Salt River Project Digital Library

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This book is one in a set of four anthropological research volumes and two technical reports that describe the excavations and information gleaned from two archaeological sites located on the floodplain of the Santa Cruz River in Tucson, Arizona. These sites, Las Capas ("The Layers"), AZ AA:12:111(ASM), and Los Pozos ("The Wells" ), AZ AA:12:91(ASM), were occupied during the San Pedro phase (1200-800 B.C) and the Late Cienega phase (400 B.C.- 50 A.D.) of the Early Agricultural period. They...

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During the U.S. 89 project, 41 prehistoric sites located approximately 30 km (48 miles) north of Flagstaff, Arizona, were investigated. All sites were on Coconino National Forest (CNF) land, specifically the Peaks Ranger District. The project was conducted by Desert Archaeology, Inc., personnel for the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) prior to widening and improvement of 26.7 km (16.6 miles) of U.S. 89, between the southern boundary of Wupatki National Monument in the north, and the...

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The U.S. 89 Archaeological Project investigated 41 prehistoric sites located approximately 30 km north of Flagstaff, Arizona. All sites were on Coconino National Forest (CNF) land. The project was conducted by Desert Archaeology, Inc., for the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) prior to the widening and improvement of 26.7 km (16.6 miles) of U.S. 89, between the southern boundary of Wupatki National Monument in the north, and the town of Fernwood in the south. Archaeological fieldwork...

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The U.S. 89 Archaeological Project investigated 41 prehistoric sites located approximately 30 km north of Flagstaff, Arizona. All sites were on Coconino National Forest (CNF) land. The project was conducted by Desert Archaeology, Inc., for the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) prior to the widening and improvement of 26.7 km (16.6 miles) of U.S. 89, between the southern boundary of Wupatki National Monument in the north, and the town of Fernwood in the south. Archaeological fieldwork...

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This volume explores human adaptation to catastrophic events, particularly to volcanic eruptions. Sunset Crater Volcano is located in the pine forests of northern Arizona, approximately 20 km north of the city of Flagstaff. The volcano was long thought to have erupted in A.D. 1064, with the eruption extending for several hundred years. Research presented here, however, suggests that Sunset Crater erupted for only a few years sometime between A.D. 1085 and 1090, when nearby areas were densely...

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The U.S. 89 Archaeological Project investigated 41 prehistoric sites located approximately 30 km north of Flagstaff, Arizona. All sites were on Coconino National Forest (CNF) land, specifically the Peaks Ranger District. The project was conducted hy Desert Archaeology, Inc., personnel for the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) prior to widening and improvement of 26.7 km (16.6 miles) of U.S. 89, between the southern boundary of Wupatki National Monument in the north, and the town of...

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 David A. Bild.

The Salt River Project (SRP), Arizona Game and Fish Department (AZGFD), and Ducks Unlimited (DU) are involved in a cooperative project designed to expand and rehabilitate wetlands for Yuma clapper rail habitat at the Arlington Wildlife Area (AWA), Maricopa County, Arizona. The project area is located on AZGFD land on the west side of the Gila River. The project area consists of a 14.4-acre AZGFD parcel that measures 2,264 ft (690 m) north-south by 262 to 328 ft (80 to 100 m) east-west. Project...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Adrienne M. Tremblay.

Sonoran Solar is proposing to construct, operate, and decommission a solar-powered electrical generation facility in Maricopa County, Arizona. The Sonoran Solar Energy Project was originally proposed as a 375-megawatt dry-cooled Concentrated Solar Thermal energy generation plant located on 3,620 acres of BLM-managed lands in Maricopa County, Arizona. Because the proposed project was on federal land, the BLM completed a Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) and issued a Record of Decision...

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 Kim Adams. Elinor Large. John Rapp.

Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd. (ACS) conducted survey of approximately 400 acres, mapping, photographing, and limited testing of cultural resources on Fort McDowell Indian Community (FMIC) land at the request of Mr. Jon Czaplicki of the Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation). The survey and mapping were performed to record and determine the extent of prehistoric agricultural rockpile features at AZ U:6:81 and U:6:239(ASM) that will be impacted by agricultural development. Subsurface...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Earl Zarbin.

