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DOCUMENT Full-Text Kristin L. Fangmeier. Michael Droz. Joanne C. Tactikos. Walter R. Punzmann.

At the request of Mr. John Cichon of President Partners LP, Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd. (ACS) conducted archaeological monitoring during rehabilitation of the Palm Oasis apartment complex in, Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona. Rehabilitation activities would include replacing utility lines and demolishing five buildings. In the HUD-Funded Program Activities Archaeological Review prepared by the City Archaeology Office (CAO) for this project, dated December 20, 2011, it was noted...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda M. Schilling. Douglas R. Mitchell.

Central and Fillmore Associates, LP oversaw improvements to the Westward Ho building and infrastructure. Rehabilitation required replacement and realignment of sewer pipelines below the property courtyard and the replacement of sidewalks in the courtyard. A total of 170.9 cubic meters were excavated from 32 units associated with rehabilitation activities in the courtyard area of the Westward Ho Hotel and Apartments. All of the units were excavated to locate and expose existing underground...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Walter R. Punzmann.

At the request of Leticia Vargas and Ed Checkley of the City of Phoenix Street Transportation Department, Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd. (ACS) conducted archaeological monitoring of ground disturbing activities during the installation of two fire hydrants. Based on information provided by the City Archaeology Office (CAO), the fire hydrants are location within the boundaries of AZ T:8:7(PG)/AZ T:8:219(ASM), a Hohokam Late Sedentary/Classic period artifact scatter with possible...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Thomas E. Jones. Victoria D. Vargas.

At the request of Ms. Homaira Parveen and Mr. Ed Checkley of the City of Phoenix Street Transportation Department (the City) and under Environmental and Safety Regulatory Consulting On-Call Contract #124947, Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd. (ACS) conducted archaeological monitoring, burial recovery, and Phase I data recovery for a Road Detention Basin project. The City’s project involved excavating a sloped 11-acre basin ranging from 4–7 ft deep and installing associated lighting and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Walter Punzmann. Peg Davis.

COP Parks and Recreation Department is proposing to construct a recreation center at Lindo Park. An Archaeology Assessment conducted by the COP found that the proposed Lindo Park Recreation Center occurs within the boundaries of prehistoric archaeological site that is known to contain human remains. Given the proximity of the features investigated during the previous project, it was determined highly likely that archaeological features associated with the site may exist within the Community...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Michael Droz. R. Gordon Carlton.

Under contract to the City of Phoenix, ACS monitored installation of a storm drain trunk line. Catch basin and connector pipe were added from to the river: pipe, structure, and grading occurred in the Salt River. Previous research (Howard and Huckleberry 1991) indicated several prehistoric irrigation canals were projected to cross the project area at two locations. Therefore, the City Archaeology Office recommended monitoring of the pipe installation lo confirm the location or the projected...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Lourdes Aguila. Christina Carpenter.

The monitoring involved three discrete areas of excavation within the boundaries of Pueblo Salado. First, a vault was excavated via backhoe to install a new manhole, and then two trenches were hand-excavated to install fiber optic lines. The monitoring was conducted by ACS archaeologist Christina Carpenter. The work took place over five discontinuous night shifts between May 16 and June 13, 2005. In total, five person-days were expended in the field. No cultural resources were...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Adam Archual. Kristin L. Fangmeier.

