Rillito River, Tucson Basin, Arizona, Colonial Hohokam, canal, pollen (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Site AZ AA:12:869(ASM) includes a prehistoric canal. This Colonial Hohokam site yielded a radiocarbon age of AD 880 to 970 (one-sigma calibration) near the top of the canal and an age of AD 780 to 900 and AD 790 to 900 (one-sigma calibration) near the bottom of the canal. This canal came off the Rillto River. Pollen samples were examined from the modern surface in a fallow cotton field, and from the prehistoric canal beneath a large sherd and under a mano fragment. Pollen analysis was...