Arivaca Wash cemetery (Site Name Keyword)

DOCUMENT Full-Text J. Homer Thiel. Penny Dufoe Minturn. Lorrie Lincoln-Babb.

Erosion along a wash running into Arivaca Creek resulted in the exposure of skeletal remains from a prehistoric cemetery. Under contract to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Desert Archaeology conducted emergency excavations in November of 1994 to rescue those remains that had partially fallen into the wash. The surviving portions of four burials were removed, and a fifth burial was discovered but left in situ. The presence of five burials in such a restricted area suggests that a larger...