DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Joseph A. Ezzo.

As cultural resource consultants to the Bureau of Reclamation's Lower Colorado Regional Office, Statistical Research Inc. conducted a Class II noncollection archaeological and ethnographic survey of 3,100 acres in the Quien Sabe/Big Maria Terrace region of Riverside County, California. The survey covered 20 percent of lands managed by Reclamation in this region. Six parcels of land, blocks, or survey were selected for survey on the basis of previous investigations and the potential these areas...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text David R. Wilcox. Jerry B. Howard. Rueben H. Nelson.

When the Salt River Project (SRP) decided to build the Lassen Substation (LSS) along the Western Canal just east of Priest Drive in Tempe, they determined to recover the significant archaeological resources that would otherwise be impacted. Thus a 2-ac parcel of the Hohokam village site known as La Ciudad de Los Hornos was excavated in 1988 by Archaeological Consulting Services (ACS); 195 cultural features were recorded. SRP also contracted with the present authors to write an overview of...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Jerry B. Howard. Gary Huckleberry.

Archaeological investigations sponsored by the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) were conducted by Soil Systems, Inc. (SSI) at several sites within the East Papago Freeway corridor, including El Caserío (AZ T:12:49(ASM)), La Lomita (AZ U:9:67(ASM)), and La Lomita Pequeña (AZ U:9:66(ASM)). During the investigation of these sites, a significant number of canal alignments were encountered, prompting the sponsoring of the East Papago Canal Study by ADOT. Canal System 2, traversed by the...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Joshua Watts.

The Hohokam of central Arizona left behind evidence of a culture markedly different from and more complex than the small communities of O'odham farmers first encountered by Europeans in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries A.D. Archaeologists have worked for well over a century to document Hohokam culture history, but much about Pre-Columbian life in the Sonoran Desert remains poorly understood. In particular, the organization of the Hohokam economy in the Phoenix Basin has been an elusive...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Cory Harris.

Histories of archaeology increasingly focus on the role that the social context of the discipline plays in shaping its intellectual production. Of particular importance in the social context of American archaeology during the last half of the 20th century is the development of Cultural Resource Management (CRM) archaeology. The coalescence of the CRM industry has transformed archaeology—providing new sources of support, mandating new goals, and placing practitioners into newly emergent...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Jason A Hooten. Michael H. Ort. Mark D. Elson.

Sunset Crater is the youngest cinder cone in a cluster of Quaternary volcanoes at the northeastern edge of the Pliocene to Holocene (5 Ma to Recent) San Francisco Volcanic Field. Based on dendrochronologyspecifically the recovery of complacent tree-rings on several archaeological specimens from Wupatki Ruin-the eruption of Sunset Crater is dated at A.D. 1064 (Smiley 1958). The eruption may have continued episodically for approximately 100 to 200 years (Amos 1986; Champion 1980; Ulrich et al....

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Steven L. Fuller. A. E. Rogge. Linda M. Gregonis.

The Orme Alternatives Project, which is part of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation's Central Arizona Project, was implemented in order to examine possible alternatives to the proposed Orme Dam and Reservoir. As reported by Canouts (1975), the proposed Orme Reservoir Project would have an extremely adverse impact upon the cultural resources of central Arizona. Therefore, the Bureau of Reclamation contracted the Arizona State Museum to evaluate the impact of two partial alternatives. One alternative...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text India S. Hesse.

SWCA Environmental Consultants (SWCA), under contract with Outpost Development, conducted archaeological testing at site AZ BB:10:59 (ASM) in unincorporated Pima County, near Tucson, Arizona. Site AZ BB:10:59 (ASM) lies partially within the site of a proposed residential development located on privately held land. Site AZ BB:10:59 (ASM) was originally recorded by Professional Archaeological Services of Tucson (P.A.S.T.) as an extensive, light-to-moderate prehistoric Native American lithic and...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Kye Miller.

This paper provides a brief review of the Ironwood Village site structure, an overview of architectural styles observed at the site, a discussion of variation in architectural practice observed at the site, and a regional comparison of Hohokam pit structure architecture within the greater Tucson Basin. Data recovery at the Ironwood Village site resulted in the discovery of nearly a hundred Pioneer and Colonial period architectural features. The area investigated was centered around a large...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text T. Michael Fink. lorrie lincoln-babb. Korri Dee Turner.

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DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text T. Michael Fink. Lorrie Lincoln-Babb. Korri Dee Turner.

La Villa is a Phoenix Basin Hohokam site situated along Canal System 2 with continued occupation from the late Pioneer to the early Sedentary Period, or approximately 500 years. Since 1994, there have been six archaeological projects at the site that have recovered the range of mortuary features expected for that extent of time; 107 cremations, 14 inhumations, and hundreds of instances of isolated bone. The large number of burials therefore provides the opportunity to examine various aspects of...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Will Russell. Hoski Schaafsma. Katherine A. Spielmann.

Throughout the Southwestern United States and Mesoamerica, prehistoric people used running and racing as a means of religious expression, personal sacrifice and community cohesion. In such context, the physical location of racing was often unimportant and constructed facilities were relatively rare. In the Perry Mesa region of Central Arizona, however, manufactured “racetracks” were highly formalized and represent the only form of communal architecture in this area. We studied these features...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Emil W. Haury.

