Grand Canal Ruins (Site Name Keyword)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Joshua Watts

This report presents the results of the archaeological excavation of a prehistoric Hohokam village known as the Grand canal Ruins (AZ T:12:14(ASU) and AZ T:12:16(ASU)). Excavations were performed at the site in 1986 in advance of the Squaw Peak Parkway, a city-funded transportation project located in Phoenix, Arizona. The archaeological work was conducted by Soil Systems, Inc., for the City of Phoenix under Contract Nos. 41116 and 42877. The Grand Canal Ruins represent a large Classic period...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Leslie D. Aragon. Connie A. Darby.

Desert Archaeology, Inc., under contract to the City of Phoenix (City) Street Transportation Department (STD), has completed archaeological monitoring and data recovery for construction activities, south of Osborn Road in Phoenix, Arizona. The work at this locale was part of a project conducted by the City STD to install a new sidewalk, curb, and gutter along parcel APN 119-26 001-A, where there had previously been none. The City Archaeology Office recommended archaeological monitoring for this...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Michael Stubing.

The project consisted of the replacement of a water main and fire hydrants. The COP Archaeology Office reviewed this project and provided recommendations in an August 24, 2011 Archaeological Assessment Form. The COP Archaeology Assessment noted that the project is located almost entirely within AZ T:12:256 (ASM)/Grand Canal Ruins, and recommended that monitoring be conducted for all portions of the project area that are located within the site or within 250 ft. of its known boundaries. Five...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Erik Steinbach.

The project consisted of improvements to existing storm drains and the relocation of a gas pipeline. The COP Archaeology Office reviewed this project and provided recommendations in a December 23, 2011 Archaeological Assessment Form. The form notes that the project is located entirely within the archaeological site of AZ T:12:256 (ASM)/Grand Canal Ruins, a large habitation site that contains pithouses, canals, and human remains. The COP Archaeology Office recommended that monitoring be conducted...

DOCUMENT Full-Text David R. Abbott.

More than 1000 years ago, a people that archaeologists call the Hohokam first inhabited the deserts of what is now Arizona. They flourished for more than 70 generations in the lower Salt River Valley, the place where Phoenix now stands. Buried beneath the modern metropolis are the ruins of many aboriginal villages and a vast and elaborate irrigation network that may have watered 40,000 acres of cropland. (Jerry Howard completed this map, Figure 1, of the Hohokam irrigation canals and major...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Peg Davis. Douglas R. Mitchell.

AEI Consultants plans to develop an 11.97-acre parcel of privately owned land for a proposed U.S. Department of Housing and Urban development (HUD). New construction is planned in the northwest portion of the Area of Potential Effect. At the request of AEI Consultants, Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd. (ACS) conducted a Class I literature review of the project area to provide an inventory and assessment of cultural resources that might be affected by the proposed undertaking. The parcel...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Lourdes Aguila.

At the request of the Bureau of Reclamation, Phoenix Area Office, Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd. (ACS) conducted a Class III (Intensive), non-collection cultural resources survey of approximately 170 miles of the Arizona, Arizona Crosscut, Grand, Tempe, Tempe Crosscut, Consolidated, Eastern, South, Western, Highline, and Kyrene Branch Canals in Maricopa County, Arizona. The canals, which are owned by the Reclamation, are maintained and operated by the Salt River Project (SRP). The...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Lourdes Aguila.

Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd. (ACS) conducted a Class III (Intensive), non-collection cultural resources survey on approximately 170 miles of the Arizona, Arizona Crosscut, Grand, Tempe, Tempe Crosscut, Consolidated, Eastern, South, Western, Highline, and Kyrene Branch Canals in Maricopa County, Arizona. The survey was undertaken at the request of Jon S. Czaplicki, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) archaeologist and Contracting Officer's Technical Representative for Contract...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Glennda Gene Luhnow.

Monitoring for the Southwest Gas 2" Steel Main Replacement Project identified two features within AZ T:12:37(ASM)-Casa Buena, and three canal exposures representing two canals (designated at AZ T:12:416 and T:417[ASM]). All feature recording protocols followed those methods set forth in the approved City of Phoenix blanket work plan (Montero and Stubing 2004). ACS’ monitoring for the Southwest Gas 2" Steel Main Replacement Project resulted in the monitoring of 98 new excavations, and the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Glen E. Rice.

