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DOCUMENT Full-Text S. Jerome Hesse.

This document combines the preliminary results of archaeological eligibility testing at AZ BB:9:360 (ASM) with a data recovery plan-of-work based on the results of testing. This document was prepared at the request of Merry, Carnell, Schlecht, Inc., on behalf of the Tanque Verde Unified School District. Archaeological testing at AZ BB:9:360 (ASM) involved controlled surface collection and the excavation of three backhoe trenches totaling 77 m in length. Three archaeological features including...

DOCUMENT Full-Text M. Zyniecki.

The City of Phoenix sponsored a voluntary archaeological project at the proposed location of a new recreation building. The project area is within the large Hohokam village of Pueblo Viejo, AZ T:12:73(ASM). The village was occupied from the Colonial period through the Classic period and covers about 640 acres. Field work at the site was conducted between March 30 and April 14, 1992, by a crew of four. Post-excavation monitoring of utility trenches by a single archaeologist took place September...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Con Bergland. Dawn Bergland.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the site Ray Townsend 2, comprised of rock-ringed circular clearings, petroglyphs, a reservoir, and a mano, located on Bureau of Land Management land. The file consists of a cultural resource site record form and scale drawing of the circular stone features. The earliest dated document is from 1986.

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 Craig Weaver. L. Finchum. James P. Holmlund. Henry D. Wallace.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Red Rock Canyon sites, comprised of petroglyphs, pictographs, a rock shelter, and artifact scatter, located on Bureau of Land Management land. The file consists of a site data form, cultural resource vandalism report form, a site steward patrol report form, two pages with sketches of graffiti, six Arizona State Museum archaeological survey forms, and a map of the site location. The earliest dated document is from 1988.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Joanne Harwood.

A student report on the excavations at Bellows Runway, Site 511-2.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Michael S. Foster. Ronald F. Ryden.

Sun Belt Holdings-Vistancia LLC is planning a 3,825-acre housing development (White Peak Ranch) on private land in Maricopa County, Arizona. A cultural resources survey identified 16 archaeological sites within the proposed development. Three sites, AZ T:3:128 (ASM), AZ T:3:281 (ASM), and AZ T:3:283 (ASM), were recommended as eligible under Criterion D for the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP), however, the ACOE, with the concurrence of the Arizona SHPO, recommended the sites be tested...

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 James B. Harrison III. S. Jerome Hesse.

SWCA® Environmental Consultants (SWCA) conducted a cultural resources inventory of a 265-acre parcel of privately held land in Sahuarita, Pima County, Arizona. This survey was conducted at the request of Rancho Sahuarita, which proposes to develop this parcel as Region 10 of the Rancho Sahuarita development. One archaeological site, a probable historic irrigation feature and agricultural field, and 15 IOs were recorded during the course of this project. The site is a Hohokam ceramic scatter...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Cynthia Keller.

This report presents the results of archaeological monitoring. The monitoring was conducted at the request of the City of Phoenix Street Transportation Department (project no. ST87100105) under an on-call archaeological services contract between the City and SWCA, Inc. (Contract no. 100168) and was assigned project number PGM 2002-10 by the City of Phoenix Archaeology Section. Archaeological monitoring was conducted during all soil disturbing activities since the project area passes within 100...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Sara C. Ferland.

In preparation for building construction, the Salt River Project (SRP) is reconfiguring an irrigation facility on Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) easement in Phoenix, Maricopa County. Specifically, existing above ground irrigation canals are being abandoned and replaced with subsurface concrete pipes. Because Reclamation is a federal agency, the project is subject to compliance with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended. The project area is located within the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Alexandra Howard. Christopher Garraty.

This document presents the results of archaeological monitoring in advance of Sun State Builder’s (Sun State) anticipated construction of warehouse facilities within an L-shaped area. This project area is situated within a Hohokam village habitation site with a known platform mound. The project area also encompasses a historic residential property that has not been evaluated for National Registry of Historic Places (NRHP) eligibility. The project involved excavation (mechanical grading and...

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 Paul M. Rawson. Caitlin F. Hayden.

Arcus Private Capital Solutions, LLC (Arcus) is proposing development of the 24-acre Rittenhouse Ranch parcel, located in Queen Creek, Maricopa County, Arizona. A prior pedestrian survey of the project area demonstrated that a portion of a large prehistoric Hohokam archaeological site, AZ U:10:2 (ASM), also referred to as the Southwest Germann Site, covers the entire parcel. The Arizona State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) and other State and Federal agencies consider the Southwest Germann...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Paul M. Rawson. S. Jerome Hesse.