The body of literature dealing with the archaeology of the San Juan drainage, while large, is strangely silent concerning the extreme northeastern corner of Arizona in the region of the Carrizo and Lukachukai Mountains. Prudden, in his classic study of the ruins in the San Juan watershed, mentions both surface and cave sites but they were small for the most part, and none received more than a cursory examination. Many years later, in 1924, a Peabody Museum expedition headed by Oliver LaFarge,...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Glenn S. L. Stuart.

As part of the 06-61 Pueblo del Rio Data Recovery Project, two sediment samples from the Pueblo del Rio site, AZ T:12:116(ASM), were submitted to Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd. (ACS) for palynological analysis. Both of the samples are derived from archaeological features, one from a posthole within a structure and the other from a structure floor. Both samples produced analyzable extracts.

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Jerry Brian Howard.

Past studies of the Hohokam irrigation systems have focused on the examination of small segments of individual prehistoric canals. The application of open channel equations to individual cross-sections has provided information on discharge capacity and water velocity at specific points in time and space. This study focuses on the development of techniques and approaches to modeling the operation of complete canals. Extant records of cross-sections of the Prehistoric Hohokam canals are compiled...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Jill Heilman. Helana Ruter. Daniel H. Sorrell. J. Simon Bruder.

At the request of Olsson Associates, Inc. (Olsson), EcoPlan Associates, Inc. (EcoPlan) cultural resource specialists relocated and assessed where possible National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) eligibility for known cultural resources within both the Phoenix- and Tempe-owned portions of Papago Park, Maricopa County, Arizona. This research was done in support of a new regional master plan for the park. The master plan is being developed cooperatively by the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text India S. Hesse.

On August 30, 2003, archaeologists from SWCA Environmental Consultants completed an archaeological survey of an approximately 14-acre parcel located in Sahuarita, Arizona. The survey was done under contract with Park Corporation. Russell Waldron served as SWCA’s lead project manager, and India Hesse served as Project Archaeologist. This survey was conducted in order to comply with Section 106 (36 CFR part 800) of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended (Federal Register 1999)...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Michael W. Lindeman. Helga Wöcherl.

Prehistoric occupation of the Tucson Basin extends back at least 6,000 years. Not surprisingly, as a primary watercourse, the Santa Cruz River has been the focus of much of the prehistoric activity. Approximately 4,000 years ago, early agriculturalists began farming along the banks of the river, supplementing a diet composed primarily of wild foods. As agricultural technology developed, people built canals in the floodplain. The canals increased crop yields and reduced some of the risks...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Banks L. Leonard. Rebecca Hill.

This report describes the methodology, results, and recommendations of a partial data recovery and burial removal project conducted by Soil Systems, Inc. (SSI) in March and May 1999 for Kitchell Development Co. for a parcel along the east side of the large Hohokam village site known as Pueblo Grande (AZ U:9:1(ASM)) in Phoenix, Arizona. According to proposed development plans, two areas were to be excavated below grade for a building foundation and a runoff detention basin and the rest of the...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Matthew E. Hill, Jr.. J. Simon Bruder.

Kimley-Hom and Associates are under contract with the Williams Gateway Airport Authority (WGAA) to provide services for design of the reconstruction and extension of Runway 12L-30R. A number of archaeological sites listed on the National Register of Historic Places (National Register) extend within the construction zone. Therefore, WGAA was required to take into account the potential for its undertakings to affect those archaeological sites under the terms of its lease agreement with the Air...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Melissa Kruse.

A common issue of the Legacies on the Landscape project in the Perry Mesa region in Central Arizona is determining if the differences in the landscape are the result of prehistoric land use or if these differences in ecosystem structure represent a preexisting landscape patchiness that attracted prehistoric people to certain locales. This analysis investigates the settlement patterns of Perry Mesa as they relate to warfare and/or the perceived threat of warfare in the region. Perry Mesa...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Citation Only Patricia E. Rubertone.

The design of ·the research hypotheses sampling, data collection and analyses, has made it possible to extrapolate for the region in general the transformations of the natural into the cultural landscape. The analysis of the pattern of settlement when evaluated in terms of the distribution of natural resources exposes many innuendos of prehistoric land use. While the utilization of resources is not totally dependent on demographic variables,(i.e., religious, social etc., norms can also program...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Barbara H. Butler.

Casas Grandes offers an unusual opportunity for a physical anthropologist. There is good archaeological control of spatial and temporal distributions of the skeletal populations, and therefore the results of examinations of these skeletons can contribute important data to general studies of micro-evolutionary changes in Homo sapiens. Studies of the genetics of morphological variation and analysis of discontinous traits of skeletons aid in understanding micro-evolutionary change. This project...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Henry D. Wallace.

During the portion of the San Xavier Survey which covered parts of Black Mountain, the petroglyphs reported by Fontana and others (1959) and Ferg (1979) were encountered, as were several new elements and localities. This report documents the petroglyphs found and provides limited interpretations of their significance, dating, and stylistic relationships to other petroglyphs in the Tucson area. Data gathered from the Black Mountain site (AA:16:12) contribute toward the development of a regional...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Diana C. Kamilli.

Ten plainware potsherds from the Country Club Road Project were submitted for thin sectioning and petrographic analysis in the hopes that differences in the compositional assemblages would give clues to temper collection patterns, pottery movement, material treatment, or firing technology. All ten sherds were cut into standard thin sections, stained for alkali feldspar and calcic plagioclase, and examined under a research Zeiss petrographic microscope.

