DOCUMENT Full-Text Legacies on the Landscape Project, Arizona State University.

Chronometric dates obtained from excavations on Perry Mesa (after Fierro et al. 1980:259; Gummerman et al. 1975:31)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Randall H. McGuire.

The nature of Hohokam social organization has always been at the core of debates surrounding the prehistory of southern Arizona. Changing theoretical perspectives have shifted the directions and foci of controversy but the differences in these orientations can largely be described in terms of the assumptions made about social organization. A continuing thread to the arguments has been disagreement over the nature of power relationships in Hohokam society and the importance of such relationships...

DOCUMENT Full-Text K. J. Schroeder.

The Deem Hills Chert & Chalcedony Quarry, AZ T:8:8(PGM), is located in the Deem Hills of northwestern Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona. The site is a prehistoric quarry, exhibiting the exploitation patterns of chert and chalcedony toolstone by the prehistoric populations that first entered the foothills area west, northwest, north, northeast, and east of the Lower Salt River Valley (LSRV) This area is known as the Northern Periphery. The historical background of the site’s discovery is first...

DOCUMENT Full-Text G. Richard Scott. Edward F. Harris.

The skeletal series recovered from Casas Grandes, Chihuahua is described and compared to samples of living Papago, Hopi, and Navajo Indians for several non-metrical dental traits (incisor shoveling, canine tuberculum dentale, maxillary molar hypocone, Carabelli's Trait, mandibular molar cusp pattern protostylid, cusp 6, cusp 7, and mandibular premolar lingual cusp number). To quantify the biological relationships between these groups Smith and Berry's mean measure of divergence (Berry, 1968) is...

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Archaeological test excavations were conducted for Desert Mountain Properties, Inc. in north Scottsdale, Arizona. Testing was conducted at nine prehistoric sites, AZ U:1:132, U:1:148, U:1:149, U:1:150, U:1:153, U:1:154, U:1:168, U:1:169, and U:1:170 (ASM). The sites included two field house loci (U:1:132 and U:1:148), three artifact scatters (U:1:149, U:1:153, U:1:170), one artifact scatter with rock features (U:1:154) and three rock-feature agricultural fields (U:1:150, U:1:168, U:1:169). Two...

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This is the introduction to the Roosevelt Platform Mound Studies. The Roosevelt Platform Mound Study investigated the physical and social organization of three Classic period community complexes in the Tonto Basin of Arizona known as Pinto Creek, Cline Terrace, and Rock Island. The data were collected from the investigation of 79 prehistoric sites arranged in three clusters within the Tonto Basin. There are many other sites not examined by the investigations described in this series of...

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The Roosevelt Platform Mound Study (RPMS) was one of three mitigative data recovery 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 the Arizona State University Office of Cultural Resource...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Alaina Harmon

This monograph is a collection of papers presented at the 1991 Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans. These papers present preliminary results after two years of work on the eight year mitigation program investigating Salado Platform Mound Villages in the Tonto Basin, Arizona. Each paper constitutes an individual chapter. They include: 1. Introduction 2. Pursuing Southwestern Social Complexity in the 1990s 3. Modeling the Development of Complexity in the...

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This volume is the second in the Roosevelt Monograph Series and is based on papers presented by members of the research team of the Roosevelt Platform Mound Study at a symposium held at the Society for American Archaeology annual meeting in New Orleans in the spring of 1991. Three additional chapters have been added based on papers presented elsewhere during that year. We are grateful to the authors for their contributions and their early insights on the data recovered in the early phases of the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Mark D. Elson. Paul R. Sheppard. Michael H. Ort.

Understanding the full range of interactions between human groups and volcanic eruptions is of great importance, not only for predicting volcanic hazards and potentially saving lives, but also for insights into human behavior and specifically, on the ways in which populations adapt to catastrophic events. However, most accounts of human/volcano interaction are confined to the past few hundred years, thereby limiting the number of cases and the formulation of predictive models. In this...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Alfred E. Johnson.

Archaeological research in east-central Arizona and west-central New Mexico has succeeded in defining a distinctive cultural entity, the Mogollon, which came into existence about A.D. 1 and lasted until A.D. 1000. The 1000 years of Mogollon culture history are characterized by the indigenous evolution of pithouse villages, brownware pottery, and various artifact forms. Flexed inhumation was the characteristic burial type. Foreign influences were relatively insignificant, resulting in the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Elinor Ostrom.

