Mohave County (County) (Geographic Keyword)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Aline LaForge.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Fort Mojave Toll Road, comprised of a historic wagon road segment, located on Bureau of Land Management land. The road segment has been fenced in for preservation. The file consists of a site data form, site map, and map of the site location. The earliest dated document is from 1999.

DOCUMENT Full-Text David E. Purcell.

SWCA, Inc., Environmental Consultants, conducted testing and data recovery at Site AZ G:10:8(ASM), the Hackberry Townsite, to mitigate potential impacts from construction of the Mead to Phoenix 500kV Transmission Line (the Mead to Phoenix Project). The Mead to Phoenix Project, currently under construction, is one link in a proposed regional power grid (Rogge and O’Brien 1990). SWCA conducted a program of testing and data recovery to clear construction at the Hackberry Townsite, the subject of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard G. Ervin.

In early 1986, archeologists from the Western Archeological and Conservation Center (WACC), National Park Service (NPS), surveyed developed areas and other high-use areas within Lake Mead National Recreation Area (NRA). The 1986 Archeological Survey of Developed Areas was designated project LAME 86A. This report describes the results of the LAME 86A project and two earlier developed areas surveys, and so provides a complete record of such surveys at Lake Mead. One of the previous surveys was...

DOCUMENT Full-Text David E. Ruppert.

This ethnographic overview of Lake Mead National Recreation Area, which will serve as companion to a forthcoming archeological overview of the area, provides an ethnographic context for future archeological research and for current interpretation. The Recreation Area, which includes land in both Nevada and Arizona, overlaps early Native American ethnic boundaries, as well as modern state borders. Groups whose territories touched upon or fell within current park boundaries include the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Bruce A. Jones.

In April and November, 1989, Statistical Research conducted a cultural resource survey of nearly 4,000 acres of land owned by the State of Arizona in Mohave, Yavapai and La Paz counties. The field reconnaissance documented 16 archaeological sites consisting of artifact scatters, trails, rock features, rock art and stationary grinding-features. The non-random survey strategy was based on a stratified sample of 640 acre-study units in the Hualapai and Aquarius Mountains, the Big Sandy Valley and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Bruce A. Jones. Jeffrey Altschul. Ruth Van Dyke.

In October and November, 1989, Statistical Research conducted an intensive cultural resources survey of approximately 2,400 acres at Alamo Reservoir under contract to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (COE). The field reconnaissance documented 29 archaeological sites consisting of lithic quarries, artifact scatters, trails, rock features, and mining-related activities. An embedded concept of numerous activities occurring as a consequence of seasonal foraging was apparently utilized by...

DOCUMENT Full-Text David E. Purcell.

Salt River Project has constructed a 500kV transmission line from Boulder City, Nevada, to near Phoenix, Arizona; Site 26CK3216 was first recorded by the Museum of Northern Arizona (MNA) during archaeological survey of the Mead to Phoenix right-of-way (Keller 1986). The site was originally recommended for data recovery but was determined ineligible for the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP), and construction proceeded without additional investigation. Biologists monitoring the Mead to...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Preston C. Payton. David E. Purcell.

SWCA, Inc., Environmental Consultants (SWCA), conducted a comprehensive Class III archaeological survey of expanded right-of-way at ten point-of-turn towers as part of ongoing cultural resources compliance for the Mead to Phoenix 500kV Transmission line project. These activities constituted only one phase of cultural resource compliance for this project undertaken by SWCA for Salt River Project (SRP). Other phases relevant to this project include relocation and re-evaluation (Anduze and Sorrel...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard Anduze. Dawn M. Greenwald. Mary-Ellen Walsh-Anduze.

Salt River Project (SRP) contracted with SWCA, Inc., Environmental Consultants, to conduct archaeological data recovery at the Overkill Site, AZ M:7:48(ASM), as part of the Mead to Phoenix 500 kV Transmission Line project. The Overkill Site is located on federal land administered by the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management (BLM). The site is located approximately 15 miles south of Wikieup in Mohave County, Arizona. AZ M:7:48(ASM) is situated on a ridge between Burro Creek...