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Elizabeth Miksa.

This report contains the description of data collection procedures and analysis methods for petrographic thin sections of potsherds recovered from the MCDOT Pueblo Blanco project near Scottsdale, Arizona. Fifty-three plainware, redware, polychrome, and buffware sherds from AZ U:9:95 (ASM) and AZ U:9:97 (ASM) were analyzed. In addition, five polychrome sherds from AZ U:15:3 (ASM) were analyzed for comparison with the Pueblo Blanco polychrome sherds. The type of analysis employed for this project...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text James M. Heidke. Diana C. Kamilli. Elizabeth Miksa.

The goal of the present study is to identify the provenance of ceramics recovered from project area sites in the lower Verde River on the basis of the temper found within them (Ciolek-Torrello et al. 1992:111-75 to III-85). The focus of this study is on sand temper. Ceramic wares and/or types produced within the study area are distinguished from those imported from other areas. A reconnaissance sample of wash sands from the lower Verde River area was collected and analyzed to provide the...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text James M. Heidke. Michael K. Wiley.

Ceramic vessels produced in the prehistoric southwest often contain abundant temper such as sand, disaggregated rock, and crushed sherd. Both sand and disaggregated rock tempers can be used as indicators of the provenance of archaeological ceramics when their geological sources are identified (Arnold 1985; Miksa 1995; Miksa and Heidke 1995; Schaller 1994; Shepard 1936, 1942). The goal of the present study is to identify the provenance of Tanque Verde Red-on-brown ceramics recovered from a...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Michael K. Wiley. Elizabeth Miksa.

Dr. Patricia Gilman, director of the San Simon Archaeological Project, collected sand and sherd samples from four late Archaic site excavations with ASM site designations located in the Whitlock valley. The purpose of her collection was to examine the relative degree of sedentism and mobility associated with pit structures in the prehistoric Southwest. In February of 1994, the collection was assembled for petrologic analysis. Twenty-three sherd and two sand samples were submitted to Elizabeth...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text B. Lynn Linthicum.

The location, description, and interpretation of intrasite social groups is essential to a better understanding of prehistoric Southwest social organization. Through the use of cluster 'analyses of various characteristics of masonry walls at the Pettit and Six Rocks Sites, it was possible to isolate clusters of walls indicative of groups labeled masonry construction task groups. An abutment study used in conjunction with a ceramic analysis made it possible to locate the various construction...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text James M. Vint. Bruce B. Huckell. Penny Minturn.

This report presents the results of Phase 1 data recovery at 13 archaeological sites along the proposed right-of-way for the Punkin Center Section of State Route 188. The Punkin Center Section is one part of a multi-year Arizona Department of Transportation project to realign and improve a 29-km long portion of SR 188, the principal road passing through the Tonto Basin, Gila County, Arizona. The project is funded by the Federal Highway Administration and occurs on Arizona Department of...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Bruce B. Huckell. James M. Vint.

This report presents the results of Phase 1 data recovery of nine archaeological sites along the proposed right-of-way for the Slate Creek Section of State Route 188. The Slate Creek Section is one part of a multiyear Arizona Department of Transportation project to realign and improve a 29-km long portion of SR 188, the principal road passing through the Tonto Basin, Gila County, Arizona. The entire project corridor extends north from Sycamore Creek to the junction of SR 188 with SR 87. The...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Bruce B. Huckell. Brenda G. Randolph. Danielle Desruisseaux.

This report presents the results of the Phase 1 testing of seven prehistoric archaeological sites falling within the proposed right-of-way for the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) Sycamore Creek Project, within the Tonto Basin, Gila County, central Arizona. The project is funded by the Federal Highway Administration and occurs on Arizona Department of Transportation right-of-way across Tonto National Forest land. The seven tested sites include a late Preclassic pithouse village [AZ...

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As authorized under the Arizona Water Settlements Act of 2004, the San Carlos and Irrigation Drainage District (SCIDD) is undertaking a 10-year rehabilitation project of its irrigation system. SCIDD is the non-Indian irrigation component of the San Carlos Irrigation Project (SCIP), which provides irrigation water to the communities of Florence, Coolidge, and Casa Grande in Pinal County, Arizona. The initial focus of the SCIDD Rehabilitation Project is the rehabilitation of the Ashurst-Hayden...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Erik Steinbach. Mark Hackbarth. Glen E. Rice.

The Frank Luke Addition was built in 1952 as one of three public housing complexes making up the City of Phoenix East Asset Management Program (East AMP). In an effort to revitalize the City’s public housing facilities and meet goals of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the City of Phoenix Housing Department proposes to redevelop the Frank Luke Addition. A portion of the Frank Luke Addition falls within the 250 foot buffer zone around the Patrick Locus, which is a...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Banks L. Leonard.

This report describes the methodology, results, and recommendations of a two phase archaeological testing project conducted by Soil Systems, Inc. (SSI) in March and May 1999 for Kitchell Development Co. (KDC) for a parcel of land along the east side of the Hohokam village Pueblo Grande (AZ U:9:1(ASM)) in Phoenix, Arizona. Phase 1 testing involved the excavation and recording of eight backhoe trenches in two parts of the parcel. Phase 2 testing was designed to help define the limits of the...