From 1982 to 1990, a dozen archaeological sites associated with the Hohokam Canal System Two in the Phoenix Basin were excavated in anticipation of the construction of a network of freeways in the City of Phoenix (Figure 1). Ten of the excavation projects were funded through the Arizona Department of Transportation and two through the City of Phoenix Engineering Project; the work was conducted by the Arizona State Museum, the Museum of Northern Arizona, Arizona State University, and Soil...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Rachel Fernandez

This is the second of two volumes presenting the results of data recovery investigations at the Dutch Canal Ruin (AZ T:12:62 [ ASM]), conducted by Desert Archaeology, Inc., at the western end of the North Runway, Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. The Dutch Canal Ruin is a prehistoric agricultural site, dating between 1,700 and 500 years ago, consisting of fieldhouses and farmsteads scattered along a network of canals on the geological floodplain of the Salt River. The first volume...

DOCUMENT Full-Text David Jacobs. Glen E. Rice.

In 1850, the Phoenix Basin had been uninhabited for about 350 to 400 years. It was visited occasionally by hunting, fishing, or gathering parties from the Pima, Pee Posh, Yavapai or Apache, but the last people to have cleared farming fields, excavated canals, and built villages in the lower Salt River valley had been the Hohokam, and they had abandoned the area sometime between A.D. 1450 and 1500. This timeline is important to archaeologists because it means that the desert vegetation in the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text M Scott Thompson.

This research explores how people’s relationships with the spirits of the dead are embedded in political histories. It addresses the ways in which certain spirits were integral “inhabitants” of two social environments with disparate political traditions. Using the prehistoric mortuary record, I investigate the spirits and their involvement in socio-political affairs in the Prehispanic American Southeast and Southwest. Foremost, I construct a framework to characterize particular social...

PROJECT Uploaded by: M Scott Thompson

This research explores how people’s relationships with the spirits of the dead are embedded in political histories. It addresses the ways in which certain spirits were integral “inhabitants” of two social environments with disparate political traditions. Using the prehistoric mortuary record, this study investigate the spirits and their involvement in socio-political affairs in the Prehispanic American Southeast and Southwest. Foremost, this research constructs a framework to characterize...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jerry B. Howard. Gary Huckleberry.

Archaeological investigations sponsored by the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) were conducted by Soil Systems, Inc. (SSI) at several sites within the East Papago Freeway corridor, including El Caserío (AZ T:12:49(ASM)), La Lomita (AZ U:9:67(ASM)), and La Lomita Pequeña (AZ U:9:66(ASM)). During the investigation of these sites, a significant number of canal alignments were encountered, prompting the sponsoring of the East Papago Canal Study by ADOT. Canal System 2, traversed by the...

PROJECT Uploaded by: Joshua Watts

The Intersections project is an electronic archive of the archaeological monographs written for archaeological projects conducted at Hohokam sites on Canal System Two and funded by the Federal and Arizona departments of transportation. The searchable electronic archive includes the contents of about 37 separate volumes reporting on the findings of 11 different archaeological projects. The Intersections project was funded by the Federal Highway Administration through the Arizona Department of...

IMAGE Uploaded by: Katelyn Roessel

"Funding for data collection and map production provided by Arizona Department of Transportation Contract No. 85-33. This map is based on the named USGS 7.5 minute series topographic map. Prehistoric information compiled from various sources by Jerry B. Howard. See Howard and Huckleberry (1991: Chapter 2) for further explanation of data sources and map compilation methods. Some errors and inconsistencies could not be rectified during the production process by Soil Systems, Inc. and GEO-MAP,...

DATASET M Scott Thompson.

The Prehispanic American Southeast and Southwest Comparative Mortuary Database is a relational database that served as the primary data management tool for the dissertation titled "Interactions with the Incorporeal in the Mississippian and Ancestral Puebloan Worlds." The database contains mortuary data for the following prehistoric settlements: Mississippian - Irene Mounds site Zuni area - Hawikku and Kechiba:wa Hohokam (Salt River Valley) - Pueblo Grande, Casa Buena, Grand Canal Ruins,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Joshua Watts

Studies of Hohokam irrigation systems undertaken in the past 5 to 10 years, particularly in the Phoenix Basin, have provided a wealth of new data to be studied and assimilated by archaeologists. Recently completed and ongoing projects have required archaeologists to ask new questions and to apply a variety of investigative techniques to better understand the complexities of Hohokam irrigation systems. It is important that archaeologists studying Hohokam irrigation systems evaluate the increasing...