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DOCUMENT Full-Text Matt Bischoff.

With the German Afrika Korps driving across the North African desert with impunity in 1941 and 1942, the U.S. Army realized that it might be called upon to assist its British ally in the fight against the Germans and Italians. Egypt, along with the strategic Suez Canal and the Middle East in general, was in danger of being lost to the Axis powers. It became imperative that the Axis be expelled from North Africa. The U.S. Army, however, had never fought a large-scale war in a desert environment....

DOCUMENT Full-Text Matt Bischoff.

With the German Afrika Korps driving across the North African desert with impunity in 1941 and 1942, the U.S. Army realized that it might be called upon to assist its British ally in the fight against the Germans and Italians. Egypt, along with the strategic Suez Canal and the Middle East in general, were in danger of being lost to the Axis powers. It became imperative that the Axis be expelled from North Africa. The U.S. Army, however, had never fought a large-scale war in a desert environment....

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This document is the second of four volumes presenting the results of a two-phase data recovery program conducted by Statistical Research, Inc. (SRI), at 29 prehistoric sites and segments of 2 historical-period roads—Reno Road and the old Bush Highway—along a 25-mile-long segment of State Route 87 (SR 87, or the Beeline Highway), between Saguaro Lake Road and the Gila County Line. A fourth volume presents the findings of a study of the historical-period roads within the project area performed by...

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Archaeological data recovery was undertaken by Statistical Research, Inc., at the site of El Macayo (AZ EE:9:107 [ASM]), a prehistoric village located on land occupied by the Santa Cruz County Complex in Nogales, Arizona. Fieldwork was conducted by a crew of four archaeologists and a physical anthropologist under the direction of William L. Deaver between April 16 and May 23, 1996. By the end of 28 days of fieldwork, 177 features had been exposed, identified, and mapped. Of these 177 features,...

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Antelope Hill (AZ X:8:7 [ASM]) is a well-known archaeological site in the lower Gila River valley. The hill has been used as a quarry for milling implements and many of its boulders are covered in petroglyphs. In response to a 500-year flood event, the Wellton-Mohawk Irrigation and Drainage District (WMIDD) proposed to use its quarry at Antelope Hill to supply rock to repair damaged water-control devices along the Gila River. This undertaking required a permit from the U.S. Army Corps of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Robert A. Heckman. Barbara K. Montgomery. Stephanie M. Whittlesey.

Statistical Research, Inc., was contracted in 1996 by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to perform a variety of tasks pertinent to collections of prehistoric ceramics from archaeological work conducted on Fort Huachuca Military Reservation located in southeastern Arizona. The bulk of the contract consisted of two tasks—teaching a class on the ceramics and prehistory of southeastern Arizona and preparing a guide to prehistoric pottery found at sites in this region of the American Southwest. The...

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This document is the first of three volumes presenting the results of a two-phase data recovery program conducted by Statistical Research, Inc. (SRI), at 29 prehistoric sites and segments of 2 historical-period roads—Reno Road and the old Bush Highway—along a 25-mile-long segment of State Route 87 (SR 87, or the Beeline Highway), between Saguaro Lake Road and the Gila County Line. A fourth volume presents the findings of a study of the historical-period roads within the project area performed by...

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Data recovery at Sunset Mesa Ruin, AZ AA:12:10 (ASM), uncovered a segment of a single-component Rincon phase settlement dating between A.D. 1000 and 1100, as well as the remains of a turn-of-the-century adobe homestead. Excavations were confined to a 7,500-m2 area in the northwestern corner of the site, primarily within the proposed Corps of Engineers overbank protection area along the Rillito River. The prehistoric component consisted of a discrete residential cluster of five pit houses that...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Donn Grenda.

This report presents the results of data recovery at the archaeological site of Yukaipa’t (CA-SBR-1000 ). The site is located at an elevation ranging from approximately 2,150 feet (655.3 m) to 2,170 feet (661.4 m) above mean sea level (AMSL) on the crest of a small north-south ridge above Chicken Springs Wash in San Bernardino County, California. The work was conducted by Statistical Research, Inc. (SRI), in response to a proposed realignment of Avenue E. SRI’s investigations began in April...