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At the request of the Bureau of Reclamation-Phoenix Area Office, ACS conducted Phase 2 data recovery at the Lake Pleasant Rockshelter site (AZ T:4:150[ASM]), Yavapai County, Arizona. Based on the results of Phase 1 investigations conducted at the site (Pinter et al. 2009), Reclamation determined that potentially significant subsurface cultural deposits were present that could provide important new data on prehistoric, protohistoric, and historic Native American and Euroamerican occupation of the...

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Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement and Power District (SRP) has planned and partially constructed an 88-mile-long 500-kV extra-high-voltage transmission line linking the Pinal West, Duke, Pinal Central, Abel, and Dinosaur substations (Arizona Corporate Commission Certificate of Environmental Compatibility, Case No. 126) in south-central Arizona. The transmission line between the Dinosaur and proposed Pinal Central substations has already been constructed; the portion connecting the...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Joseph A. Ezzo. David M. R. Barr. Douglas R. Mitchell.

The Union Pacific Railroad (UPRR) has planned a major construction effort within its 200-foot-wide right-of-way (ROW) throughout much of Arizona. The UPRR Sunset Accelerated Capacity Project includes construction of a second rail line running from Tucson (in Pima County) to Yuma (in Yuma County), as well as renovations to the existing line, such as construction of new bridges and culverts. A Section 404 permit requires that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) consider the cultural resources...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Joseph A. Ezzo. David B. Tucker.

In April 2007, SWCA Environmental Consultants (SWCA) completed archaeological testing of seven sites on 1,896 acres of privately owned land for the proposed Villages of Tortolita development. The proposed development area is located north of the Town of Marana in Pima and Pinal counties. This testing was conducted that followed a treatment plan developed at the request of Mr. Shane Graser of TMR Investors, LLC. The total proposed Villages of Tortolita development area has been previously...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text J. Scott Courtright. Rebecca J. Hill.

The following report summarizes the results of 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). The Salt River Project (SRP) plans to construct a substation within a rectangular-shaped, 310- by 360-foot area (USGS Higley, Arizona 7.5' 1956/1981). The 2.5-acre Rohrig...

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Between July 18 and August 15, 2005, SWCA Environmental Consultants conducted Phase II archaeological data recovery at AZ EE:1:145 (ASM), AZ EE:1:146 (ASM), and AZ EE:1:149 (ASM), on the Arizona School Facilities Board (ASFB) property in Rancho Sahuarita, Town of Sahuarita, Pima County, Arizona. The project was conducted through a contractual agreement with ASFB and AMEC Earth & Environmental, Inc., and the Phase II data recovery work plan and subsequent analysis and reportage subject to review...

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This report documents Phase II data recovery at a portion of the project site performed by archaeologists from Jacobs Engineering (Jacobs) in Phoenix, Arizona. Under contract with Maricopa County Department of Transportation (MCDOT), archaeologists from Jacobs conducted data recovery at the site from January 8, 2013, through May 1, 2013. The Phase II data recovery resulted in the discovery of 104 features and excavation of 85 features, along with the recovery of thousands of artifacts.

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Patricia Cook.

The Road Improvement Project (City of Tucson Project No. 07 32) intersected a portion of the Tanque Verde Wash site located in the eastern Tucson Basin, Pima County, Arizona. The affected right-of-way was investigated with Phase 1 and Phase 2 data recovery projects. Archaeological monitoring in both the right-of-way and was conducted during subsurface construction activities within the site. Phased data recovery was conducted between May and June, 2011, while monitoring on an as needed basis...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text A.E. (Gene) Rogge. Glenn P. Darrington.

In 1998, the Phoenix City Council approved the Sonoran Preserve Master Plan, building on the City’s history of setting aside lands for recreation, environmental education, and preservation of native habitats (Burke and Ewan 1999), The plan defines a vision for a Sonoran desert preserve to protect additional open space in north Phoenix. Much of the land within the Phoenix Sonoran Desert Preserve planning area is Arizona State Trust land. The Arizona Preserve Initiative (API), signed into law in...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd..

The Bureau of Reclamation has developed an archaeological site database for the Central Arizona Project (CAP) canal main stem based on the Class III survey data that includes all previously recorded sites. To assist Reclamation in checking the accuracy of its site database, Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd. (ACS) was asked to revisit 22 sites that had been identified in Reaches 1 and 2 of the Fannin-McFarland portion of the CAP canal. This is the photolog for the photos taken from the...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd..

The Bureau of Reclamation has developed an archaeological site database for the Central Arizona Project (CAP) canal main stem based on the Class III survey data that includes all previously recorded sites. An unknown number of these sites were either destroyed by construction or excavation, while others are no longer located within the CAP right-of-way (ROW). To assist Reclamation in checking the accuracy of its site database, Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd. (ACS) was asked to revisit...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd..

The Bureau of Reclamation has developed an archaeological site database for the Central Arizona Project (CAP) canal main stem based on the Class III survey data that includes all previously recorded sites. An unknown number of these sites were either destroyed by construction or excavation, while others are no longer located within the CAP right-of-way (ROW). To assist Reclamation in checking the accuracy of its site database, Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd. (ACS) was asked to revisit...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd..

