Irrigation Canals (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Full-Text John T. Marshall.

Archaeological monitoring was conducted of excavations performed for SRP’s installation of a new service line for the Sandra Rodriguez homesite at 1490 N. Dobson Road on the SRPMIC, Maricopa County, Arizona.

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carol Wiens.

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DOCUMENT Full-Text The United States Reclamation Service.

After the passage of what is known as the Reclamation Act, approved June 17, 1902, the people of Salt River Valley made very earnest efforts to induce the Secretary of the Interior to authorize the construction of the Salt River Project. They were successful in these efforts and the project was tentatively authorized by the Secretary on March 12, 1903. It was early decided by the Interior Department that in cases where the lands, that would receive the benefit of the proposed project, were...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Abbott. Christopher Caseldine.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. On a sparse prehistoric landscape where little precipitation fell, Hohokam farmers dug vast canal networks across tens of thousands of acres of xeric desert soils on the banks of the Salt River. Their large-scale hydraulics, without managerial centralization, mark the Hohokam infrastructure as a theoretical anomaly. Cross-culturally, as irrigation scales...