DOCUMENT Full-Text S. Jerome Hesse.

A research design and plan of work is proposed for site AZ BB:9:360 (ASM) at the request of Merry, Carnell, Schlecht, Inc., on behalf of the Tanque Verde Unified School District. AZ BB:9:360 (ASM) was initially recorded during an archaeological survey conducted by P.A.S.T. in 2000, at which time the information gathered from the surface expression of the site was insufficient to make a National Register eligibility recommendation. SWCA proposes to test the site using methods involving...

DOCUMENT Full-Text John M. Lindly.

This document presents a testing plan for a development located in southwest Phoenix. The testing plan was developed at the request of Beazer Homes who was advised by the City of Phoenix Archaeology Section to have this work done. The project area is located at the eastern boundary of the previously recorded prehistoric Hohokam site of AZ T:12:90 (ASM) [AZ T:12:55 (ASU)]. In addition, a prehistoric canal was mapped to cross the project area in this same area. The City of Phoenix has a 250-ft...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Thomas D. Yoder.

SWCA, Inc., Environmental Consultants (SWCA) has conducted archaeological testing at 37 sites at the request of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and ASARCO, Inc. (Asarco). The proposed BLM-ASARCO Ray land exchange could impact up to 80 archeological sites within parcels considered for the transfer of surface or minerals out of federal ownership. Twenty of these are sites that were considered eligible for the National Register based on survey data, so no testing was conducted on these sites....

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kevin D. Wellman. Mark Slaughter.

From March 8 to March 23, 1995, SWCA, Inc. Environmental Consultants conducted archaeological testing at the Roy P. Drachman Agua Calicnte County Park. The test excavations were conducted at the request of The Pima County Public Works Department in conformance with The testing Plan (SWCA 1995) was developed in response to Work at the park was based on a testing plan submitted by SWCA and on modifications made at the request of Linda Mayro, the Pima County Public Works Department Archaeologist...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Thomas D. Yoder.

SWCA, Inc., Environmental Consultants (SWCA) has conducted archaeological testing at 24 sites at the request of Tonto National Forest (TNF), the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), and the Cyprus Miami Mining Corporation (CMMC). The Leach Facilities Expansion Project (CMMC Project), whose purpose is to extend CMMC's mining operations, will impact 31 archeological sites located within the proposed project study areas. Seven of these are Native American sites that were considered eligible for the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Thomas D. Yoder.

Archaeological investigation of two sites on the selected lands for a proposed exchange involving the transfer of public, Tonto National Forest administered lands to private ownership. This document details the results of the testing program that was completed on two sites within the Ellison Creek Project area, AR-03-12-04-1311 and AR-03-12-04-1335. This work was implemented in order to evaluate the eligibility of these sites for the National Register of Historic Places. One site...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Thomas D. Yoder. Laural Myers. Mark Slaughter.

On May 3, 1996, archaeologists from SWCA, Inc., Environmental Consultants of Tucson, Arizona conducted archaeological testing at AZ BB:13:515 (ASM) for the Pima County Department of Public Works. This testing program was performed in order to assess the significance of the cultural remains which may be impacted by the construction of proposed Juvenile Court buildings. This project was performed at the request of Ms. Linda Mayro, Pima County Archaeologist, under State Lands Cultural Use Permit...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Thomas D. Yoder. Richard Holloway. Laurel Myers. Mark Slaughter.

On April 30 - May 6, 1996, archaeologists from SWCA, Inc, Environmental Consultants of Tucson, Arizona, conducted archaeological testing on four sites [AZ BB:13:516-519 (ASM)] located in Tucson, Arizona. This testing was done for the Pima County Department of Public Works, who proposes to build a baseball stadium in this area (Kino Stadium). This project was done under State Lands Cultural Use Permit 96-28. Sites AZ BB.13:516-519 (ASM) were initially discovered and recorded during a pedestrian...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Bruce G. Phillips. Daniel H. Sorrell. Manuel R. Palacios-Fest. Louise Purdue. Glenn W. Berger. Jill Heilman.

The COP conducted road improvement and storm drain upgrades along 35th in southwest Phoenix. These improvements include new road construction (that is, widening), the installation of new fire hydrants and catch basins, curbs, gutters, sidewalks, bus bays, signs, trees, and trenching for new storm drains and connectors. Generally, such activities entail vertical excavations up to approximately 16 feet. Two prehistoric features, a pit house and a hearth, were uncovered and represent, along with...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Deborah L. Swartz.

