Phoenix Basin (Geographic Keyword)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Laurene Montero. Korri Turner. Greta Gomez. Mark Hackbarth. Jean Reynolds.

Cementerio Lindo is a historic cemetery that was used by Maricopa County as a burial location between 1890 and 1952. The survey and archival research project was conducted at the request of COP Archaeology Office to determine the nature and extent of cultural resources within Cementerio Lindo prior to proposed improvements to the grounds. The project area is considered a cultural resource, and was assigned the site designation AZ T:12:279 (ASM). Approximately 632 surface grave markers were...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Korri Turner.

The COP Archaeology Office reviewed this project and provided recommendations in a January 10, 2007 Archaeological Assessment Form. The COP Archaeology Assessment notes that two prehistoric archaeological sites (P:2:8 [GP] and AZ T:12:148 [ASM] / La Villa) are partially located within the project area, a third site (AZ T:12:21 [PG]) is located within 250 ft. of the project area, and several prehistoric canals are also plotted within the project area. The COP Archaeology Office recommended that...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Todd W. Bostwick. Glen E. Rice.

The Arizona Department of Transportation began plans in 1985 to construct a new highway (State Route 218) in the Phoenix metropolitan area which would extend around the western and southern sides of South Mountain. This is a report on the historic and prehistoric cultural resources of the area. The construction of State Route 218 will be funded by the State of Arizona, and this work has been conducted under the State Historic Preservation Act of 1982 (A.R.S. Title 41, Chapter 4.2, Article 1). A...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Ethan Morton. A.E. (Gene) Rogge.

The City of Phoenix is installing a 48-inch sewer line within Broadway Road between 75th Avenue and 91st Avenue. The street right-of-way is held by the City of Phoenix, and the project must therefore be implemented in compliance with the Arizona Antiquities Act (ARS 41-841 through 41- 847). The Act requires those in charge of activities on lands owned or controlled by the State of Arizona or local governments to notify the director of the Arizona State Museum of the discovery of any...

DOCUMENT Full-Text R. Thomas Euler.

On September 21, 1993, archaeologists from SWCA, Inc., Environmental Consultants of Tucson, Arizona, conducted an intensive archaeological survey of approximately 160 acres for a proposed prison expansion. The purpose of these investigations is to locate and describe all cultural resources within the parcel that might be adversely affected by construction of the proposed Special Management Unit prison facility. The entire quarter section in which the project area is located was surveyed. The...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jill Heilman.

At the request of Ritoch-Powell and FHWA and ADOT, EcoPlan conducted a Class III cultural resources survey along SR 303 in Surprise, Maricopa County, Arizona. Prior to conducting the field survey, a search of records at ASM, SHPO, and ADOT was undertaken. The field effort occurred on 18 November 2009, amounting to two days of effort. No cultural resources were encountered in the survey area. Additionally, no cultural resources were encountered by previous survey throughout the project area....

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MCDOT plans to expand and extend Northern Parkway to be a parkway with grade-separated intersections at major cross streets to eliminate traffic signals and provide a higher-speed, higher-capacity, east-west route in the northwestern portion of the Phoenix metropolitan area where no freeways are planned. The current cultural resources assessment is in support of the Northern Parkway construction project, including geotechnical investigations. Before ground disturbance can begin, pursuant to the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Andrea Stahman. James W. Cogswell. Scotty B. Moore.

Northland Research, Inc. conducted archaeological testing within a 6.9-acre parcel of private land that contains a portion of Pueblo del Rio (AZ T:12:116[ASM]), a large Hohokam habitation site that has been determined eligible for the National Register of Historic Places under Criterion D (information potential). The purpose of the testing was to determine the nature, extent, and integrity of subsurface cultural remains within the project area. The testing consisted of limited surface collection...

DOCUMENT Full-Text John T. Marshall. Douglas B. Craig.

