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This collection serves as a digital archive of archaeological investigations carried out by faculty, staff, and students from the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University.

The collection includes resources from projects around the globe and includes documents, images, and data.

SHESC strives to meet the FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) and CARE (Collective Benefit, Authority to Control, Responsible, Ethical) principles of data stewardship.


Resources Inside This Collection (Viewing 101-200 of 201)

  • HARP Fauna Modification Coding Sheet (1992)
    CODING SHEET [not managed] Uploaded by: Keith Kintigh

    no description provided

  • HARP Fauna Post-depositional Processes Coding Sheet (1991)
    CODING SHEET [not managed] Uploaded by: Keith Kintigh

    no description provided

  • HARP Fauna Proximal/Distal Coding Sheet
    CODING SHEET [not managed] Uploaded by: Keith Kintigh

    no description provided

  • HARP Fauna Side Coding Sheet
    CODING SHEET [not managed] Uploaded by: Keith Kintigh

    no description provided

  • HARP Fauna Species Coding Sheet (1991)
    CODING SHEET [not managed] Uploaded by: Keith Kintigh

    no description provided

  • HARP Faunal Analysis Letter Report (1996)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Homer Thiel.

    Letter report with summary table of species represented. Accompanied database.

  • Heshotauthla Archaeological Research Project (HARP)
    PROJECT [not managed] Keith Kintigh. Arizona State University (ASU).

    The Heshotauthla Archaeological Research Project (HARP) did limited excavation at the Pueblo IV site of Heshotauthla and intensive systematic survey in the area of the site on the Zuni Indian Reservation. Excavation was limited to areas threatened by erosion and areas thought t have been previously excavated by the Hemenway Southwestern Archaeological Expedition in the late 1880s. HARP survey recorded 305 prehistoric and historic sites in 10.4 square kilometers, including a post-Chaocan great...

  • The Hohokam Community of La Ciudad (1987)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Uploaded by: Joshua Watts

    In 1982, the Arizona Department of Transportation awarded a contract to the Office of Cultural Resource Management at Arizona State University for a data recovery program in the northern resource zone (Rice and Most 1982). Funding was provided through the Federal Highway Administration as part of a project to mitigate the impacts associated with the construction of the Papago-Loop of the I-10 Interstate Freeway. Our investigations were focused in the northern portion of the site in an area...

  • Hohokam Impacts on the Vegetation of Canal System Two, Phoenix Basin (2002)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text David Jacobs. Glen E. Rice.

    In 1850, the Phoenix Basin had been uninhabited for about 350 to 400 years. It was visited occasionally by hunting, fishing, or gathering parties from the Pima, Pee Posh, Yavapai or Apache, but the last people to have cleared farming fields, excavated canals, and built villages in the lower Salt River valley had been the Hohokam, and they had abandoned the area sometime between A.D. 1450 and 1500. This timeline is important to archaeologists because it means that the desert vegetation in the...

  • Hohokam Population Database (2006)
    DATASET [not managed] Uploaded by: Matthew Peeples

    This database contains population estimates for all major sites within the Hohokam region by time period from about AD 700-1400. These data are based on Doelle's (1995) Roosevelt Community Development Study and updated based on data produced after the initial publication.

  • Horseshoe Dam Borrow Area and Haul Road, Horseshoe Dam Modifications, Supplemental Cultural Resource, Class III Inventory Survey and Evaluation (1990)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Lanita C. Van Nimwegen.

    Northland Research, Inc. (Northland) has completed a Class III cultural resource survey of the Horseshoe Dam Borrow Area and Borrow Haul Road (Forest Road 479). This work was designated as Modification 03 of Task 13 of the Supplemental Surveys of the Regulatory Storage Division, Central Arizona Project (Plan 6), 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...

  • The Impact of Pueblo Aggregation and Spanish Colonization on Faunal Utilization at Quarai, New Mexico (1994)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Heidi Moore.

    no description provided

  • Interpreting the Prehistory of Lyman Lake State Park (2005)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Uploaded by: Keith Kintigh

    Public trail guide for Rattlesnake Point Pueblo and Petroglyph Trails in Lyman Lake State Park. Developed collaboratively by the Arizona State University Department of Anthropology and the Hopi Tribe.

  • It's Not Rocket Science Contributions to the Archeology of Petrified Forest National Park in Honor of Bob Cooper (2007)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Jeffery F. Burton. Robert M. Cooper. Lynne D. D'Ascenzo. Elaine A. Guthrie.