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The following report presents the results of archaeological testing and data recovery at the Houghton Road site (AZ BB:13:398 [ASM]). These investigations provide important new insights into a virtually unknown time in Tucson Basin prehistory. The Houghton Road site represents a seasonally or semipermanently occupied hamlet that dates primarily to the Plain Ware horizon, the first period of Formative culture in southern Arizona. Excavations at the Houghton Road Site (AZ BB:13:398) add to the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Rein Vanderpot. Teresita Majewski.

In the Spring of 1994, Statistical Research, Inc., conducted an archaeological study of the Apache scouts at Fort Huachuca. The project was completed under contract with Fort Huachuca and funded by a Legacy Resource Management Program grant awarded to Fort Huachuca by the Department of Defense. Most of the investigations focused on AZ EE:7:115 (ASM), a site comprising three distinct components: (1) a small, Formative- period prehistoric component; (2) a turn-of-the-century trash dump; and (3)...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Donn R. Grenda. Christopher J. Doolittle. Jeffrey Altschul.

This report documents data recovery excavations at CA-ORA-116 (ORA-116), a late Intermediate-period (1050 B.C.–A.D. 600) prehistoric site situated near the head of upper Newport Bay, overlooking San Joaquin Marsh, in Orange County, California. Statistical Research, Inc., conducted this project under contract with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Los Angeles District, which was under contract with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to ensure compliance with the National Historic Preservation...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Joseph A. Ezzo. William L. Deaver.

In August 1995, Statistical Research, Inc., performed data recovery on an area approximately 3,200 m2 at AZ AA: 12:503 (ASM), a Late Archaic period site in the northern Tucson Basin. The site is located on a parcel of land owned by Waste Management of Southern Arizona, and the project was undertaken in response to the plans of Waste Management to construct a new southern Arizona headquarters. Three of the four stratigraphic units defined at the site yielded cultural features. One hundred...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Matthew A. Sterner.

This report details construction monitoring of AZ BB: 13:445 (ASM) and data recovery on discovered features by Statistical Research, Inc. (SRI). The site includes portions of two city blocks, known as historic Blocks 406 and 451 (based on designations used on Sanborn Fire Insurance maps), known to have been occupied since at least 1902. The project area was being prepared for the construction of the Main Gate Center office complex and accompanying multilevel parking facility. Following an...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Donn Grenda.

This report documents data recovery excavations at the Elsinore site (CA-RIV-2798/H) which is located at the mouth of the outlet channel on the northeast side of Lake Elsinore, Riverside County, California. The project was conducted by Statistical Research, Inc., under contract with the Los Angeles District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in order to mitigate the adverse effects caused by the construction of an enlarged outflow channel. Lake Elsinore is one of the only natural lakes in southern...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Carla R. Van West. Mark T. Swanson. Jeffrey Altschul.

This Cultural Resource Management Plan (CRMP) describes Fort Huachuca's legal responsibility for management of its cultural resources and summarizes what is known about its archaeological and historical-period properties. As of the fall of 1994, 343 prehistoric and historical-period components occurring as 315 reported archaeological sites have been recorded on Fort Huachuca. Two hundred and fifty-one components are prehistoric, 92 are historical period, and 28 are dual prehistoric-historical...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Donn R. Grenda. Deborah W. Gray.

TThis report presents the results of testing at archaeological sites CA-RIV-653/H and CA-RIV-1098, historic properties eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). These are 2 of 22 prehistoric archaeological sites in the Prado Flood Control Basin, Riverside County, California. RIV-653 is a multicomponent site, noteworthy both for its prehistoric component and its historical-period component, the Bandini Cota adobe. RIV-1098 is directly east of RIV-653; the 2 sites...

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This report details the results of archival research and archaeological testing and data recovery on the historical Block 180 of the original townsite of Tucson. This work was conducted by Statistical Research, Inc., for the Pima County Facilities Management Department due to the planned construction of the Pima County Public Works Center and YMCA complex on the block. The investigations uncovered extensive evidence of human occupation of the block from the prehistoric Hohokam to the historical...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jeffrey Altschul. Joan S. Schneider. Christopher J. Doolittle.

Antelope Hill (AZ X:8:7 ASM) is a well-known archaeological site in the lower Gila River valley. The hill is located approximately 50 km east of Yuma, Arizona, on the southern terraces of the Gila River. As early as the late 1920s, the various prehistoric and historic cultural elements of the prominent landform had already been recorded by archaeologists. But even prior to this time, explorers had visited or heard tales of the hill beginning with Father Garces in 1775. Both the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Joseph A. Ezzo.

