DOCUMENT Full-Text Colleen Strawhacker.

Landscapes across the American Southwest are littered with prehistoric structures of less than 10 rooms used for a variety of functions – from seasonal field houses, to storage, to year-long residences, to boundary markers. These structures, while largely ignored in much of the archaeological literature, can provide information on the human impact across an entire landscape, instead of simply focusing on the pueblo itself or on the agricultural fields. How, then, can these small architectural...

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This report is about 58 archaeological sites located in and around an expansive desert basin known as the Santa Cruz Flats, located south of the Gila River. None of these sites are large. The biggest among them had only three, widely separated houses. Most of them had no houses, and the majority lacked material remains except for a mere scattering of artifacts now perched on the modern ground surface. Several of the sites included occupations dated to the modern, Historic, Euro-American era,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Charles C. Di Peso.

This report is an attempt to combine the ethnohistory of the Sobaipuri with archaeological findings. By using the descriptions of these natives penned by their Spanish contemporaries I have endeavored to correlate the archeological remains found at the Sobaipuri sites. To define this effort I have taken the liberty to coin the word "archaeohistory." Each chapter is a complete unit within itself, containing an introduction, a description of materials, and a summary. The other chapters will...

DOCUMENT Full-Text John C. Ravesloot.

Excavations at Casas Grandes, Chihuahua, Mexico have produced 576 burials dating between the 12th and 14th centuries. Social differentiation was investigated among Casas Grandians by analyzing a series of burial attributes defined from the society's mortuary program. An attempt was made to determine the manner degree to which social life at Casas Grandes was hierarchically structured during the Medio Period (ca. A.D. 1060 to 1340). Specifically, the hypothesis that Casas Grandes was organized on...

DATASET Legacies on the Landscape Project, Arizona State University.

Soil Compaction Data from Pueblo la Plata, Pueblo Pato, and Richinbar Ruin

DOCUMENT Full-Text Donald L. Spencer.

This document is a report regarding soil analysis and breakdown of damage caused to Compound walls. The soil analysis seeks to find the optimum combination of properties favorable to ruin repair and stabilization. Soil analysis methods and results are outlined within this report.

DATASET Legacies on the Landscape Project, Arizona State University.

Soil Sediment Data from Pueblo la Plata, Pueblo Pato, and Richinbar Ruin

DATASET Rebecca Hill.

Data regarding grave form, dimensions, integrity, & placement of human remains within the feature were collected in the field by burial excavators using Soil Systems, Inc.'s cremation summary form. This form & coding sheets derived from it can also be found in tDAR. Bone mass data were collected in the lab by one of SSI's osteologists. Five cremations were excavated during this project. All remains & associated artifacts were repatriated to the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community.

DATASET Rebecca Hill.

Data regarding the grave form, dimensions, integrity, & placement of human remains within the feature were collected in the field by burial excavators using Soil Systems, Inc.'s cremation summary form. This form & coding sheets derived from it can also be found in tDAR. Bone mass data were collected in the lab by one of SSI's osteologists. Twenty-seven cremations were excavated during this project. All remains & associated artifacts were repatriated to the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian...

DATASET Rebecca Hill.

These data were recorded in the field by burial excavators using Soil Systems, Inc.'s inhumation summary form. This form & coding sheets derived from it can be found in tDAR. Types of data collected included variables related to grave form & dimensions, position & orientation of the human remains contained within, and integrity of the feature & associated human remains. Fourteen inhumations were excavated during this project. All remains & associated artifacts were repatriated to the Salt River...

DATASET Rebecca Hill.

These data were recorded in the field by burial excavators using Soil Systems, Inc.'s inhumation summary form. This form & coding sheets derived from it can be found in tDAR. Types of data collected included variables related grave form & dimensions, position & orientation of the human remains contained within, & the integrity of the feature & associated remains. Fifty-seven inhumations were excavated during this project. All remains & associated artifacts were repatriated to the Salt River...

CODING SHEET Rebecca Hill.

Age categories used in demography/paleopathology data sets from Soil Systems, Inc.'s Pueblo Grande projects that post-date the Hohokam Expressway Project and involved private lands.

DATASET Rebecca Hill.

This dataset contains information regarding the only cremation found on this project.

DATASET Rebecca Hill.

This dataset contains demographic and health data regarding individuals recovered from burial features from this project.

DATASET Rebecca Hill.