At the request of Cottonwood Properties, Desert Archaeology, Inc., completed archaeological testing of a small site, AZ AA:12:271 (ASM), in the northern Tucson Basin. This project was conducted because surface artifacts were identified during a recent survey of the site area (Stephen 2003) even though the site was reportedly totally collected when it was initially recorded 22 years ago (Arizona State Museum [ASM] site files). The current project was designed to determine if subsurface...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Heather West. David Tucker.

Between June 19 and June 23, 2006, SWCA conducted archaeological testing of a 26.82-acre parcel of privately owned land (Parcel No. 118-11-049J) in the northwestern part of the Julian Wash Site (AZ BB:13:17 [ASM]) within the City of Tucson, Pima County, Arizona. Testing was conducted in response to the intention of the client, Meridian Engineering, to undertake commercial development of the area. The focus of the current archaeological testing project was to determine the presence or absence of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Michael Stubing. Douglas R. Mitchell.

The results of archaeological testing within a portion of the Adamsville Ruin, a large Classic Period Hohokam site, are presented in this report. The testing was done at the request of the Western Area Power Administration (WAPA), owners of the Oracle-Coolidge 115 KV transmission line, a segment of which lies within the boundaries of the Adamsville Ruin. The testing was done to evaluate the effects of power pole replacement on the site. The Adamsville Ruin, AZ U:15:1 (ASM), is a large Hohokam...

DOCUMENT Full-Text John C. Ravesloot.

The Institute for American Research, while under contract with the City of Tucson, conducted a program of archaeological testing within the Santa Cruz Industrial Park. The Santa Cruz Industrial Park, which is currently under development by the city, covers 186 acres of city owned land in southwestern Tucson. The purpose of the testing program within the Industrial Park was to evaluate the direct and indirect impacts that construction of a road segment would have on cultural resources within the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text S. Jerome Hesse.

This report contains the results of archaeological testing at the St. Mary’s Hospital Site (AZ AA:16:26 [ASM]) conducted in anticipation of a planned natural gas pipeline installation. El Paso Corporation (El Paso) is upgrading the EPNG 1007 pipeline (Line 1007) so that it can be tested for corrosion using an internal inspection device known as an “intelligent pig.” The current 6-inch pipeline passing through the St. Mary’s Hospital complex is too narrow for the intelligent pig and plans were...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Mark D. Elson. Deborah L. Swartz.

The archaeological testing of 19 sites within a 5.4 mile (8.7 km) stretch of State Route 87 in the Upper Tonto Basin of central Arizona provided a wealth of new and significant information on the prehistory of this little known area. The testing was undertaken to determine the cultural significance of the 19 sites prior to an Arizona Department of Transportation road widening and realignment construction project (ADOT Project Number F -053-1-315PE ). Investigated site types include small...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Thomas E. Wright. David E. Purcell.

Three archaeological surveys have been conducted along parallel transects through west-central Arizona: the Museum of Northern Arizona's survey of the Mead to Phoenix powerline right-of-way, SWCA's survey of Mead to Phoenix project construction access roads, and Archaeological Research Services's survey of the U. S. Highway 93 right-of-way for the Arizona Department of Transportation. Combining the results of these surveys and previous research reveals three major concentrations of sites. These...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Robert J. Watt.

This document represents a treatment plan that is designed to investigate the extent of subsurface cultural resources in a portion of AZ T:16:19 (ASM) located on private land at the southwest comer of the community of Maricopa, Pinal County, Arizona. Approximately 139 acres of AZ T:16:19 (ASM) occurs within two parcels (Solid State and Hogenes) proposed to be developed as residential sites. At the request of Pinal County, Miller Holdings, Inc. contracted with SWCA, Inc. Environmental Consultants...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kris Dobschuetz.

Arizona Public Service (APS) and Salt River Project (SRP) were issued a Certificate of Environmental Compatibility (CEC) by the Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC) for the construction of the Southwest Valley 500kV Transmission Line Project (Southwest Valley Project). The project consists of 37 miles of 500 kilovolt (kV) transmission line to interconnect electric generation resources in the west valley with the existing 230kV system in the metropolitan Phoenix area. The project is located in...

