Ak Chin Archaeological Data Recovery Project

Part of: Central Arizona Project Archaeology on the Ak-Chin Indian Community

The Ak Chin Archaeological Data Recovery Project final report series includes the following volumes:

Volume I. Research Design

Volume ll. The Land and The People

Volume lll. The Archaeological Data Recovery Program

Volume IV. Material Cultural and Human Remains

Volume V. Subsistence Studies and Synthesis and Interpretation

Site Name Keywords
Watch Frog • Whimsy Flat • Beeth Ha-ha-a • Va-pak • Frog Pot • Painted Horse • AZ T:16:16(ASM) • AZ T:16:17(ASM) • AZ T:16:20(ASM) • AZ T:16:23(ASM)

Site Type Keywords
Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex • Settlements • Hamlet / Village • Domestic Structures • Funerary and Burial Structures or Features • Archaeological Feature • Artifact Scatter • Hearth • Roasting Pit / Oven / Horno

Other Keywords
Hohokam Agriculture • Hohokam • Ak-Chin Indian community, AZ • Agriculture Practices • Pollen • historic field

Culture Keywords
Hohokam • Historic • Historic Native American

Investigation Types
Data Recovery / Excavation • Site Evaluation / Testing • Environment Research • Bioarchaeological Research • Archaeological Overview • Research Design / Data Recovery Plan • Ethnohistoric Research • Historic Background Research • Geophysical Survey • Architectural Survey

Material Types
Ceramic • Ground Stone • Macrobotanical • Shell • Chipped Stone • Dating Sample • Fauna • Human Remains • Pollen • Wood

Temporal Keywords
Historic Period • Hohokam Classic period • Hohokam Colonial period • Protohistoric Period • Hohokam Pioneer period

Geographic Keywords
Arizona (State / Territory) • United States of America (Country) • Pinal County (County) • North America (Continent) • Vekol Valley Southern Arizona • Estrella Mountains • Sacaton Mountains • Ak-Chin Indian Community • US (ISO Country Code) • USA (Country)

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Ak-Chin Indian Community West Side Farms Data Recovery Project
  • Ak-Chin Indian Community West Side Farms Data Recovery Project
    PROJECT Cory Dale Breternitz. Robert E. Gasser. W. Bruce Masse. USDI Bureau of Reclamation, Phoenix Area Office.

    This project examined the cultural resources of the western half of the Ak Chin Community's lands prior to intensive agricultural development using waters from the Central Arizona Project. The project's research design assumed that Ak Chin had been used as a floodwater farming location for many centuries. The problem domains and research questions focused on the physical {geomorphological), biological, and cultural subsystems within the Ak Chin ecosystem. The investigation also considered the...

  • Archaeology of the Ak Chin Indian Community West Side Farms Project: Material Cultural and Human Remains (1990)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Lauren Jelinek

    This volume presents the artifactual and osteological remains recovered from the project area. This volume comprises five chapters, including analyses of shell artifacts, prehistoric and protohistoric ceramic artifacts, worked ceramic artifacts, chipped and ground stone, and an examination and interpretation of the human osteological material and mortuary practices.

  • Archaeology of the Ak Chin Indian Community West Side Farms Project: Research Design (1986)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text David A. Phillips. Cory Dale Breternitz.

    This volume describes the research orientation and methods used during the Ak Chin Archaeological Data Recovery Project. The project examined the cultural resources of the western half of the Ak Chin Community's lands, scheduled for intensive agricultural development using waters from the Central Arizona Project. The volume includes a discussion of the natural and cultural setting of the project area (Chapters 1 and 2), with an emphasis on the Hohokam and historic Papago occupation documented...

  • Archaeology of the Ak Chin Indian Community West Side Farms Project: Subsistence Studies and Synthesis and Interpretation (1990)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Lauren Jelinek

    This volume contains subsistence information derived from the Ak.-Chin Archaeological Project sites, and a synthesis and interpretation of the various data. It is divided into two sections: Subsistence Studies and Synthesis. Four chapters provide the results of macrobotanical studies, pollen analysis, faunal analysis, and a synthesis of the subsistence studies. The Synthesis section includes two chapters. The first is an examination of the protohistoric Ak-Chin people; the second chapter places...

  • Archaeology of the Ak Chin Indian Community West Side Farms Project: The Archaeological Data Recovery Program (1990)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Lauren Jelinek

    This volume contains descriptive data for the major Hohokam, protohistoric, and historic sites investigated during the Ak Chin Farms Data Recovery project. It contains six chapters. It includes a chronological review of settlement patterns for the Ak-Chin area, in-depth reports on sites Va-Pak (AZ T:16:85 [ASM]), Beeth Ha-ha-a (AZ T:16:83n5 [ASM]), Watch Frog (AZ T:16:16 [ASM]), and Whimsy Flat (AZ T:16:71 [ASM]), as well as an examination of the historic period sites in the projket area. The...

  • Archaeology of the Ak Chin Indian Community West Side Farms Project: The Land and the People (1990)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Robert E. Gasser. Christine K. Robinson. Cory Dale Breternitz. Soil Systems, Inc..

    This volume presents an overview of the project area through environmental, geomorpological, and historical studies. The chapters contained herein represent only one aspect of the Ak-Chin Archaeological Project, which involved data recovery at 31 prehistoric, protohistoric, and historic sites. Four other volumes in the series provide the research design, reports on the sites studied, interpretations of the material culture and human remains from the sites, subsistence information derived from...