The Bureau of Reclamation has developed an archaeological site database for the Central Arizona Project (CAP) canal main stem based on the Class III survey data that includes all previously recorded sites. An unknown number of these sites were either destroyed by construction or excavation, while others are no longer located within the CAP right-of-way (ROW). To assist Reclamation in checking the accuracy of its site database, Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd. (ACS) was asked to revisit...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd..

The Phoenix Area Office (PXAO), Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation), has developed an archaeological site database for the Central Arizona Project (CAP) main stem canal. The current data is based on data resulting from Class III surveys conducted in the 1970s and 1980s prior to the canal’s construction. To assist in checking the accuracy of its site database, Reclamation requested that Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd. (ACS) revisit 74 sites that had been identified in Reaches 3, 4,...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Steve Swanson. Will Russell.

Units 101 and 102 represent a room suite located in the northwest portion of Phyllis Pueblo. Unit 101 is a rectangular room situated west of and connected by a doorway with a room referred to as Unit 102. A single (perhaps spine-) wall running east-west serves as the south wall for both Unit 101 and Unit 102. A second apparent spine-wall, four meters north of and parallel to the first, serves as the north wall of both rooms. Three shorter walls, each running north-south between the two spine...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Steve Swanson.

Unit 103 is a room located in the northwestern area of Phyllis Pueblo. The unit was encountered beneath a later occupation (Units 101 and 102). Unit 103 was built on the northwest side of Phyllis Pueblo, upon a surface that has a slight downwards slope to the southwest.

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Will Russell.

Unit 201 is located in pueblo room at Phyllis Pueblo (LA45160). The site is located on Palomas Creek, a western tributary of the Rio Grande in southwest New Mexico. Based on extant ceramics and other temporally diagnostic artifacts (Floor Znd subsurface), the immediate area appears to have hosted occupations between the late seventh and early twenty-first centuries. This time frame includes the Late Postclassic period (ca. A.D. 1300-1450), a primary focus of the Mogollon Prehistoric Landscapes...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Will Russell. Garrett Trask.

The Phyllis Pueblo site (LA45160) is located on Palomas Creek, a western tributary of the Rio Grande in southwestern New Mexico. Unit 202 is located in the east-central portion of the site, where deposits appear to be highest and prehistoric architecture is partially overlain by an historic structure. The unit contains at least four separate occupations (Z, A, B, and C), with Z being the lowest (i.e., earliest) and C being the highest (i.e., latest). Each has a distinct floor and, ostensibly,...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Will Russell. Karen Gust Schollmeyer. Margaret C. Nelson.

The Phyllis Pueblo site (LA45160) is located on Palomas Creek, a western tributary of the Rio Grande in southwestern New Mexico. Unit 202 is located in the east-central portion of the site and was first excavated in 2009. An unexpected number of superimposed floors and corresponding walls were encountered. Excavation resumed the following year in order to better understand the relationship between these walls, floors, and associated artifacts. Within and adjacent to Unit 202, we encountered...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Will Russell. Colleen Strawhacker. Garrett Trask.

The Phyllis Pueblo site (LA45160) is located on Palomas Creek, a western tributary of the Rio Grande in southwestern New Mexico. Unit 204 was identified in 2009 during excavations in the adjacent room of Unit 202. The former is immediately east of the latter and they appear to have shared a common wall throughout most, if not all, occupations. In 2010, additional excavation was undertaken in the southern section of Phyllis Pueblo. This continued research was designed to answer questions about...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Will Russell.

The Phyllis Pueblo site (LA45160) is located on Palomas Creek, a western tributary of the Rio Grande in southwestern New Mexico. Unit 206 was identified in 2009 during excavation in the adjacent room of Unit 202. The former is immediately north of the latter and they appear to have shared a common wall throughout most, if not all, occupations. In 2010, additional excavation was undertaken in the southern section of Phyllis Pueblo. This continued research was designed to answer questions about...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Sanjay Eksambekar. Jaime Dexter.

Two prehistoric sites at the Rinker Materials Plant 225 in Green Valley, Arizona were surveyed in 1999. Rock piles were identified in both the Rinker Site (AZ EE:1:291), and the Mesquacia Site (AZ EE:1:293). Although rock piles have typically been interpreted as being associated with agricultural activities of the Hohokam, they are now proposed to be agrobiological sites. Their prime function is interpreted to be the enhancement of plant nutrition and growth relative to soil management. Ten...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Linda Scott Cummings.

Forty tabular stone knives from Sites AZ U:2:73, AZ U:2:80, and AZ U:2:93 in the Lower Verde project area in central Arizona were washed for phytoliths and possible plant proteins. These knives were recovered from floors or roofs in processing areas at village sites and are believed to have been used to process agave. The phytolith washes were examined for the presence of agave raphids, and the protein residue washes were tested against agave antisera to detect prehistoric agave proteins.

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Allen Dart. William H. Doelle.

The Pima County Inventory Project was carried out by the Institute for American Research under a contract with the Arizona State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO). Three major tasks were called out in the original scope of work. They are briefly summarized here. 1. Compile all existing data on archaeological surveys and archaeological sites in Pima County. These data are to be plotted on USGS maps of Pima County, and any sites not already in AZSITE are to be coded on appropriate forms....