This dataset contains information regarding inhumations (all subfeatures of a single burial feature) found during this project.

CODING SHEET Rebecca Hill.

Assigning burials from Pueblo Grande to time periods was accomplished solely through ceramic seriation using data collected by Dr. David Abbott and methods developed by him (Abbott et al. 1994) during the Hohokam Expressway project. The ceramic seriation method used information about the burial ceramics' temper, vessel form, and pottery type (e.g., red ware, red-on-buff, polychrome). The burials were identified as “Early” or “Late” because assignment to a particular cultural phase based on...

CODING SHEET Rebecca Hill.

Burial type categories used in the demography/paleopathology data sets from Soil Systems, Inc.'s Pueblo Grande projects that post-date the Hohokam Expressway Project and involved private lands.

DATASET Rebecca Hill.

Pueblo Grande demography/paleopathology data sets are by burial group (BG) under each project heading. If the burial group for a feature is unknown, the data are identified only at the project area or stripping area level. Data contained include age, sex, stature, and presence/absence of various indicators of stress and infectious disease listing elements affected. Stature estimates (when preservation allowed for measurements of femur and/or tibia length) were calculated using corrected...

DATASET Rebecca Hill.

Pueblo Grande demography/paleopathology data sets are by burial group (BG) under each project heading. If the burial group for a feature is unknown, the data are identified only at the project area or stripping area level. Data contained include age, sex, stature, and presence/absence of various indicators of stress and infectious disease listing elements affected. Stature estimates (when preservation allowed for measurements of femur and/or tibia length) were calculated using corrected...

DATASET Rebecca Hill.

Pueblo Grande demography/paleopathology data sets are by burial group (BG) under each project heading. If the burial group for a feature is unknown, the data are identified only at the project area or stripping area level. Data contained include age, sex, stature, and presence/absence of various indicators of stress and infectious disease listing elements affected. Stature estimates (when preservation allowed for measurements of femur and/or tibia length) were calculated using corrected...

DATASET Rebecca Hill.

Pueblo Grande demography/paleopathology data sets are by burial group (BG) under each project heading. If the burial group for a feature is unknown, the data are identified only at the project area or stripping area level. Data contained include age, sex, stature, and presence/absence of various indicators of stress and infectious disease listing elements affected. Stature estimates (when preservation allowed for measurements of femur and/or tibia length) were calculated using corrected...

CODING SHEET Rebecca Hill.

Sex categories used in the demography/paleopathology data sets from Soil Systems, Inc.'s Pueblo Grande projects that post-date the Hohokam Expressway Project and involved private lands.

DATASET Legacies on the Landscape Project, Arizona State University.

Soils Data from Excavations at Site 04-761 (Note: UTM Coordinates are Incorrect)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Donald L. Spencer.

This document contains a form for the assessement of actions in regard to impact on cultural resources along with correpondence for the issue. This concerns erosion on the south wall of the Great House in Compound A at the Casa Grande Ruins National Monument. The proposed project seeks approval to stabilize loose material along this south wall.

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 William B. Griffen.

The principal institutions of Spanish contact were, as elsewhere on the Spanish frontier, the mission, the mine, the hacienda, and the military. The mission contact situation, handled by the religious arm of Spanish administration, will be discussed more fully in later pages. The few sections that follow immediately here are an attempt to sketch some aspects of the non-mission aspects of seventeenth and eighteenth-century north Mexican society in order to give a more complete picture of the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Glen E. Rice.

Of the many valleys in the southern desert of Arizona, the prehistoric Hohokam concentrated the largest and greatest of their communities in the Phoenix basin. It was here that they constructed the most elaborate and extensive of their canal networks. Their success drew on two unique characteristics of the basin environment. The first was the Salt River; the most competent and consistent source of water in the southern desert, it surpasses five-fold the volume and capacity of the Gila River to...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Colleen Strawhacker.

The level of constructedness of archaeological sites can provide insight into the amount of planning, labor and time invested into building structures. Further understanding into the time, labor and planning invested into architecture can allow for inferences to made on the residential mobility of the population, intensity of surrounding land use and social importance assigned to each pueblo (Cameron 1999). This paper will explore and compare the architectural constructedness of small sites...

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This volume presents the results of a set of diverse studies into special data sets from the site of La Ciudad. La Ciudad is one of the large Hohokam ruins within the network of prehistoric irrigation canals in the Phoenix basin (Figure A). It lies on the north side of the Salt River, midway along a canal system that originates at Pueblo Grande and extends a distance of seven miles to Las Colinas. La Ciudad is composed of multiple loci dispersed along the banks of four canals, and covers about...