The Pima County Information Technology Department and the Pima County Sheriffs Department have joined with a number of public safety entities to develop and put to use the Pima County Wireless Integrated Network (PCWIN)—a regional public safety radio system. The PCWIN project included establishment of more than 30 tower sites and/or dispatch centers, the majority of which involved the collocation of new facilities onto existing tower structures and/or within existing buildings. The...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Suzanne Griset. India S. Hesse. Paul M. Rawson.

Prior to widening, the City of Tucson (COT) Department of Transportation sponsored a series of investigations to identify archaeological sites that would be affected by the road project and to mitigate adverse effects to the sites, where needed. The first step in identifying archaeological sites was a cultural resources survey, conducted by SWCA Environmental Consultants in 2009. Although no archaeological sites were found during the survey, much of the study area was inaccessible due to...

DOCUMENT Full-Text John M. Lindly. Ron Ryden. Michael S. Foster. Douglas R. Mitchell.

This document presents the results of archaeological testing of a site located in a future development in west Maricopa County. As a result of a survey of the Arroyo Seco parcel, the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) eligibility of AZ T:11:165 (ASM) was indeterminate (Schmidt et al. 2004); testing was recommended to determine the site’s eligibility. This work was done in support of an application for a permit under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Suzanne Griset. S. Jerome Hesse.

On July 1, 2014, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) granted Sierrita Gas Pipeline LLC (Sierrita) notice to proceed with the construction of the Sierrita Pipeline Project (the Project), a new natural gas pipeline and appurtenant facilities in Pima County, Arizona, that deliver natural gas from El Paso Natural Gas Company’s existing pipeline system southwest of Tucson to an interconnect point at the U.S.-Mexico border near the town of Sasabe. Concurrent with the construction of the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Daniel Garcia. S. Jerome Hesse.

Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport Authority (PMGAA) proposes the Northeast Area Development Plan (NADP), which would relocate the existing airport passenger terminal complex to the northeastern corner of Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport (the Airport), in the City of Mesa, Maricopa County, Arizona. Ricondo and Associates, Inc., under contract to PMGAA, retained SWCA Environmental Consultants (SWCA) to conduct National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) eligibility testing at four archaeological sites—AZ...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Suzanne Griset. David M. R. Barr. S. Jerome Hesse. Paul M. Rawson.

Pima County Department of Transportation is proposing to construct a newly aligned road in Pima County. The realigned road would cross through two previously investigated archaeological sites—AZ AA:12:11 (ASM) and AZ AA:12:788 (ASM), the latter more commonly known as the Rillito Fan site. Pima County Office of Sustainability and Conservation retained SWCA Environmental Consultants to develop and implement a Phase 1 data recovery (data testing) plan for the portions of these two sites that would...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Peter J. Pilles.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Ridge Ruin site (Part Two of Two) which is located on Coconino National Forest land. The site is comprised of pit houses, pueblos, field houses, rock alignment, a sheet midden, and a burial. The file contains 11 site data forms, a cold crime criminal damage report, and six black and white photographs of unauthorized digging. The earliest dated form is from 2006.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Scott Wood. Denise Ryan. M. Sullivan.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Rising Sun Site that is located on Tonto National Forest land. The site consists of stone room blocks with minimal lithic and sherd scatter. One document notes a petroglyph. The file consists of two site data forms and two cultural resources preliminary inventory forms. The oldest documents in the file date to 1993.

DOCUMENT Full-Text William B. Gillespie. Sharon F. Urban. Mark M. South. Mary M. Farrell.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Rock Corral Group site, located on Coronado National Forest land. The site is comprised of a masonry cobble enclosure, presumably a corral, as well as petroglyphs, bedrock mortars, and artifact scatter. The file consists of a site data form, Arizona State Museum archaeological survey form, Arizona State Museum site survey form, site map, site inspection report, an inventory standards and accounting form, a 1986 report entitled "Trincheras Sites:...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard V. N. Ahlstrom. Mark L. Chenault. Kirk C. Anderson.

Between October, 1990, and January, 1991, SWCA, Environmental Consultants conducted archaeological survey of approximately 1,800 acres of Tonto National Forest land in the Roosevelt Basin, central Arizona. This project, the Roosevelt Bajada Survey, was done to provide survey data on portions of the Basin that are not being investigated by Arizona State University (ASU) as part of its Roosevelt Lake Project. The survey recorded 111 new sites and rerecorded five previously known sites; four...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Mark D. Elson. Deborah L. Swartz. Douglas B. Craig. Jeffrey J. Clark.

The Roosevelt Community Development Study (RCD) was one of three data recovery mitigative 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 Desert Archaeology, Inc. to complete the research for...