Sonoran Desert (Geographic Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Daniel G. Landis. Robert I. Birnie.

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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 Jeffrey Altschul. Bruce A. Jones.

From June to September 1989, Statistical Research conducted a non-collection Class II cultural resources survey of 5,200 acres within the R2301W segment of the Barry M. Goldwater Range in Yuma County, Arizona. The areas targeted for survey conformed to topographic surfaces on which archaeologists had found sites in the past. These areas were concentrated in the Baker Peaks and northern Copper Mountain regions as well as the eastern flanks of the Tinajas Altas and Gila Mountain ranges. The...

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 Paul Rawson.

Pima County proposes the Centennial Elementary Flowing Wells Junior High School Safe Routes to School Transportation Enhancement Project. This project involves an area immediately surrounding two schools (Centennial Elementary and Flowing Wells Junior High). The purpose of this project is to improve pedestrian safety for students and the surrounding community and to promote healthier lifestyles. SWCA Environmental Consultants (SWCA) was retained by Parsons Brinckerhoff, the project’s...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Paul M. Rawson.

Trico Electric Cooperative, Inc. (Trico), proposes to use federal funds administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Utilities Service (RUS) to construct a new 477 ACSR (aluminum conductor steel reinforced) 25-kilovolt (kV) overhead electric tie line in unincorporated Pima County, Arizona. The line would constitute new construction on State Trust land within an existing ASLD easement. Trico contracted SWCA Environmental Consultants (SWCA) to conduct a cultural resources survey of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Karolyn Jackman Jensen. Barbara S. MacNider. Mac McDonnell. Jerryll Moreno. John Rapp. Teresa L. Hoffman.

A data recovery program was completed at four archaeological sites (AZ N:4:37 [NA 25,511], N:4:65 [NA 25,512], N:4:66 [NA 25,513], and N:4:68(ASM) [NA 25,514]) by Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd. (ACS) for the Phase 3 Roadway Improvement Project (North Campground Facilities) at Dead Horse Ranch State Park (Park) (Figure 1.1). This program represents the last of a series of mitigation actions conducted for an undertaking sponsored by the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) and...

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This monograph is a collection of papers presented at the 1991 Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans. These papers present preliminary results after two years of work on the eight year mitigation program investigating Salado Platform Mound Villages in the Tonto Basin, Arizona. Each paper constitutes an individual chapter. They include: 1. Introduction 2. Pursuing Southwestern Social Complexity in the 1990s 3. Modeling the Development of Complexity in the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text James Watson.

This paper describes issues associated with the construction of a biocultural database from samples of the earliest farmers from the southern Southwest and northwest Mexico. Currently over a dozen archaeological sites dating to the Early Agricultural period (circa 1,600 B.C.-A.D. 150) have produced a large sample of mortuary features (n = 431). These samples, and thereby the data, face unique challenges in interpretation compared to similar large data sets in that the materials (sites, features,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Herrick E. Hanks.

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DOCUMENT Full-Text Thomas N. Motsinger. Heidi Roberts. Richard V. N. Ahlstrom.

SWCA, Inc., Environmental Consultants (SWCA), of Tucson, Arizona, conducted the Eastern Mining Area (EMA) survey project under contract to Salt River Project (SRP) between October, 1993, and February, 1994. One central purpose of the project was to create an inventory of archaeological resources to assist in the planning of future improvements and other modifications to existing SRP transmission lines. The project included 107 person-field days of Class III archaeological survey along...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Thomas N. Motsinger. Heidi Roberts. Richard V. N. Ahlstrom.

SWCA Inc, Environmental Consultants of Tucson, Arizona, conducted Eastern Mining Area (EMA) survey project under contract to Salt River Project (SRP) between October 1993 and February 1994. One central purpose of the project was to create an inventory of archaeological resources to assist in the planning of future improvements and other modifications to existing SRP transmission lines. The project included 107 person-field days of Class III archaeological survey along approximately 257 linear...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Mark Slaughter. Heidi Roberts.

This volume summarizes data recovered from the Gibbon Springs site, AZ BB:9:50 (ASM), located in the northeastern Tucson Basin. This large Classic period site had a central compound surrounded by houses. Data and materials were obtained from 24 structures and hundreds of other features (e.g., pits, cremations, middens). Materials from Gibbon Springs suggest that either a non-indigenous population inhabited the site or there was another social arrangement between the Tucson Basin Hohokam and...