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This volume presents the results of a set of diverse studies into special data sets from the site of La Ciudad. La Ciudad is one of the large Hohokam ruins within the network of prehistoric irrigation canals in the Phoenix basin (Figure A). It lies on the north side of the Salt River, midway along a canal system that originates at Pueblo Grande and extends a distance of seven miles to Las Colinas. La Ciudad is composed of multiple loci dispersed along the banks of four canals, and covers...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Karen Schollmeyer.

Studies of the architecture of Pueblo La Plata, particularly room construction sequences, formed one component of the Legacies on the Landscape project research in 2004. The goals of this portion of the project were to improve our understanding of how the pueblo was built, and to gain a sense of population size and changes over time. In particular, we wished to determine whether a sizeable core area of rooms (representing the first construction phase of the pueblo) was visible, and whether the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Sarah Herr.

This report details archaeological testing and data recovery plan for the widening of State Route 260 (SR 260) project from Payson, Arizona, to Heber, Arizona. The construction occurred along 45.8 mi of highway between Mileposts (MP) 256.2 and 302. Archaeological sites were identified in the western 22 mi of highway below the Mogollon Rim on Tonto National Forest (TNF) land. Construction is being staged in six segments. From west-to-east, these segments are: Lion Springs, Preacher Canyon, Little...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Sarah Herr.

State Route 260 (SR 260) from Payson to Heber, Arizona, is scheduled for realignment and improvement by the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) over the next several years. This includes construction of 45.8 mi of highway between mileposts (MP) 256.2 and 302. Archaeological sites are found in only the western 22 mi of highway below the Mogollon Rim. Construction below the Mogollon Rim is being staged in six segments; from west-to-east, these segments are: Lion Springs, Preacher Canyon,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text S. Adrian White.

In March and April 1993, a preservation/stabilization assessment plan was developed and subsequent stabilization of the Romero Ruin (AZ BB:9:1 [ASM]) was conducted by Soil Systems, Inc. (SSI) under contract to the Center for Desert Archaeology and Catalina State Park. The architectural recording forms were completed in conjunction with minimal excavation from April 5 through April 23. The actual stabilization occurred from May 3 through May 14. The Romero Ruin is a Hohokam site with an...

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This document is a detailed description of the materials needed and procedures outlined for stabilization of prehistoric structures at Casa Grande Ruins National Monument. Featured is a mixing procedure that includes the formula mixture of amendment, soils and sand. There are details of application timing and consequences in mixing and applying incorrect mix formulas.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Roland Richert.

This report is a record of the stabilization of north, south, east and west walls of Compound B at Casa Grande Ruins National Monument.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

La Ciudad (AZ T:12:1[AMS]), a large and complex Hohokam village, is situated within the north-central portion of the Phoenix Basin. This site is located on the lower alluvial fan of Camelback Mountain with Papago Butte to the east and the Salt River to the south. Ten soil samples from pit house and hearth feature contexts of Locus 2 and 3 were submitted for starch analysis.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Sarah A. Herr.

State Route (SR) 260 from Payson to Heber, Arizona, is currently being realigned and improved, in sections, by the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT). The overall SR 260 project includes construction of 45.8 miles of highway between mileposts 256.2 and 302. Archaeological sites are found only in the western 22 miles, on Tonto National Forest land below the Mogollon Rim. Construction is being staged in six segments, including (from west to east): Lion Springs, Preacher Canyon, Little...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Mark D. Elson. Michael H. Ort. Kirk C. Anderson.

Strontium (Sr) isotope analyses of construction wood from the prehistoric Wupatki Pueblo in northern Arizona was undertaken to identify the source of the wood, given that Wupatki is located 20-30 km north of areas where suitable high elevation pine and fir trees are found. Unfortunately, due to the presence of high levels of blown-in dust, the Sr analysis of potential wood source areas could not distinguish between them, negating this research. A secondary goal was to investigate the possibility...

DOCUMENT Full-Text T. Kathleen Henderson.

The last decade has seen a quantum leap in our understanding of the Hohokam. From those first days of defining the Hohokam as a cultural entity, great strides have been taken in describing their subsistence and settlement systems, explicating core-periphery relationships, and modeling the processes of Hohokam development, expansion, and decline. And yet, the old adage “the faster we go, the further behind we get” seems particularly descriptive of the current state of Hohokam archaeology. While...

