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DOCUMENT Full-Text Thomas N. Motsinger. Heidi Roberts. Richard V. N. Ahlstrom.

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...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Douglas Mitchell. Walter R. Punzmann. Gary Huckleberry. Peg Davis. Emily Higgins Keppler. Jennifer Rich. Lesley Hudson. Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd..

ACS conducted testing at 10 sites within Reclamation’s CAP ROW seeking to resolve the National Register of Historic Places (Register) eligibility status of sites within the CAP ROW. This document presents the results of that testing.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Douglas Mitchell. Peg Davis. Gary Huckleberry. Andrea Gregory.

In an effort to better manage cultural resources on Reclamation land, PXAO has developed an archaeological site database for the CAP canal. The database was developed using all the previous main stem survey data; however, the Register eligibility status of the majority of these sites was unknown following completion of the CAP. Additionally, an unknown number of sites were either destroyed by construction or excavation, while others are no longer within Reclamation’s CAP right-of-way (ROW). PXAO...

DOCUMENT Full-Text T. Kathleen Henderson.

This report describes the results of the field investigations of several sites located in the vicinity of Marana, Arizona. These investigations were undertaken by the Office of Cultural Resource Management, Arizona State University on behalf of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation to mitigate the impacts on prehistoric sites resulting from the construction of the Reach 3 segment of the Tucson Aqueduct. The report provides a review of the field strategies and techniques used in the recovery of data and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Joseph Crary.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Garden Valley Ruin, located on Tonto National Forest land. The site consists of a Hohokam farming village with masonry room blocks, terraces, field houses, a pit house village, trash middens, artifact scatter, and isolated rooms. The file consists of a heritage inventory form, two maps of the site location, six cultural resource preliminary inventory forms, and six forms entitled Proposed Variables for Site Recording on Tonto and Prescott...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Monroe Amsden. Germick .

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.

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This is the second in a series of three volumes documenting the results of the Grewe Archaeological Research Project (GARP). The Project was carried out by Northland Research, Inc. (Northland), under contract to the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT). Portions of three prehistoric sites were investigated on the project - Grewe, Horvath, and Casa Grande Ruins. Each of the sites represents a separate spatial and temporal component of the Grewe-Casa Grande settlement, one of the preeminent...

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This is one of nine volumes of reports on archaeology conducted for the United States Bureau of Reclamation along the route of the Salt-Gila Aqueduct, a component of the Central Arizona Project extending a distance of 58 miles from east of Phoenix, Arizona, to the Picacho Reservoir area. Eight prehistoric habitation sites were excavated in the Florence, Arizona area, as a part of this project, representing Colonial through Classic Period Hohokam occupations in this area. This volume includes...

IMAGE Christopher von Nagy. Mary Pohl. Joseph Gamble.

Imágenes fotográficas, computacionales, y compuestas adjuntas al informe técnico Proyecto sobre la escritura temprana. Arte, cosmovisión y símbolo en la evolución de la complejidad mesoaméricana. Estudios de las cuevas de Oxtotitlán y Cahuaziziqui,Guerrero, México, Primera temporada (Enero 2012). Christopher L. von Nagy y Mary D. Pohl.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Scotty Moore. Gina Gage.

Northland Research, Inc. has completed archaeological testing within a portion of Pueblo del Rio (AZ T:12:116[ASM]), a large Hohokam habitation site located about one mile north of the Salt River. The purpose of the testing was to determine the nature, extent, and significance of subsurface cultural remains within an 11.8-acre parcel located within the previously determined boundaries of the site. The testing included limited surface collections and systematic backhoe trenching to determine if...

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Approximately 61 percent (74 percent if only the extant portions of the site are considered) of the 60.5-acre Hohokam settlement known as Honey Bee Village, AZ BB:9:88 (ASM) (Arizona State Museum site files designation) was mechanically tested and horizontally exposed during excavations in 2006-2007 by Desert Archaeology, Inc., under contract with Pima County and Rancho Vistoso Partners, LLC. Honey Bee Village is located in the Town of Oro Valley north of Tucson. The core of the village was...

DOCUMENT Full-Text J.S. Wood. Sharon Stievater.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Mano Mama site, located on Tonto National Forest land. The site is comprised of an Archaic lithic scatter; Preclassic Hohokam pit houses; Classic Hohokam compound, field house, and terraces; 1880s wagon road; and pre-WWII trash scatter. The file consists of two heritage inventory forms and a map of the site location. The oldest dated document is from 2000.

PROJECT Julie Hoggarth. Claire Ebert.

The Mesoamerican Radiocarbon (MesoRAD) database compiles published radiocarbon dates and isotopic data from archaeological sites in across Mesoamerica. Mesoamerica as a culture region is defined by shared cultural traits that span the areas of northern, central, and southern Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, and parts of El Salvador and Nicaragua. In its final form, we hope that the database can be used as an open-access repository that will facilitate collaborative studies in the...