The City of Phoenix Aviation Department plans to install a new 1,100-ft-long duct bank at Sky Harbor International Airport, a portion of which falls within the site of Dutch Canal Ruin (AZ T:12:62[ASM]), an extensive Hohokam village that is considered eligible for the National Register of Historic Places under Criterion D. Previous investigations by Desert Archaeology in this area of Dutch Canal Ruin uncovered pithouses, roasting pits, and extramural surfaces (Henderson 2000a, 2000b). Because...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Lourdes Aguila. Linda Schilling.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) plans to install two new 60-ft-tall (18.3 m) antenna towers at its Remote Transmitter No. 3 (RT-3) facility at Sky Harbor International Airport. The project’s area of potential effect (APE) is located near the site of Pueblo Salado (AZ T:12:47[ASM]), an extensive Hohokam village that is considered eligible for the National Register of Historic Places under Criterion D. Previous investigations by SWCA, Environmental Consultants (SWCA) near this area of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Lourdes Aguila. Andrew B. Bockhorst. Kristin L. Fangmeier.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) plans to install two new fiber optic lines and associated duct banks and manholes at Sky Harbor International Airport. The project’s area of potential effect (APE) extends within the site of Pueblo Salado (AZ T:12:47[ASM]), an extensive Hohokam village that is considered eligible for the National Register of Historic Places under Criterion D. Previous investigations by SWCA, Environmental Consultants (SWCA) in this area of Pueblo Salado uncovered...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Lourdes Aguila.

Data recovery was completed at Pueblo del Rio as specified in the work plan developed after the testing phase. The purpose of the data recovery was to recover sufficient information from the portion of Pueblo del Rio within the EPNG right-of-way to answer general research questions as outlined in the treatment plan and to mitigate the adverse effect of the proposed EPNG undertaking on the cultural resources within the right-of-way. These goals were accomplished. However, the highly disturbed...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Mark R. Hackbarth.

Maricopa County Facilities Management (MCFM) is planning construction of the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office Complex (MCSOC) in the Original Phoenix Townsite (OPT). Logan Simpson Design, Inc. (LSD) conducted archaeological Phase I data recovery investigations of the project area, which is within a National Register-eligible site, AZ T:12:42(ASM), the OPT. Phase I data recovery investigations included backhoe trench excavation and mapping of the city block. Eight archaeological features were...

DOCUMENT Full-Text John T. Marshall.

Northland Research, Inc. (Northland) has complete Phase I data recovery within a portion of the prehistoric site of La Villa (AZ T:12:148[ASM]), a large Hohokam village in the lower Salt River Valley. The 1.6-acre project area is in Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona. Maricopa County Human Services Campus plans to expand existing facilities into the subject property. La Villa is considered National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) eligible under Criterion D (information potential). Previous...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Douglas R. Mitchell. Kristin L. David. Emily Higgins Keppler.

An Archaeology Assessment conducted by the COP found that the proposed project occurs within the boundaries of the prehistoric site of AZ T:12:70(ASM)/Pueblo Patricio and AZ T:12:42(ASM)/the original Phoenix townsite (OPT). ACS prepared a site-specific work plan addendum that followed the General Historic Properties Treatment Plan for City of Phoenix Projects. This report documents the results of the Phase I data recovery activities. A project specific permit (2017-071ps) and burial agreement...

DOCUMENT Full-Text John W. Hohmann.

Chicanos por la Causa, Inc. (CPLC), with a Housing and Urban Development (HUD) CDBG grant provided by the City of Phoenix, requested that the Cultural Resource Division of the Louis Berger Group, Inc. (Berger) undertake limited Phase II archaeological testing at their proposed DeColores Domestic Violence Shelter Expansion site to ensure proper treatment and protection, if warranted, of any existing cultural resources. Due to the potential for future violence to and in order to protect the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Mark R. Hackbarth.

Phase II data recovery investigations were completed according to the specifications of the Treatment Plan previously approved by ASM and COP and infield discussions with COP and the State Historic Preservation Office conducted on March 23 and 27, 2012, and summarized in an email sent to ASM on March 27, 2012. LSD completed mechanical stripping around the features identified during Phase I testing and during Phase II mechanical stripping. Features exposed during the stripping were hand excavated...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kristin L. Fangmeier.