This document constitutes a Class I cultural resources survey of lands situated adjacent to the Overton Arm of Lake Mead and the Muddy and Virgin Rivers in Clark County, Nevada. Reclamation Instructions 376.11 require that Reclamation maintain a record of cultural resources on lands that it owns, acquires, or withdraws from public use. A Class I cultural resources survey, which is primarily a literature and records search, is the first step in this process. A Class I cultural resources survey...

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The Garden Canyon site (AZ EE: 11: 13 ASM) is located in the middle San Pedro River valley in southeast Arizona on lands administered by Fort Huachuca. The site's significance is well known, perhaps best exemplified by its listing in 1974 on the National Register of Historic Places. Although three major excavation efforts have been conducted on the site, prior to this contract, a systematic analysis of the recovered artifacts had never been conducted. In 1993, Statistical Research, Inc. (SRI),...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Joseph A. Ezzo.

Statistical Research, Inc., assisted the Southern Nevada Water Authority by providing the environmental analysis needed to comply with the requirements of Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act. Southern Nevada Water Authority proposed to construct and operate a new water-treatment and transmission facility to supply additional Colorado River water from Lake Mead to the Las Vegas Valley. The project is located entirely within Clark County, Nevada, and comprises four primary...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Carla R Van West. Edgar K. Huber.

This document presents Statistical Research's (SRI) data recovery plan for archaeological investigations of 11 prehistoric sites that will be impacted by the construction of the Fence Lake Transportation Corridor-Arizona. The project area extends east from the Coronado Generating Station north of St. Johns, Apache County, Arizona to .the New Mexico border (Figure 1-1). The transportation corridor right-of-way traverses private and state land north of Carrizo Wash, a major tributary to the Little...

DOCUMENT Full-Text John M. Foster. Gwendolyn R. Romani. A. George Toren. R. Paul Hampson. Vicki L. Solheid.

Since 1985, the Los Angeles District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (CoE) has been planning improvements to Prado Dam and the Prado Flood Control Basin. Federal involvement in such undertakings invokes the Section 106 consultation process of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) of 1966 (as amended) to consider project effects upon significant cultural resources. As part of the planning and consultation process, the CoE has sponsored several investigations to identify and evaluate...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Donn R. Grenda.

This report presents the results of data recovery at archaeological site CA-RIV-2804 (hereafter referred to as RIV-2804), a historic property eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). The site is located at an elevation ranging from 499 feet (152.1 m) to 512 feet (156.1 m) above mean sea level (AMSL) on the crest of a small ridge above Mill Creek, in the Prado Flood Control Basin, Riverside County, California. The work was conducted by Statistical Research, Inc....

DOCUMENT Full-Text Mark T. Swanson.

This report, prepared for the Naval Air Weapons Station at Point Mugu, Ventura County, California, explores the historical development of the Mugu Lagoon area from the time of Spanish exploration to the advent of American involvement in World War II. The report provides historical context for the 27 historic archaeological sites, 50 years of age or greater, that have been identified so far on the military installation. Some post-World War II developments are also briefly traced in order to...

DOCUMENT Full-Text William L. Deaver. Jeffrey Altschul.

This document presents the results of a cultural resources survey of approximately 1,500 acres within the Florence Military Reservation (FMR) and adjoining State Trust Lands held in a special !and use permit (SLP) for military training exercises in Pinal County, Arizona. The project area is located north by northeast of Florence along U.S. 89). In addition to nine firing points, approximately 9.6 km of access roads were surveyed by Statistical Research, Inc. (SRI). A records check at the Arizona...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jeffrey A. Homburg. Jeffrey Altschul. Rein Vanderpot.

In 1989, 1992, and 1994, Statistical Research, Inc., conducted sample surveys of the three proposed helicopter gunnery ranges on the extreme northeast corner of the Barry M. Goldwater Range. The survey was completed for the Western Air Reserve National Guard under a contract with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Los Angeles District. Approximately 15,000 acres were surveyed in all; a total of 130 archaeological sites was recorded. One hundred six of these were prehistoric, and 24 were historic....

DOCUMENT Full-Text Joseph A. Ezzo.