Northland Research, Inc. (Northland) has completed archaeological extent testing for the Sojourner Center within approximately 1.1 acres of 3.6 acres planned for development of a women's center for victims of domestic abuse. This property falls within the boundary of La Ciudad, AZ T:12:1(ASM), a large Hohokam village determined eligible for the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) by the State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) in 2003. The City of Phoenix (COP) Archaeologist recommended...

DOCUMENT Full-Text John T. Marshall. Eric S. Cox.

Northland Research, Inc. (Northland) has completed archaeological testing within a 4.6-acre parcel in Phoenix. The project was conducted because the Hohokam site of La Lomita (AZ U:9:67[ASM]/AZ U:9:24[ASU]/P:3:4[GP]) and a prehistoric irrigation canal are plotted within the area of investigation. Roughly the northern 2.7 acres of the parcel fall within the recorded boundary of La Lomita. The remaining 1.9 acres fall within the 250-foot buffer around the recorded site boundaries that requires...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Andrea Stahman. Scotty B. Moore.

Northland Research, Inc. (Northland) has completed archaeological testing within a portion of Lombeye Ruin (AZ T:12:109[ASM]), a large Hohokam habitation site located along the Salt River in Phoenix, Arizona.The work was conducted for Cherokee Partners, L.L.C. prior to the planned development of the property and in accordance with City of Phoenix Preservation Ordinance, Section 802(A.1), the Arizona Antiquities Act, and A.R.S.§ 41-865. The purpose of the testing was to determine the nature and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text John T. Marshall.

Northland has completed Phase II data recovery excavations in the D-M-286 project area. Archaeological investigations were conducted in the eastern one-third of the project area, based on the results of Phase I investigations which encountered prehistoric cultural features in that portion of the parcel. Mechanical stripping in this area exposed 25 features in plan view. Northland completely excavated five pits, sampled 17 pits, and tested three pit houses with 1- by 2-m test units. Features were...

DOCUMENT Full-Text David A. Bild.

The Town of Queen Creek is planning to construct a four-lane, divided rural roadway along the Riggs Road alignment using funds from the FHWA administered by the ADOT Local Government Section. The roadway will have a raised median and will be built within existing undeveloped land and agricultural fields. LSD previously conducted a cultural resources survey of an 80.5-acre area of potential effect (APE); however, the APE was subsequently expanded and now encompasses 98.2 acres. The current survey...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Lourdes Aguila.

At the request of Sheila F. Castellano of El Paso Natural Gas Company (EPNG), Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd. (ACS) conducted a cultural resources survey of approximately 234 acres of private land for the proposed EPNG 2039 pipeline relocation/removal project. The survey, conducted under non-collection permit 99-15BL issued by Arizona State Museum (ASM), was to provide an inventory and assessment of cultural resources that might be impacted by the construction. One new archaeological...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Douglas R. Mitchell.

A cultural resources survey for a cell tower collocation site near 47th Avenue and Southern Avenue in Phoenix (Paleo West No. 10-45). This project is for the collocation of AT&T panels onto an existing SRP tower, with associated utility trenching. Site AZ T:12:114(ASM) is reported as being within the Area of Potential Effects (APE) for direct effects. However, the tower site has been extensively disturbed, and Paleo West recommends that this project proceed with a finding of "no adverse effect...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Scott Kwiatkowski.

At the request of the Salt River Project (SRP), Archaeological Research Services, Inc. (ARS), completed a Class III cultural resources survey at two small parcels that are the planned locations of two 230-kV power poles in downtown Tempe, Maricopa County, Arizona. SRP plans to lease these parcels from their current landowners/administrators: the Union Pacific Railroad, the City of Tempe, and the Arizona State Land Department. The state land part of the survey was completed under the authority of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text J. Scott Courtright.