DOCUMENT Full-Text James B. Rodgers.

Two sites, one prehistoric and one historic, situated northwest of Phoenix and in the south-central part of Arizona, are discussed. Limited field excavation and archival research reveal that the historic site, the Marinette Canal (NA18,267), built in 1910, may have been fed by well water, local runoff, and the seasonal flow of the Agua Fria River. It heads along Calderwood Butte and extends almost 10 km southward toward the present community of Sun City, Arizona. The prehistoric site, the...

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The Hohokam community of Marana is a complex of residential neighborhoods, agricultural fields, and seasonal gathering stations dispersed over an area of about 20 square miles. The Marana community complex is an example of a settlement type common to the Classic period of the Hohokam. The diagnostic characteristic of these complexes is the association of platform mounds, walled compounds, and large residential neighborhoods in a dispersed pattern covering several square miles (such as is found...

DOCUMENT Full-Text William F. Turney. Thomas C. Turney.

A study of the water and sewer systems for the Casas Grandes including recommendations and the layout of ruins and excavations. Also included is a supplemental study including the results of soil samples taken at the Casas Grandes ruins.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Heidi Roberts. Thomas Motsinger. Kevin Wellman. Mary-Ellen Walsh-Anduze.

This document reports the results of the archaeological testing of a small portion of Sleeping Snake Village (AZ BB:9:104 [ASM]), located on the Rancho Vistoso property, in the Town of Oro Valley, Arizona. The testing was conducted by SWCA, Inc., Environmental Consultants (SWCA) at the request of Vistoso Partners. The project area represents the proposed location of the No. 10 tee area for an 18-hole golf course. As the agency responsible for reviewing Clean Water Act Section 404 permit...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Douglas R. Mitchell. Joseph Crary. Thomas N. Motsinger.

This report outlines the results of archaeological testing conducted by SWCA Inc., related to construction of the Red Mountain Freeway (Loop 202) in Mesa, Maricopa County, Arizona. The project area consists of two parcels located within the proposed Red Mountain Freeway corridor. As part of the environmental study conducted for this project, several cultural resource surveys were undertaken to identify the presence and location of archaeological sites within the project area. The results of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Douglas R. Mitchell.

The City of Phoenix requested that archaeological work be conducted at the location of the proposed Coral Pointe Apartments Project in Phoenix. The Project is on private property but will receive federal funding so the effects of this undertaking on cultural resources must be considered to comply with section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act. According to the City of Phoenix archaeological site files, several prehistoric canals cross the area of potential effect (APE). The City...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chester W. Shaw, Jr..

Northland Research, Inc. (Northland) has completed archaeological data recovery within the prehistoric site of La Villa [AZ T:12:148(ASM)], in downtown Phoenix, for SCS Engineers. Archaeological investigations occurred between May 21 and July 23, 2003. A total of 351 historic and prehistoric cultural features were exposed as a result of investigations. A total of 110 of these features were either completely excavated, or sample excavated, during Northland’s investigations; a total of 31% of the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Michael Stubing.

This document presents the results of fieldwork and a plan for additional work at sites within a proposed realignment in the City of Peoria, Arizona. During an archaeological survey of the proposed realignment, AZ T:8:86 (ASM) was identified as a Hohokam artifact scatter, and was found to be potentially eligible for inclusion to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) under Criterion D (Ryden et al. 1998). Avoidance of the site was recommended; archaeological testing was recommended if...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Michael Stubing.

This document presents the preliminary results of archaeological testing conducted at site AZ T:12:117 (ASM), located near the base of the South Mountains in Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona. SWCA, Inc. was requested to conduct the testing by Coe and Van Loo Consultants, Inc., of Phoenix, Arizona to determine the eligibility of the site for inclusion to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). A residential development has been proposed for the area including site AZ T:12:117 (ASM) that...

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

Basic data concerning collections from excavations by various projects on the Agua Fria National Monument

DOCUMENT Full-Text Charlie Steen.

Charlie Steen prepared a summary of the trends of preservation activities at Casa Grande Ruins National Monument.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Douglas R. Mitchell. Michael S. Foster. Ronald F. Ryden.