As cultural resource consultants to the Bureau of Reclamation's Lower Colorado Regional Office, Statistical Research Inc. conducted a Class II noncollection archaeological and ethnographic survey of 3,100 acres in the Quien Sabe/Big Maria Terrace region of Riverside County, California. The survey covered 20 percent of lands managed by Reclamation in this region. Six parcels of land, blocks, or survey were selected for survey on the basis of previous investigations and the potential these areas...

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The papers in this volume—an outgrowth of the symposium presented at the 59th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology—reflect the growing interest in the prehistory and protohistory of this area, which is perhaps the most poorly understood region in the greater American Southwest. They further reflect an increasing concern on the part of archaeologists, Native Americans, and federal land managers regarding modern human activity that has adversely impacted many of the cultural...

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This report presents the results of archaeological data recovery and analysis for the Archer site, AZ P:4:22 (ASM), located on the north bank of the Little Colorado River, near Holbrook, Arizona. The work was conducted by Statistical Research, Inc. (SRI), to mitigate the adverse impacts of building an earthen levee on and adjacent to the site. The proposed levee is a water-control feature that is intended to protect the residents of Holbrook from periodic flooding of the Little Colorado River....

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The Roosevelt Rural Sites Study (RRSS) was one of three data recovery mitigative studies that the Bureau of Reclamation funded to investigate the prehistory of the Tonto Basin in the vicinity of Theodore Roosevelt Dam. The series of investigations constituted Reclamation's program for complying with historic preservation legislation as it applied to the raising and modification of Theodore Roosevelt Dam. Reclamation contracted with Statistical Research, Inc., to conduct this study. The RRSS...

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The Roosevelt Rural Sites Study (RRSS) was one of three data recovery mitigative studies that the Bureau of Reclamation funded to investigate the prehistory of the Tonto Basin in the vicinity of Theodore Roosevelt Dam. The series of investigations constituted Reclamation's program for complying with historic preservation legislation as it applied to the raising and modification of Theodore Roosevelt Dam. Reclamation contracted with Statistical Research, Inc., to conduct this study. The RRSS...

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The Roosevelt Rural Sites Study (RRSS) was one of three data recovery mitigative studies that the Bureau of Reclamation funded to investigate the prehistory of the Tonto Basin in the vicinity of Theodore Roosevelt Dam. The series of investigations constituted Reclamation's program for complying with historic preservation legislation as it applied to the raising and modification of Theodore Roosevelt Dam. Reclamation contracted with Statistical Research, Inc., to conduct this study. The RRSS...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Mark T. Swanson. David De Vries.

TThe Southern California Edison Company Santa Aria River Hydroelectric System, which is located within the Area of Potential Effects of the Seven Oaks Dam Project, has been determined eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps), in consultation with the State Historic Preservation Officer. Powerhouse No. 1 of this system is located outside the project area and will suffer no direct impacts. Powerhouse No. 2 is located at...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Stephanie M. Whittlesey. Richard Ciolek-Torello. Matthew A. Sterner.

This report presents an overview of the prehistoric and historic archaeological resources in the proposed Western Army National Guard Aviation Training site (WAATS) in south-central Arizona prepared for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Los Angeles District (COE). The purpose of this overview was to provide WAATS with a Class I Survey representing the initial step in the assessment of potential impacts to cultural resources in this large region as a result of helicopter over flights and landings...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jeffrey Altschul. Marie Cottrell. Clement W. Meighan. Ronald H. Towner.

This report presents the results of rock art recording and analysis, and archaeological test excavations in two small rockshelters on the Fort Huachuca military reservation in southeastern Arizona. The sites were investigated as part of the Legacy Resource Management Program Demonstration Project #21 under the auspices of the Department of Defense, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Los Angeles District. The Garden Canyon Pictograph Site (AA EE:11:15, ASM) and Rappell Cliffs Rockshelter (AZ...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Joseph A. Ezzo. Jeffrey Altschul.

The focus of this volume is the lower Colorado River valley, one of the least understood regions of the American Southwest. After over 50 years of archaeological research, the lower Colorado River remains a mystery. No major prehistoric habitation site has been located, presumably because they have all been destroyed by the river. Consequently, even the rudiments of culture history remain to be worked out. When did people arrive in the area? What did they live on? How did culture evolve in this...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Mark T. Swanson.

