AZ AA:12:368 (ASM) (Site Name Keyword)
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The Central Arizona Project (CAP) is a major undertaking by the Bureau of Reclamation to bring water from the Colorado River to central and southern Arizona. The aqueduct, which will help accomplish this feat, extends from the town of Parker, on the Colorado River to the west, across the western desert of Arizona to Phoenix. From the Phoenix metropolitan area the aqueduct turns south, crosses the Gila River in the vicinity of Florence and will terminate slightly to the south of Tucson. In...
Studies in the Hohokam Community of Marana (1987)
The Hohokam community of Marana is a complex of residential neighborhoods, agricultural fields, and seasonal gathering stations dispersed over an area of about 20 square miles. The Marana community complex is an example of a settlement type common to the Classic period of the Hohokam. The diagnostic characteristic of these complexes is the association of platform mounds, walled compounds, and large residential neighborhoods in a dispersed pattern covering several square miles (such as is found...