The articles in this special feature challenge the presumption that scholars can make simple, predictive models of social–ecological systems (SESs) and deduce universal solutions, panaceas, to problems of overuse or destruction of resources. Moving beyond panaceas to develop cumulative capacities to diagnose the problems and potentialities of linked SESs requires serious study of complex, multivariable, nonlinear, cross-scale, and changing systems. Many variables have been identified by...

IMAGE Legacies on the Landscape Project, Arizona State University.

Map series showing proposed stages of construction at Pueblo la Plata

DOCUMENT Full-Text Leigh Anne Ellison. Francis McManamon. David Martínez. adam brin. Keith Kintigh.

The Digital Archive of Huhugam Archaeology is an ongoing NEH funded project designed to locate, digitize, and make publicly available in tDAR grey literature reports related to Huhugam archaeology and prehistory. We will apply advanced digital humanities techniques to maximize the synthetic potential of this massive digital database, with implications for improved archaeological research, indigenous access to their cultural heritage, cultural resource management, and public outreach. This...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Rachel Fernandez. Charlene Collazzi.

The Center for Digital Antiquity at Arizona State University, in collaboration with the Amerind Museum, utilized a 2017 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to create a comprehensive digital library of archaeological investigations of the ancient Huhugam (Hohokam). The Digital Archive of Huhugam Archaeology (DAHA) now contains copies of more than 2,000 major archaeological reports, images and data sets made accessible through tDAR (the Digital Archaeological Record), an...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Center for Digital Antiquity.

The Center for Digital Antiquity at Arizona State University, in collaboration with the Amerind Museum, utilized a 2017 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to create a comprehensive digital library of archaeological investigations of the ancient Huhugam (Hohokam). The Digital Archive of Huhugam Archaeology (DAHA) now contains copies of more than 2,000 major archaeological reports, images and data sets. It is curated and made accessible through tDAR (the Digital Archaeological...

DATASET Chris Nicholson.

tDAR Administrative usage data from the DAHA collection, produced for a manuscript titled The Digital Archive of Huhugam Archaeology and the Reuse of Archaeological Information The reuse of information derived from past archaeological investigations is integral to contemporary research practices. Despite this, the archiving practices of many (but not all) scholars, cultural resource managers, and public agencies often fall short of meeting standard best practices. This limitation impedes...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Joseph Tiffany.

The Archives of Archaeology Series is a 29-volume set jointly published by the University of Wisconsin Press and the Society for American Archaeology on opaque microcards, a now obsolete format. The Mississippi Valley Archaeology Center at the University of Wisconsin—La Crosse has digitized the original opaque microcards and made the digital copies available through tDAR. This article describes the digitization of the original records on opaque microcards.

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The mountainous zone below the Mogollon Rim in central Arizona was home to Apache in the pre-Reservation period (pre-A.D. 1875). Four Western Apache site components, dating between the late seventeenth and late nineteenth centuries A.D., were identified during excavations conducted in advance of the realignment of the Preacher Canyon and Little Green Valley segments of State Route 260 between Payson and Heber: Plymouth Landing, AZ O:12:89/AR-03-12-04-1411 (ASM/TNF), McGoonie, AZ...

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Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement and Power District (SRP) plans to construct an 88-mile-long 500-kV extra-high voltage transmission line linking the Pinal West, Santa Rosa, Pinal Central, Abel, and Dinosaur substations (ACC CEC Case No. 126). This report presents the results of Phase I data recovery (extent testing) and Phase II data recovery within a 40-m- (130-ft-) wide corridor at seven sites located on State Trust Land administered by the Arizona State Land Department (ASLD) (ASLD...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Robert E. Gasser.

This paper will synthesize the macrobotanical findings from the Tucson Aqueduct Project, Phase A (TAP), conducted by the Museum of Northern Arizona and will highlight some of the pollen and flotation results from the Salt-Gila Aqueduct Project (SGA), completed by the Arizona State Museum. Both projects were segments of the Central Arizona Project, a huge canal bringing water from the Colorado River to the farms and towns of southern Arizona. The ...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Frank Matero.

This report regards a documentation condition assessment of the Casa Grande at Casa Grande Ruins National Monument. It details structure analysis along with material testing and analysis. The report analyzes treatment methods. The report recalls a history of treatment and conservation and those important personalities involved since 1887. Included are detailed diagrams outlining the condition assessments by wall surface.

DOCUMENT Full-Text John H. Evans. Harry Hillman.