EPS Group Inc. (EPS) requested that Logan Simpson Design Inc. (LSD) perform a Class III cultural resources survey along an undeveloped alignment of Riggs Road in Queen Creek, Maricopa and Pinal counties, Arizona. The Town of Queen Creek is planning to construct a four-lane, divided rural roadway along the Riggs Road alignment using funds from the FHWA administered by the ADOT Local Government Section. The roadway will have a raised median and will be built within existing undeveloped land and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Eric Davis. Korri Turner.

A cultural resources survey to locate and evaluate cultural resources within a portion of the Boyce Thompson Arboretum State Park (BTA) prior to geotechnical activities associated with the construction of a proposed new entry road and parking lot.

DOCUMENT Full-Text John Marshall.

Northland has completed cultural resources testing at two parcels. During the project, 83 trenches were mechanically excavated, totaling 1,613.3 meters. Trenches were roughly 20 m long, 65 cm wide, and 1.5 m deep. They were laid out in a checkerboard pattern across both loci, with trenches spaced 40 m apart east-west. This equates to approximately a 1.25 percent subsurface sample of the 20.7 acre project area. Testing confirmed the presence of features associated with Las Canopas (AZ...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Douglas R. Mitchell.

The site (AZ T:12:413[ASM]) was recommended as eligible for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places. Avoidance to the site was not feasible so data recovery was conducted under an existing City-approved Plan, entitled “General Historic Properties Treatment Plan for Archaeological Projects Within the Boundaries of the City of Phoenix, Arizona” (Montero et al. 2008). A Supplemental Data Recovery Work Plan submitted to the City (see Mitchell 2011) was approved and implemented. As a...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Bruce G. Phillips. Gregory E. Berg. Lourdes Aguila. Barbara S. Macnider.

The Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT), acting on behalf of the Federal Highway Administration, is undertaking the construction of Highway 101 (Pima Freeway) in north-central Maricopa County. The mainline right-of-way was obtained horn the Arizona State Land Department (ASLD) in the late 1980s. Archaeological Research Sendees, Inc. (ARS) suneyed most of the mainline and identified archaeological resources (Curtis and Stone 1988; B. Stone 1996; L. Stone 1989; Stone and Stone 1990). In...

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This report presents the results of archaeological data recovery conducted by SWCA, Inc. on a portion of Pinnacle Peak Village (AZ U:5:3 [ASU]), a large, Preclassic Hohokam site located in north Scottsdale, Arizona. The archaeological work was done at the request of Desert Troon Companies of Scottsdale, Arizona, owners of Troon Village, a residential development that includes portions of Pinnacle Peak Village. The project is located within Parcel 02 , a unit of Troon Village that is subject to...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Banks L. Leonard. Brandie M. Stork.

Soil Systems, Inc (SSI) contracted with Beazer Homes Arizona Division to conduct archaeological data recovery at six prehistoric sites in the 66 acres Desert Rose project area at the base of South Mountain in south Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona. The sites at which data recovery was conducted were exclusively prehistoric sites (AZ T:12:100 [ASM], AZ T:12:102-105 [ASM], and AZ T:12:108 [ASM]). Sites where data recovery was not undertaken (AZ T:12:101 [ASM] AZ T:12:106 [ASM], and AZ T:12:107...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Brent Kober. Mark R. Hackbarth.

Under contract to Comsense, Inc., Northland Research, Inc. (Northland) has completed archaeological testing and data recovery excavations for the Casa Nueva Development, a public housing project located in downtown Phoenix. The purpose of Northland’s investigations was to thoroughly document archaeological remains in the Casa Nueva project area. This report summarizes the results of those efforts. Although small in scale, the Casa Nueva project has contributed significant new information to our...

DOCUMENT Full-Text John T. Marshall.

This report provides documentation for archaeological data recovery within a 6.9 acre parcel located near the northeastern edge of the prehistoric Hohokam village Pueblo del Rio (AZ T:12:116[ASM]). The work was conducted by Northland Research, Inc., for McCall & Associates prior to commercial development of the property. The purpose of the project was to collect information and analyze materials from a sample of features at the site. Features identified include three pit houses, a...