AZ U:9:240 (ASM) (Site Name Keyword)
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Crismon Ruin is a large Hohokam settlement located on the lower terraces of the Salt River, near the head of the prehistoric Lehi Canal System. Data recovery excavations at the site were conducted in the spring and early summer of 2001. Over 500 archaeological features were documented during the fieldwork, including prehistoric pithouses, adobe rooms, borrow pits, pits, homos, roasting pits, inhumation and cremation burials, canals, and other miscellaneous features. Most of these features...
Preliminary Report on Data Recovery Efforts at the Crismon Ruin, AZ U:9:173 (ASM), Within the Proposed Red Mountain Freeway Corridor, Mesa, Arizona (2001)
The purpose of this report is to summarize the methods and findings of Desert Archaeology, Inc.'s, recent data recovery effort at the Crismon Ruin, due to be impacted by construction of the Red Mountain Freeway, Gilbert Road to Higley Road segment; and to provide a recommendation that the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) be allowed to proceed with construction activities as planned in said freeway corridor. The project was authorized by the Federal Highway Administration and ADOT, as...