This document includes 4 versions of a report about lunar and solar events at the Great House at Casa Grande Ruins National Monument. These include: a presentation paper, a published version, a version prepared for Arizona Highway Magazine and a Science News summary. There is also a constellation chart to check Canopus alignment. The report outlines basic history and construction of the Great House that facilitates astronomical events. The report references computer data, cutting edge at...

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This report presents the results of archaeological testing conducted at three sites, AZ U:1:11, AZ U:1:262, and AZ U:1:263 (all ASM). The sites are located in north Phoenix, Arizona. The testing was done at the request of PK Development LLC, owner of the land, before development of a 500-acre parcel that included the sites. The proposed development will include residential areas, a golf course, and natural desert. The project is subject to Clean Water Act permitting (Section 404) through the...

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Image reflects a profile of an original and corrected Drain Ditch in Compound A. Main drawing represents the Drain Ditch from South on West side and smaller drawing represents the same ditch From East on North Side.

IMAGE C.F. Wells.

These images are plans for proposed drainage systems for Compound A at Casa Grande Ruins National Monument. The mapping shows placement and method of installation for drainage systems. Included are diagrams of drainage placement through both the compound walls and room walls within the compound.

DOCUMENT Full-Text David A. Gregory.

This volume contains descriptive data for excavated features and materials collected from the Early Agricultural period component at Los Pozos (AZ AA:12.91 [ASM]). These data are analyzed and discussed in a companion volume (Gregory, ed. 2001), while a related volume (Gregory, ed. 1999) reports on the Middle Archaic component investigated at this same site. The site name acknowledges several Early Agricultural period wells discovered during work at the site. These data were collected as part of...

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The Phoenix Sky Harbor Center Project evolved as a result of the planned development of an area slightly larger than 800 acres west of Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. This volume focuses on the testing phase of the project undertaken by the Community and Economic Development Department of the City of Phoenix in consultation with the Arizona State Historic Preservation Office. Historic records of the area and recent studies within the project boundaries indicated that prehistoric...

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This volume, which focuses on archaeological data recovery efforts at Dutch Canal Ruin, is the second of four prepared for the Phoenix Sky Harbor Center Development Project. Investigators identified 20 individual loci during the testing phase within the Phoenix Sky Harbor Center at Dutch Canal Ruin and excavated a sample of eight loci (Areas 1 through 8). During the monitoring of the remote parking facility in the eastern portion of the project area, SWCA discovered and excavated additional...

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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...

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This document is a brief history of the early custodians and superintendents of Casa Ruins National Monument.

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 Thomas N. Motsinger. Heidi Roberts. Richard V. N. Ahlstrom.

SWCA Inc, Environmental Consultants of Tucson, Arizona, conducted 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 approximately 257 linear...

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 John Briggs. Katherine A. Spielmann. Hoski Schaafsma. Keith Kintigh. Melissa Kruse. Kari Morehouse. Karen Schollmeyer.

Over the past five decades, ecologists and archaeologists have dismantled two longstanding theoretical constructs. Ecologists have rejected the “balance of nature” concept and archaeologists have dispelled the myth that indigenous people were “in harmony with nature”. Rejection of these concepts poses critical challenges to both fields as current disciplinary approaches are inadequate to grapple effectively with real-world complexities of socioecological systems. In this review, we focus on the...

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This volume reports the results of excavations conducted at a small Colonial period Hohokam site in Phoenix, Arizona. Excavations were undertaken at El Caserío (AZ T:12:49(ASM)) as part of the East Papago Freeway Archaeological Project funded by the Arizona Department of Transportation under Contract 85 33. El Caserío contained several extramural surfaces, trash deposits, 20 pithouses, Decorated ceramic and a variety of miscellaneous pits. analyses and chronometric dates place the primary...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chris D. North.

In April and May 2000, SWCA, Inc., Environmental Consultants (SWCA) conducted cultural resource surveys for EPNG's Line No. 2000 Project, surveying the former All American Pipeline in Cochise, La Paz, Maricopa, Pima, and Pinal counties for the Arizona segment. At the request of EPNG, SWCA began the cultural resources survey for this project in April 2000 in support of an Environmental Assessment (EA) being prepared by ENSR, Inc., in conjunction with a pipeline acquisition, conversion, operation...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Gregory R. Seymour. R. Thomas Euler.

This report has been prepared in conjunction with the continuing archaeological evaluation and investigation plan for Bureau of Land Management (BLM), State of Arizona, and privately held lands near Kelvin, Pinal County, Arizona. Specifically, this report provides site evaluations and the results of a testing program conducted at ten sites located near Elder Gulch in the Middle Gila Basin of central Arizona. This testing program was conducted from April 24 through May 16, 1990 by SWCA...

