Catalina State Park Reports and Documentation

Part of: Arizona State Parks Reports and Documentation

This collection contains reports pertinent to Catalina State Park. Document types may include site stabilization reports, site evaluation or survey reports, expert consultations, ground disturbance monitoring, excavation reports, architectural documentation or survey, heritage management plans and evaluations, historic background research, and inventory and records searches.


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  • Archaeological Survey in Catalina State Park with a Focus on the Romero Ruin (1987)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Mark D. Elson. William H. Doelle.

    Catalina State Park is situated approximately 22 km (14 miles) north of Tucson, Arizona. Within this beautiful and pristine desert area lie a large number of relatively undisturbed archaeological sites. The park has witnessed a long and varied history. Sometime after 5000 B.C. Archaic period hunters and gatherers first roamed through the park area in their search for game and edible plants. During the following Hohokam period the park area was intensively occupied. A wide range of sites are...

  • Archaeological Testing at the Romero Ruin: Part 2 (1993)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Deborah L. Swartz.

    Limited archaeological testing was conducted at the Romero Ruin, AZ BB:9:1 (ASM), during the spring of 1993 by archaeologists from the Center for Desert Archaeology. The site is a large prehistoric Hohokam village with an overlying historic component, located in Catalina State Park approximately 10 miles north of Tucson, Arizona. The purpose of the testing program was threefold: 1) to expose archaeological features along the interpretive trail prior to the features' being stabilized, 2) to...

  • Cultural Resources Survey of Road and Facilities Expansion and Improvements at Catalina State Parks, Pima County, Arizona (1999)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Hoski Schaafsma.

    A cultural resources survey of three separate areas within the Catalina State Park in Pima County, Arizona for proposed improvements and expansion of the park’s main road, and the group and overnight camping areas. This cultural resources survey of portions of Catalina State Park identified one new and one previously recorded archaeological site and twelve isolated occurrences (lOs). Previously recorded site AZ BB:9:218 (ASM) is within the Sutherland Wash Archaeological District. This site...

  • Stabilization at the Romero Ruin (AZ BB:9:1 [ASM]) (1993)
    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...