Each year thousands of people come to the Salt River Valley, some to visit and some to live. They see a thriving, growing community. But like many who have spent most, or all, of their lives there, they don't know much about the Valley's origins or how it developed. The men and women who built the Valley were like today's people. They were trying to improve their own condition. In doing that, they contributed to the well-being of one another. Jack Swilling was one of them. Swilling...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Paul S. Martin. John B. Rinaldo.

In the season of 1958, a fifty-room pueblo was excavated, located on the ranch of Mr. Mark Davis, who permitted the excavation of the site and to ship back to the Museum all of the materials that were recovered and that are described herein. The site was first reported by Spier (1918). He noted the presence of Hopi-like yellow pottery and Zuni glazes from several other sites in the vicinity. Dr. John B. Rinaldo observed the pueblo in 1956 during the course of his extensive survey of the...

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This document describes the study methods and results of the regional environmental baseline studies conducted for the Ambrosia-Coronado 230kV Transmission Project between November 1989 and March 1990. The focus of the regional data collection effort was to identify environmental resources and features that would assist in developing locations for alternative transmission line corridors within the defined study area. The purpose of this section is to describe the regional scale visual resources...

DOCUMENT Full-Text J. Simon Bruder.

This report was prepared at the request of the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) for documentation concerning the present condition of the Tempe and Western canal segments subject to impact by the proposed Price Freeway between the Superstition Freeway and Pecos Road. Both structures are part of an extensive canal system, identified today as the Salt River Project System, that conveys water for agricultural, industrial, and municipal uses throughout the Salt River Valley. The canal...

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Site AZ Q:2:35 (ASM) was originally recorded as a sherd and lithic scatter during an earlier survey of the proposed expanded right-of-way (ROW) of the Salt River Project (SRP) Coronado Coal Haul Railroad (Neily and Irwin 1990). At the request of SRP, SWCA, Inc. Environmental Consultants, initiated testing at the site using systematic backhoe trenching (Boden 1991). Archaeological testing identified six subsurface features, including five pits and one concentration of burned sandstone. None of...

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SWCA has developed a specific format for recording data about previous surveys and archaeological sites that has proved useful in recording this information from a variety of institutions. All aspects of this archaeological contract will be carried out in accordance with accepted professional archaeological standards and practices as outlined in the Secretary of the Interior's Standards and Guidelines for Archaeological Documentation. SWCA will conduct the survey under our existing...

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The following document constitutes a proposal for archaeological data recovery within planned expansions of the Salt River Project Coronado Coal Haul Railroad. The proposal is in response to a Request for Proposals (RFP) issued by Salt River Project. The project area is located in Apache County, Arizona, south of Interstate 40 near the town of Navajo. Three sites are listed in the RFP and specific information regarding the impacts to those sites and the location of the sites in relation to the...

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"Funding for data collection and map production provided by Arizona Department of Transportation Contract No. 85-33. This map is based on the named USGS 7.5 minute series topographic map. Prehistoric information compiled from various sources by Jerry B. Howard. See Howard and Huckleberry (1991: Chapter 2) for further explanation of data sources and map compilation methods. Some errors and inconsistencies could not be rectified during the production process by Soil Systems, Inc. and GEO-MAP,...

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1888 birdseye map depicting Tempe, Arizona looking northeast with drawings of prominent buildings. Content Warning - Please be advised that this map contains some words that are considered offensive.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Bruce G. Phillips.

The Nance Site was a seasonally occupied field house site located in the interior of the Salt River floodplain. Current evidence indicates that the site was sporadically occupied in the late Pioneer through the middle Classic periods. Stratigraphic evidence suggests a human presence in the general vicinity of the site during the Early Agricultural/Early Ceramic Periods; a single thermal pit (Feature 19) was found 1.4 m below the surface. The economic activities of the Hohokam inhabitants...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jo Ann E. Kisselburg. Barbara S. Macnider. Kim Adams. Donald Irwin.

Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd. (ACS) conducted archaeological testing and data recovery measures on five prehistoric sites near Apache Junction at the request of Mr. Kurt Kefgen of TRW/Mesa Safety Systems (TRW). The work was performed under an excavation permit issued by Arizona State Museum (ASM) in order to recover all significant information from these sites prior to the development of the state land by TRW. The five sites are located in Sections 7 and 18 of Township 1 South, Range...

DOCUMENT Full-Text J. Scott Courtright.

The following testing plan is presented for conducting Phase I data recovery within a portion of AZ U:10:2 (ASM), the Southwest Germann Site, a National Register of Historic Places (NRHP)-eligible prehistoric site situated near the intersection of Sossaman and Rittenhouse Roads in the town of Queen Creek, Arizona (Figure 1). Salt River Project (SRP) plans to construct a substation within a rectangular shaped, 310- by 360-foot area within the SW¼, SW¼, SW¼, NW¼ of Section 8, Township 2 South,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Douglas K. Boyd. Bobbie Ferguson.

Archeological surveys of riprap borrow areas on the lower eastern slopes of Black Mesa, Rio Arriba County, New Mexico, were conducted from 1984 to 1988 for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation's Velarde Community Ditch Project and San Juan Pueblo Diversion Projects, and for river channel stabilization by the Upper Rio Grande Project Office. Eight separate borrow areas have been investigated to date, and findings are almost exclusively petroglyphs, images pecked into basalt rocks and boulders. A total...

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...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Donald C. Jackson. Clayton B. Fraser.

In this short treatise, three important dams in central Arizona will be used to illustrate relevant issues of dam technology in the United States. These three structures - Roosevelt Dam (completed in 1911), Stewart Mountain Dam (1930), and Horseshoe Dam (1946) - Were built under the auspices of the U.S. Reclamation Service (today known as the Bureau of Reclamation) and the Phoenix-based Salt River Valley Water Users' Association (today the Salt River Project). Constructed across the Salt River...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard W. Effland. Adrianne Rankin. Jannette Schuster. Michael Waters.

This report documents a cultural resources assessment for the San Xavier Reservation Farm Rehabilitation Project. Limited test excavations were performed to assess the geomorphology and depositional history of the area and identify the type and depth of cultural resources. An hypothesis of riverine land use adaptations is presented for the Santa Cruz River.

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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...

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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, Inc., in advance of the 1994-1996 realignment of Arizona State Route (SR) 188. The area available for investigation was a 61-m- (200-ft-) wide corridor, centered on the planned route for the realigned highway. This corridor, on Tonto National Forest land, followed a 13.3-km (8-mi)...

DOCUMENT Full-Text J. Scott Wood. Michael A. Sullivan. Linda B. Kelley. Steve Germick.

This document contains the management direction for the cultural resources of the Tonto National Forest during the planning period FY89 through FY92. The objectives of this assessment are to provide a framework for active cultural resources management on the Forest, to schedule specific management activities, and to update, refine, and implement the cultural resources elements of the Forest Land Management Plan. The assessment summarizes the current status and management of the Forest's...

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The following document presents the results of a cultural resources compliance survey conducted by SWCA, Inc., Environmental Consultants, at Hackberry, Mohave County, Arizona, and a research design for data recovery along the proposed Hackberry reroute of the preferred alignment of the proposed Mead to Phoenix 500kV transmission line. The project was undertaken to reroute the proposed line because Western Area Power Administration (Western) was unable to secure the original proposed right-of-way...

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Volume I 1. E. Richard Hart and T. J. Ferguson. "The Fence Lake Mine Project: Introduction." 2. E. Richard Hart and Andrew L. Othole. "The Zuni Salt Lake Area: Potential Impacts to Zuni Traditional Cultural Properties by the Proposed Fence Lake Mine." 3. G. Lennis Berlin, T. J. Ferguson, and E. Richard Hart. "Photointerpretation of Native American Trails in the Zuni Salt Lake Region of New Mexico and Arizona." In 1991 the Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement and Power District (SRP),...