This report presents a summary of the archaeological excavations conducted by SWCA at the Mesa Riverview development project. Archaeological investigations were conducted in the area by the Mesa Southwest Museum in compliance with City of Mesa guidelines on cultural resources. SWCA Environmental Consultants was requested by DERITO/KIMCO RIVERVIEW, LLC to assist the Museum with the excavation of features discovered during the test trenching that was done in this area in September 2005. The...

DOCUMENT Full-Text David B. Tucker. David P. Doak.

Between November 2000 and February 2001, a crew from SWCA® Environmental Consultants (SWCA) of Tucson conducted archaeological testing operations at twenty-one sites lying within a 1570-acre parcel near Toltec, a subdivision of Eloy, in Pinal County, Arizona. The work was done at the request of Mr. Jason Burgess of B&R Engineering, Inc., acting on behalf of Sun Lakes-Casa Grande Development, LLC, an affiliate of Robson Communities, Inc., who intend to construct a planned community of housing and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jon S. Czaplicki. Adrianne G. Rankin.

Approximately 600 acres of additional right-of-way in Reach 3 were surveyed in late 1983 and early 1984. Fourteen new sites were identified, of which nine received ASM site numbers. The remaining five sites were not given an ASM site number, but merit reevaluation for assignment of a site number. This supplemental survey has altered considerably an earlier view of prehistoric occupation in Reach 3 that resulted from the original 1982 survey of the reach. Reach 3 now appears to pass through a...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Andrea Gregory. Walter R. Punzmann. Kerri Bastin. Peg Davis. Thomas Jones.

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

DOCUMENT Full-Text Bradford W. Stone.

On August 11th and 27th, and September 5th and 11th, 1997, Archaeological Research Services, Inc. (ARS) conducted a supplemental Class III archaeological survey of several segments of the proposed Agua Fria Freeway alignment (Outer Loop 101) between Indian School Road and Northern Avenue, Tolleson, Phoenix, and Glendale, Maricopa County, Arizona. The survey alignment consists of a 700 ft (213.36 m) wide corridor located east of 99th Avenue between a point 1320 ft (402.33 m) north of Camelback...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Shawn G. Fackler.

The Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) identified a possible prehistoric Hohokam cremation eroding from the bank of an unlined Salt River Project (SRP) irrigation lateral that traverses a modern cemetery in central Phoenix. It was thought that two additional burial pits might be present in the lateral, but only the above-mentioned possible cremation was currently affected by erosion. The possible burial was discovered earlier in the year and was monitored by a Reclamation archaeologist while...

IMAGE Shawn G. Fackler.

The Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) identified a possible prehistoric Hohokam cremation eroding from the bank of an unlined Salt River Project (SRP) irrigation lateral that traverses a modern cemetery in central Phoenix. It was thought that two additional burial pits might be present in the lateral, but only the above-mentioned possible cremation was currently affected by erosion. The possible burial was discovered earlier in the year and was monitored by a Reclamation archaeologist while...

DOCUMENT Full-Text E. Melanie Ryan. Shawn G. Fackler.

The Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) identified a possible prehistoric Hohokam cremation eroding from the bank of an unlined Salt River Project (SRP) irrigation lateral that traverses a modern cemetery in central Phoenix. It was thought that two additional burial pits might be present in the lateral, but only the above-mentioned possible cremation was currently affected by erosion. The possible burial was discovered earlier in the year and was monitored by a Reclamation archaeologist while...

DOCUMENT Full-Text The Amerind Foundation, Inc..

The purpose of this trip is to meet Dr. Walter Taylor and Dr. Ignacio Bernal in regard to the excavation contract with Mexico and to check road distances and conditions from the museum to Juarez, El Sueco and Casas Grandes.

DOCUMENT Full-Text The Amerind Foundation, Inc..

The purpose of this trip is to examine the crossing at Palomas (Columbus) New Mexico and the road conditions to Casas Grandes and to compare same with the Antelope Wells crossing and road.

DOCUMENT Full-Text The Amerind Foundation, Inc..

The purpose of this trip is to study logistic and employment problems involved with the proposed Casas Grandes joint expedition.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Madelon Elizabeth McCreery.

A survey of the stone complex of southern Arizona as shown through material excavated by the Los Angeles Museum by Madelon Elizabeth McCreery, (1939). A report presented to the faculty of the Department of Archaeology, University of California, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for Course 290.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Owen Lindauer.

