Prehistoric Canals (Other Keyword)

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Archaeological Survey of Selected Portions of the Roosevelt Water Conservation District Floodway, Pinal County, Arizona (1977)
DOCUMENT Citation Only John M. Antieau.

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Hayden Flour Mill: Landscape, Economy, and Community Diversity in Tempe, Arizona, Volume 2: Archaeology, Project Synthesis, and Management Summary (2008)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Robert Stokes. Victoria D. Vargas.

The ability to integrate archaeological findings with extensive archival and oral history resources is often a rare occurrence in cultural resource management. The Hayden Flour Mill project afforded us just such an opportunity, the benefits of which are demonstrated throughout this and the following chapters of this volume. In many instances, the archival data suggested where we might find buried features beneath caps of fill or asphalt on the property (e.g., the Calaboose/jail, hereafter...


Paleohydraulics: Techniques for Modeling the Operation and Growth of Prehistoric Canal Systems (1990)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Jerry Brian Howard.

Past studies of the Hohokam irrigation systems have focused on the examination of small segments of individual prehistoric canals. The application of open channel equations to individual cross-sections has provided information on discharge capacity and water velocity at specific points in time and space. This study focuses on the development of techniques and approaches to modeling the operation of complete canals. Extant records of cross-sections of the Prehistoric Hohokam canals are compiled...