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This report presents the results of archaeological survey, testing and data recovery investigations conducted in the Estrella Mountain Ranch Development, near Goodyear, Arizona. The project area includes over 11,000 acres that is part of a residential development. In order to develop the area, the property owners were required to obtain a permit from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to comply with Section 404 of the Clean Water Act. The Corps is the lead federal agency for this project since...

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In this report, the results of data recovery efforts conducted for the Palo Verde to Pinal West transmission line project at the Gillespie Dam site, AZ T:13:18 (ASM), in the Gila Bend area of the Gila River are presented. The site is a prehistoric Hohokam-Patayan settlement with an overlay of Historic era material. Fieldwork primarily occurred within the construction staging area of a transmission tower. Although covering less than an acre, the staging area contained surprising numbers of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text J. Homer Thiel. Barnet Pavao-Zuckerman.

The University of Arizona Spring Field School was held at the Guevavi Mission, AZ EE:9:1 (ASM), from 2013 to 2015. A previous survey at the site had revealed that rodent burrowing was damaging a Mission-era (circa 1690s-1810s) midden. Vehicular traffic and weather-related erosion were damaging features in a dirt road. Among the goals of the fieldwork were to collect information from threatened features to then address several research questions. One question concerned the precontact history...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Glen E. Rice. Arleyn W. Simon. David Jacobs.

The Cline Terrace site (AD 1280 to 1400) was a Hohokam style platform mound in the Tonto basin of central Arizona. Cline Terrace is one of the most thoroughly documented platform mounds in the Southwest. A modern excavation project, the Roosevelt Platform Mound Study, generated a large data set from the platform mound, as well as from three villages and two hamlet sites surrounding the mound. These data enabled detailed comparisons between a platform mound and the associated communities where...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Glen E. Rice. Arleyn W. Simon. Owen Lindauer.

The prehistoric Hohokam people of central Arizona constructed platform mounds at more than 100 sites between AD 1250 and 1450. These were stage-like platforms 2–2.5 meters high on which the Hohokam built rooms to place them in higher and more prominent locations in comparison to other rooms in the surrounding community. Sometimes additional rooms were constructed around the base of the platform mound, and a wall was built at ground level to surround the platform mound and rooms inside a...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Owen Lindauer.

On the southern end of the Tonto basin, along the waters of the Salt River, is a peninsula of land known as Schoolhouse Point Mesa, for the small school that once was located there. The structure and arrangement of the community on Schoolhouse Point Mesa reflect the characteristics of five other, nearby communities in the basin that also overlook the Salt River. Like the other four villages nearby, the Schoolhouse Point community grew quickly starting around AD 1250, called the Roosevelt phase...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Michael H. Bartlett. Thomas M. Kolaz. David A. Gregory.

During 1982, 1983, and 1984, archaeologists from the Arizona State Museum at the University of Arizona excavated parts of Las Colinas that were to be affected by the construction of Interstate 10. This research, sponsored by the Arizona Department of Transportation in cooperation with the Federal Highways Administration, was accomplished in accordance with the federal and state laws that govern and protect our nation's cultural resources. By sponsoring the research at Las Colinas, these agencies...

DOCUMENT Full-Text William S. Marmaduke. Kathleen T. Henderson.

Underwritten by the Bureau of Reclamation, Northland Research archaeologists surveyed more than 7,450 hectares (18,410 acres) of southern Arizona. Two hundred four archaeological sites were recorded. Some sites, but not many, were historic in age; a few were Archaic, from the era before ceramics and sedentary agriculture in the Southwestern lowlands. The majority were from the intervening Hohokam cultural sequence. We learned from these sites that the prehistory of southern Arizona is, at one...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Owen Lindauer.

This report describes the archaeological investigations and results for studies of sites on Schoolhouse Point Mesa, a large geographic unit naturally bounded by the Salt River on its northern end and by major washes on its eastern and western sides (see Figure 1.1). Although people living on the mesa may have interacted with people living on the other side of major washes or rivers, the ease of interaction among people living on the mesa would have made them relatively more...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Owen Lindauer.

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...

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

DOCUMENT Full-Text David A. Phillips. Cory Dale Breternitz.

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

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

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

DOCUMENT Full-Text Robert E. Gasser. Christine K. Robinson. Cory Dale Breternitz. Soil Systems, Inc..