Stylistic analyses of sherds have formed the basis of some reconstructed patterns of prehistoric regional interaction without adequately addressing potential factors that affect stylistic variation. The archaeological problem of identifying factors that affect stylistic variation is addressed using the results of functional and stylistic analyses of Red-on-buff vessels. The attributes of vessel size and shape, thickness of painted lines, and design diversity are used to inform on the scale of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Colleen Strawhacker.

Irrigation agriculture has been heralded as the solution to feeding the world’s growing population. To this end, irrigation agriculture is both extensifying and intensifying in arid regions across the world in an effort to create highly productive agricultural systems. Over one third of modern irrigated fields, however, show signs of serious soil degradation, including salinization and waterlogging, which threaten the productivity of these fields and the world’s food supply. Surprisingly, little...

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Between 1989 and 1993, the Bureau of Reclamation funded four archaeological projects in Tonto Basin of central Arizona, all associated with the modification of the Theodore Roosevelt Dam. The projects were assigned different research objectives and were conducted by separate research teams. The Roosevelt Bajada Survey (RBS) was a sampling survey by SWCA Inc. of portions of the bajada and foothills surrounding Tonto Basin. The Roosevelt Rural Sites Study (RRSS) conducted by Statistical Research...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard Ciolek-Torello. J. Simon Bruder. Robert E. Gasser. Jannifer W. Gish. Cheryl Taylor. Donald E. Weaver.

This report presents the results of additional archaeological testing at the New River Authorized Dam Site. This site, the location of a proposed flood control dam to be constructed by the United States Army Corps of Engineers, is situated along the New River about 27 km north of its confluence with the Agua Fria and 32 km northwest of downtown Phoenix. In an earlier testing program 22 prehistoric and historic sites were investigated in the upstream portion of the project area. The present work...

DATASET Wallace Henry D..

The tables included here accompany an article published in the Kiva in 2020 by Henry D. Wallace titled "Dating Snaketown." The tables provide ceramic dates for contexts excavated by Emil Haury and Gila Pueblo (Haury 1976; Gladwin et al. 1937) at Snaketown (AZ U:13:1 ASM) using the ceramic types developed from the 1998 and 2004 seriations and compares the new dates with those assigned by previous researchers.

DATASET Henry D. Wallace.

Table 2. Comparison of phase assignments for caches at Snaketown.

DATASET Henry D. Wallace.

Table 3. Phase assignments for Snaketown structures compared to dating from previous studies.

DATASET Henry D. Wallace.

Table 4. Phase assignments for mounds, midden deposits, pits, and other miscellaneous Snaketown contexts.

DOCUMENT Full-Text April Kamp-Whittaker. Andrea Barker.

Hohokam Risks and Trade-offs is the product of research funded by a NSF Coupled Natural and Human Systems Grant that focused on the role of social and ecological diversity as a strategy for prehistoric resilience. This curriculum, targeted to 4th - through early middle school, is based off a platform designed by NASA. Itchallenges students to explore the risks and trade-offs made by prehistoric Hohokam communities related to geographic space, irrigation, cooperation, and trade networks. They...

DOCUMENT Full-Text S. Jerome Hesse.

Archaeological testing and data recovery at AZ B:9:360 (ASM), a Hohokam limited activity site in the northeastern Tucson Basin, resulted in the discovery of two roasting pits, an associated activity surface, and two large trash-filled pits. Botanical data suggest that the site was used for processing locally procured upper bajada wild plant resources as well as domesticated crops (maize). Chronometric data indicate a likely span of site use from the Rillito phase of the Colonial period to the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Mark D. Elson. Patricia Cook.

The Tanque Verde W ash site, AZ BB:13:68 (ASM), is a small agricultural village located in the eastern Tucson Basin, approximately 25 km east of the large riverine settlements along the Santa Cruz River. The northwest locus of the site was investigated during the current project for the City of Tucson prior to residential development, complementing previous investigations in the southeast locus. Including all work at the site, 57 pithouses have now been sampled or completely excavated, in...

DOCUMENT Full-Text James Schoenwetter.

Study of the archaeological record of 6 test pits to identify a recommended mitigation strategy for the site.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chris T. Wenker.

This report presents the results of archaeological testing investigations at nine prehistoric sites on the proposed SCOTTSDALE 927 residential development property (formerly known as the Amberjack project). The results of this testing project are used to evaluate these site’s eligibility for nomination to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). These recommendations are being presented in partial support of a Clean Water Act permitting process, which is required prior to development of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chris T. Wenker.

