Check Dam (Site Type Keyword)
26-50 (50 Records)
A data recovery program was completed at four archaeological sites (AZ N:4:37 [NA 25,511], N:4:65 [NA 25,512], N:4:66 [NA 25,513], and N:4:68(ASM) [NA 25,514]) by Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd. (ACS) for the Phase 3 Roadway Improvement Project (North Campground Facilities) at Dead Horse Ranch State Park (Park) (Figure 1.1). This program represents the last of a series of mitigation actions conducted for an undertaking sponsored by the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) and...
Derrio Wash Complex Arizona Site Steward File (1984)
This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Derrio Wash Complex, located on State Trust land. The complex is comprised of a Hohokam village, compound, mound, trash middens, ball court, artifact scatter, rock piles, check dams, and roasting pits. The file consists of a Site Steward Program resource nomination form, five Arizona State Museum Archaeological Survey forms, and two additional site maps. The earliest dated document is from 1984.
Dugan Ranch Ruin Arizona Site Steward File (2000)
This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Dugan Ranch Site, located on Tonto National Forest land. The site is comprised of a Classic Period Hohokam compound or caserón with 43 rooms, as well as roasting pits, field houses, checkdams, terraces, artifact scatter, and burials. The file consists of a heritage inventory form, site map, two pages of field notes, an Arizona State University Site Survey Form, and a map of the site location. The earliest dated document is from 1968.
The Eastern Mining Area 115 KV Transmission Line Survey: Archaeological Resources in the Salt-Gila Uplands of Central Arizona (1996)
SWCA, Inc., Environmental Consultants (SWCA), of Tucson, Arizona, conducted the Eastern Mining Area (EMA) survey project under contract to Salt River Project (SRP) between October, 1993, and February, 1994. One central purpose of the project was to create an inventory of archaeological resources to assist in the planning of future improvements and other modifications to existing SRP transmission lines. The project included 107 person-field days of Class III archaeological survey along...
Excavation of the Gibbon Springs Site: A Classic Period Village in the Northeastern Tuson Basin (1996)
This volume summarizes data recovered from the Gibbon Springs site, AZ BB:9:50 (ASM), located in the northeastern Tucson Basin. This large Classic period site had a central compound surrounded by houses. Data and materials were obtained from 24 structures and hundreds of other features (e.g., pits, cremations, middens). Materials from Gibbon Springs suggest that either a non-indigenous population inhabited the site or there was another social arrangement between the Tucson Basin Hohokam and...
Final Report for Plan 6 Supplemental Cultural Resource Surveys (1985)
This final report reflects a year of on-call Class III cultural resource surveys for Plan 6, the Regulatory Storage Division of the Central Arizona Project. Included are eight reports representing close to 6000 acres of survey performed in the vicinity of the planned New Waddell Dam by Archaeological Consulting Services for the Arizona Projects Office, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. Because New Waddell Dam is designed to be rock filled, one of the focal points of the contract was to survey proposed...
Final: The Eastern Mining Area Project Coolidge To Hayden Segment Data Recovery: Hohokam Agriculture in the Middle and Upper Gila River Valley of Pinal County, Arizona (1997)
SWCA conducted limited data recovery at 13 sites crossed by the Coolidge to Hayden segment of the larger Eastern Mining Area (EMA) 115kV Transmission Line system in east-central Arizona. The Coolidge to Hayden segment generally follows a west-to-east alignment from Coolidge, Pinal County, to Hayden in Gila County, which roughly parallels the course of the Gila River. Salt River Project (SRP) owns the transmission line system, which was constructed to serve the mining communities of the...
Gisela Pueblo 580 Arizona Site Steward File (2001)
This is an Arizona Site Steward File for the Gisela Pueblo 580 site, located on Tonto National Forest land. The site is comprised of a pueblo compound, trash midden, roasting pits, checkdams, terraces, and a possible partial wall. The file consists of a heritage inventory form, five hand drawn site maps, an unlabeled data form, and two maps of the site location. The earliest dated document is from 1929.