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This report details the results of archival research and archaeological testing and data recovery on the historical Block 180 of the original townsite of Tucson. This work was conducted by Statistical Research, Inc., for the Pima County Facilities Management Department due to the planned construction of the Pima County Public Works Center and YMCA complex on the block. The investigations uncovered extensive evidence of human occupation of the block from the prehistoric Hohokam to the historical...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Owen Lindauer.

This report describes the archaeological investigation, history, and characteristics of the Schoolhouse Point Mound site, part of the Pinto Creek Complex and the Schoolhouse Management Group. The Schoolhouse Point Mound (U:8:24/13a) is a large site with complex stratigraphy. The investigation of it reported here was intensive. The Schoolhouse Point Mound is immediately above the floodplain of the Salt River, on a mesa situated where the river makes a sweeping bend. It is also at the point...

DOCUMENT [not managed] 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...

DOCUMENT [not managed] 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...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Glen E. Rice. Erik Steinbach.

Archaeological trenching and the monitoring of demolition of existing structures in the Phase 2 area of the Frank Luke Addition project in the City of Phoenix has determined that the Hohokam site of La Ciudad, also known as AZ T:12:1 (ASM), extends into the proposed construction area for the Frank Luke Addition project. This report presents the findings of monitoring and trenching and a recommendation for a data recovery program to document register eligible resources that will be affected by...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text J. Homer Thiel.

The A-Mountain drainage system is being designed by Parsons Brinkerhoff, Inc., for the City of Tucson to alleviate flooding in the residential neighborhood between A-Mountain and the Santa Cruz River. As part of the planning process, Desert Archaeology, Inc., performed an archaeological survey and archival study of the parcel of land on which the drainage system will be placed (Thiel 1993a). On the basis of this preliminary work, Desert Archaeology recommended that an archaeological testing...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Melissa Kruse-Peeples.

Plan map of agricultural terraces at Bull Tank Farm, Perry Mesa.

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Glen E. Rice. Charles Redman.

Platform mounds were built by the prehistoric Salado and Hohokam people of southern Arizona from the 13th through the 15th century A.O., the Classic period. They are basically artificial, flat-topped hills on which the ruling families of the day built their homes. Additional residences and storage rooms were built around the base of a mound, and the whole was enclosed within a compound wall. Each mound was the administrative, ceremonial, and economic center for a small-scale political system,...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. PaleoResearch Institute.

Pollen was collected and analyzed from six samples at the Dalton Site of New River, Arizona. This large Hohokam site consists chiefly of limited resource activity areas spanning the Colonial and Sedentary periods (approximately AD 550-1150). Pollen analysis was directed toward the recovery of evidence for use of indigenous or cultivated plant resources.

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Site AZ AA:12:869(ASM) includes a prehistoric canal. This Colonial Hohokam site yielded a radiocarbon age of AD 880 to 970 (one-sigma calibration) near the top of the canal and an age of AD 780 to 900 and AD 790 to 900 (one-sigma calibration) near the bottom of the canal. This canal came off the Rillto River. Pollen samples were examined from the modern surface in a fallow cotton field, and from the prehistoric canal beneath a large sherd and under a mano fragment. Pollen analysis was...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Seventy-eight pollen samples were examined from a variety of locations within Los Hornos primarily to address questions regarxiing subsistence and economic strategies. Various natural and cultural factors may have influenced these strategies, which are likely to have relied heavily on farming, with the addition of collected or wild plant resources. Three research questions outlined under Problem Domain IV may be addressed directly through the pollen record: 1. What economic resources were...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. R.A. Varney.

Five archaeological sites (two agricultural and three habitation) were examined in the Fort Mountain Project located in the Union Hills area north of Phoenix. Four of these archaeological sites were examined for archaeobotanic remains. Site AZ T:8:4(ASM), a residential site, yielded five pollen samples for analysis from three habitation features. Site AZ T:8:9(ASM) was comprised of numerous rock piles, five of which were examined for both pollen and phytoliths that might inform concerning...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. PaleoResearch Institute.

Eighteen pollen samples were analyzed from the Blue Point Bridge Archaological Site, a large Hohokam habitation site. The site was permanently occupied during the Sacaton phase (AD 900-1100) and possibly toward the end of the Santa Cruz phase (AD 700-900). Five functionally distinct spatial components were identified and features from three of these components were analyzed for pollen. Pollen analysis was conducted to identify specific biotic resources used at the site. In addition, data...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

The Houghton Road Site is located within the city limits of Tucson, Arizona immediately west of Houghton Road between Tanque Verde Road and Speedway Boulevard. It is situated on the flood plain at the convergence of the Tanque Verde and Agua Caliente washes. This Hohokam site has been archaeomagnetically dated to AD 400 to 600. Although it is a typical Hohokam site, some Mogollonlike architectural components are noted. This site includes large deep square houses, cremations and...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. PaleoResearch Institute.

The Toland Site. located on the eastern outskirts of Tucson, Arizona, is an open sherd and lithic scatter. Ceramics indicate an occupation during the "Middle Rincon Sub phase (AD 1000-1100) of the Hohokam chronology (Elson 1986)" (Earl Sires, written communication, February 7, 1989). The floors of two pithouses were sampled for pollen beneath trivets, a bowl, and a mano, and two manos were washed for their pollen content. Pollen analysis at this site was geared toward the recovery of...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. PaleoResearch Institute.