This report presents the results of archaeological testing investigations at seven prehistoric and historic sites on the proposed Greer Ranch residential development property. This 353 acre project area is located on privately owned land north of Phoenix, Arizona, in an unincorporated neighborhood known as the Desert Hills (Phoenix Mapping Services 1999:6). Cavalier Development and Construction, Inc., (the project sponsor) proposes to build a residential development on this parcel. The purpose...

DOCUMENT Full-Text C. Duane Spears.

This document is a proposed plan for potential restoration and stabilization of Compound B at Casa Grande Ruins National Monument.

DOCUMENT Full-Text David B. Tucker.

Archaeologists from SWCA, Inc., Environmental Consultants, conducted test excavations at AZ AA:12:869 (ASM) on privately owned property of the Shannon Business Park Development. Fieldwork was conducted from October 18 to October 27, 2000. David Tucker served as SWCA's project manager and also directed the fieldwork. Anastasia Gutierrez and Victoria Evans assisted with the fieldwork. The backhoe used to dig test trenches was operated by Manuelito "Betto" Navaro of Lamb Excavation. Ms. Linda...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Annick Lascaux. India s. Hesse. Kevin D. Wellman.

Between February 16 and March 12, 1999, a crew of ten to twelve archaeologists from SWCA, Inc., Environmental Consultants undertook archaeological test excavations at a portion of site AZ AA:12:111 (ASM) located within the Operations Area at the Ina Road Water Pollution Control Facility (Treatment Plant). A crew of ten to twelve archaeologists began excavations on February 16, 1999, and proceeded as outlined in the testing plan. The testing was designed to identify and evaluate buried cultural...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Deil R. Lundin. Douglas R. Mitchell. Chris D. North. Kathleen Peterson. Chris T. Wenker.

Test excavations were conducted at six sites to determine their National Register eligibility, prior to a land exchange. Three of the sites, AR-03-12-04-1397/AZ 0:12:81 (ASM), AR-03 -12-04-1403/AZ 0:12:82 (ASM), and AR-03-12-04-1521/AZ 0:12:85 (ASM), demonstrated low overall artifact density, small site size and an absence of subsurface features, and are therefore recommended as ineligible for National Register consideration. AR-03-12-04-13 85/AZ 0:12:80 (ASM) and AR-03-12-04-1449/AZ 0:12:83...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Sarah Herr. CaraMia M. Whitney.

At first glance, the potential for sub-Mogollon Rim archaeology sites is not promising. This region, east of Payson and Star Valley, Arizona, is characterized by single-room masonry structures and artifact scatters covered with thick stands of manzanita and pine duff. Many artifact scatters are comprised solely of small pieces of flaked stone; others have pieces of plain brown ware ceramics that blend in easily with the ground cover. However, beneath these less-than-dramatic surface...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Sarah A. Herr. CaraMia R. Whitney.

In this volume, the easternmost portion of the State Route (SR) 260 —Payson to Heber Archaeological project is described. Driving east from where the SR 260 project begins near Payson, Arizona, the environment changes from rolling hills and meadows to narrow ridges and perennial streams. There are few open areas as the road winds between the Mogollon Rim to the north and Christopher Mountain to the south. Prehistoric and historic sites are situated on the hills and terraces above the permanent...

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This report describes testing and data recovery excavations conducted in advance of the realignment of the Little Green Valley section, of State Route 260 between Payson and Heber. The work was sponsored by the Arizona Department of Transportation; the lead federal agency and landowner was the Tonto National Forest. Seven sites were investigated in the Little Green V alley section: Ponderosa Campground, AZ O :12:19/AR-03-12-04-1159 (ASM /TNF); Junco Springs, AZ O:12:87/AR-03-12-04-1437 (ASM/...

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The Kohls Ranch highway section lies at the center of the State Route (SR) 260 —Payson to Heber project area. This section also crosses a number of central places of the past. Here, near its headwaters, Tonto Creek is a mountain stream, whose terraces widen briefly near the highway before the canyon narrows into the Hells Gate Wilderness to the south. Indian Garden, a mile to the east, is a spring-fed meadow. Geology transitions in this area, as the topography created by the friable granites to...

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The planned realignment of State Route 260 (SR 260) between Payson and Heber by the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) resulted in a multiphase archaeological investigation of the associated right-of-way and Area of Potential Effects (APE). The construction project includes 45.8 miles of highway. Numerous archaeological sites were identified during initial surveys in the project area along the western portion of the project area, below the Mogollon rim and on the Tonto National Forest...