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

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Volume 2 describes the prehistoric features, excluding the platform mound and its adjacent compound, that have been excavated at Pueblo Grande Cultural Park, a 102-acre portion of the prehistoric site owned by the City of Phoenix (see Downum and Bostwick, Volume 1:Chapter 1). This city park encompasses the central precinct of the Pueblo Grande site. Data curated in the Pueblo Grande Museum Archive (PGMA) concerning the non-platform mound features are compiled and synthesized here, with the...

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Pueblo Grande is a special place. The subject of legend both ancient and modern, it is one of the most impressive and familiar of all surviving Hohokam sites. Until recently, any visitor could plainly see from exposed rooms, deteriorating walls, and eroding test holes and tunnels that Pueblo Grande had been extensively excavated. It would have been logical to assume from this evidence that the site was one of the most famous and best documented of all Classic period Hohokam villages. Until the...

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Platform mounds appeared about 100 years later in the Tonto Basin than in the more southerly parts of the Sonoran Desert (e.g., Hayden 1957:186-189; Fish et al. 1992). The first small mounds were built in the Tonto Basin in the decades following A.D. 1250, but the concept gained rapid acceptance, and by the mid-1300s, the 50-kilometer length of the basin was dominated by ten large, regularly spaced mounds (Wood 1989). The mounds and their associated communities were occupied until shortly after...

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This report is the second part of the third site description volume for the Roosevelt Platform Mound Study. The two-part report describes the archaeology and artifacts of sites in the Pinto Creek Complex, Livingston Management Group located east of Pinto Creek. The chapters in this part of the report describe the analyses and results of recovered data, including ceramics, lithics, ground stone, shell, special artifacts, physical anthropology, pollen, plant remains,and faunal remains.

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Western Archeological and Conservation Center (WACC) documents associated with the National Park Service archaeological work on the, Papago Indian Reservation (Tohono O'odham Nation), including Vekol Hills and Gu Achi.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Frances M. Landreth. M. Kyle Woodson. Emery Manuel. Letricia Brown.

2016 Southwest Symposium Poster. The Gila River Indian Community (GRIC), home of the Akimel O’odham and Pee Posh tribes, is situated in south-central Arizona. Increasing levels of development on the Community and a desire to oversee Cultural and Heritage Resource planning within the Community prompted the GRIC to establish a Tribal Historic Preservation Office (THPO) as well as a Cultural Resource Management Program (CRMP). For more than twenty years the CRMP staff has been comprised of a...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jeffrey Eighmy. Randall H. McGuire.

Few things in Southwestern archaeology are so widely and hotly contested as the Hohokam phase sequence and chronology. Presently, no fewer than 12 different Hohokam chronologies exist and more appear to be under production. Disputes concerning the Hohokam chronology involve not only the dating of phases but also, even more basically, challenges to the integrity of the phase definitions. In the last decade, controversy has focused on three aspects of the chronology; (1) the validity and ordering...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Carl D. Halbirt. T. Kathleen Henderson.

This report describes the results of archaeological investigations undertaken northeast and in the vicinity of the Tator Hills at the southern edge of the Santa Cruz Flats. The archaeological investigations were funded by the Bureau of Reclamation, Arizona Projects Office, and identified as Tasks 43 and 45 of Contract 3-PA-30-00740. The work was conducted to mitigate the impact to prehistoric resources in the construction of the Central Arizona Irrigation and Drainage District, Central Unit IV...

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This report describes the results of archaeological investigations undertaken northeast and in the vicinity of the Tator Hills at the southern edge of the Santa Cruz Flats. The archaeological investigations were funded by the Bureau of Reclamation, Arizona Projects Office, and identified as Tasks 43 and 45 of Contract 3-PA-30-00740. The work was conducted to mitigate the impact to prehistoric resources in the construction of the Central Arizona Irrigation and Drainage District, Central Unit IV...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Pat H. Stein.

In 1978, the Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) directed the Museum of Northern Arizona (MNA) to complete an intensive archaeological survey of the proposed alignment for the Salt-Gila Aqueduct, a feature of the Central Arizona Project. The survey area was 11,115 acres and included the 60 mile-long transmission line (with a typical width of 200 meters), three proposed utility line locations, one flood retention dike location, 11 possible spoil or realignment areas, and a subsidence well....

DOCUMENT Full-Text William Shirley Fulton.