The City of Phoenix (COP) Street Transportation Department (STD) is conducting road and storm drain improvements. The project will require the relocation of an existing Salt River Project (SRP) irrigation line, located on U.S. Bureau of Reclamation land. Because federal lands are involved, the project is considered a federal undertaking subject to compliance with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended. It also follows applicable COP policies and requirements as...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Aguila Lourdes. Holly DeMaagd. Vicki Erhart. Gina S. Gage. Margaret Glass. Sharon Hurlbut. Karolyn Jackman. Bruce G. Phillips.

In June 1999, Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd. (ACS) surveyed approximately 234 acres of private land for the proposed El Paso Natural Gas Company (EPNG) 2039 pipeline relocation/removal project. AZ T:12:116(ASM}—a previously recorded Hohokam site also known as Pueblo del Rio—was located within the proposed area of impact. ACS concluded that as the site’s integrity and ability to contribute important information about the area’s prehistory were unknown; testing was necessary to evaluate...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Thomas E. Wright.

In May 2004, Archaeological Research Services, Inc. (ARS) conducted a phased data recovery program in part of a large prehistoric Native American village called Pueblo Viejo in southern Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona. The site is also known as AZ T:12:73 (ASM) in the Arizona State Museum's site numbering system; the site’s name and number are used interchangeably in this report. The City of Phoenix Archaeology Office has assigned the following project number to the work performed at Pueblo...

PROJECT Arleyn Simon. Peter McCartney. Glen Rice. USDI Bureau of Reclamation, Phoenix Area Office. Charles Redman. Brenda Shears.

The Roosevelt Platform Mound Study (RPMS) was one of three mitigative data recovery studies that the Bureau of Reclamation funded to investigate the prehistory of the Tonto Basin in the vicinity of Theodore Roosevelt Dam. The series of investigations constituted Reclamation's program for complying with historic preservation legislation as it applied to the raising and modification of Theodore Roosevelt Dam. Reclamation contracted with the Arizona State University Office of Cultural Resource...

DOCUMENT Full-Text David N. Siegel. James E. Bradford.

Between January 27 and February 15, and February 25 to May 6, 1974, the Museum of Northern Arizona acted as a consultant to Wirth Associates to study a series of alternate transmission line corridors to connect proposed Salt River Project coal-fired power plants at either the Snowflake or St. Johns localities to three substations in the Phoenix area. Then from April 11 to May 3, 1974, the Museum was contracted by Bechtel Power Corporation to complete Phase I survey investigations of the proposed...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Todd Bostwick.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file that consists of the Shaw Butte Fortified Hilltop, comprised of a stone masonry compound and petroglyphs, located on City of Phoenix land. The file consists of a site data form.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Todd W. Bostwick. Stan Plum.

The Sonoran Desert of Southern Arizona was once occupied by the prehistoric Hohokam, a group of agriculturalists who constructed thousands of kilometers of irrigation canals as well as public architecture, including platform mounds and bailcourts. They also appear to have been keen astronomical observers, although the subject of Hohokam archaeoastronomy remains underexplored. This paper summarizes previous Hohokam archaeoastronomy studies, discusses O'odham (Piman) Indian calendar systems,...

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Investigations at Pueblo Salado were part of the data recovery phase for the Phoenix Sky Harbor Center Project, sponsored by the City of Phoenix Community and Economic Development Department. Pueblo Salado (AZ T: 12:47, ASM) lay within the southern half of the Phoenix Sky Harbor Center. During the testing phase and previous work by SWCA and BRW (1989), archaeologists examined the available areas using systematic and judgmental trenching. Project investigators based their data recovery efforts on...

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This volume, which presents the results of special studies, a project synthesis, and overall conclusions for the Phoenix Sky Harbor Center archaeological investigations, is the last of four. The City of Phoenix Community and Economic Development Department sponsored the project, which was coordinated by Mr. Robert J. Wojtan of the City of Phoenix and David H. Greenwald of SWCA, Inc., Environmental Consultants. The project area, approximately 800 acres located immediately west of Phoenix Sky...