This report documents the historical development of sheep ranching on San Nicolas Island, the most distant of the Channel Islands off the coast of southern California. Sheep ranching commenced in the mid-1800s and was terminated during the 1940s. During this period, local sheep ranching was oriented around three different loci. The first was a ranch operation established by Martin Kimberly and situated around Corral Harbor. Ranching at this site lasted from the 1850s to around 1890. During the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Donn R. Grenda.

In May and June, 1992, Statistical Research conducted a cultural resource survey of approximately 1,260 acres of land owned by the U.S. Army, in Bellemont, Arizona. The survey was performed for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Los Angeles District. The project areas are used by the military as training/bivouac sites and were not randomly selected for survey. The survey was conducted on two separate occasions by a crew of 4-5 including the project director. The field work documented four...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jeffrey Altschul. Sylvia Lindsay.

This report consists of three parts and documents Statistical Research, Inc.’s (SRI’s) work at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base (D-M AFB). Results of an intensive Class II archaeological survey of 4,675 acres at the base are presented in Part 1, Life Away from the River. The surveyed areas represent about 45 percent of the total air base and nearly 66 percent of all non-developed land at D-M AFB. Eight sites and 139 non-sites and isolated occurrences were recorded during the survey, ranging in age...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Rein Vanderpot. Jeffrey Altschul. Donn R. Grenda.

This report details the results of archaeological test excavations conducted in August, 1991, by Statistical Research, Inc., at the Whelan Lake site (CA-SDI 6010). Whelan Lake is an early La Jollan campsite dating between 6500 and 7400 B.P. The site is a moderately dense shell midden situated on a knoll overlooking the San Luis Rey River about 7 km upstream from the coast. The midden has a roughly oval shape and measures 90 m by 60 m. Over 200 m of backhoe trenches and 17 m 2 of test pits were...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Mark T. Swanson.

An archaeological investigation of the historic black settlement at Mobile, Arizona was conducted in November 1991. This investigation was conceived by Pat H. Stein and Bruce Jones, of the Arizona State Historic Preservation Office and Statistical Research, respectively. The work was performed by Mark T. Swanson. This work has been funded with the assistance of a matching grant-in-aid from the Department of the Interior, National Park Service, under provisions of the National Historic...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Stephanie M. Whittlesey.

The following report presents the results of archaeological data recovery carried out at two Kayenta Anasazi sites, AZ 1:1:15 (ASM) and AZ 1:1:24 (ASM), located at Lee Canyon in the Upper Basin, Coconino County, Arizona. The work was conducted in response to a realignment of State Route 64 by the Arizona Department of Transportation. During archaeological testing by Statistical Research, Inc., masonry structures and agricultural features at the two sites were located, suggesting the potential to...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Karen G. Harry. Richard Ciolek-Torello.

This report presents the results of a National Register evaluation of eight archaeological sites along the Rillito River in Tucson, Arizona. These sites were investigated at the request of the U.S. Army, Corps of Engineers in conjunction with a proposed channelization project along the river. One of the sites, AZ BB:9:689, has since been obscured by the channelization of Wildwood Wash by the Pima County Flood Control District. This site was monitored by SRI archaeologists during the construction...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jeffrey Altschul. Jeffrey A. Homburg. Richard Ciolek-Torello.

The Admiralty site (CA-LAn-47) lies at the edge of the historic Ballona Lagoon. Situated between the mouths of Ballona and Centinela creeks and the Pacific Ocean, the region known as the Ballona was a sheltered environment that hosted a diverse array of terrestrial and aquatic plants and animals. The seasonal rhythms of the lagoon marched in harmony with the never-ending tug-of-war between the ebb and flow of the oceanic tides and the freshwater emptied from the mouths of rivers and streams....

DOCUMENT Full-Text Karen G. Harry.

This document presents the results of data recovery investigations at CA-KER-140, a siliceous quarry in the Fremont Valley of the western Mojave Desert. These investigations involved two major research goals. The first goal was to better understand how the quarry was used, and what its role was in the prehistoric adaptive system of the valley. The second goal had to do with assessing a recently introduced dating technique, rock varnish cation-ratio analyses. The data indicate that CA-KER-140...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Stephanie M. Whittlesey. Richard Ciolek-Torello.