Historic Navajo Studies in Northeastern Arizona (1976)
Archaeological excavations along the north rim of Canyon del Muerto, Canyon de Chelly National Monument, Arizona, were conducted during 1972 by the Museum of Northern Arizona. The preliminary objective was to salvage 28 archaeological sites located within the rights-of-way of Route N64, the Chinle to Tsaile Lake road, and four associated spur roads. Research designs for the excavations are broken into historic Navajo and prehistoric Anasazi sites; this report is concerned with the former. This...
Horseshoe Dam Borrow Area and Haul Road, Horseshoe Dam Modifications, Supplemental Cultural Resource, Class III Inventory Survey and Evaluation (1990)
Northland Research, Inc. (Northland) has completed a Class III cultural resource survey of the Horseshoe Dam Borrow Area and Borrow Haul Road (Forest Road 479). This work was designated as Modification 03 of Task 13 of the Supplemental Surveys of the Regulatory Storage Division, Central Arizona Project (Plan 6), performed under Contract No. 7-CS-30-05750 issued by the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation. The project area is located entirely on USDA Forest Service administered...
Ister Flats Arizona Site Steward File (1992)
This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Ister Flats site, located on Tonto National Forest land. The site is comprised of a Late Classic Sinagua room block with courtyards, trash mounds, a rock-lined pit, and artifact scatter. The file consists of a site data form, hand drawn maps of the site, maps of the site location, an artifact diversity form, a Tonto National Forest cultural resources inventory form, a Central Arizona Water Control Study site description form, and an Arizona State...
Kirtland Air Force Base Project Metadata
Project metadata for resources within the Kirtland Air Force Base cultural heritage resources collection.
Marijilda Canyon Archeological District Arizona Site Steward File (1992)
This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Marijilda Canyon Archeological District, located on Coronado National Forest land. This district is comprised of multiple sites including a masonry pueblo, numerous agricultural features, plazas, rock alignments, and prehistoric and historic petroglyphs. The sites are generally identified as Salado, although one document favors Mogollon. Amidst the prehistoric sites is one historic site, a structure with a fireplace, doorway, and trash deposit,...
The Middle Gila Basin: An Archaeological and Historical Overview (1982)
The Central Arizona Project (CAP) , Indian Distribution Division (IDD) is designed to deliver allocated CAP water to Indian users. The Middle Gila Basin Overview is the initial cultural resources planning study for the system. It summarizes and evaluates the extant data in an area 3,570 square miles (9,139 sq km) large, centered on the Gila River. The data suggests that archaeological sites in this area are numerous and varied, but most of all poorly-studied despite 100 years of research. A...
Native American Historic Land Use At Kirtland Air Force Base Bernalillo County, New Mexico (Draft) (1996)
Historic land use of the Kirtland Air Force Base area by Native American groups was researched by TRC Mariah Associates, Inc. The principal questions were what ways did these groups use the land and what areas were used. Potential Native American groups using the project area include people of Isleta Pueblo, Sandia Pueblo, residents of the Salinas Province east of the Manzano Mountains, as well as Apaches and Comanches. The focus is on the people of Isleta Pueblo in that they are the closest to...
New River Community Park (Daisy Mountain) Arizona Site Steward File (1985)
This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the New River Community Park site, comprised of a Hohokam habitation with accompanying terrace, trails, masonry structure footings, and artifact scatter. The site is located on Bureau of Land Management, Arizona State Land Department, and privately owned land. The file consists of a site data form, Arizona Bureau of Land Management Cultural Resource Site Record, site environment form, and map of the site location.
The Roosevelt Bajada Survey, Tonto Basin, Gila County, Central Arizona (1991)
Between October, 1990, and January, 1991, SWCA, Environmental Consultants conducted archaeological survey of approximately 1,800 acres of Tonto National Forest land in the Roosevelt Basin, central Arizona. This project, the Roosevelt Bajada Survey, was done to provide survey data on portions of the Basin that are not being investigated by Arizona State University (ASU) as part of its Roosevelt Lake Project. The survey recorded 111 new sites and rerecorded five previously known sites; four...