In the paper “ Archeological Notes on Texas Canyon, Arizona ” (Vol. XII, No. 1 of this series) which covered the work accomplished at the Double F Ranch in 1933, it was intimated, if the findings warranted, that a further report would ensue for the season of 1934. In the publication above mentioned there was expressed the thought, though from very meagre evidence, that the culture here might be Hohokam with a few trade pieces intermingled. The work this season has strengthened the conclusion...

DOCUMENT Full-Text William Shirley Fulton.

In the introduction to Archeological Notes on Texas Canyon, Arizona, published in 1934 (Vol. XII, No. 2 of this series), certain conclusions were drawn and set forth as being “personal opinions, naturally subject to revision when and if..." In the earlier monograph referred to above, it was stated: ". . it is my present belief that from the time of the first settlement on this site, the inhabitants lived and developed in their own way without any interference, either friendly or otherwise, and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text William Shirley Fulton.

The area covered in this paper is, generally speaking, the drainage of the upper Texas Canyon, near Dragoon, Cochise County, Arizona. But more specifically, the development in the season of 1933 was confined to a flat field on the ranch of the writer. The elevation at this point is about 4,800 feet, and the climate is typically that of the Southwest at a like elevation. In the winter months it is warm in the daytime, cold at night, with an occasional snow flurry, and very little rain. The summer...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Adrianne G. Rankin.

The Western Archeological and Conservation Center, National Park Service conducted archeological inventory surveys of selected portions of Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in southwestern Arizona between 1989 and 1991. The section 110 planning surveys (ORPI 1989 D, 1990B and 1991A) were undertaken to locate, identify and evaluate the cultural resources of the monument. A total of 7,675 acres was surveyed and 188 field loci, representing 178 sites, were recorded. Five of these sites had been...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kay Simpson. Susan J. Wells.

The Western Archeological and Conservation Center conducted an archeological survey in the cactus forest area of Saguaro National Monument, Rincon Mountain Unit, in the eastern Tucson Basin. A total of 160 prehistoric and historic sites and 401 isolated artifact/limited activity areas was recorded. Prehistoric sites include a small rockshelter, bedrock mortar locations, quarries, and artifact scatters, including large village sites with agricultural features. Historic sites include early...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kay Simpson. Susan J. Wells.

The second phase of an archeological inventory of Saguaro National MOnument, Rincon Mountain Unit involved examination of 10,000 acres between 3,000 and 4,000 feet elevation along Tanque Verde Ridge, the Rincon Creek headwaters area and selected high elevation areas in the Rincon Mountains. One hundred twenty archaeological sites and 202 isolated artifact locations were recorded. Seven types of prehistoric sites are described: rockshelters, bedrock mortar locations, lithic quarries,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Loy C. Neff. Stacie A. Reutter. Dawn A. Frost.

Archeologists from the Western Archeological and Conservation Center (WACC), National Park Service (NPS), conducted archeological surveys of newly acquired lands iu the Rincon Mountain District and Tucson Mountain District of Saguaro National Park during 1996, 1997, and 1998. The fieldwork encompassed four separate field data collection projects, building on previous WACC surveys from 1994 to 1996 and adding to the inventory of cultural resources iu the Park. Cumulative survey results now...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kevin D. Wellman.

This volume reports on the findings of archeological survey conducted in the Saguaro National Monument in the late spring of 1994. The cultural resource inventory of 740 acres was conducted by four Western Archeological and Conservation Center archeologists between April 25 and May 20, 1994. The surveyed area included 360 acres of land included in the recently (1991) expanded boundary of the Rincon Mountain Unit (RMU) and 380 acres of heavily used land located in the northeast corner of the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Mary Sullivan. Monique Sawyer-Lang. Richard W. Effland, Jr.. Margerie Green.

An archaeological clearance survey of the proposed Gila River Farms Expansion area was undertaken by Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd. (ACS). This survey was performed in accordance with the provisions and regulations of the National Historic Preservation Act in order to locate, identify, and assess cultural resources that might be adversely impacted when the Gila River Indian Community (GRIC) begins to utilize this land for agriculture. A total of four sites, four artifact scatters, and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Anne I. Woosley. Tim Price. D. Carol Kriebel.

The Willcox Playa Study grew from the realization that though surveys had been initiated in the Sulphur Spring Valley during the early days of Southwestern archeology, scarcely any subsequent work was undertaken, with the result that southeastern Arizona remains one of the least known regions of the prehistoric Southwest. We felt that a project would fill a gap in our knowledge of the area and would also contribute generally to Southwest archeology. The fact that the playa area is in the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Robert DuBois. Keith M. Anderson.