This report presents the results of archaeological data recovery in a portion of a small Colonial period farmstead or hamlet, AZ DD:7:22 (ASM), located along the existing 100-foot-wide right-of-way (ROW) of Arivaca Road about 1 km east of the townsite of Arivaca. The site is projected to be impacted by planned road improvements by the Pima County Department of Transportation and Flood Control District, in cooperation with the Arizona Department of Transportation. Data recovery involved the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Rein Vanderpot.

This report presents the results of an archaeological survey of an 150-acre parcel for a proposed Immigration and Naturalization Services (INS) facility near Florence, Arizona, and a testing program at AZ U:15:171, a site found within this parcel during preliminary survey. The project area is located on a slightly sloping alluvial terrace between 1 and 2 km north of the Gila River. Numerous minor drainages dissect this terrace environment, creating a system of irregularly shaped low ridges....

DOCUMENT Full-Text Bruce A. Jones. Richard Ciolek-Torello.

This report details the results of a cultural resource inventory by Statistical Research, Inc. (SRI) of 2,880 acres of State of Arizona and Pima County land in the Colossal Cave area in the southeastern portion of the Tucson Basin. The survey located and recorded a total of 24 sites and 55 isolated finds. Thirteen of the sites represent prehistoric activity loci including 7 artifact scatters, 6 stone quarries, 2 rockshelters, and 2 stationary grinding features. The function of the artifact...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Mark T. Swanson. Jeffrey Altschul.

This report covers the cultural resource investigations conducted in the area of the proposed parking lot, service roads, and walkways scheduled to be built at the Yuma Quartermaster Depot, AZ X:6:12 (ASM), in Yuma, Arizona. In addition to a surface survey of the impact area, 33 backhoe trenches were excavated within the project area, which was divided into low- and high-probability areas based on the location of cultural properties identified from a series of nineteenth- and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jeffrey Altschul. Richard Ciolek-Torello. Jeffrey A. Homburg. Mark T. Swanson.

The Playa Vista Archaeological and Historical Project is a multi-step comprehensive approach designed to achieve compliance with applicable Municipal, State, and Federal laws and regulations protecting cultural resources. This document represents the first step: the completion of a project specific research design that presents current knowledge of the cultural resources in the project area and outlines future steps to mitigate potential impacts of the proposed project. To complete the research...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard Ciolek-Torello. Jeffrey A. Homburg.

This volume presents the results of two archaeological surveys conducted by Statistical Research for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Los Angeles District, in what is known in planning circles as the Rillito Corridor. When Statistical Research began these studies, we quickly realized that the Rillito Corridor was one of the most surveyed areas in southern Arizona. Several comprehensive overviews of the culture history of the area were available, but despite this microscopic attention, no...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Bruce A. Jones.

In April and November, 1989, Statistical Research conducted a cultural resource survey of nearly 4,000 acres of land owned by the State of Arizona in Mohave, Yavapai and La Paz counties. The field reconnaissance documented 16 archaeological sites consisting of artifact scatters, trails, rock features, rock art and stationary grinding-features. The non-random survey strategy was based on a stratified sample of 640 acre-study units in the Hualapai and Aquarius Mountains, the Big Sandy Valley and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Bruce A. Jones. Jeffrey Altschul. Ruth Van Dyke.

In October and November, 1989, Statistical Research conducted an intensive cultural resources survey of approximately 2,400 acres at Alamo Reservoir under contract to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (COE). The field reconnaissance documented 29 archaeological sites consisting of lithic quarries, artifact scatters, trails, rock features, and mining-related activities. An embedded concept of numerous activities occurring as a consequence of seasonal foraging was apparently utilized by...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jeffrey Altschul.

The results of a program of archaeological survey and test excavations at the Surprise Spring site (CA-SBr-424) are presented. The site is located on the U.S. Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms, California. The springs are formed by tectonic activity along a ridge immediately east of the site. Prior to 1941, the springs flowed above ground. Continual pumping of water has dropped the water table to around 250 feet below surface, thereby suppressing the springs. The area...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jeffrey Altschul. Bruce A. Jones.

The results of an 8,600-acre survey on the Fort Huachuca Military Reservation are presented. This survey was conducted as part of a larger inventory project, which in total encompassed 12,000 acres of the 73,000-acre fort. The report focuses on two objectives: presenting the descriptive results of the 8,600-acre survey and integrating the results from all surveys conducted on Fort Huachuca into a predictive model of prehistoric site location. The survey design had three main components. First,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jeffrey Altschul. Bruce A. Jones.