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The archaeological excavations documented in this volume examine the Hohokam village of La Villa, AZ T:12:148 (ASM). From its founding in the sixth century A.D., until abandonment in the eleventh century, La Villa was one of the largest villages in the Phoenix Basin. Current excavations preceded the installation of a storm drain that was part of the larger Storm Drain project and provided a rare glimpse of a large pre-Classic period village. Fieldwork occurred in multiple phases. Archaeological...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Glennda Gene Luhnow.

Maricopa County Department of Transportation (MCDOT) plans to improve Northern Avenue to be a parkway in the Phoenix metropolitan area where no freeways are planned. At the request of Mr. Robin Shishido of Parsons, a cultural resource assessment of the project area of potential effects (APE) was conducted by Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd. (ACS). The purpose of the cultural resource assessment was to identify any historic properties in the APE that could be affected by the undertaking...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Henry F. Dobyns.

This book has been written intentionally to attempt to correct the disnoetic behavior of scientists who previously analyzed historic erosion and related changes in the Sonoran Desert environment. For scientists, no less than historians, have been quite unduly disnoetic; that is, all too many have proved to be incapable of knowing what they see (Morgan 1966:31). The chapters which follow this introduction deal with such variables as those already briefly mentioned, plus a number of others. Each...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Albert H. Schroeder.

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This report discusses excavation results at two Hohokam farmsteads (AZ U:1:183 [ASM] and AZ U:1:186 [ASM]) in north Scottsdale, Arizona. Data recovery investigations identified one pithouse and several extramural features at both sites. In addition, a pole-and-brush-lined surface structure was identified at AZ U:1:186 (ASM) that suggests the pithouse may have functioned as a cold-season dwelling while the surface structure served as a warm-season dwelling. Architecture and material culture...

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In 1998 and 1999, archaeologists from SWCA and volunteers from the Desert Foothills Chapter of the Arizona Archaeological Society conducted archaeological investigations at four sites in the Estado de Cholla project area, located southwest of the town of Cave Creek, Arizona. Three isolated Hohokam habitation structures were fully excavated at two of the sites. Each of the three houses was catastrophically burned and each contained intact, abundant, floor-contact artifact assemblages. More than...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Scotty Moore. Gina Gage.

Northland Research, Inc. has completed archaeological testing within a portion of Pueblo del Rio (AZ T:12:116[ASM]), a large Hohokam habitation site located about one mile north of the Salt River. The purpose of the testing was to determine the nature, extent, and significance of subsurface cultural remains within an 11.8-acre parcel located within the previously determined boundaries of the site. The testing included limited surface collections and systematic backhoe trenching to determine if...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Connie L. Stone.

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DOCUMENT Full-Text Michael S. Foster.

This document presents the results of archaeological testing to determine the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) eligibility of five sites located in the proposed Bella Vista Development in Pinal County. SWCA Environmental Consultants (SWCA) conducted the testing at the request of Vanderbilt Farms as part of a due diligence process. The five historic period sites include what were reported to be three possible canal segments (AZ U:14:374 [ASM], AZ U:14:375 [ASM], AZ U:14:376 [ASM]), the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Michael S. Foster. Chris North. Jim Hasbargen.

This document presents a National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) eligibility testing and Native American Consultation plan for the proposed White Peak Ranch development in northwest Maricopa County, Arizona. Vistancia, L.L.C. is planning a 3825-acre housing development in the White Peak Ranch parcel. A cultural resources survey identified 16 archaeological sites within the proposed development (Hasbargen 2003). Although the project is located on private land, the proposed development will...

DOCUMENT Full-Text James B. Rodgers.

Scientific Archeological Services has just completed an archeological inventory of a small parcel situated immediately east of the Old Crosscut Canal in eastern Phoenix, Arizona. This parcel is to be impacted by the construction of two main surface channel features of the Old Crosscut Canal Project. This overall drainage project is to be a joint venture of the Flood Control District of Maricopa County and the city of Phoenix itself, and its development will involve certain reconstruction of the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text India S. Hesse.

SWCA Environmental Consultants (SWCA), under contract with Outpost Development, conducted archaeological testing at site AZ BB:10:59 (ASM) in unincorporated Pima County, near Tucson, Arizona. Site AZ BB:10:59 (ASM) lies partially within the site of a proposed residential development located on privately held land. Site AZ BB:10:59 (ASM) was originally recorded by Professional Archaeological Services of Tucson (P.A.S.T.) as an extensive, light-to-moderate prehistoric Native American lithic and...