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Image of a profile displaying the features of the interior walls of Tier A in the Great House. Image indicates location of the following features: observation holes, beam holes, intact wall plaster, stablization, through wall cracks, erosion cracks, and laminated deposits

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Image of a profile displaying the features of the interior walls of Tier B in the Great House. Image indicates location of the following features: observation holes, beam holes, intact wall plaster, stablization, through wall cracks, erosion cracks, and laminated deposits

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Image of a profile displaying the features of the interior walls of Tier C in the Great House. Image indicates location of the following features: observation holes, beam holes, intact wall plaster, stablization, through wall cracks, erosion cracks, and laminated deposits.

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Image of a profile displaying the features of the interior walls of Tier D of the Great House. Image indicates location of the following features: observation holes, beam holes, intact wall plaster, stablization, through wall cracks, erosion cracks, and laminated deposits

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Image of a profile displaying the features of the interior walls of Tier E in the Great House. Image indicates location of the following features: observation holes, beam holes, intact wall plaster, stablization, through wall cracks, erosion cracks, and laminated deposits

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 Michelle Hegmon. Matthew Peeples. Ann P. Kinzig. Stephanie Kulow. Cathryn Meegan. Margaret Nelson.

Change is inevitable, but some changes and transformations are more dramatic and fraught with suffering than others. Resilience theory suggests the concept of a “rigidity trap” as an explanation for these differences. In rigidity traps, a high degree of connectivity and the suppression of innovation prolong an increasingly rigid state, with the result that the eventual transformation is harsh. Three archaeological cases from the U.S. Southwest (Mimbres, Mesa Verde, and Hohokam) and new methods...

DOCUMENT Full-Text David A. Phillips, Jr..

Charles Di Peso believed that Paquime, the primary center for the Casas Grandes culture, succumbed to an attack in A.D. 1340. He further argued that the culture survived in the Sierra Madre, where it was encountered by early Spanish military adventurers. Other reviews of the data have come to different conclusions. In this essay, I examine and discuss the available chronometric data.

DOCUMENT Full-Text John Czarzasty. Glen E. Rice.

This is a report on the end of fieldwork for the data recovery program conducted on the Helen Smith property from June 27, 2005 to January 12, 2006 at the site of Las Canopas (AZ T:12:137 [ASM]) in Phoenix, Arizona. The excavation was conducted to assist the property owner in complying with Arizona Statute A.R.S. 41-865 regarding the repatriation of burials and the City of Phoenix Ordinance on Historic Preservation (Chapter 8, Section 802). The Las Canopas project is Pueblo Grande Museum...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Glen E. Rice. John Gooding.

This is a report on the end of field work for a data recovery program conducted from September 23 to November 30, 2005, at the site of Las Cremaciones (AZ T:12:220 [ASM]) in Phoenix, Arizona. The excavation was conducted to assist the K. Hovnanian Great Western Homes (GWH) in complying with Arizona Statute A.R.S. 41-865 on the repatriation of burials and the City of Phoenix Ordinance on Historic Preservation (Chapter 8, Section 802). The K. Hovnanian Great Western Homes data recovery project is...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Banks L. Leonard. Rebecca Hill.

Between May 24 and June 13, 2007, Soil Systems, Inc. (SSI) archaeologists conducted a limited data recovery and burial removal excavations for Sun America, Inc. to mitigate the adverse effects of construction in the Washington Park development in Phoenix, Arizona. The construction project was a proposed new building footprint and associated utilities along a proposed re-alignment of Monroe St, east of 44th St. Soil Systems personnel had already completed archaeological work in this area, but the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Cory Dale Breternitz. Christine K. Robinson. Banks L. Leonard.

Between September 1997 and March 2002, Soil Systems, Inc. (SSI) conducted archaeological excavations on approximately 32.5 ac of private lands at the large Classic Period Hohokam village of Pueblo Grande in Phoenix, Arizona. The property owned by SunAmerica is referred to as Washington Park. The excavations included testing and data recovery of prehistoric features to clear the parcel for proposed building construction. The excavations recovered human burials, architecture, and other features,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Cory Dale Breternitz. Christine K. Robinson. Banks L. Leonard.

Under contract to Higgins Development Partners, Soil Systems, Inc. (SSI) conducted archaeological data recovery excavations between February and October 2007 at AZ U:9:264 (ASM) and a portion of La Lomita [AZ U:9:67 (ASM)] on approximately 60 acres of State Trust land in Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona. This parcel of State Trust land has been leased by Higgins Development Partners (ASLD Lease No. 03-105720) to be developed as the Centergate Distribution Park. The excavations at two...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Glen Rice. Erik Steinbach.