Pollen samples were analyzed from three sites (AZ N:4:23, PD-11, and PD-12) near Tuzigoot National Monument in the Verde Valley. Occupations include Hohokam, Sinagua, and historic Yavapai. Pollen samples collected at these sites represent living surfaces, a roasting pit, and two rock piles. Pollen analysis identified cultigens grown and addresses the subsistence base.

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Pollen and phytolith samples were examined from a variety of occupational proveniences within areas 8/9 and 14 at Pueblo Salado to examine the subsistence record. In addition to identifying vegetal elements of the subsistence base, examination of pollen from occupational proveniences provides evidence of patterns of economic activities. Pollen may contribute to an understanding of functional differentiation of space at Pueblo Salado, an element of Problem Domain I. Examination of the pollen...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

The La Lomita site (AZ U:9:67) and the Germann site (AZ U:10:2) are large Hohokam Village sites located in modern-day Phoenix, Arizona. Both areas have undergone repeated archaeological investigations. The La Lomita site represents occupation from at least the late Santa Cruz through middle Sacaton phases, while the Germann Site dates to the late Pioneer through Classic periods. Pollen analysis at these sites is limited to five samples from the La Lomita site and two samples from the...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Recovery of 165 samples for pollen analysis has been completed at 14 sites within the Hohokam northern periphery along the Agua Fria and New River drainages. Cultural resources in this area consist primarily of "small field house sites or farmsteads and associated agricultural systems" (Green 1986a:1). These sites date primarily within the Colonial, Sedentary, and Classic periods.

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. PaleoResearch Institute.

Six pollen samples were examined from two trenches at AZ T:4:35(ASM), New River Community Park. This large Hohokam site contains evidence of check dams and possible linear borders. Pollen analysis concentrated on identifying the presence of any cultigens associated with Check Dam 3 and Linear Border 3.

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

A cremation vessel recovered from a Hohokam site near the Rillito River in the western Tucson Basin was analyzed for pollen. Two samples were examined: a wash from the vessel interior and a soil sample collected from the vessel fill. Pollen analysis was undertaken to provide information concerning the contents of this vessel.

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Susan J. Smith.

Agricultural terraces from two sites on Perry Mesa (La Plata and Bull Tank) and one site at the north edge of Black Mesa (Richinbar Ruin) were investigated using pollen analysis. The samples are listed in Table 1 by site and context. The sites are located on mesas bounding canyons containing the headwaters of the Agua Fria River. Native populations of Agave parryi grown on the mesas and around sites grow hybrid agaves (Agave chrysantha x A. parryi) that are living artifacts of pre-Columbian...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Site AZ T:4:97(ASM) appears to represent a limited Hohokam occupation sometime during the Sacaton Phase or Sedentary (AD 950-1150) . Feature 1 is an L-shaped rock alignment surrounded by a relatively dense artifact concentration. A single pollen sample was collected for analysis from this feature in an effort to obtain information concerning any potential economic activity in this area.

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. PaleoResearch Institute.

Twenty extramural pits at the Krueger site (NAI9,765) in southern Arizona were examined for pollen. This Classic period Hohokam site may represent either a small village that was permanently inhabited or a seasonally reoccupied camp that appears to have been occupied during the Soho phase (AD 1100-1200).·A·variety of plant/food processing activities are assumed to have been undertaken at this site. Three research questions have been posed for the pollen (and macrofloral) analysis at this...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Thomas E. Moutoux.

Two pollen samples representing a pithouse and an extramural pit were examined for evidence of economic activity. Site AZ EE:9:117(ASM) is situated within the semi-desert grassland on the southwestern side of the Santa Cruz River approximately 3 miles northeast of Nogales, Arizona. This site represents an occupation between approximately 850-1150 AD.

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Kathryn Puseman. Jaime Dexter.

Features from two sites, AZ U:11:41 (ASM) and AZ U:11:126 (ASM) near Florence Junction, Arizona, were sampled for pollen and macrofloral remains. Both sites were excavated as a part of the Ranch 160 Project. The sites have been identified as Late Colonial Hohokam occupations, representing Santa Cruz through Sacaton time periods. Five pollen samples were recovered from five separate features in the project area. Additionally, five bulk soil samples from the same features were floated to recover...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Kathryn Puseman. Thomas E. Moutoux. Laura Ruggiero.

Limited archaeobotanic testing was undertaken at Huntington Ruin, a primary Hohokam village in the Santa Cruz River floodplain. Paired pollen and flotation samples represent hearth fill inside a pithouse. In addition, three botanic samples represent trash and a posthole in the pithouse. These samples were examined to provide subsistence information for the occupants of this Hohokam village.

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Linda Scott Cummings.

Samples from features at Site AZ BB:9:148 (ASM) in the northern portion of the Tucson Basin in southern Arizona were examined for pollen and macrofloral remains. This site is believed to have been occupied by the Hohokam during the Rincon Phase, A.D. 950-1150, based on ceramic data. Excavations concentrated on six main areas at the site. Pollen and macrofloral analyses are used to provide information concerning plant resources available to and possibly utilized by the Hohokam occupants of...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Kathryn Puseman.

