Recovery of a Partial Burial from AZ T:12:10 (ASM), Las Colinas, Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona

Author(s): Richard L. Boston; E. Melanie Ryan

Year: 2002

Summary

On February 5, 2002, City of Phoenix Archaeologist Todd Bostwick contacted Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd. (ACS) to set up a meeting with the City’s Department of Street Transportation staff to coordinate the recovery of a burial that was encountered during the installation of a sewer line. In 1996, Mr. Bostwick recovered a cranium and a whole vessel under emergency conditions from a construction trench that had cut through a Hohokam inhumation (Bostwick 1996). The City attempted to repatriate those remains to the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community (SRJPMIC), but SRJPMIC did not wish to repatriate a partial skeleton. Unfortunately before repatriation, the street and sidewalk were reconstructed, thereby covering the remainder of the remains on Phoenix City property. Until funding could be found, the cranium and vessel have been housed at Pueblo Grande Museum.

The Street Transportation Department has an on-call contract (Contract No. 100106) with SA&B, Inc., to provide environmental services. Between March 11 and 19, 2002, ACS, acting as a consultant to SA&B, recovered the remainder of the human remains from beneath the sidewalk. Melanie Ryan and Heather Kober carried out the excavation, and Ms. Ryan and Stephen Reichardt undertook the osteological laboratory analysis between March 19 and 22, 2002, at the ACS laboratory in Tempe. ACS performed the work under Arizona State Museum Project Specific Permit Number 2002-68ps, in accordance with the directives for implementing the Arizona Antiquities Act (A.R.S. §41-844 and §41865).

Cite this Record

Recovery of a Partial Burial from AZ T:12:10 (ASM), Las Colinas, Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona, 008. Richard L. Boston, E. Melanie Ryan. 2002 ( tDAR id: 448793) ; doi:10.48512/XCV8448793

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Spatial Coverage

min long: -112.128; min lat: 33.436 ; max long: -112.088; max lat: 33.483 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): City of Phoenix Archaeology Office

Contributor(s): Todd Bostwick; Heather Kober; Stephen Reichardt; Holly Young; Sue Howard; Ed Checkley; Ron Freestone; Michelle Fowler

Repository(s): Pueblo Grande Museum

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

Submitted To(s): City of Phoenix

Record Identifiers

ACS Project No.(s): 02-008

Agency Project No.(s): PGM 2002-08

Contract Number(s): 96-34100106

Street Transportation Department Contract Number(s): 100106

City of Phoenix Project Number(s): PGM 2002-08

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