Archaeological data recovery was conducted in the north end of the Frank Luke Addition in the City of Phoenix within a portion of the Hohokam site of La Ciudad, also known as AZ T:12:1 (ASM). The City of Phoenix Housing Department plans to construct affordable housing on the site of the Frank Luke Addition housing project originally constructed in 1952 by the City. The project is divided into two construction phases, and this report pertains to the northern part of the Phase 2 area. The area of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Banks L. Leonard. Brian E. Yunker. Rebecca J. Hill.

Three categories of activities are described in this report. A) Construction of a building and associated utilities would result in excavation below the grade to which previous archaeological data recovery and burial removal had occurred. In addition, the proposed construction would include modification to a landscaping easement, sidewalk, and curb along where the new street alignment would form an intersection, where no previous archaeological data recovery or burial removal had occurred....

DOCUMENT Full-Text David B. Tucker.

Archaeologists from SWCA, Inc., Environmental Consultants excavated within site AZ AA:12:311 (ASM) from September 4th to September 20th, 1996. A total of 41 person-days were spent investigating nine features and seven sub-features. These excavations were located along a proposed sewer line for Del Webb’s Coventry Homes. Prior archaeological testing utilized a backhoe to dig trenches in accessible areas along the line (Terzis 1996). Four features were noted in the profiles of these trenches, all...

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Archaeologists from SWCA, Inc., Environmental Consultants, conducted test excavations at site AZ AA:12:130 (ASM) on November 21 and 22, 1996. These excavations consisted of five backhoe trenches long the centerline of a planned effluent pipe outfall realignment for Pima County Waste Water Management. This document summarizes the results of archaeological testing on the segment of the pipeline that crosses the plotted location of a known Middle Archaic site. Four features were identified during...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Katherine Spielmann. Marc Baker. Judi Cameron. J. Philip Dering. Suzanne K. Fish. Michael Waters.

This volume serves two purposes. It summarizes the subsistence data from the RPMS project and explores what we have learned from the subsistence-related data from the RMPS investigations, as well as the related Roosevelt Rural Sites Study and the Community Development Study. The Roosevelt Platform Mound Study (RMPS) research design was particularly concerned with Classic period sociopolitical organization. Because platform mounds similar to those of the Hohokam were built across the basin...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Dana Nakase.

Prehistoric farmers in the semi-arid American Southwest were challenged by marked spatial and temporal variation in, and overall low levels of, precipitation with which to grow their crops. One strategy they employed was to modify their landscape with rock alignments in order to concentrate surface water flow on their fields. A second challenge that has been less focused on by archaeologists is the need to maintain soil fertility by replenishing nutrients removed from the soil by agricultural...

DOCUMENT Full-Text David Phillips. Helen Wearing. Jeffery Clark.

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DOCUMENT Full-Text Kris Dobscheutz.

Between January 18 and July 1, 2005, archaeologists from Environmental Planning Group (EPG) conducted data recovery at a portion of the Las Canopas Site (AZ T:12:137[ASM]) within the City of Phoenix. Las Canopas is a large Hohokam village that extends more than 1 mile. Previous testing at the site identified at total of 46 features, including 5 cremations and 5 inhumations (Dobschuetz 2004b). Data recovery efforts focused on expanding those areas where human remains were identified to determine...

DOCUMENT Full-Text David R. Wilcox.

The close similarity in the cosmological structure of the Mesoamerican and historic Pueblo cultures is shown to extend to the Hohokam as well. P.H. Cushing's proposal of this hypothesis is reviewed and date from the Casa Grande, the site structure of Hohokam villages, and the distributional parameters of Hohokam ballcourts are brought into relation to construct a general model of the evolution of Hohokam ceremonial systems. Further comparisons with the Chacoan system are suggested and the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text James C. Gifford.

This report provides an examination of the archaeology of northwestern Mexico, southern Arizona, and New Mexico and an exploration of the relationship between the areas to each other. In order to consider the archaeology of southern Arizona and New Mexico and that of northwestern Mexico, the extensive geographical area has been delimited into two major subareas. These areas have been termed the Sonoran Subarea and the Sinaloan Subarea. This is approached by consideration of stages suggested by...

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...

DATASET Legacies on the Landscape Project, Arizona State University.