    FIVE reports in one volume. 1. Dating Adamana Brown Ware Radiocarbon dating at five Basketmaker II period sites provide the first chronometric determinations for Adamana Brown ware, considered the earliest pottery on the Colorado Plateau. The radiocarbon dates indicate that production of the pottery began between A.D. 1 and A.D. 200 and possibly as early as 400 B.C. The pottery enjoyed long-lived use, possibly produced as late as A.D. 600. 2. Adamana Brown Ware Radiography Study Among...

  • La Ciudad Canals: A Study of Hohokam Irrigation Systems at the Community Level (1987)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Neal W. Ackerly. Jerry B. Howard. Randall H. McGuire.

    The nineteenth-century farmers, merchants, and prospectors who settled in the Salt River Valley of Arizona encountered one of the most dense and most visible concentrations of prehistoric ruins in North America. They named their new city Phoenix because they envisioned it rising up from the ashes of the prehistoric Hohokam culture. One of the most pronounced features discovered was large irrigation canals that stretched across most of the valley floor--an ancient irrigation network, the...

  • The La Lomita Excavations: 10th Century Hohokam Occupuation in South-Central Arizona (1990)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Uploaded by: Joshua Watts

    Archaeological investigations were conducted at the prehistoric Hohokam Site ofLa Lomita (AZ U:9:67(ASM)) in Phoenix, Arizona, sponsored by the Arizona Department of Transportation. The portion of the site within the project area contained over 30 pithouses, 20 burials, several prehistoric canal segments, and numerous pits. La Lomita was primarily occupied during the late Santa Cruz and Sacaton phases, ranging from about A.D. 890 to 1025. Several house groups were identified, representing a...

  • La Plata Transect Survey, 2004 (2004)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Katherine Spielmann. Lisa Baldwin. John Briggs. Kari Horn. Karen Schollmeyer. Caitlyn Wichlasz.

    While the archaeological work at Pueblo La Plata has begun to provide critical data concerning prehistoric demography, ceramic accumulations, and use of plants and animals, it was on the transect surveys that the collaboration between archaeological and ecological research came to fruition in the 2004 field season. This report discusses the data collection protocol that was developed to collect archaeological, small mammal, plant, and rock cover data on these transects, and presents preliminary...

  • Legacies on the Landscape
    PROJECT [not managed] Arizona State University, Department of Anthropology.

    Project includes archaeological and ecological research on prehistoric sites in the Perry Mesa region of central Arizona focused on understanding long term human impacts on the landscape. Research area is within the Agua Fria National Monument managed by the BLM.

  • The Los Hornos Pollen Study (1980)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text James Schoenwetter.

    Major study intended as the draft of a chapter in a report on the archaeological mitigation program for a populous Hohokam village in the Salt River Valley, Arizona. Though the study generated an unusually large body of well controlled archaeological-context palynological data, it did not result in the discovery of new information about Hohokam prehistory. Assessments of this failure, however, led to significant methodological lessons for archaeological pollen studies.

  • Metadata for revision to GQ faunal coding key species variable (2010)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Katherine Spielmann.

    This document explains the changes that were made to the species designations from the original GQ faunal coding key.

  • The Middle Gila Basin: An Archaeological and Historical Overview (1982)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Claudia F. Berry. William S. Marmaduke.

    The Central Arizona Project (CAP) , Indian Distribution Division (IDD) is designed to deliver allocated CAP water to Indian users. The Middle Gila Basin Overview is the initial cultural resources planning study for the system. It summarizes and evaluates the extant data in an area 3,570 square miles (9,139 sq km) large, centered on the Gila River. The data suggests that archaeological sites in this area are numerous and varied, but most of all poorly-studied despite 100 years of research. A...

  • Morning Star headdress (2010)
    IMAGE [not managed] Timothy Pauketat.

    This is an image of a Morning Star headdress. Image courtesy of Tim Pauketat.

  • Morning Star petroglyph (2010)
    IMAGE [not managed] Timothy Pauketat.

    This is an image of a petroglyph depicting the Morning Star. Photo courtesy of Tim Pauketat.

  • NSF2002 ceramics (Abbott) (2004)
    DATASET [not managed] David Abbott.

    All rim sherds analyzed by Abbott and assistants.

  • OBAP (Ojo Bonito) Fauna (1998)
    DATASET [not managed] Uploaded by: Keith Kintigh

    Ojo Bonito Archaeological Project faunal database. 7275 elements recorded.

