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DOCUMENT Full-Text Sarah A. Herr. Pat Stein. Patricia Cook.

Archaeological investigations and data recovery by Desert Archaeology, Inc. at six sites in the Preacher Canyon/Sharp Creek Campground sections of the State Route 260 - Payson to Heber project.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Pat Stein. Sarah A. Herr.

Additional detail, including archival research, for data recovery at the Preacher Canyon and Sharp Creek segments of the State Route 260 - Payson to Heber project.

DOCUMENT Full-Text David G. Batcho.

Between March 5th and April 20th, 1985, archaeologists from the Cultural Resources Management Division of New Mexico State University (NMSU) conducted an archaeological clearance survey of all lands along the proposed right-of-way of the All American Pipeline Project (AAPL) between Highway 77 near Oracle, Arizona to a point 145 miles to the west. The survey was directed by David G. Batcho; Judy Brunson was field supervisor. Field crew size varied between 4 and 8 persons. This survey was carried...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Howard C. Higgins. Judy Brunson.

Between March 22 and August 14, 1985, archaeologists from the Cultural Resources Management Division of New Mexico State University (NMSU) conducted an archaeological clearance survey of all lands along the proposed Right-of-Way of the All American Pipeline Project (AAPL) between a point known as Ward Road in Maricopa County, Arizona and a point 95 miles to the west, at the Colorado River in La Paz County, Arizona. The All American Pipeline project is a construction project which involves...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chris North.

SWCA Environmental Consultants (SWCA) conducted archaeological testing at AZ T:7:178, AZ T:7:179, AZ T:7:180, and AZ T:7:181 (ASM) in May, 2004. These sites are located in Maricopa, Arizona. The project area is proposed for residential development. A permit under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act from the Army Corp of Engineers is necessary to proceed with the development. An archaeological survey of the project area identified four prehistoric sites, AZ T:7:178-181 (ASM), that were recommended...

DOCUMENT Full-Text J. Scott Courtright.

This preliminary report of archaeological data recovery for the City of Phoenix Sewer Relief Project has been prepared to summarize the results of data recovery efforts. Mechanical trenching and stripping on ASLD revealed 24 features: 3 pithouses, 3 pithouse remnants, 3 cremations, 1 partial secondary inhumation, 1 homo, 1 thermal pit, 4 non-thermal pits, 2 middens, and portions of an isolated vessel. In addition, four previously documented prehistoric canals and a newly identified settling...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Glennda Gene Luhnow.

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 (Schilling and Jones 2012). Two historic...

DOCUMENT Full-Text B. K. Swartz, Jr..

Though concerned agencies and archaeologists throughout the state were previously informed Ball State officials did not learn until the spring of 1975 that an appropriation of $25,000.00, proposed by State Representative Loren E. Winger, Converse, Indiana, for Ball State University to conduct research under the jurisdiction of the Indiana State Department of Natural Resources along the Mississinewa River in Grant and Wabash counties was being considered by the state legislature. The purpose of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Mark L. Chenault. Michael Stubing.

This document is the preliminary report for Phase II data recovery at a portion of Pozos de Sonoqui (AZ U:14:49 [ASM]). Pozos de Sonoqui is a National Register of Historic Places (NRHP)-eligible property located in Queen Creek in southeastern Maricopa County. Under contract with Maricopa County Department of Transportation (MCDOT), archaeologists from the cultural resources program at Jacobs Engineering (Jacobs) in Phoenix, Arizona, conducted data recovery at the site from January 8, 2013,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Michael (Mike) Wisenbaker.

DHR archaeologists made several visits to Bald Point State Park from 1999 through 2001 to look for and better document historical resources within this newly acquired park (Wisenbaker and Swann 2001 ). In 2003, however, Bald Point State Park grew by 2,851 acres, more than tripling the size of the park. Early in 2004, Park Specialist Bonnie Allen called us to tell us about several unrecorded sites that she had discovered within this addition. In so doing, she invited us to come to the park to...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Banks L. Leonard. Rebecca J. Hill. Cory Dale Breternitz.

Archaeological testing was conducted on a portion of Crismon Pueblo (AZ U:9:173 [ASM]), the Denmark School site, and a segment of additional property between Gilbert Road and Thomas Road in the right-of-way of the Red Mountain Freeway (State Route 202) in Mesa, Maricopa County, Arizona. The project area was originally covered with in-use citrus orchards. Therefore, prior to the initiation of fieldwork, tree removal was conducted within and adjacent to the right-of-way, which required...

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Preliminary mineral report on the Castle Property.

DOCUMENT Full-Text David A. Bild.

The City of Phoenix (COP) Street Transportation Department and Flood Control District of Maricopa County (FCDMC) are jointly funding a construction project to be undertaken in southwest Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona. The project is located north of the historic Roosevelt Irrigation Canal and involves County-owned and private land to be acquired by COP and FCDMC. The project will involve the construction of a detention basin and conveyance channel. A review of site files and maps at Pueblo...

DOCUMENT Full-Text T. Kathleen Henderson. Tiffany C. Clark.