Excavated Archaeofaunal Data from the Agua Fria National Monument

DATASET Legacies on the Landscape Project, Arizona State University.

Excavated Paleoethnobotanical Data from the Agua Fria National Monument

DOCUMENT Full-Text Mark Slaughter. Heidi Roberts.

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...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Michael W. Lindeman.

This report details archaeological investigations at AZ BB:13:74 (ASM), a Middle Rincon phase (A.D. 1000¬ 1100) hamlet. The excavations discussed in this report are part of a larger project related to the expansion of the Desert Vista Campus, Pima Community Colleges. The other portion of this project focused on the site of Valencia Vieja (AZ BB:13:15 [ASM]), a large Tortolita phase village located south and west of BB:13:74. The results of those excavations are reported in a separate volume...

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This report presents the results of archaeological data recovery at two prehistoric loci in Phoenix, Arizona. The major component investigated is a portion of the Classic period Hohokam village of Casa Buena (AZ T:12:37(ASM)). The smaller loci contains two temporal/functional components, a late Colonial period fieldhouse site and a Colonial to Sedentary period transition farmstead. The sites are located within the Squaw Peak Parkway corridor. The data recovery program was funded by the City of...

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This report presents the results of archaeological data recovery at two prehistoric loci in Phoenix, Arizona. The major component investigated is a portion of the Classic period Hohokam village of Casa Buena (AZ T:12:37(ASM)). The smaller loci contains two temporal/functional components, a late Colonial period fieldhouse site and a Colonial to Sedentary period transition farmstead. The sites are located within the Squaw Peak Parkway corridor. The data recovery program was funded by the City of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jesse W. Fewkes.

This document is a book by Jesse Walter Fewkes, published by the Smithsonian Institution. It details excavations done in Compound A at the Casa Grande Ruins National Monument. It contains sketches and photographs of this compound.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Charles Miksicek.

Analysis of maize recovered from excavations at the Gu Achi site in the Arizona Papaqueria. This is Appendix B of the larger publication, "Excavations at Gu Achi: A Reappraisal of Hohokam Settlement and Subsistence in the Arizona Papagueria." The full text can be found at https://core.tdar.org/document/4250

DOCUMENT Full-Text W. Bruce Masse.

In the spring of 1973, the Western Archeological Center, National Park Service, conducted extensive surveys in the Papago Indian Reservation because of improvements proposed for several roadways (Stacy 1973). Among the numerous archeological features encountered were two prehistoric Hohokam sites. One of these, Gu Achi (AZ Z:12:l3 ASM) , is a major pre-Classic period Hohokam settlement a few miles west of Santa Rosa on Papago Indian Road (PIR) 34; the other site, Pisinimo, is a pre-Classic...

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This report is a result of archaeological investigations at the prehistoric Hohokam site of La Lomita Pequeña (AZ U:9:66(ASM)) by Soil Systems, Inc. (SSI), Arizona. in the city of Phoenix, The site is within the path of the East Papago Freeway, a state funded freeway system in the Phoenix being constructed by the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT). The site was tested, located initially by survey, was subsequently and was finally subjected to an intensive data recovery program sponsored...

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The archaeological excavations documented in this volume examine the Hohokam village of La Villa, AZ T:12:148 (ASM). From its founding in the sixth century A.D., until abandonment in the eleventh century, La Villa was one of the largest villages in the Phoenix Basin. Current excavations preceded the installation of a storm drain that was part of the larger Storm Drain project and provided a rare glimpse of a large pre-Classic period village. Fieldwork occurred in multiple phases. Archaeological...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Gina s. Gage. Douglas B. Craig Ph.D..

Northland Research, Inc. (Northland) has completed archaeological investigations within a portion of the Pueblo del Rio site, AZ T:12:116(ASM), a large Hohokam habitation site located in southwest Phoenix. The investigations were designed to collect information and analyze materials from a sample of features at the site in order to mitigate the impacts of commercial development (Moore and Stahman 2007). The work was sponsored by the Stravinski Development Group, LLC, in conformance with Section...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Michael W. Lindeman.

This report details the results of excavations at the Sunset Mesa Ruin, AZ AA:12:10 (ASM). The predominant occupation of Sunset Mesa Ruin was during the Middle Rincon phase (A.D. 1000-1100). However, limited use of the area was identified during the Early Agricultural period (800 B.C.-A.D. 100) and the later Tucson phase (A.D. 1300-1450). Evidence of Historic period use, first as a turn-of-the-century homestead and later as a dairy, has also been documented (Ciolek-Torrello, Huber, and Neily...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Michael W. Lindeman.