Samples from several features at Pueblo Viejo, AZ T:12:73 (ASM), were examined for their pollen and macrofloral remains. This site is located in southern Phoenix, and is part of the El Reposo Park project. Features found at Pueblo Viejo include three crematoriums, thirty-two secondary cremations, two trash-filled pits, one trash area, and one probable prehistoric palisade represented by nineteen postholes. The site is believed to be a Colonial through Classic periods Hohokam mound site,...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Linda Scott Cummings. Thomas E. Moutoux.

Soil samples from five sites in the Tortolita Mountain Project in southern Arizona were examined for pollen and macrofloral remains. These sites are all Hohokam sites, probably dating between AD750-1300. Pollen and macrofloral analyses are used to provide information concerning plant resources utilized by the Hohokam occupants of these sites.

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Linda Scott Cummings. Thomas E. Moutoux.

Soil samples from Sites AZ BB:9:57(ASM),AZ BB:9:160(ASM), and AZ BB:9:189(ASM) in southern Arizona were examined for pollen and macrofloral remains. These sites are part of the Honeybee Ridge Mitigation project. Site AZ BB:9:57(ASM) may be a field house or resource processing area. Site AZ BB:9:160(ASM) is a resource processing area that appears to have been utilized during the late Colonial or Sedentary Periods of the Tucson Basin Hohokam Sequence. Site AZ BB:9:189(ASM) is a multicomponent...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Kathryn Puseman.

Samples from feature fill at Site AZ AA:12:40 (ASM) in southern Arizona were examined for pollen and macrofloral remains. The site was originally recorded as a possible pithouse village containing Rillito red-on-brown ceramics, suggesting Colonial period Hohokam. Later excavations revealed middle to late Sedentary (Rincon phase) cremations and early Classic (Tanque Verde phase) pottery from the pithouses. Recent excavations in the southeast corner of Site AZ AA:12:40(ASM) uncovered four...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Kathryn Puseman.

Samples from a burned pithouse and from a shallow roasting pit at Site AZ AA: 15:1(77 (ASM) were examined for pollen and macrofloral remains. This site is a Classic Period Hohokam field house where ak chin farming may have been practiced. Pollen and macrofloral analyses of feature fill are used to provide information concerning possible plants utilized in the pithouse and roasted in the pit.

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Linda Scott Cummings. Thomas E. Moutoux.

Samples from the Triangle Road Mitigation Project, Site AZ BB:9:87(ASM), in southern Arizona were examined for pollen and macrofloral remains. This site is a Tortolita Phase, Tucson Basin Hohokam habitation site that is believed to have been occupied only a short period of time. Charcoal samples from this site have yielded calibrated radiocarbon dates of A.D. 370 to 615 and A.D. 590 to 695. Pollen and macrofloral analyses are used to provide information concerning possible plant resources...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Kathryn Puseman.

Pollen and macrofloral samples were examined from Hohokam site AZ BB:9:171 (ASM) in the northwest Tucson Basin, Arizona. This site yielded Rincon phase and Rillito phase pottery, indicating primary occupation during the Sedentary Hohokam period.

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Kathryn Puseman.

Soil samples from a pit structure, a possible field house or outside activity area, and two areas of sheet trash at Site AZ BB:9:166 (ASM) in southern Arizona were sampled for pollen and macrofloral remains. A metate from the pit structure floor also was washed for pollen. Site AZ BB:9:166 (ASM) is a small Hohokam field house locus that appears to have been occupied for a short period of time during the Rincon phase of the Tucson Basin Hohokam, sequence (AD 950- 1150). Pollen and...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Linda Scott Cummings.

Samples from Site AZ:U:10:139 (ASM) for the Tierra Mesa Development Project in Maricopa County, Arizona, were analyzed for pollen and macrofloral remains. This site represents a small Hohokam hamlet with houses-in-pits and associated features. Ceramic artifacts suggest occupation of this site from AD 800-900. Pollen and macrofloral analyses are used to provide information concerning prehistoric diet, paleoenvironmental conditions, and land-use practices at this site to aid in understanding...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Curtis Nepstad-Thornberry. Thomas E. Moutoux.

Sites AZ V: 13:182, 185, and 186 (ASM) are located directly east of the ASARCO-Ray Mine Complex, in the Dripping Springs Mountains in southcentral Arizona. These multicomponent sites all exhibit evidence of prehistoric and historic activities. Prehistoric components at AZ V: 13:182 and 186 (ASM) are Hohokam. The historic components at these sites represent early mining activities in the region as well as possible Apachean use of the area. Pollen and macrofloral samples were collected from a...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Kathryn Puseman.

Samples from roasting pits at Sites AZ U: 15:227 (ASM) and AZ U: 15:229 (ASM) were examined for pollen and macrofloral remains. These sites are areas of roasting pit and artifact scatter that appear to be related to Hohokam specialized agricultural production. The features at Site AZ U: 15:227 (ASM) were Classic period Hohokam roasting pits, while Feature 1 at Site AZ U: 15:229 (ASM) was a deflated roasting pit dating to the Colonial period. Pollen and macrofloral analyses may provide...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Linda Scott Cummings.

Samples from the fill of a roasting-pit at Site AZ BB:9:144 (ASM) were examined for pollen and macrofloral remains. The roasting pit is believed to have been used sporadically during the Rincon Phase of the Tucson Basin Hohokam Period (A.D. 1090-1125) , based on ceramic types recovered. Pollen and macrofloral analyses may provide information concerning possible plants processed in this roasting pit.