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DOCUMENT Citation Only Jerry Lyon. Jeffrey Jones.

The transition from hunting and gathering to increased reliance on farming and the subsequent development of distinct regional cultural traditions represent critical processes in the prehistory of southern Arizona. Previous research at the site of Valencia Vieja in the southern Tucson Basin suggests the development of a distinct Hohokam cultural identity began during the Tortolita phase (Red Ware horizon) when significant population aggregation could be maintained and supported with dependable...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Thomas Lincoln.

This is an abstract from the "Why Platform Mounds? Part 2: Regional Comparisons and Tribal Histories" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper will chronicle some of the history of the Federal investment in Big Archaeology for the Central Arizona Project. Specifically, the decisions to support a philosophy of Cultural Research Management, which facilitated a huge contribution to the archaeology of Arizona, and more broadly to the Southwest...

DOCUMENT Citation Only John Murphy. Louise Purdue. Maurits Ertsen.

Societies that rely on irrigation face challenges arising from the variability and unpredictability of water supply and the physics underlying the flow of water through open channels; they overcome these through structured social interactions and institutions ranging from simple to complex. To better understand these past interactions we combine geoarchaeological studies with flow simulations and Agent Based Modeling. Fieldwork conducted during CRM projects on Hohokam irrigation structures in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christina Bisulca. Brunella Santarelli. Nancy Odegaard.

Hohokam palettes are a unique artifact found at several important sites in southern Arizona. The Arizona State Museum (Tucson, AZ) has an extensive collection of Hohokam palettes from Gila Bend dating from the Santa Cruz and Sacaton periods (A.D. 850-1150). Most of these palettes have white lead-containing minerals on the surface. This project aimed at characterizing the composition and isotope signatures of these minerals using non-invasive and minimally destructive methods, including...

DATASET David Abbott.

Electron Microprobe Chemical Data from Plain ware ceramics from Antler House Ruin

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This report presents the results of archaeological investigations at 13 prehistoric sites located on the Santa Cruz Flats. The investigations were sponsored by the Bureau of Reclamation in order to mitigate the impact to prehistoric resources in the construction of the Central Arizona Irrigation and Drainage District, Central Unit II and III irrigation systems. These systems are located southwest of Interstate 10, south and west of Eloy, Arizona, south and east of Arizona City, Arizona, and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stacy Ryan.

This is an abstract from the "Local Development and Cross-Cultural Interaction in Pre-Hispanic Southwestern New Mexico and Southeastern Arizona" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Similar projectile point types were used by people in central and southern Arizona during the Classic Period (A.D. 1150-1450), a time when considerable changes occurred within the region. An analysis of over 600 points was conducted to examine how social, technological, and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Chris Loendorf.

This paper summarizes archaeological data that show a substantial decrease in population occurred between the Sedentary (ca. 950-1150AD) and Classic Periods (ca. 1150-1500) along the middle Gila River in the Phoenix Basin. This decrease coincides with well documented increases along the lower Salt River. Extensive data suggest this pattern subsequently reversed in the Historic period, when people were again concentrated along the middle Gila, and the lower Salt River was extensively depopulated....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Laurene Montero. Nicole Armstrong-Best. Lindsey Vogel-Teeter.

This is an abstract from the "Collaborative Archaeology: How Native American Knowledge Enhances Our Collective Understanding of the Past" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. S’edav Va’aki (formerly known as Pueblo Grande) is an ancestral O’Odham (Hohokam) archaeological village site and the only National Historic Landmark in Phoenix, Arizona. For more than a decade, the S’edav Va’aki Museum (Museum) has consulted monthly with the Salt River...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jupiter Martinez.

This is an abstract from the "Transcending Boundaries and Exploring Pasts: Current Archaeological Investigations of the Arizona-Sonora Borderlands" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. There is a western geographical gap between the Trincheras and Hohokam archaeological traditions in the State of Sonora, Mexico. This area is the Cocospera Valley where the prehistoric sites have artifacts from Trincheras, Hohokam and Casas Grandes traditions. In the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jill Neitzel.

This paper investigates whether hatched designs on Hohokam red-on-buff ceramics symbolized colors other than the red that was used to paint them. This idea is an extension of previous research done on Ancestral Pueblo and Mogollon black-on-white pottery. J.J. Brody initiated these investigations with his suggestion that hachure on Chaco ceramics from northwest New Mexico represented the color blue-green. Stephen Plog subsequently confirmed this hypothesis by comparing the colors and designs on...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Cinthia Campos-Hernandez.