From June to September 1989, Statistical Research conducted a non-collection Class II cultural resources survey of 5,200 acres within the R2301W segment of the Barry M. Goldwater Range in Yuma County, Arizona. The areas targeted for survey conformed to topographic surfaces on which archaeologists had found sites in the past. These areas were concentrated in the Baker Peaks and northern Copper Mountain regions as well as the eastern flanks of the Tinajas Altas and Gila Mountain ranges. The...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard Ciolek-Torello. Bruce A. Jones. Robert G. Graham.

This report presents results of an archaeological testing program at two archaeological sites east of Holbrook and a historic evaluation of approximately 50 standing structures in the Perkins Addition of Holbrook, Arizona. The work is the result of plans by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to construct a levee in response to periodic flooding of the town by the Little Colorado River. In the course of the testing program, three components were identified at each of the archaeological sites, and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jeffrey Altschul. William C. Johnson. Matthew A. Sterner.

The Deep Creek site (CA-SBr-176) lies at a confluence. Even a cursory analysis suggests the strategic importance of this location. Environmentally, the area is an ecotone between the mountains and desert. Although lying on the edge of the desert, obtaining water would have been of little concern, for both Deep Creek and the Mojave River generally flow above ground at this juncture year-round. Culturally, the area is located on a point which must be passed by all who use the Mojave River as a...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jeffrey Altschul. Helen C. Fairley.

The region encompassing the land north and west of the Colorado River in the State of Arizona is the subject of this Class I cultural resources overview. This region, commonly referred to as the Arizona Strip, contains approximately 3.5 million acres, of which 2.75 million acres are administered by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), 650,000 acres are under the jurisdiction of the USDA Forest Service, and the balance is controlled by various State and Federal agencies, Indian tribes, and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Matthew A. Sterner.

The following document presents the results of an archival search and archaeological testing program conducted by Statistical Research under contract with the City of Yuma, Office of Community Development (Purchase Order No. 12654). The purpose of the investigation was to identify and evaluate cultural resources which exist on 12 city-owned properties in the downtown Yuma area. These lots include parcels 32A, 21A, and 23B on city block 11 (the 100 block between Main St. and Madison Ave.),...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Steven D. Shelley. Jeffrey Altschul.

The results of data recovery conducted for the Bureau of Reclamation, Lower Colorado Region at six prehistoric sites in the Hart Mine and Cibola Quarry areas are presented in this report. The Bureau of Reclamation plans to use the Hart Mine and Cibola Quarry areas to mine rip-rap for use along the Colorado River. The project area is located at the base of the Trigo mountains about 20 miles south of Ehrenberg, Arizona. Three of the sites are composed primarily of lithic debitage and cores. These...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Altschul Jeffrey H.. Richard Ciolek-Torello. Jerome Schaefer.

A research design for the phased inventory of cultural resources on the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center at Twentynine Palms, California, is presented. The survey design is oriented around a series of research questions pertinent to current studies of prehistoric and historic cultures of the eastern Mojave Desert. For prehistoric periods, these questions focus on cultural chronology, paleoecological reconstruction, and settlement and subsistence. Ethnohistoric research questions revolve...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jeffrey Altschul.

Results of an intensive archaeological survey of 4,675 acres at Davis-Monthan AFB are presented in this report. The surveyed areas represent about 45 percent of the total airbase and nearly 66 percent of all non-developed land at Davis-Monthan AFB. The intensity of the survey varied over the base. Areas of proposed development were inventoried completely as were undisturbed portions of the base. Remaining areas were sampled through a systematic survey design. Eight sites and 139 non-sites and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text David Gregory.

During July and August of 1987, Statistical Research, Inc., conducted a cultural resources survey of approximately 2,400 acres, located in and around Alamo Dam and Reservoir and within the property administered by the Los Angeles District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. During the survey, 44 archaeological sites and 8 isolated, non-site occurrences of cultural materials were discovered and recorded. Other environmental data relevant to the interpretation of cultural resources within the study...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jeffrey Altschul. Steven D. Shelley.