DOCUMENT Full-Text David E. Purcell. Dawn M. Greenwald.

Salt River Project is constructing a 500kV transmission line from Boulder City, Nevada, to near Phoenix, Arizona. During the course of cultural resource compliance projects undertaken by SWCA for SRP, construction access roads were surface collected of artifacts at three archaeological sites. A fourth site was to be surface collected, but only a single artifact was found in areas of potential impact; it was analyzed in-field.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Linda Scott Cummings.

Site AZ B:16:0911 is located at the bottom of the Grand Canyon near the mouth of Monument Creek. Fill from a small masonry structure was examined for pollen and macrofloral remains. Macrofloral analysis also was conducted on fill from an ash lens in the masonry structure and from a small thermal feature. Mesquite charcoal in the macrofloral sample from the masonry structure was submitted for AMS radiocarbon dating. Pollen and macrofloral analyses provide information concerning plants utilized by...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Kathryn Puseman. Barbara Winsborough.

Two sediment samples collected from a black, organic layer exposed in a trench at Pipe Spring National Monument, Arizona, were examined for pollen, diatoms, and/or macrofloral remains. This layer is believed to represent an intact, natural organic stratum that formed when water ponded at the mouth of the spring. Pollen, macrofloral, and diatom analyses will be used to define environmental information and local vegetation at the time this stratum was deposited. Pollen analysis provides evidence...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Carl D. Halbrit.

A proposed 640 acre grounding electrode site was surveyed by archaeologists from the Museum of Northern Arizona in June, 1983. No archaeological sites were found in the survey parcel. However, a few isolated finds were found scattered throughout the parcel, with most of these adjacent to a dirt road paralleling Detrital Wash. Archaeological clearance is recommended for the SRP electrode site.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Aline LaForge. Con Bergland. Dawn Bergland. Shelley Rasmussen.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Ray Townsend 3 site, comprised of petroglyphs and circular and freeform rock alignments, located on Bureau of Land Management and Arizona State Land Department land. The file consists of a site data form, cultural resource site record form, two maps of the site location, and a cultural resource vandalism report. The earliest dated document is from 1986.

DOCUMENT Full-Text P. H. Boles.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file that consists of the Santa Maria Ranch site, comprised of a historic can dump, located on private land. The file consists of an Arizona State Land Department memorandum regarding damage to the site, six color photographs documenting the site and damage, and two maps of the site location.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Susan J. Wells.

Archeological inventory survey was conducted in the Shivwits Plateau unit of Lake Mead National Recreation Area by archeologists from the Western Archeological and Conservation Center. The survey was designed to examine areas subject to impact from park service and visitor activities and areas with the potential for high site density. Fieldwork was conducted from May 24 to July 21, 1990. A total of 1,469 acres was surveyed along road corridors, adjacent to the Shivwits Fire Camp and at canyon...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Arthur C. MacWilliams. Laura S. Bergstresser. John S. Langan.

Archeological inventory survey was conducted on the Shivwits Plateau within the boundaries of the Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument by archeologists from the Western Archeological and Conservation Center. This survey was undertaken in compliance with Section 110 of the National Historic Preservation Act, which requires that archeological properties under the jurisdiction of federal agencies are identified, evaluated, and nominated for the National Register of Historic Places. Fieldwork...

DOCUMENT Full-Text SWCA Environmental Consultants.

The following document presents the results of a cultural resources compliance survey conducted by SWCA, Inc., Environmental Consultants, at Hackberry, Mohave County, Arizona, and a research design for data recovery along the proposed Hackberry reroute of the preferred alignment of the proposed Mead to Phoenix 500kV transmission line. The project was undertaken to reroute the proposed line because Western Area Power Administration (Western) was unable to secure the original proposed right-of-way...