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Volume II 4. T. J. Ferguson and Eric Polingyouma. "Sio Onga: An Ethnohistory of Hopi Use of the Zuni Salt Lake." [Confidential Report--Restricted Access] 5. Alfred E. Dittert, Jr. and Ward Alan Minge. "An Ethnohistoric Account of the Traditional Cultural Properties Identified by the Acoma Tribe in and Adjacent to the SRP Fence Lake Mine Project Area." 6. Jean Ann Mercer. "Fence Lake Coal Mine Project: Potential Impacts to Traditional Cultural Properties of the Ramah Navajo." 7. E. Richard...

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The Arizona Department of Transportation plans to widen State Route 85 to a four-lane freeway in the area between Buckeye and Gila Bend. This report presents the results of archaeological data recovery investigations conducted along State Route (SR) 85 for the Arizona Department of Transportation (Contract No. 02-59) by a research team assembled by the Office of Cultural Resource Management, Department of Anthropology at Arizona State University. The Area of Potential Effect (APE) was located...

DOCUMENT Full-Text T. Kathleen Henderson.

Salt River Project Agricultural  Improvement and  Power District  (SRP)  plans  to construct a new  500  kV  transmission  line  between  the  existing  Hassayampa  Switchyard,  west  of Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona, and the proposed Pinal West Substation, western Pinal County, Arizona (Figure 1). Designated the Palo Verde to Pinal West (PV-PW) transmission line,  this  powerline  is  the  first  of two  that SRP  plans  to  eventually  construct between  the Hassayampa  Switchyard  and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text David H. Greenwald. Douglas R. Mitchell. Mary-Ellen Walsh-Anduze.

Archaeological investigations at Williams Air Force Base (WAFB), located in southeast Maricopa County, Arizona, were initiated in response to the 1991 Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission’s (the Closure Commission) recommendation to close WAFB following the passage of the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990 (the Closure Act) (Public Law 101-510, Title XXIX). SWCA, Inc., Environmental Consultants, conducted a cultural resource inventory on approximately 2000 acres of all...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Banks L. Leonard. Cory Dale Breternitz.

A treatment plan for archaeological testing (Phase 1 data recovery) of the portion of Crismon Pueblo, Denmark School, and a segment of the right-of-way along McDowell Road east of Gilbert Road located in the right-of-way of the Red Mountain Freeway (State Route 202) in Mesa, Maricopa County, Arizona. Archaeological testing will gather information to be used to obtain eligibility recommendations, especially regarding the archaeological site known as Crismon Pueblo (AZ U:9:173 [ASM]) and the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Holly S. DeMaagd.

At the request of Janice Cunningham of U.S. West Communication (US West), Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd. (ACS) performed subsurface testing along a proposed utility (fiber optic communication cable) right-of-way. The right-of-way will be located within the southern access road for the Grand Canal, which passes through Pueblo Grande Historic Landmark (Pueblo Grande). The canal is owned by the Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) and administered by the Salt River Project (SRP)....

DOCUMENT Full-Text Donald E. Weaver, Jr.. Richard Ciolek-Torello.

This report summarizes the first year of archaeological studies for the Tucson Aqueduct-Phase A Hohokam sites. A part of the Central Arizona Project, the work was carried out by Museum of Northern Arizona personnel under Contract to the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. The report summarizes the work accomplished, reviews preliminary research results, suggests modifications to the project research design, and presents a work plan for the second year of the project, September 6, 1984 to September 5,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Arizona State Museum, Tuscon, AZ.

The Tucson Aqueduct is the final seg­ment of the Bureau of Reclamation’s Central Arizona Project (CAP). This 330-mile-long aqueduct system will deliver water from the Colorado River to central and southern Arizona to alleviate a continuing ground-water overdraft crisis and to provide water for municipal, industrial, and agri­cultural use. Phase B is the second and last leg of the Tucson Aqueduct. It begins just north of Tucson near Marana and winds its way south through the Avra Valley to the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jon S. Czaplicki.