  • OBAP Fauna Coding Key (2006)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Tiffany Clark.

    Coding key document for OBAP fauna.

  • OHara_Sinagua_Paper_Creating Local and Regional Contexts for Understanding Sinagua Mortuary Practices (2011)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Michael O'Hara.

    The mortuary record of the Flagstaff region is best known for the burial of the Magician, who was accompanied by several discrete sets of ritual paraphernalia representing different ritual and political roles. The present project will compile a mortuary database for the Flagstaff region in conjunction with the creation of other regional databases using standardized variable states. These efforts will allow a greater contextual understanding of the Magician within his local...

  • Ojo Bonito Archaeological Project (OBAP)
    PROJECT [not managed] Keith Kintigh. Arizona State University (ASU). Arizona State Parks.

    A survey and excavation project directed by Keith Kintigh and executed from 1983 through 1994. Approximate 58km2 were surveyed and 560 sites were recorded. Substantial excavations were undertaken at the Hinkson Site great house complex and Jaralosa Pueblo. Test excavations were completed at H-Spear, a Chacoan Great House located by the project and Ojo Bonito Pueblo. The project took place on the ranch of Mrs. Everett (Mabel) Hinkson (deceased). Most of the project work was done as a part of...

  • The Operation and Evolution of an Irrigation System: The East Papago Canal Study (1991)
    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...

  • Phoenix Basin Archaeology: Intersections, Pathways Through Time
    PROJECT [not managed] Uploaded by: Joshua Watts

    The Intersections project is an electronic archive of the archaeological monographs written for archaeological projects conducted at Hohokam sites on Canal System Two and funded by the Federal and Arizona departments of transportation. The searchable electronic archive includes the contents of about 37 separate volumes reporting on the findings of 11 different archaeological projects. The Intersections project was funded by the Federal Highway Administration through the Arizona Department of...

  • Post-Chacoan Social Integration at the Hinkson Site, New Mexico (1996)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Keith Kintigh. Todd Howell. Andrew Duff.

    The century following the collapse of Chaco is often viewed as a time of cultural backsliding. However, imposing sites with Chaco-inspired public architecture provide evidence of large communities, dating between A.D. 1200 and 1275, that laid the organizational foundations of well-known Pueblo IV towns. This article reports on excavations at one such Zuni-area settlement. the Hinkson site. In this site, 32 residential room blocks surround a great house complex that includes an unroofed, oversize...

  • Prehistoric Irrigation in Arizona: Symposium 1988 (1991)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Uploaded by: Joshua Watts

    Studies of Hohokam irrigation systems undertaken in the past 5 to 10 years, particularly in the Phoenix Basin, have provided a wealth of new data to be studied and assimilated by archaeologists. Recently completed and ongoing projects have required archaeologists to ask new questions and to apply a variety of investigative techniques to better understand the complexities of Hohokam irrigation systems. It is important that archaeologists studying Hohokam irrigation systems evaluate the increasing...

  • Preliminary Report on the Vertebrate Faunal Remains from the Ojo Bonito Archaeological Project (1998)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Tiffany Clark.

    Excavations conducted by the Ojo Bonito Archaeological Project (OBAP) in 1987, 1988, and 1994 have recovered a relatively large and well-preserved faunal assemblage. This report presents the results of a preliminary study ofthe animal bone from these excavations. In the first part of analysis, an overview of the taxonomic composition of the OBAP assemblage is provided and the diversity and proportional distribution of identified fauna are described. More in-depth analyses of intra- and intersite...

  • Pueblo Blanco Archaeological Project
    PROJECT [not managed] Katherine Spielmann. Arizona State University (ASU).

    Archaeological investigations by Arizona State University in 1999-2000, directed by Katherine Spielmann and Billy Graves

  • Pueblo Blanco faunal data (2000)
    DATASET [not managed] Tiffany Clark.

    Excavations at Pueblo Blanco by Arizona State University resulted in the recovery of a large faunal assemblage containing a total of 64,733 specimens (Table 2). Approximately 32 percent of the assemblage, or 20,621 specimens, are considered identifiable. In this analysis, mammalian, avian, and reptilian fauna are classified as “identifiable” if the specimen can be classified to an order. Given the highly fragmented nature of fish bone, these remains are only identified to the class level.

  • Pueblo Blanco Faunal Report (2004)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Tiffany Clark.

