Tohono O'Odham Nation (Geographic Keyword)
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At the request of the Indian-Oasis Baboquivari Unified School District, Desert Archaeology conducted fieldwork on June 29, 1994, to recover data from archaeological site AZ DD:1:82 (ASM). This archaeological site, along with two others—AZ DD:1:81 (ASM) and AZ DD:1:83 (ASM)—was discovered during survey of a proposed area for an intermediate school, a lagoon, and a sewerline north of the community of Topawa, on the Tohono O'odham Reservation (Bayman 1993a). Based on the original survey, it was...
Archaeological Studies of the Avra Valley, Arizona, for the Papago Water Supply Project, Volume 1: Class III Archaeological Surveys on the Tohono O'Odham Indian Reservation (1987)
The Papago Water Supply project was an effort to deliver and apply Central Arizona Project water to farmland on the Tohono O'odham (formerly Papago) Indian Reservation as part of the Southern Arizona Water Rights Settlement Act of 1982. The project involved construction of a water delivery system and development of new agricultural fields in the Schuk Toak and San Xaiver districts of the Reservation, located in the Avra Valley west of Tucson, Arizona. Environmental planning studies for the...
The Central Arizona Project Historic Preservation Program: Conserving the Past While Building for the Future (1986)
On July 15, 1983, the chairman of the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) ratified a programmatic memorandum of agreement among the Arizona and New Mexico State Historic Preservation Officers (SHPOs), the Bureau of Reclamation, and the ACHP. The subject of that agreement was the construction of the Central Arizona Project (CAP) and its impact upon historic properties. That agreement was negotiated in compliance with Section 2(b) of Executive Order 11593, "Protection and Enhancement...
Tohono O'Odham Nation, Papago Water Supply Project: Cultural Resources Investigations for the San Xavier Farm Rehabilitation Project: A Study of Changing Adaptations Along the Santa Cruz River Floodplain (1989)
This report documents a cultural resources assessment for the San Xavier Reservation Farm Rehabilitation Project. Limited test excavations were performed to assess the geomorphology and depositional history of the area and identify the type and depth of cultural resources. An hypothesis of riverine land use adaptations is presented for the Santa Cruz River.