The purpose of this report is to summarize the methods and findings of Desert Archaeology, Inc.'s, recent data recovery effort at the Crismon Ruin, due to be impacted by construction of the Red Mountain Freeway, Gilbert Road to Higley Road segment; and to provide a recommendation that the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) be allowed to proceed with construction activities as planned in said freeway corridor. The project was authorized by the Federal Highway Administration and ADOT, as...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chris North. Tina Hart. Michael S. Foster.

Logan Simpson Design Inc., under contract to SRP, completed Phase I archeological data recovery at five sites and Phase II data recovery at two of the sites along the Pinal West To Pinal Central Extra-High Voltage Transmission Line and at the Pinal Central substation site, Pinal County, Arizona. The sites are located south and east of the town of Casa Grande. Three of the sites—AZ AA:1:104(ASM), AZ AA:2:301 (ASM), and AZ AA:2:303(ASM)— are Historic era and two—AZ AA:2:284(ASM) and AZ...

DOCUMENT Citation Only William A. Farley.

This paper reports on and begins the process of addressing research questions related to the archaeobotanical remains from the 17th-century John Hollister Site in Glastonbury, Connecticut. The site boasts an extraordinary level of botanical preservation and promises to be a significant contribution to the understanding of the period’s regional foodways. Initial results suggest a mixture of indigenous plants and taxa that likely entered the region with early European settlement. This mirrors the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Daniel H. Sorrell. Linda Countryman.

This preliminary report briefly summarizes the results of an archaeological data recovery program implemented by EcoPlan Associates, Inc. (EcoPlan) on a portion of multicomponent (prehistoric and historic) cultural resource site AZ T:12:70 (ASM) in downtown Phoenix. Data recovery at AZ T:12:70 (ASM) - the prehistoric components of which are referred to as “Pueblo Patricio” - commenced following archaeological testing within the project area (refer to Sorrell 2006a). This document is intended to...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Holly S. DeMaagd. Barbara S. Macnider.

At the request of U S West Communications (US West), Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd. (ACS) performed archaeological monitoring along a utility right-of-way. The right-of-way is within the south side access road for the Grand Canal, which passes through the City of Phoenix administered Pueblo Grande National Historic Landmark (Pueblo Grande; AZ U:9:7(ASM)). The canal is administered by the Salt River Project and owned by the Bureau of Reclamation. Limited testing within the right-of-way...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Daniel H. Sorrell.

The City of Phoenix’s (COP) Downtown Development Office plans to construct facilities related to the Phoenix Bioscience Center on COP-owned land in downtown Phoenix. The COP cost center number for the project is ED10000012. Because project activities may cause adverse impacts to subsurface cultural resources - both prehistoric and historic - the COP Parks and Recreation Department Pueblo Grande Museum (PGM), which coordinates archaeological projects for all COP departments (Bostwick 2004)...

DOCUMENT Full-Text David P. Doak. Mark Slaughter.

In September and October of 1995, a team of archaeologists from the Tucson office of SWCA, Inc., Environmental Consultants conducted testing operations at nine sites located on private lands at the mouth of Pima Canyon, north of Tucson, Arizona. The sites-AZ BB:9:227, 228, 229, 230, 232, 233, 234, 235, and 236 (ASM)--were originally recorded in 1987 during a survey conducted by SWCA (Seymour 1992). Testing was done according to a SHPO-approved plan of work submitted in July, 1995. The work was...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Joseph M. Garrotto. Lynn A. Neal.

SWCA, Inc., Environmental Consultants conducted a Class III archaeological survey of a 160-acre parcel of privately owned land south of New River. Three sites, AZ T:4:252 (ASM), AZ T:4:253 (ASM), and AZ T:4:254 (ASM), were discovered within the project area. Sites AZ T:4:242 (ASM) and AZ T:4:254 (ASM) were determined by the Arizona State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) to be ineligible to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) (Bilsbarrow 2000a). This document therefore summarizes...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mandy Ranslow. Sarah Sportman.

Robbins Swamp is a large freshwater swamp located within the Housatonic River drainage in Litchfied County, Connecticut. Archaeological sites within its environs and along nearby rivers date from the Paleoindian period through the Woodland period, indicating the wetland and nearby rivers and streams were an important resource for Native Americans for over 12,000 years. With the exception of George Nicholas' extensive work for his dissertation, which identified 500 additional sites, few...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dustin Wagner. Trevor Lea.

As part of the recent salvage recovery effort at the South Diamond Creek Pueblo (LA 181765), a small Classic Mimbres pueblo (1000-1150 CE) in the Aldo Leopold Wilderness of the Gila National Forest, excavation was performed on a large pit structure that appears to be associated with an earlier occupation of the area. Sample excavation was performed as part of a field school directed by Dr. Fumiyasu Arakawa of New Mexico State University under. Very few archaeological investigations have been...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ben Ford. William Chadwick.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Newport village was founded in circa 1787 to facilitate movement of people and goods from Pennsylvania’s early road system to riverine highways. The town was largely abandoned by 1840, but contained several taverns, blacksmith shops, and infrastructure for loading boats on, and crossing over, the adjacent Conemaugh River. At its height approximately 30...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kelsey Nordine.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper presents the preliminary results of paleoethnobotanical analysis of flotation samples from 38 external pit features from the Morton Village Site (11F2), located in the Central Illinois River Valley (CIRV). Previous research at Morton Village provides strong evidence that the village was occupied contemporaneously by both Mississippian and Oneota...