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DOCUMENT Full-Text Jim McDonald. M. M. Farrell. P. M., Ph.D. Spoerl. Carl B. Johnson.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Marijilda Canyon Archeological District, located on Coronado National Forest land. This district is comprised of multiple sites including a masonry pueblo, numerous agricultural features, plazas, rock alignments, and prehistoric and historic petroglyphs. The sites are generally identified as Salado, although one document favors Mogollon. Amidst the prehistoric sites is one historic site, a structure with a fireplace, doorway, and trash deposit,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Scott Wood. E. A. Wood.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Mayfield Canyon site, located on Tonto National Forest land. The site is comprised of more than 60 bedrock metates, and a boulder dam, made or used by the Apache, Hohokam, Archaic peoples, and/or Prehistoric peoples. The site consists of a site data form and three copies of a heritage inventory form. The earliest dated document is from 2005.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Pat H. Stein.

In 1978, the Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) directed the Museum of Northern Arizona (MNA) to complete an intensive archaeological survey of the proposed alignment for the Salt-Gila Aqueduct, a feature of the Central Arizona Project. The survey area was 11,115 acres and included the 60 mile-long transmission line (with a typical width of 200 meters), three proposed utility line locations, one flood retention dike location, 11 possible spoil or realignment areas, and a subsidence well....

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This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Mud Tank Ridge Pueblo, located on Apache Sitgreaves National Forest land. The site is comprised of a sandstone room block and pueblo, midden, and possible kiva. The file consists of a site description form, site map, and map of the site location.

DOCUMENT Full-Text J. Rudy. M. Keller. Gerlach.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Mullen Wash site, comprised of a granite and basalt structure outline and lithic and sherd scatter, located on Tonto National Forest land. The file consists of a cultural resources inventory form, University of Arizona archaeological survey form, Arizona State University site survey form, Central Arizona Water Control Study site description form, hand drawn site map, and two maps of the site location. The earliest dated document is from 1951.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Connie L. Stone. Hackbarth. Macnider.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file that consists of the site Near-the-Road, comprised of a granite structure and sherd and lithic scatter, located on Bureau of Land Management land. The site is associated with the Yavapai. The file consists of a site data form, two maps of the site location, color photograph of the structure, Arizona Bureau of Land Management cultural resource site record, and a hand drawn site map. The earliest dated document is from 1987.

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AZ BB:9:148 (ASM) was a Hohokam seasonal or temporary habitation and resource procurement and processing locale located in the northwestern Tucson Basin in the southern half of Neighborhood 12 of the Rancho Vistoso Property within the limits of the Town of Oro Valley, Arizona. Between August 25 and September 22, 1999, SWCA, Inc., Environmental Consultants conducted excavations at the site as a combined testing and data-recovery effort. Eighty-one features were identified during the project,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jo Ann Weldon. S. Arazi-Coambs.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Nueva Roca Pueblo, comprised of a basalt room block with associated artifacts, kiva, and depressions, located on State Trust land. The file consists of a site data form, two site maps, and an Arizona State Museum archaeological site card. The earliest dated document is from 2011.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Connie L. Stone.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the site NYLA, comprised of a pueblo and artifact scatter, located on Bureau of Land Management land. The file consists of a site data form, two Austin Archaeological Site Surveys, a map showing the site's location, and six color photographs of the site and petroglyphs. The earliest dated document is from 1978.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jim McDonald. Valli S. Powell. Patricia Gilman. M. M. Farrell. P. Spoerl. G. Riggs. P. Gilman.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Oak Draw Archeological District, located on Coronado National Forest land. The district is comprised of 14 prehistoric artifact scatter and pit structure sites. Artifacts are primarily associated with the Mogollon and Hohokam. The file consists of a site data form, National Register of Historic Places registration form, seven black and white photographs, maps of the district location, site maps, and 14 archaeological and historical site inventory...

DOCUMENT Full-Text F. Olson. A. Olson.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for an Olson Survey site, comprised of a cave with artifact scatter, located on Tonto National Forest land. The file consists of an archeological and historical site inventory form, hand drawn map of the site location, and printed map of the site location. The earliest dated document is from 1954.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Alan Olson. Scott Wood. Roger Kelly.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Onyx Canyon site, comprised of two rock shelters with pictographs and bedrock grinding features, located on Tonto National Forest land. The site may be Apache, Archaic, Hohokam, Salado, or a combination thereof; although the documents appear to favor Apache origin. The file consists of a site data form, heritage inventory form, an archeological and historical site inventory form, a hand drawn site map, a Museum of Northern Arizona site card, a...