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The Mesoamerican Radiocarbon (MesoRAD) database compiles radiocarbon dates and isotopic data from archaeological sites in across Mesoamerica. The initial dataset from MesoRAD is a compilation of 14C dates from the Maya lowlands. We will be expanding the database to other parts of Mesoamerica soon. If you would like to submit your data to MesoRAD, please visit our website for more information: http://www.mesorad.com

DOCUMENT Full-Text Scott Wood. Elaine Zamora. Joseph Crary.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Mesquite Flat site, comprised of a Hohokam village with accompanying artifact scatter, located on Tonto National Forest land. The site may have seen additional use by Southeastern Yavapai or Apache. The file consists of a site data form, two maps of the site location, an unlabeled site information form, and a preliminary inventory form. The earliest dated document is from 1987.

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The results of archaeological research conducted as part of the Center for Desert Archaeology's (now Archaeology Southwest) San Pedro Preservation Project are presented in this volume. The fieldwork component of this project was conducted in the northern, or lower, San Pedro Valley from 1990 through 2001. Fieldwork included an extensive survey of the terraces overlooking the Lower San Pedro Valley floodplain (1990-1995). In the second phase of the project (1999-2001), test excavations were...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jerome Hesse. Adrienne Tremblay.

The cultural resources Class I Inventory consisted of a records review of the Roosevelt Lake flood control space. This study area falls within a larger area surrounding Roosevelt Lake that was the focus of Reclamation-sponsored cultural resources studies conducted from the mid-1970s through the 1990s as part of the Central Arizona Water Control Study Plan 6 environmental review and prescribed mitigation associated with increasing the height of the dam to its current height. Inventories conducted...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jim McKie. David L. Taylor.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Monument Hill Ruin, located on Prescott National Forest land. The site consists of multiple loci with two pueblos, a pit house hamlet, pictographs, sheet trash, a roasting pit, and associated artifacts. A historic fence runs through the prehistoric site. The file consists of a site data form, two site steward heritage inventory record forms, rock art photo logs, four pages of field notes, and 37 pages of pictograph drawings. The earliest dated...

PROJECT Andrea Gregory. USDI Bureau of Reclamation, Phoenix Area Office.

In accordance with the provisions of the 2004 Arizona Water Settlement Act, the Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) is assisting the Tohono O’odham Nation’s (Nation) San Xavier District’s (District) Farm Cooperative (CoOp) in developing new farm land along both sides of Interstate 19 (I-19), south of the existing CoOp fields. Previous investigations in the area included a survey in the mid-1980s by Cultural and Environmental Systems (Heuett 1987a), and survey and testing completed by...

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Between July 18 and August 15, 2005, SWCA Environmental Consultants conducted Phase II archaeological data recovery at AZ EE:1:145 (ASM), AZ EE:1:146 (ASM), and AZ EE:1:149 (ASM), on the Arizona School Facilities Board (ASFB) property in Rancho Sahuarita, Town of Sahuarita, Pima County, Arizona. The project was conducted through a contractual agreement with ASFB and AMEC Earth & Environmental, Inc., and the Phase II data recovery work plan and subsequent analysis and reportage subject to review...

PROJECT Christopher von Nagy. Mary Pohl.

Este proyecto de documentación del arte rupestre y muralismo medio formativo en el estado de Guerrero, México tiene el objetivo de creer una serie de imágenes de alta resolución además de imágenes compuestas y computacionales para facilitar estudios sobre la iconografía y la escritura temprana durante este período clave mesoamericano. Enfocamos en los sitios Oxtotitlán (Cerro Quiotepec), Juxtlahuaca, y Cahuaziziqui. This middle formative muralism and rock art documentation project in the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text M. Zyniecki.

The City of Phoenix sponsored a voluntary archaeological project at the proposed location of a new recreation building. The project area is within the large Hohokam village of Pueblo Viejo, AZ T:12:73(ASM). The village was occupied from the Colonial period through the Classic period and covers about 640 acres. Field work at the site was conducted between March 30 and April 14, 1992, by a crew of four. Post-excavation monitoring of utility trenches by a single archaeologist took place September...

DOCUMENT Full-Text William H. Doelle. Paul R. Fish.

The study of Tucson’s prehistory has been pursued with an unprecedented intensity in recent years, and it seemed essential that the new results that were emerging be shared on a broader basis. This volume is the outcome of papers prepared for the Second Tucson Basin Conference in conjunction with the 1986 fall meeting of the Arizona Archaeological Council.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Michael Foster.

KB Home of Phoenix, Arizona is planning the residential development of approximately 80.0 acres on the northern edge of the community of Casa Grande, Arizona. A previous archaeological survey of the parcel resulted in the identification of a single prehistoric Hohokam site, AZ AA:1:139 (ASM), in the northern half of the project area (Hart 2001). The site, which appears to extend beyond the boundary of the parcel, is described as an artifact scatter (ceramics and flaked stone) with a single...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Michael S. Foster. Ronald F. Ryden.

Sun Belt Holdings-Vistancia LLC is planning a 3,825-acre housing development (White Peak Ranch) on private land in Maricopa County, Arizona. A cultural resources survey identified 16 archaeological sites within the proposed development. Three sites, AZ T:3:128 (ASM), AZ T:3:281 (ASM), and AZ T:3:283 (ASM), were recommended as eligible under Criterion D for the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP), however, the ACOE, with the concurrence of the Arizona SHPO, recommended the sites be tested...