and, between 7 August and 24 October 1995, excavations were carried out at the site later named Los Pozos (AZ AA:12:91[ASM]). The current volume reports investigation of the Early Agricultural period component at the site, while a companion volume documents work in the Middle Archaic component (Gregory, ed. 1999). The site name acknowledges several Early Agricultural period wells discovered during work at the site.

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Excavations in the Santa Cruz River Floodplain: The Early Agricultural Period Component at Los Pozos. David A. Gregory. 2001 ( tDAR id: 427921) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8427921

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Keywords

Material
Ceramic • Chipped Stone • Dating Sample • Fauna • Fire Cracked Rock • Ground Stone • Human Remains • Macrobotanical • Obsidian • Shell • Wood

Site Name
AZ AA:12:11 (ASM) • AZ AA:12:19 (ASM) • AZ AA:12:789 (ASM) • AZ AA:12:790 (ASM) • AZ AA:12:91 (ASM) • Los Pozos

Site Type
Agricultural or Herding • Archaeological Feature • Artifact Scatter • Burial Pit • Canal or Canal Feature • Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex • Domestic Structures • Funerary and Burial Structures or Features • Hearth • Inhumation • Pit • Pit House / Earth Lodge • Post Hole / Post Mold • Resource Extraction / Production / Transportation Structure or Features • Roasting Pit / Oven / Horno • Storage Pit • Well

Investigation Types
Data Recovery / Excavation • Reconnaissance / Survey • Records Search / Inventory Checking • Site Evaluation / Testing

General
X-Ray Flourescence

Geographic Keywords
Arizona (State / Territory) • Interstate 10 • Santa Cruz River Floodplain • Santa Cruz Valley • Tucson, AZ

Temporal Keywords
Cienaga phase • Early Agricultural period • Middle Archaic Period

Spatial Coverage

min long: -111.038; min lat: 32.272 ; max long: -111.003; max lat: 32.294 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): Salt River Project Cultural Resource Manager

Contributor(s): Jenny L. Adams; Michael W. Diehl; Alan Ferg; James M. Heidke; Lorrie Lincoln-Babb; Penny Dufoe Minturn; M. Steven Shackley; R. Jane Sliva; Arthur W. Vokes; Jennifer A. Waters; Helga Wocherl

Project Director(s): David A. Gregory

Prepared By(s): Center for Desert Archaeology

Submitted To(s): Arizona Department of Transportation Environmental Planning Services

Record Identifiers

Anthropological Papers No.(s): 21

TRACS No.(s): H380601D

SRP Library Barcode No.(s): 00090595

Contract No.(s): 94-46

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