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This image is a 1931 topo map of Casa Grande Ruins National Monument.
Topo map 9 (1931)
This image is a 1931 topo map of Casa Grande Ruins National Monument.
Topographic Survery, Casa Grande Ruins National Monument, Coolidge, AZ (1995)
These images are detailed topographic survey maps of Compound A at Casa Grande Ruins National Monument. The main focus of the map outlines in detail the drainage systems of the compound. The detail includes specifics regarding materials used, sizes and placement of these materials. The maps also detail holes made in the wall structures themselves to allow proper drainage.
Trails, Rock Features, and Homesteading in the Gila Bend Area: A Report on the State Route 85, Gila Bend to Buckeye Archaeological Project (2008)
The Arizona Department of Transportation plans to widen State Route 85 to a four-lane freeway in the area between Buckeye and Gila Bend. This report presents the results of archaeological data recovery investigations conducted along State Route (SR) 85 for the Arizona Department of Transportation (Contract No. 02-59) by a research team assembled by the Office of Cultural Resource Management, Department of Anthropology at Arizona State University. The Area of Potential Effect (APE) was located...
Treatment recommendations for Casa Grande Ruins National Monument (1967)
This document is a recommedation for treatments needed at Casa Grande Ruins National Monument. There are 4 main areas of focus: Compound A, the Great House, the Ball Court and Compound B. There is some review of past treatment processes and how well those treatments weathered. There is discussion regarding the very poor condition of Compound B and how long it had been since there had been any attention given to that compound. The text includes a recommendtion to backfill Compound B.
Tree Ring Specimens / Original Timbers in Casa Grande Ruins (1964)
These documents are a series of memorandums from both 1964 and 1976 regarding wooden timbers found in the Great House at Casa Grande Ruins National Monument. The memos discuss the removal of the timbers and shipment for the purpose of dendrochronology. The condition of the timbers is discussed regarding the possible difficulting in dating them due to burning.
Tucson Aqueduct Project Phase B
The Tucson Aqueduct Phase B Project represents the first substantial archaeological investigations and excavations to be conducted in the Avra Valley. Prior to the 1983 intensive survey of the Phase B alignment by archaeologists from the Arizona State Museum, archaeological investigation of the Avra Valley had been limited primarily to occasional clearance surveys and test excavations. The identification of 47 prehistoric sites during the 1983 survey (Downum and others 1986) and the...
Uncovering Tucson's Past: Test Excavations in Search of the Presidio Wall (2004)
In March and April of 1998 and 1999, volunteers and archaeologists from the Center for Desert Archaeology searched for traces of Tucson's Presidio fortress. The project had several goals: (1) to determine if archaeological deposits survived in several areas around the perimeter of the Presidio; it was not certain if archaeological deposits survived years of construction, demolition, utility installation, and other ground-disturbing activities; (2) to locate portions of the Presidio Wall — the...
Upper Mayfield Canyon Ruin Arizona Site Steward File (2000)
This contains the Arizona Site Steward file for the Upper Mayfield Canyon site, located on Tonto National Forest land. The site is comprised of masonry room blocks; compounds, including one of quartzite and limestone; a limestone pueblo; and houses. Areas between residential structures contain abundant trash deposits. Human graves and one dog burial are also located on site. The file consists of two site steward data forms, two heritage inventory forms, an Arizona State Museum archaeological...
USDA Forest Service Inventory Standards and Accounting Form: Prescribed Burning and Fuelwood Sale Project in the Manzanita Mountains Phase 2 (1995)
USDA Forest Service Inventory Standards and Accounting Form for a survey in support of a prescribed burn, the Prescribed Burning and Fuelwood Sale Project in the Manzanita Mountains Phase 2. New Mexico State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) concurrence is also included.
USDA Forest Service Inventory Standards and Accounting Form: Trails, Fuels, Habitat, Recreation, and Roads Project in the Manzanita Mountains Phase 4 (1996)
USDA Forest Service Inventory Standards and Accounting Form and Cultural Resource Report in support of an Ecosystem Management Plan at Kirtland Air Force Base. New Mexico State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) concurrence is also included.
A Variety of Cerendipitous Discoveries (2015)
Research at the Ceren village archaeological site in 2013 and 2014 has made a variety of discoveries. The plant casts, made by pouring dental plaster into the voids, reveal much about agriculture in the middle of the rainy season some 1400 years ago. The maize plants were doubled over to dry the mature ears, but the Loma Caldera eruption occurred just before planting squash and beans. So what was that single mature squash plant doing in the milpa? What are the limits of preservation of weeds,...
Viga Testing Project (2002)
These documents are a series of communications regarding stabilization and testing efforts performed and to be performed on the Great House in Compound A at the Casa Grande Ruins National Monument. They outline what projects need to be accomplished, special issues and concerns, and what will be necessary to accomplish the projects. A cost analysis is also provided.
Villages of Tortolita: Phase II Data Recovery at AZ AA:7:500 (ASM) and AZ AA:12:682 (ASM), Town of Marana, Pima and Pinal Counties, Arizona (2009)
Phase II data recovery was conducted at AZ AA:7:500 (ASM) and AZ AA:12:682 (ASM) on the Villages of Tortolita property after Phase I data recovery revealed the presence of subsurface cultural deposits. Forty-five features were identified during Phase II data recovery at AZ AA:7:500 (ASM), including pit structures, roasting pits, miscellaneous extramural pits, middens, surface rock concentrations, and cremations. At AZ AA:12:682 (ASM), five highly ephemeral, poorly defined features (charcoal...
Western Argolid Regional Project (WARP), Chronotype Table (2020)
Chronotype table for the Western Argolid Regional Project (WARP), an intensive regional survey project in the Western Argolid from 2015-2019.
Western Argolid Regional Project (WARP), Field Manual 2014-2016 Seasons (2020)
The Western Argolid Regional Project (WARP) is an interdisciplinary archaeological project that sought to collect and interpret evidence of human activity from prehistory to the modern day in the western Argolid, Greece. Our survey area consists of 30 km2 to the northwest of the ancient and modern city of Argos, where the fertile Argive Plain transitions into a series of mountainous valleys along the course of the Inachos River, which we surveyed over three field seasons from 2014-2016. Although...
Western Mapping Images of Compound A (2009)
This document is a series of topographic maps of Compound A at the Casa Grande Ruins National Monument, Coolidge, Arizona. Some are early images showing the residence of Frank Pinkley noting that it is to be removed. Also shown are room walls that no longer exist in today's Compound A.
Willow Creek Trail Ruin Arizona Site Steward File (1991)
This is an Arizona Site Steward file for Willow Creek Trail Ruin, located on Tonto National Forest land. The site consists of a Hohokam room block with accompanying agricultural rock piles, terrace, checkdams, artifact scatter, cemetery, and petroglyphs. Additional features may include roasting pits and a sleeping circle. However, site descriptions vary greatly including in the number and configuration of rooms. The file consists of a heritage inventory form, cultural resources preliminary...
Wooden timber maintenance on the Great House, Compound A (1996)
These documents are: a form for assessment of action that would impact cultural resources in the Great House in Compound A at the Casa Grande Ruins National Monument and a document supporting the proposed action. The recommendation supports replaced areas on a rotting timber with wood as opposed to epoxy.