Arizona State Museum's 1985-1986 Annual Report is a summary of the field­work and activities during the first contract year of the Tucson Aqueduct-Phase B, Mitigative Data Recovery Study in the Avra Valley. Management information and research results of the 15 Hohokam sites investigated are presented in this report. The plan of work for 1986-1987 involving field­work, analyses, report preparation and miscellaneous projects are also discussed in the annual report.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Dana Hartman.

This report is the result of a proposed subterrene drainage project at Tuzigoot National Monument. In June, 1975, the Museum of Northern Arizona contracted with the National Park Service (Contract No. CX81005004) to study the impact of the drainage project on the archaeological resources at the Monument. In conjunction with this phase of the project, Museum archaeologists were to locate all possible undisturbed deposits in the pueblo. These deposits would be plotted on an archaeological base map...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Earl Zarbin.

Now, and into the foreseeable future, most water brought into the Salt River Valley, home to Phoenix — the nation’s sixth most populous city in 2017 — and other growing communities, is used for urban purposes. To the visionaries who passed this desert area in the 1800s, their predictions of a future metropolis were more than fulfilled. The most significant event in the transformation from desert to home to America’s 12th-largest metropolitan area with more than 4.5 million people was the...

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The on-the-ground survey of the ditches was designed to locate any remnants of prehistoric activities and to note the historic and historic/modern structures and use areas which reflect the past and intertwine with the ditches and fields to create the ambient that is the San Juan Valley. The notations and locations have been used to ensure that carrying out Stage III of the project would disturb or destroy as few resources as possible and to contribute to the general knowledge of the history of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jerome Hesse. Branden Fjerstad. Suzanne Griset.

Salt River Project (SRP) has requested that the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) conduct the Verde Reservoirs Sediment Mitigation Study (VRSMS) to evaluate options for restoring the storage capacity lost and to reduce future capacity impacts from the natural sedimentation process within the Horseshoe Reservoir on the lower Verde River northeast of Phoenix. The loss of capacity, coupled with the increase in hydrological variability associated with climate change, creates concerns about...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh. T.J. Ferguson.

For nearly a century, archaeologists have endeavored to illuminate 12,000 years of Native American history in the San Pedro Valley of southeastern Arizona. Although this scholarship has provided an essential foundation for our understanding of the region, it is limited by the construction of history through the singular interpretive framework of western scientific practice. The Tohono O'odham, Hopi, Zuni, and Western Apache peoples all maintain distinct oral traditions that provide alternative...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Merwin L. Murphy.

Among the papers left by William John Murphy and his wife, Laura Fulwiler Murphy, were some 500 letters and other papers. Ralph Murphy recalling on his own memory, wrote a book that he hoped to get published through commercial channels. The author's agent that he dealt with insisted that his manuscript was too dull and urged him to make it more dramatic. This he attempted in a revision which he called W. J., which never got beyond the manuscript form. There is a store of information about W....

DOCUMENT Full-Text David M. Introcaso.

Because settlement and sustained growth in the arid West has been impossible without an adequate water supply, the history of the region requires an understanding of water resource development. In central Arizona, water development on the Gila River, the state's principle river, was attained only after a long period of conflict. Historically, the Gila River had been used by the Pima Indian community. This tribe had successfully dwelled for many centuries as an agrarian society by diverting the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text J. Simon Bruder. Cara Lonardo. A.E. (Gene) Rogge.

APS proposes to construct (1) two parallel 500 kilovolt (kV) transmission lines within a 450-foot-wide right-of-way, (2) an 80-acre 500kV switchyard, and (3) a 230kV interconnection line in Maricopa County. The project will provide transmission interconnection for the Panda Gila River generating station to the Western Systems Coordinating Council transmission grid.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Lloyd Allison.

Under the premise of "Give us our water and we will take care of ourselves," the book includes two chapters surrounding the irrigation practices of the Pima-Maricopa Indians from the mid-19th century to the present. The first chapter discusses the early irrigation practices of the Pima-Maricopa Indians and their history within the Gila and Salt River valleys supplemented with information from excavation and government documentation. Using this information, the second chapter lists a series of...