This cocument contains 2 letters concerning a proposal for an archeomagnetic dating project in Compound A at the Casa Grande Ruins National Monument and the results of the work performed by the Earth Sciences Observatory at the University of Oklahoma.

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This database contains basic information of a sample of 313 Early Ceramic through Sedentary Period pithouses from 8 excavated sites in the Tucson Basin, Arizona.

DOCUMENT Full-Text David R. Wilcox. Lynette O. Shenk.

This document contains architectural documentation prepared by David Wilcox and Lynette Shenk for the National Park Service. These documents were prepared as a deliverable under P.O. no 810060035.

DOCUMENT Full-Text J. Homer Thiel.

As part of the planning process for the construction of the Evo A. DeConcini Federal Building and United States Courthouse, Desert Archaeology, Inc., has performed a detailed study of the proposed courthouse property for Fugro West, Inc., under a subcontract with the General Services Administration. This study has many purposes: to summarize prehistoric and historic settlement patterns and land-use trends for the project area; to identify the locations of any prehistoric and historic...

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This document presents a plan of work to conduct Arizona and National Registers of Historic Places (A/NRHP) eligibility testing at a cultural resource site that is located within the Boyce Thompson Arboretum (BTA), west of Superior, Pinal County, Arizona. Jacobs Civil, Inc., on behalf of the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT), requested that Carter & Burgess, Inc. (C&B) conduct the testing to evaluate the eligibility of AZ 11:12:100 (ASM) for inclusion in the A/NRHP. The testing and...

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This document is a report upon cultural resources found in the western portion of the East Papago Freeway corridor. It represents the second phase of testing to be reported for the entire corridor, data recovery at three small sites suspected of being Hohokam fieldhouse loci (AZ T:12:48(ASM), AZ T:12:50(ASM), and AZ T:12:51(ASM)), and testing at El Caserío (AZ T:12:49 (ASM)) and La Lomita (AZ U:9:67(ASM)). The investigations reported herein were conducted by Soil Systems, Inc. of Phoenix for the...

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This document is an article regarding the history and progression of the historical pageants held between 1926-1930 at Compound B at the Casa Grande Ruins National Monument.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard W. Effland. Margerie Green.

Arizona Public Service Company (APS) proposes to rebuild an existing 230 kV transmission line which connects the Pinnacle Peak and Ocotillo substations. The portion of the line which currently lies within the Salt River channel north of Mesa and south of the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community (SRPMIC) needs to be relocated due to the extensive damage caused by severe flooding over the past ten years. APS proposes to move the right-of-way out of the channel and onto the north terrace...

DOCUMENT Full-Text William E. Reynolds.

The Bureau of Reclamation contracted with the Arizona State Museum in June of 1972 to generate an archaeological impact statement on the proposed Granite Reef Aqueduct of the Central Arizona Project. Reach 11 of the Granite Reef Aqueduct passes through Paradise Valley somewhat north of the Phoenix-Mesa metropolitan area. One site, AZ U:5:13(ASM), a surface sherd and lithic scatter, was identified on Reach 11. In March of 1974 the Arizona State Museum was hired by the Bureau of Reclamation to...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Lisa Baldwin. Caitlin Wichlacz.

Artifact and rock distributions were noticeably different across the landscape surrounding Pueblo La Plata. By sampling artifact and rock densities along three transects, we attempted to determine what the independent distribution patterns were for artifacts and for rocks. By combining our results, we hoped to see whether or not there was a correlation between artifact and rock densities across the site. We expected to see a drop in artifact densities farther from the pueblo, where less human...

DATASET Legacies on the Landscape Project, Arizona State University.

Artifact Data from Surface Collections and Observations at Legacies Sites

DOCUMENT Full-Text Alfred E. Johnson. Raymond H. Thompson.

During the summer of 1962, the archaeological field school of the University of Arizona conducted excavations at the Ringo site situated on the west slope of the Chiricahua Mountains in Cochise County, Arizona. The Ringo site was essentially Mogollon with late additions from the Western Pueblo region. It was occupied in the period between A.D. 1250 and 1325. Significant information derived from the site is summarized in AMERICAN ANTIQUITY, Vol. 28, No. 4. The present report includes detailed...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard W. Effland, Jr.. Margerie Green.

