Santa Cruz River Floodplain (Geographic Keyword)
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This document summarizes the results of a phased archaeological data recovery program along a narrow pipeline corridor between the Pima County Regional Wastewater Reclamation Department’s existing Roger Road and Ina Road facilities. The work was conducted by Northland Research, Inc. prior to the installation of a new gravity-flow sewer line connecting the two wastewater facilities. Northland’s Pima County Plant Interconnect Project (PCPIP) investigated seven archaeological sites that have been...
Archaeological Investigations of Early Village Sites in the Middle Santa Cruz Valley: Analyses and Synthesis, Part II (1998)
A series of archaeological investigations were conducted from 1993 to 1995 at four prehistoric sites in the middle Santa Cruz Valley. This fieldwork was part of the Arizona Department of Transportation's archaeological mitigation program of the Interstate 10 Corridor Improvement Project through Tucson, Arizona. The sites included the remains of three early farming settlements--the Santa Cruz Bend (AZ AA:12:746 [ASM]), Square Hearth (AZ AA:12:745 [ASM]), and Stone Pipe (AZ BB:13:425 [ASM])...
Archaeological Investigations of Early Village Sites in the Middle Santa Cruz Valley: Descriptions of the Santa Cruz Bend, Square Hearth, Stone Pipe, and Canal Sites (1997)
As part of the archaeological mitigation program of the Arizona Department of Transportation's Interstate 10 Corridor Improvement Project, archaeological data recovery fieldwork was carried out from 1993 to 1995 at four prehistoric sites in the project right-of-way in Tucson. The sites included three early farming settlements occupied between about 800 B.C. and A.D. 550, and also having later occupations. The Santa Cruz Bend site (AZ AA:12:746, ASM) was occupied during the Cienega phase (ca. 800...
An Archaeological Survey of One-Half Acre, Town of Marana, Arizona (2000)
On August 25, 2000 an archaeologist from SWCA, Inc. Environmental Consultants completed a half-acre Class III archaeological survey of the proposed location for a new Jack In The Box restaurant in the town of Marana, Arizona.
Excavations in the Santa Cruz River Floodplain: The Early Agricultural Period Component at Los Pozos (2001)
Archaeological research reported in this volume was conducted under an on call contract between Desert Archaeology, Inc. and the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT; Contract 9446). This contract provides for documentation and appropriate treatment of cultural resources encountered during long-term implementation of proposed ADOT improvements to the Tucson area segment of the Interstate 10 corridor between the Interstate 19 interchange on the south and Tangerine Road on the north (Mabry...
Excavations in the Santa Cruz River Floodplain: The Middle Archaic Component at Los Pozos (1999)
The Middle Archaic remains reported here are a component of a larger distribution designated as AZ AA:12:91(ASM) in the Arizona State Museum Site Survey system and named Los Pozos. The site was investigated in anticipation of impacts from proposed Arizona Department of Transportation improvements to the Interstate 10 corridor in the Tucson metropolitan area (Mabry 1993b; Preface to this volume). In addition to the spatially restricted Middle Archaic remains, the site includes an extensive Early...
Material Cultures and Lifeways of Early Agricultural Communities in Southern Arizona (2005)
This publication is one in a set of four related volumes. Its chapters summarize analyses of samples of material culture documented, or recovered, during recent excavations at two Early Agricultural period sites buried in the floodplain of the Santa Cruz River in southern Arizona: (1) Las Capas (AZ AA:12:111 [ASM]), occupied during the San Pedro phase (circa 1200-800 B.C.); and (2) Los Pozos (AZ AA:12:91 [ASM]), occupied during the Late Cienega phase (circa 400 B.C.-A.D. 50). With funding from...
Results of Archaeological Testing, Research Design and Data Recovery Plan at Site AZ AA:12:111 (ASM) for Part of Phase I Expansion at The Ina Road Water Pollution Control Facility, Pima County, Arizona (1998)
This testing report and data recovery plan has been assembled to address issues specific to the construction of a pipeline and headworks associated with the Phase I expansion of Pima County’s Ina Road Wastewater Pollution Control Facility (treatment plant). It comprises three chapters sections, the first of which presents a project introduction and overview. The second chapter summarizes the results of the testing project and includes a discussion of eligibility of the archaeological properties...
Testing Report and Data Recovery Plan for the Operations Area of the Treatment Plant Locus of Site AZ AA:12:111 (ASM), Pima County, Arizona (1999)
Between February 16 and March 12, 1999, a crew of ten to twelve archaeologists from SWCA, Inc., Environmental Consultants undertook archaeological test excavations at a portion of site AZ AA:12:111 (ASM) located within the Operations Area at the Ina Road Water Pollution Control Facility (Treatment Plant). A crew of ten to twelve archaeologists began excavations on February 16, 1999, and proceeded as outlined in the testing plan. The testing was designed to identify and evaluate buried cultural...