DOCUMENT Full-Text F. Olson. A. Olson. J. S. Wood. Ross.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Oxbow Ruin site, located on Tonto National Forest land. The site is comprised of two loci, connected by artifact scatter. The Hardt/Miami Phase locus contains trash middens, hornos, jacales, and stone foundations. The Roosevelt Phase locus contains a masonry caserón, a pit house, and a cemetery. An old wagon road is also found within the site boundaries. The file consists of a heritage inventory form, hand drawn site map, and three cultural...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Harley Lanham.

From July 7 to August 11, 1994, archaeologists from the Transportation Center at The University of Tennessee-Knoxville conducted a Phase I archaeological reconnaissance survey for cultural resources of selected areas within the former Camp Forrest training base in Coffee and Franklin counties, Tennessee. The locations examined were limited primarily to long narrow corridors along roads. Work included a pedestrian walk-over of all areas and shovel testing at 30m and 15m intervals. A total of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Aline LaForge. G. Darrington. E. Harmon. B. Buchanan. S. Deats.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Pipeline Site, located on Bureau of Land Management land. The site is comprised of lithic and sherd scatter, five rock features which may be hearths, and a trail segment. The file consists of a site data form, Arizona State Museum archaeological site card, a cultural resource site record form, a survey map, and a site map. The earliest dated document is from 1994.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Arizona State University (ASU).

Papago Park in the City of Tempe extends from Tempe Butte northward across the Salt River bed into the southern portion of the Papago hills. The archaeological sites in the park are relatively small, but they represent both the Indian and Anglo occupation of the Salt River Valley, and span more than one thousand years of history (A.D. 800 to late 1800s and early 1900s). Excavations at two of the sites have produced artifacts dating to a) the prehistoric Indian period, b) the early historic...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jeffrey Altschul. Richard Ciolek-Torello. Jeffrey A. Homburg. Mark T. Swanson.

The Playa Vista Archaeological and Historical Project is a multi-step comprehensive approach designed to achieve compliance with applicable Municipal, State, and Federal laws and regulations protecting cultural resources. This document represents the first step: the completion of a project specific research design that presents current knowledge of the cultural resources in the project area and outlines future steps to mitigate potential impacts of the proposed project. To complete the research...

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 Donald R. Keller. Donald E. Weaver, Jr..

Summary of study units 1-22 of sites selected throughout Arizona and Nevada. Includes a table listing the presence of vegetation and cultural remains, accompanied by a base map for each of the study units.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Donald R. Keller.

A proposed 160 acre grounding electrode site and associated access road west of the Hassayampa River was surveyed for archaeological resources by the Museum of Northern Arizona in April, 1983. No archaeological sites were found, and archaeological clearance is recommended for the electrode site and access road.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chad Yost.

Eight blade scrapers made from chert material were submitted for protein residue analysis from site 42TO3794, which is situated within the Dugway Proving Ground, located in the Cedar Mountains of Utah. This site is reported as being a Clovis site, so testing of these tools included the Late-Pleistocene suite of animal antisera.

DOCUMENT Full-Text J. S. Wood.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Red Hill Ruin site, comprised of a masonry room block, artifact scatter, and cemetery, located on Tonto National Forest land. The file consists of a cultural resources inventory form, two copies of a hand drawn site map, two maps of the site location, cross-sections of the site, and a Tonto National Forest Supplement form. The earliest dated document is from 1983.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard W. Effland, Jr..

Salt River Project (SRP) and Arizona Public Service Company (APS) propose to construct three transmission lines along a portion of the Beeline Highway on the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community (SRPMIC). SRP proposes to build a new line which will connect the Pinnacle Peak, Brandow, and Papago Butte substations. APS proposes to realign two existing transmission lines and move them out of the Salt River channel and onto the north terrace above the river. Archaeological Consulting Services...

DOCUMENT Full-Text M. Zyniecki.

An archaeological testing program was conducted at the proposed new lagoon site/borrow pit in Dead Horse Ranch State Park. The project was undertaken by SWCA, Inc., Environmental Consultants, under contract to Entranco Engineers, Inc. and was sponsored by the Arizona Department of Transportation and Arizona State Parks. The area tested was 33,910 m² (8.4 ac.). Twenty-eight systematically located backhoe trenches and two judgmentally placed backhoe trenches were excavated. Sixteen artifacts were...

DOCUMENT Full-Text David R. Hart. Douglas B. Craig.

Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement and Power District (SRP) plans to construct a natural gas pipeline along its Santan Expansion Project, between Gilbert and Coolidge in Maricopa and Pinal counties, Arizona. In order to mitigate the impact of pipeline construction on culturally significant properties, SRP contracted Northland Research, Inc. (Northland) to recover archaeological data from 10 sites located along the proposed 36-mile long pipeline corridor. Northland subsequently conducted...