This is an abstract from the "Advances in Macrobotanical and Microbotanical Archaeobotany Part 1" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. For nearly a century, archaeologists have debated the subsistence adaptation of the Trincheras Tradition of Sonora, México. Nineteenth-century scholars hypothesized that they were foragers until the arrival of the Hohokam around 1300 CE. Having recently excavated Snaketown in the Phoenix basin, archaeologists had...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Victoria Evans. Linda Gregonis.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. All cultures use symbols to convey ideas. In archaeological contexts those symbols have become ways to define and differentiate archaeological cultures. But what did the symbols mean to the artisans who created them? The art that Hohokam craftspeople produced embodied the world (seen and unseen) as they understood it. They were influenced by weather, animals...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jaye Smith. Jeff Clark.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As investigations continue into the Ray Robinson Collection by Archaeology Southwest’s dedicated team of volunteer researchers, attention now turns to assemblages collected by Robinson in the northern San Pedro Valley (and vicinity) of southeastern Arizona. During Ray’s consulting work for mining companies in the area, he documented four sites near the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ryan Arp. Steve Swanson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Large pit structures are present at several ancestral O'odham villages in the Salt and Gila River Valleys. Although morphologically similar, they are up to 5 or more times larger than contemporaneous Hohokam Preclassic domestic structures. Targeted excavation of several such structures and surrounding features suggests patterns in their locations within...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lindsey Vogel-Teeter. Laurene Montero. Nicole Armstrong-Best.

This is an abstract from the "Training a New Generation of Heritage Professionals in the Valley of the Sun: The ASU Field School at S’eḏav Va’aki" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. S’edav Va’aki (formerly known as Pueblo Grande) is an ancestral O’Odham (Hohokam) archaeological village site and Phoenix’s only National Historic Landmark. Most of the site is preserved and maintained by S’edav Va’aki Museum (Museum) and includes a publicly accessible...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jessica Cerezo-Román.

Cremation and related fiery rituals performed by Phoenix and Tucson Basin Hohokam in Southern Arizona and Trincheras Tradition populations in Northern Sonora are examined and contrasted in order to understand different regional spheres of social interactions. These were done by examine biological profiles and posthumous treatments of individuals to better understand who they were and how they were treated at death in the Classic Period (A.D. 1150-1450/1500). These data were compared between...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Bustoz.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Preliminary analysis of ceramic artifacts from Early Formative contexts at AZ T:12:70(ASM) (Pueblo Patricio) in Phoenix, Arizona, identified grog (crushed sherds) in addition to local tempering materials. Four sherds selected for petrographic analysis from radiocarbon-dated contexts confirmed the identified material is grog. Subsequent single-grain optical...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Courtney Rose. Cannon Daughtrey.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This poster presents several case studies from the last two years exemplifying Pima County’s goals to develop large-scale land management strategies and plans, with a specific focus on managing cultural resources. Since the 2000 publication of Pima County’s Sonoran Desert Conservation Plan (SDCP), a science-based planning tool that identifies sensitive and...

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As required under Section 110 of the National Historic Preservation Act, Reclamation’s Phoenix Area Office (PXAO) requested a Class III (intensive) cultural resources inventory of 3,100 acres of Reclamation withdrawn land. The project area consists of five continuous, irregularly shaped survey blocks located within the boundary of the TNF, on the north and south sides of the Salt river near the north end of Apache Lake.

DOCUMENT Citation Only Caitlin Wichlacz.

This is an abstract from the "Ceramics and Archaeological Sciences 2024" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Between ca. 1300 and 1450 CE, Salado polychrome (Roosevelt red ware) pottery production and use spread rapidly, then persisted across the US Southwest, intersecting diverse cultural and regional traditions, and creating a material pattern termed the “Salado phenomenon.” In Arizona’s Phoenix basin during the Hohokam late Classic period, Salado...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jerry Lyon. Barbara Montgomery. Jeffrey Jones.

The Dairy site is a long-lived prehistoric locality situated at the juncture of the Tortolita Mountains piedmont and the Santa Cruz River floodplain north of Tucson, Arizona. Although the site has yielded important evidence of early Hohokam settlement and cultural developments, the sporadic nature of investigations, the lack of data from early fieldwork, and the destruction of significant portions of the site by the original Shamrock Dairy operation provide substantial challenges to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jessica Cerezo-Román.

Hohokam cremation funerary customs are unraveled to acquire a deeper understanding of intersecting identity differences among seven Preclassic Period archaeological sites (A.D. 475-1150) of the Tucson Basin. This is done by analyzing the mortuary treatment of 477 individual remains using two primary datasets: (1) biological profile of the skeletal remains; and, (2) posthumous treatment of the body inferred from the analysis of the remains and archaeological contexts. Results indicate the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Abbott. Caitlin Wichlacz. J. Scott Wood.

Various conflicting ideas pervade debate about how 13th century occupation was organized in the upland zone of central Arizona, which overlooks the Phoenix Basin to the south. Some researchers characterize the upland settlements as subservient and peripheral to the densely packed irrigation-based Hohokam communities along the Salt River. Others, instead, describe the upland populations as independent communities with rich histories of their own. Still others speculate about the extent to which...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Thomas Motsinger. Shawn Fehrenbach.

The particular challenges at the Ironwood Village excavations—time constraints, burgeoning data opportunities, and management of a complex array of excavation staff and machinery--begged for a modernized approach to data collection and workflow management. PaleoWest Archaeology’s digital workflow system—already four years in development—was customized for the project and implemented throughout. The result was one of the world’s first all-digital major excavation projects, the success of which...