At the request of Judith Imhoff of the Environmental Management Department of Arizona Public Service Company, Archaeological Consulting Services (ACS) initiated a cultural resource survey for the proposed 230 kV transmission line extension in the vicinity of the Kyrene Steam Power Plant. Dr. Richard W. Effland and Margerie Green of ACS served as co-principal investigators and field directors for the project. Johna Hutira and Shereen Lerner assisted in the field investigation. The purpose of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Lanita C. Van Nimwegen.

Northland Research, Inc. has completed a Class III cultural resource survey of the Horseshoe Dam Road(Forest Road 205). This work was designated as a modification of Task 17 of the Supplemental Surveys of the Regulatory Storage Division, Central Arizona Project, performed under Contract No. 7-CS-30-05750 issued by the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation.The project area is located entirely on USDA Forest Service administered lands, Tonto National Forest, Gila County, Arizona....

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This project concerns the astronomical features of the Great House at Casa Grande Ruins National Monument. It covers all times periods of Hohokam existence including the Pioneer, Colonial, Sedentary and Classic periods. There are comparisons drawn to other prehistoric sites such as Chichen Itza in their construction and application. There is discussion regarding the use of the astronmical features to track the winter and summer solstices.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Paul Shumacher. Roland Richert.

These documents are a series of letters regarding research on the astronomical features in the Great House at Casa Grande Ruins National Monument. It also includes an invoice and billing information for the services provided by John Malloy for a 1971 report concerning the astronomical features. Outlined are details of equipment needed and labor required to complete proposed research on astronomical features in the Great House.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Renee Opperman.

This document is a Master's thesis presented to faculty at California State University. It is an in dept study of astronomical features and implications of several Indian cultures throughout the American Southwest and Mesoamerica. Schematic drawings from many of these sites reflect comparable similarities in design and function. Flow charts suggest that trade and migration played a roll in cultural modifications to behavior.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Glen Rice.

This is a report on archaeological field investigations conducted in 1994 and 1995 at a Classic period Hohokam compound located in the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community of Arizona. The work was performed at the southern locus of site AZ U:9:14 (ASM) under the direction of Glen Rice as part of a course in archaeological field methods taught in the Department of Anthropology at Arizona State University (course number ASB 231 for undergraduates and ASB 532 for graduate...

DOCUMENT Full-Text J. Homer Thiel. Jeremy W. Pye. James T. Watson.

The Salvation Army constructed a new Hospitality House in 2014-2015. As part of the project, The Salvation Army traded a piece of land to the City of Tucson in exchange for a portion. This land contained the eastern cluster of graves from the Pima Tribe No. 10, Improved Order of Red Men plot, part of the larger Court Street Cemetery, in use from 1875-1909, and subsequently redeveloped for housing and business. The Court Street Cemetery has been assigned Arizona State Museum site number AZ...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Thomas H. Naylor.

Two decades ago Jack D. Forbes proposed that the Suma, Janos, Jocome and Mansos Indians were the southernmost true Athapaskans in North America. Inhabiting northern Chihuahua, far western Texas, and the southwestern fringes of New Mexico, these groups were described by Spaniards in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as primitive, loosely related bands of nomadic hunters and gatherers. Beginning in the later seventeenth century and continuing through most of the eighteenth, these same groups...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Rachael Byrd. James Watson.

The Arizona Biological Affiliation Database (AzBAD) is a catalog of comparative cranial morphometric data designed to provide an additional tool for assessing cultural affiliation in compliance with state (ARS §41-844/865) or federal (NAGPRA) legislation and facilitate repatriation of human remains to descendant communities. This information is used to create comparative samples that encompass the variability inherent in ancient ancestral populations. Measurements from crania of individuals...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Charles C. Dipeso.

During the course of the last two years (1948-1949), The Amerind Foundation, Inc., of Dragoon, Arizona, conducted archaeological excavations in Southeastern Arizona in Cochise County, at a pre-historic site known as the Babocomari Village. The village lies on private land, and a lease to excavate was negotiated with Mr. Robert Mitchell of Fry, Arizona. During the digging period, the property changed hands and a new lease was negotiated with Mr. John Williams. The Babocomari River, from which...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Charles C. Di Peso.