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Between October 2002 and April 2003, Logan Simpson Design Inc. (LSD) conducted archaeological excavations at six prehistoric Prescott Culture sites around Willow and Watson Lakes, situated in the Granite Dells, a picturesque area of exposed granite bedrock located approximately 6.5 to 8 km (4 to 5 miles) north of the city of Prescott. The results of these excavations and the specialized studies of recovered artifacts and cultural samples are presented herein and, it is hoped, contribute to an...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard A. Brook.

Wirth Associates contracted with the Museum of Northern Arizona to conduct an archaeological impact study of a proposed Salt River Project Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station Routing Alternate to Westwing Receiving Station. This study delineates areas with three levels of potential site occurence for the project area, and investigates potential effects on the cultural resources of the alternative corridors proposed by Salt River Project. A short data gathering phase, prior to field work,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Michael D. Metcalf. Howard M. Davidson. Kathleen E. Moffitt.

At the request of Wirth Associates, the Museum of Northern Arizona conducted a Phase I archaeological study of an area in east-central Arizona to identify prehistoric and ethno-historic groups in to delineate areas of potential archaeological sensitivity within the study area. Existing archaeological site data were gathered from various Arizona and New Mexico institutions, and archaeological site density per township was mapped. Site density figures were compared with vegetational and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text John M. Antieau.

An intensive survey of approximately 67 km (42 mi) of transmission line right-of-way between Kyrene and the Tonto National Forest boundary was completed by a 3-man crew in 15 days. A total of 144 field numbers were assigned to cultural materials encountered, ranging from a single flake or sherd to a large site or component thereof. Material recovered is summarized in Table 1, and locations are plotted on accompanying aerial photos. Isolated artifacts and small scatters were collected; samples (1...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Leah S. Glaser.

After fifty years of service,Juan Martinez retired from the Salt River Project on June 20, 1968. From the age of seven­teen, Martinez had worked alongside hundreds of other Yaqui In­dians maintaining the Salt River Valley’s irrigation system. For much of that time, he lived and raised his family in a company-owned labor camp—one of the largest Yaqui settlements in Ari­zona. At the camp, corporate interests cultivated the Indian com­munity in a mutually beneficial arrangement that supported the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Glen Rice.

Over the course of the last seven to ten years, archaeologists working in different parts of the south central desert of Arizona have begun the documentation of Community Complexes. This is a general term for a range of phenomena which lie somewhere on the scale between community patterns and settlement patterns. This is a discussion of settlement structure rather than style, and not all researchers will be comfortable with this orientation. I readily violate and ignore many long standing...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Dana Hartman. Arthur H. Wolf.

The Wupatki region comprises a unique and fascinating national monument. During almost its entire history, this area was avoided by inhabitants of the surrounding regions; Wapatki is arid, wind-swept and inhospitable. For a time lasting less than 150 years, however, Wupatki flourished as a cultural contact zone. This population influx was due to the effects of the A.D. 1064-1065 Sunset Crater eruption, which spread a moisture-retaining layer of volcanic ash and cinder over the landscape and...

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This book is a glimpse at the visual and narrative history of the Yaqui Indians, who came to Scottsdale to work for the Salt River Valley Water Users Association (SRVWUA) in the early 1900s. It is the stories of their descendants who chose to remain in Scottsdale as an independent Yaqui community when the Salt River Project closed its company labor camps. It begins with a real life example of the Yaquis' escape from Mexico as refugees, which spanned the period 1886 to 1927. It tells of their...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Judy L. Brunson. William R. Gibson. Eric Peterson.

The Zuni Heaven project is a proposed land selection for Apache County, Arizona. Nearly 5,900 acres will be available for transfer to the County. In three phases, between October 1985 and July 1987, BLM inventoried over 7,100 acres to locate sufficient acreage for transfer. During the surveys, 32 sites were recorded in 19 different parcels. A total of 5,977 acres have been recommended for transfer to Apache County, excluding parcels which contain National Register potential properties.