The slopes of the Avra Valley, lacking perennial water sources, would seem an unlikely place for a large prehistoric community. Yet during the Hohokam Colonial period (ca. A.D. 750-950), a community sprang up along the western slopes of the Tucson Mountains. Centered on the ballcourt village of Water World, AZ AA:16:94 (ASM), numerous households thrived in the area, both in the primary village and in outlying farmsteads (Czaplicki and Ravesloot 1988, 1989a, 1989b, 1989c; Dart 1994; Downum et....

DOCUMENT Full-Text K.J. Schroeder.

Advanced Mobile Storage, Inc . (AMS) Phoenix. Arizona, undertook upgrades and modifications to its existing storage facility in the Fall of 2007, during which time all ground disturbing activities were monitored by Roadrunner Archaeology & Consulting (RAC) staff. The storage facility is an irregular L-shaped area within a 385 x 460 ft area consisting of approximately 3.074 acres of privately owned property. In addition, an area approximately 20 x 17 5 meters of Phoenix City property was...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Charlie R. Steen.

This document is a 1963 report by Charlie Steen. It includes sketches and maps of Compound A illustrating both the outer buildings and the Great House along with charts and photographs about the artifacts found during excavation. It discusses the damage done by previous archaeologists and superintendents to the plaza in terms of future archaeology efforts and the inability to capture information going forward.

DOCUMENT Full-Text David A. Gregory. Michelle N. Stevens. Fred L. Nials. Mark R. Schurr. Michael W. Diehl.

The current volume, the third of four, acts as a final report for the excavations that were conducted at Los Pozos, AZ AA:12:91 (ASM) in the fall of 1998. Hoping to build on earlier work conducted by Desert Archaeology at other Early Agricultural period sites along the Santa Cruz, these volumes combine data with those from both seasons at Los Pozos and those garnered from Las Capas to explore the implications of this total body of work for current understanding of this important and lengthy...

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The Southern Avra Valley Storage and Recovery Project (SAVSARP) project examined three sites, AZ AA:16:312 (ASM), AZ AA:16:468 (ASM), and AZ AA:16:469 (ASM), and a non-site artifact concentration, Locality A, on the floor of the Avra Valley. The surface manifestations of the sites mirrored those of other sites in the valley bottom, low-density artifact scatters covering broad expanses. Locales of higher artifact density were defined as archaeological sites, but surface artifacts continued...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Gary Huckleberry. Michael W. Lindeman.

In this document, the results of data recovery at AZ BB:13:794 (ASM) are reported. The work was done prior to construction by Pima County of a paved multiuse path along the western bank of the Santa Cruz River. BB:13:794 was recommended to be eligible for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places (National Register) under Criterion D, based on the potential of Feature 32 to yield significant information about prehistoric irrigation and farming in the Santa Cruz floodplain....

DOCUMENT Full-Text Emil W. Haury.

This publication which originally was Emil W. Haury's doctoral dissertation for the Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, is based on the work of the Hemenway Southwestern Archaeological Expedition of 1887-1888. The fieldwork was organized and overseen by Frank Hamilton Cushing. The Hemenway Expedition's work in the Salt River Valley was in truth a pioneering effort. Neither here nor in the adjoining Gila Valley had any systematic work of any sort been done. Although seen by some...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Todd W. Bostwick. J. Claire Dean.

In December 1994, an Arizona Site Steward notified the Phoenix City Archaeologist that a major rock art panel in South Mountain Park had been spray painted with graffiti. At least 700 years old, this Hohokam petroglyph panel is located on a dense, patinated, granodiorite boulder near a city street at the northern edge of the park's boundary. Spray paint graffiti had previously been placed on city structures along the street, as well as on several petroglyph boulders within the park, but this act...

DOCUMENT Full-Text J. Homer Thiel.

What lies beneath the vacant lots of the Barrio Libre? This old barrio lies on the south side of the downtown core of Tucson and has been occupied as a primarily Mexican- American neighborhood for 100 years. During the Historic period, the Barrio Libre has been home to thousands of people, many of whom have left behind the physical traces of their lives in the form of architectural remains and artifacts. Archaeological excavations of homes, businesses, and the trash created and disposed of by...

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The Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT), the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), and HDR Engineering, Inc., proposed a highway- widening project along State Route 82 (SR82) in Cochise County, Arizona. The proposed project included the addition of a turn lane and relocation of the entrance into the historic Fairbank Townsite, AZ EE:8:3 (ASM), an archaeological site and historic property administered by the BLM. The project was initiated for safety issues related to visibility concerns. The...