Settlement, Subsistence, and Specialization In the Northern Periphery: The Waddell Project. Vols. 1 and 2 (1989)
Under the sponsorship of the Bureau of Reclamation, the New Waddell Dam Borrow Areas Mitigative Data Recovery Project, more simply known as the Waddell Project, performed data recovery at 17 sites in the vicinity of Lake Pleasant, Arizona. Supplemental surveys conducted under the same contract added two sites to the inventory slated for investigation. The project area, composed of multiple survey areas, was spread across two drainages, the Agua Fria and New River, in what is considered the...
Seven Springs Pueblo Arizona Site Steward File (1997)
This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Seven Springs Pueblo site, located on Tonto National Forest land. The site is comprised of several Early Classic Period Hohokam masonry habitations, as well as artifact scatter indicative of Post-Depression Euroamerican activity, possibly related to ranching or the CCC. Additional features include terracing, checkdams, sherd and lithic scatter, petroglyphs, rock piles, and a grinding feature. Artifacts include tooth powder, tobacco, and sardine cans,...
Seventies Site Arizona Site Steward File (1996)
This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Seventies Site, located on Bureau of Reclamation land. The site is comprised of three structures, check dams, rock piles, petroglyphs, and artifact scatter. The file consists of a site data form, map of the site location, and site map.
Sunset Crater Archaeology: The History of a Volcanic Landscape, Introduction and Site Descriptions, Part 1 (2006)
The U.S. 89 Archaeological Project investigated 41 prehistoric sites located approximately 30 km north of Flagstaff, Arizona. All sites were on Coconino National Forest (CNF) land. The project was conducted by Desert Archaeology, Inc., for the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) prior to the widening and improvement of 26.7 km (16.6 miles) of U.S. 89, between the southern boundary of Wupatki National Monument in the north, and the town of Fernwood in the south. Archaeological fieldwork...
Sunset Crater Archaeology: The History of a Volcanic Landscape, Prehistoric Settlement in the Shadow of the Volcano (2011)
This volume explores human adaptation to catastrophic events, particularly to volcanic eruptions. Sunset Crater Volcano is located in the pine forests of northern Arizona, approximately 20 km north of the city of Flagstaff. The volcano was long thought to have erupted in A.D. 1064, with the eruption extending for several hundred years. Research presented here, however, suggests that Sunset Crater erupted for only a few years sometime between A.D. 1085 and 1090, when nearby areas were densely...
Surveying, Mapping, and Limited Testing at Three Sties on the Fort McDowell Indian Community (1994)
Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd. (ACS) conducted survey of approximately 400 acres, mapping, photographing, and limited testing of cultural resources on Fort McDowell Indian Community (FMIC) land at the request of Mr. Jon Czaplicki of the Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation). The survey and mapping were performed to record and determine the extent of prehistoric agricultural rockpile features at AZ U:6:81 and U:6:239(ASM) that will be impacted by agricultural development. Subsurface...
Wirth Associates Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station Transmission System, Salt River Project, Maricopa County, Arizona: Final Report for Archaeological Impact Study: Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station Routing Alternate to Westwing Receiving Station (1975)
Wirth Associates contracted with the Museum of Northern Arizona to conduct an archaeological impact study of a proposed Salt River Project Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station Routing Alternate to Westwing Receiving Station. This study delineates areas with three levels of potential site occurence for the project area, and investigates potential effects on the cultural resources of the alternative corridors proposed by Salt River Project. A short data gathering phase, prior to field work,...
A Work Plan for Further Investigations of Archaeological Sites Along the 500kV Tonto National Forest Boundary to Kyrene Transmission Line Route, Coronado Station Project, Pinal and Maricopa Counties, Arizona (1977)
An intensive survey of approximately 67 km (42 mi) of transmission line right-of-way between Kyrene and the Tonto National Forest boundary was completed by a 3-man crew in 15 days. A total of 144 field numbers were assigned to cultural materials encountered, ranging from a single flake or sherd to a large site or component thereof. Material recovered is summarized in Table 1, and locations are plotted on accompanying aerial photos. Isolated artifacts and small scatters were collected; samples (1...