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The Theodore Roosevelt dam studies impact mitigation program consisted of three 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 research was necessary to mitigate any adverse effects related to modifying and raising the height of the Theodore Roosevelt Dam in the Tonto Basin. The color map shows each study's project and investigation areas. The studies are labeled by the cultural...

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The Theodore Roosevelt dam studies impact mitigation program consisted of three 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 research was necessary to mitigate any adverse effects related to modifying and raising the height of the Theodore Roosevelt Dam in the Tonto Basin. A planning team composed of archaeologists from the Bureau of Reclamation, Tonto National Forest, and the State...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Howard M. Davidson. Michael D. Metcalf.

The Museum of Northern Arizona developed a location analysis research design for Phase II archaeological investigations of the proposed transmission line corridor route for the Arizona Station Project. Through coupling this research design with a survey of sample archaeological units in the corridor areas, a projection of archaeological sensitivity was generated. This projection was based on a categorization of the total study areas in terms of environmental sensitivity to each. Variable for...

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Using state funds, the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) will be constructing State Route 303L (SR 303L), in Peoria, Maricopa County. During design of this highway, it was determined that two additional right-of-way (R/W) parcels and three temporary construction easements (TCEs) are necessary for the construction of bridge features integral to the road and the expansion of a drainage basin. One of these parcels was surveyed as part of a separate undertaking; AZTEC surveyed the...

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The large number of mortuary features identified in extensive excavations across the Phoenix Basin presents a unique opportunity and challenge for the creation of a regional data set. This paper presents a preliminary effort to construct a database of mortuary programs practiced at large Hohokam villages in the Salt River valley. It discusses the variables necessary to describe both Pre-Classic and Classic period mortuary remains documented at different settlements along...

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Excavations at the Pima Animal Care Center (PACC) revealed a unique portion of the prehistoric Hohokam landscape. Uncovered were the vestiges of a settlement that was occupied for two short periods at the beginning and the end of the Hohokam pre-Classic. Both periods of occupation occurred during times of transition in the prehistoric Tucson Basin. The Tortolita phase occupation corresponds with the founding of villages and the transition to Hohokam lifeways throughout southern and central...

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This volume presents analyses of the ceramics collected from excavations conducted by Desert Archaeology, Inc. as part of the Tonto Creek Archaeological Project (TCAP) in the Tonto Basin, Gila County, of east-central Arizona. The project was funded by the Arizona Department of Transportation prior to the widening and realignment of State Route 188 from 1994 to 1996. Over the course of fieldwork from 1992 to 1996, 27 sites were investigated through mapping, surface collection, and excavation....

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The Tonto Creek Archaeological Project (TCAP), funded by the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT), was conducted by Desert Archaeology, Inc., in advance of the 1994-1996 realignment of Arizona State Route 188 in the Tonto Basin of east-central Arizona. From 1992 to 1996, portions of 27 archaeological sites were investigated. Site components ranged in date from the Middle Archaic period to the Late Historic era. Most dated to the Colonial, Sedentary, and early Classic periods, circa A.D....

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The Tonto Creek Archaeological Project (TCAP) area was located in the Tonto Basin of east-central Arizona. The project, funded by the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) was undertaken by Desert Archaeology in advance of the 1994-1996 realignment of Arizona State Route 188. The area available for investigation was a 61-m-wide (200-ft) corridor centered on the planned route for the realigned highway. The corridor followed a 13.3-km (8-mi) stretch of the western terrace overlooking Tonto...

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The Tonto Creek Archaeological Project (TCAP) area was located in the Tonto Basin of east-central Arizona. The project, funded by the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) was undertaken by Desert Archaeology in advance of the 1994-1996 realignment of Arizona State Route 188. The area available for investigation was a 61-m-wide (200-ft) corridor centered on the planned route for the realigned highway. The corridor followed a 13.3-km (8-mi) stretch of the western terrace overlooking Tonto...

IMAGE Roy Fetter.

This image is a 1931 topo map of Casa Grande Ruins National Monument

IMAGE Roy Fetter.

This image is a 1931 topo map of Casa Grande Ruins National Monument.

IMAGE Roy Fetter.

This image is a 1931 topo map of Casa Grande Ruins National Monument.

IMAGE Roy Fetter.

This image is a 1931 topo map of Casa Grande Ruins National Monument.