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Between December 2000 and June 2005 Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd. (ACS) of Tempe, Arizona, completed five field sessions of archaeological monitoring, testing/data recovery I, and data recovery II. The entire airport is highly modified by grading, modern fill, paving, and building; thus, the ground surface offers few clues to what lies beneath. However, the airport is bounded by known historic and prehistoric archaeological sites, including Pueblo Salado to the immediate west and...

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Between December 2000 and June 2005 Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd. (ACS) of Tempe, Arizona, completed five field sessions of archaeological monitoring, testing/data recovery I, and data recovery II at the Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport Runway 7L-25R and Taxiways D-E (collectively referred to hereinafter as the Center Runway project). The first session monitored geotechnical boring and coring (Ryan 2001); the second through fourth seasons included additional monitoring plus...

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...

DATASET Legacies on the Landscape Project, Arizona State University.

Fauna Species Data from Transects at Pueblo la Plata

DOCUMENT Full-Text Andrea Gregory.

A total of 3,757 faunal fragments was recovered from Phase II data recovery investigations at Pozos de Sonoqui, AZ U:14:49(ASM). The project area is situated within saltbush communities bordered by creosote-bursage with pockets of denser, shrubbier vegetation associated with drainages and areas along nearby Queen Creek, Sonoqui Wash, and the Gila River; irrigation canals were present prehistorically and upland resources are also located in proximity to the site (Chenault and Stubing 2012). The...

DATASET Tiffany Clark.

Data recovery efforts undertaken by Desert Archaeology, Inc. at the Gillespie Dam site (AZ T:13:18 [ASM]) in central Arizona resulted in the recovery of relatively small faunal assemblage. This report provides a brief description of the 37 bone specimens that were obtained from these excavations. Though conclusions are limited by the size of the assemblage, the findings of this study indicate that the residents of the Sedentary or early Classic period village followed a fairly typical Hohokam...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jesse W. Fewkes. J. G. Owens.

The first chapter of the document provides insight into the ceremonies and rituals of Ancestral Puebloan Indians of the Tusayan Pueblos. It relates the dynamics of the rituals and ceremonies in terms of preparation and performance and significance. There are detailed sketches of sacred items used in the ceremonies along with many photographs of the ceremonies and rituals in progress. Also included are translations to English provided. The second chapter of the document regards ceremonies...

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Agave has been exploited throughout time and space for its sap, edible flesh, and fibers. Cultivation of this productive, multi-purpose plant took place within what is now Agua Fria National Monument at the pueblos of La Plata and Pato on Perry Mesa and Richinbar on Black Mesa. At these sites, the heart of the plant was removed for roasting and, subsequently, consumption. This is an experimental archaeology project that examines another aspect of agave exploitation: the fiber processing...

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 Glen Rice. Arleyn Simon. David Jacobs. Owen Lindauer.

This guideline describes the field recording procedures, codes, techniques of recording, taking photos, illustrating excavations units and other field methods and techniques used as part of the Roosevelt Platform Mound Study (1989-1998).

DOCUMENT Full-Text Legacies on the Landscape Project, Arizona State University.

Excavation Unit 1E is one of six surface collection units around Pueblo LaPlata. The surface collection locations were determined by visually scanning the surface and selecting areas of high artifact concentration. Unit 1E is on the east side of the pueblo, approximately 7 meters from the extent of wall fall. The unit is slightly down slope in an area of high artifact concentration.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Katherine Spielmann.

Four graduate students (Kruse, Lei, Horn, and Schollmeyer), two undergraduate students (Osgood and Wichlacz), Hegmon and Spielmann worked at Pueblo La Plata February 6 and 7. Hegmon directed the continuation of the bonding and abutting study while Spielmann directed the initiation of the midden excavations.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Banks L. Leonard. Donelle Huffer. Rebecca J. Hill. Andrew D. Lack. David R. Abbott. Blayne R. Brown.

In a development plan proposed in 1999, two areas were to be excavated below grade for a building foundation and a runoff detention basin and the rest of the parcel was to be resurfaced at grade. Because this parcel is immediately east of the Iarge Hohokam village site of Pueblo Grande (AZ U:9:1(ASM)), a two-phase testing program determined the distribution of intact prehistoric cultural remains and established that mortuary features with human remains would be impacted if the existing...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Bandelier Adolph.

A look at Adolph Bandelier's work done on the American Southwest.