During January of 1987, Statistical Research conducted a Class II cultural resources survey, for the Bureau of Reclamation, Lower Colorado Region, of approximately 5,330 acres composed of 14 discrete parcels near the towns of Wellton and Tacna, Arizona. Approximately 25.2 percent of the project area was surveyed using a combination of judgmental and random transects. The judgmental sample concentrated on areas thought to have the highest probability of containing sites. A 15 percent random...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jeffrey Altschul. Steven D. Shelley.

A cultural resources inventory of eight de-activated Titan Missile silos was conducted by Statistical Research at the request of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Los Angeles District. The missile silos were dispersed throughout the greater Tucson area. Each silo consisted of approximately 10 acres. Only one silo, silo 13, contained any evidence of cultural resources. Silo 13, located at the northern end of the Avra Valley, is situated on a narrow ridge overlooking the Brawley Wash floodplain....

DOCUMENT Full-Text Steven D. Shelley. Jeffrey Altschul.

During October and November of 1986, Statistical Research conducted a cultural resources survey and archival search for the Los Angeles District, Corps of Engineers for a proposed flood control project along Nogales Wash and Potrero Creek, near the city of Nogales, Arizona. This work was to expand upon a literature search and field inspection conducted by New World Research, Inc. (Phillips and Swann 1984). Two of the finds recorded by Phillips and Swann (1984) were investigated through a...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jeffrey Altschul. Steven D. Shelley.

The Gila Land Disposal Cultural Resources Survey is a Class II survey of approximately 5,330 acres. The project area is located approximately 15 miles west of Yuma, Arizona, near the towns of Wellton and Tacna, Arizona. The project is designed to locate, describe and evaluate cultural resources on several parcels of land, prior to their disposal by the Bureau of Reclamation. The Project Area lies south of the Gila River in a region which averages between two to four inches of rain per year,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jeffrey Altschul. Steven D. Shelley.

Limited archaeological testing and archival research was conducted on three cultural resources located along Mission Creek in Riverside County, California. All three resources are located on land formerly belonging to the Mission Creek Indian Reservation. Two of the resources, the Kitchen/Thomas settlement complex and a subterranean stone structure, were occupied by former residents of the reservation during the early portion of the twentieth century. The third resource, CA-RIV-269, consists of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jeffrey Altschul.

Limited archaeological testing and archival research was conducted on three cultural resources located along Mission Creek in Riverside County, California. All three resources are located on land formerly belonging to the Mission Creek Indian Reservation. Two of the resources, the Kitchen/Thomas settlement complex and a subterranean stone structure, were occupied by former residents of the reservation during the early portion of the twentieth century. The third resource, CA-RIV-269, consists of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jeffrey Altschul. Martin R. Rose.

The San Xavier Archaeological Project conducted an intensive survey of more than 18 square miles in the southern portion of the Tucson Basin. In all, 150 sites were recorded, of which 147 dated at least in part to either the prehistoric or protohistoric periods. One of the primary goals of the project was to determine the types of sites located in the project area and to examine the relationships between the various site types. Traditionally, archaeologists define site types from surface data on...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jeffrey Altschul. Martin R. Rose. Michael K. Lerch.

Between April and June of 1985, Statistical Research conducted a cultural resources survey of approximately 1,000 acres and a limited site-relocation program in the Mojave River Forks Reservoir, San Bernardino County, California, for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Los Angeles District. Prior to the fieldwork, a documents search identified 17 previously recorded or reported prehistoric sites, 2 historic properties, and 1 isolated prehistoric artifact in the study area. During the survey, 17...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jeffrey Altschul. Martin R. Rose.

During the course of the San Xavier Archaeological Project over 18 square miles in the southern Tucson Basin were intensively surveyed. This work resulted in the recording of 150 sites, of which 147 contained components dated to either the prehistoric or protohistoric periods. In a previous study (Altschul and Rose, Statistical Research Technical Series 3) block cluster analysis was used to derive a site classification. Each site with a prehistoric and/or protohistoric component was classified...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jeffrey Altschul. Martin R. Rose. Michael K. Lerch.

Between July and October of 1984, Statistical Research, Inc., conducted a cultural resources overview and limited field checks of six proposed reservoirs and associated borrow sites in the Upper Santa Ana River Drainage. The proposed areas of impact are dispersed throughout the San Bernardino Valley, covering portions of both San Bernardino and Riverside Counties, California. Although each area is relatively small, in combination they touch on most areas of the San Bernardino Valley. Thus,...