The purpose of this report is to investigate the area of Punta de Mita, "Place of the Arrows," located on the southern fringe of the coast of Nayarit, below the 21st parallel. It is believed that this vicinity, which forms the northern fringe of Banderas Bay, may contain remains of a culture that had a direct relationship with Casas Grandes prior to A.D. 1060. This supposition is, in part, based upon the fact that this is the restricted habitat of the molluscan species, Persicula Bandera Coan...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard W. Effland. Scott Fedick.

The Salt River Project (SRP) and Arizona Public Service Company (APS) constructed three transmission lines along a portion of the Beeline Highway on the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community (SRPMIC). SRP proposed to build a new line that connects the Pinnacle Peak, Brandow, and Papago Buttes substations. At the same time, APS proposed to realign two existing transmission lines and move them out of the Salt River channel and onto the north terrace above the river. Prior to construction,...

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In 1997, a group of scholars assembled at the Amerind Foundation in Dragoon, Arizona, for five and one-half days of secluded focused discussion on the archaeology and history of an area largely absent from archaeological reports and history books, southeastern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico. The researchers present at the seminar included Bruce Masse, Anne Woosley, Allan MacIntyre, Jeff Altschul, John Douglas, Jeff Clark, Bill Doolittle, Jim Neely, Jerry Howard, Peggy Nelson, Jonathan...

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This report discusses the results of archaeological testing at four cultural resource sites to assess their eligibility for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP), and the results of data recovery excavations at one of the four sites to mitigate impacts from construction. Entranco completed this project at the request of the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) prior to the proposed construction of the Red Mountain Freeway (RMF) Gilbert Road to Higley Road segment...

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This document is an historic sketch of a birdseye view of the Salt River Valley and surrounding area. The map was done in conjunction with the Salt River Project and the area of the SRP is designated on the map along with the Verde River Irrigatoin and Power District. The map includes the existing canals and water ways at the time and the White Lands San Carlos Project.

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

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

DOCUMENT Full-Text Michael W. Lindeman.

The results of boundary definition testing at the southeastern margin of AZ AA:12:18 (ASM), the Hodges Ruin, are presented in this report. Hodges Ruin has been determined to be eligible for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places. The parcels are owned by the Flowing Wells School District and the district intends to construct an Early Childhood Center on the parcels. The goal of the fieldwork was to determine the extent of archaeological features on the parcels with the hope that...

DATASET T. Kathleen Henderson.

Browning-to-Dinosaur project ceramics, includes features from the Siphon Draw site.

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This document is a brief history of the Casa Grande Ruins National Monument and how it came to be.

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The Hohokam village was one of the largest pre-Classic settlements in the Phoenix Basin. The recorded site boundary covers more than 80 acres, extending from the edge of the Salt River floodplain northward. Founded during the Vahki phase (A.D. 500-650), when settlement aggregated around two large plazas, the village thrived until the Santa Cruz phase (A.D. 850950), when people began to leave the village, possibly settling in villages further down the canal system. Final abandonment occurred...

DOCUMENT Full-Text J. Homer Thiel.

The El Rio Community Health Center in Tucson, Arizona, is planning on building a parking lot on a portion of an archaeological easement associated with the historic period León farm stead, AZ BB:13:505 (ASM), and the prehistoric period Eastside canals, AZ BB:13:642 (ASM). The archaeological easement was established in 1999 following the discovery of the two sites. Archaeological fieldwork for this project was undertaken in 2013 to mitigate the damage to these significant cultural resources...

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This is a 1977 photo of the Great House at Casa Grande Ruins National Monument

IMAGE David Wilcox.

This is a 1977 photo of the Great House at Casa Grande Ruins National Monument

IMAGE David Wilcox.

This is a 1977 photo of the Great House at Casa Grande Ruins National Monument

IMAGE David Wilcox.

This is a 1977 photo of the Great House at Casa Grande Ruins National Monument

IMAGE David Wilcox.

This is a 1977 photo of the Great House at Casa Grande Ruins National Monument

IMAGE David Wilcox.

This is a photo of the Great House at Casa Grande Ruins National Monument

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This image is a 1998 view of the interior of the Great House in compound A.

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This image is a 1998 interior view of the Great House in compound A.

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This image is a 1998 interior view of the Great House in compound A.

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This image is a 1998 interior view of the Great House in compound A.

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This image is a 1998 interior view of the Great House in compound A.

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This image is a 1998 interior view of the Great House in compound A.

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This image is a 1998 interior view of the Great House in compound A.

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This image is a 1998 interior view of the Great House in compound A.