    Report on the fauna excavated from Pueblo Blanco in 1999 and 2000.

  • Pueblo Blanco Species codes (2010)
    CODING SHEET [not managed] Uploaded by: Katherine Spielmann

    This coding key is for the Pueblo Blanco fauna

  • Pueblo Blanco Temporal Codes (2010)
    CODING SHEET [not managed] Katherine Spielmann.

    This coding key provides the labels for the temporal codes in the Pueblo Blanco databases.

  • Pueblo Colorado Archaeological Project
    PROJECT [not managed] Katherine Spielmann. Arizona State University (ASU).

    Arizona State University field project directed by Katherine Spielmann in the summer of 1989.

  • Pueblo Colorado faunal data (2000)
    DATASET [not managed] Tiffany Clark.

    Faunal data from the Pueblo Colorado archaeological project

  • Pueblo Colorado Temporal Periods (2010)
    CODING SHEET [not managed] Uploaded by: Katherine Spielmann

    This key identifies the temporal periods and contexts used in the analysis of the Pueblo Colorado materials.

  • The Pueblo Grande Project: An Analysis of Classic Period Hohokam Mortuary Practices (1994)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Uploaded by: Joshua Watts

    Soil Systems, Inc. (SSI) of Phoenix, Arizona conducted a 16-month data recovery project at the large Hohokam village of Pueblo Grande. The site is located on the north bank of the Salt River in metropolitan Phoenix, Arizona. Approximately 20 to 25 percent of the site was excavated as the result of the expansion of the urban freeway system in Phoenix. The Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) sponsored the project. Pueblo Grande was one of the primary villages in the Phoenix Basin and is...

  • The Pueblo Grande Project: Ceramics and the Production and Exchange of Pottery in the Central Phoenix Basin, Part One (1994)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Uploaded by: Joshua Watts

    Soil Systems, Inc. (SSI) of Phoenix, Arizona conducted a 16-month data recovery project at the large Hohokam village of Pueblo Grande. The site is located on the north bank of the Salt River in metropolitan Phoenix, Arizona. Approximately 20 to 25 percent of the site was excavated as the result of the expansion of the urban freeway system in Phoenix. The Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) sponsored the project. Pueblo Grande was one of the primary villages in the Phoenix Basin and is...

  • The Pueblo Grande Project: Ceramics and the Production and Exchange of Pottery in the Central Phoenix Basin, Part Two (1994)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Uploaded by: Joshua Watts

    Soil Systems, Inc. (SSI) of Phoenix, Arizona conducted a 16-month data recovery project at the large Hohokam village of Pueblo Grande. The site is located on the north bank of the Salt River in metropolitan Phoenix, Arizona. Approximately 20 to 25 percent of the site was excavated as the result of the expansion of the urban freeway system in Phoenix. The Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) sponsored the project. Pueblo Grande was one of the primary villages in the Phoenix Basin and is...

  • The Pueblo Grande Project: Environment and Subsistence (1994)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Uploaded by: Joshua Watts

    Soil Systems, Inc. (SSI) of Phoenix, Arizona conducted a 16-month data recovery project at the large Hohokam village of Pueblo Grande. The site is located on the north bank of the Salt River in metropolitan Phoenix, Arizona. Approximately 20 to 25 percent of the site was excavated as the result of the expansion of the urban freeway system in Phoenix. The Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) sponsored the project. Pueblo Grande was one of the primary villages in the Phoenix Basin and is...

  • The Pueblo Grande Project: Feature Descriptions, Chronology, and Site Structure (1994)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Uploaded by: Joshua Watts

    Soil Systems, Inc. (SSI) of Phoenix, Arizona conducted a 16-month data recovery project at the large Hohokam village of Pueblo Grande. The site is located on the north bank of the Salt River in metropolitan Phoenix, Arizona. Approximately 20 to 25 percent of the site was excavated as the result of the expansion of the urban freeway system in Phoenix. The Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) sponsored the project. Pueblo Grande was one of the primary villages in the Phoenix Basin and is...

  • The Pueblo Grande Project: Introduction, Research Design, and Testing Results (1994)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Uploaded by: Joshua Watts

    Soil Systems, Inc. (SSI) of Phoenix, Arizona conducted a 16-month data recovery project at the large Hohokam village of Pueblo Grande. The site is located on the north bank of the Salt River in metropolitan Phoenix, Arizona. Approximately 20 to 25 percent of the site was excavated as the result of the expansion of the urban freeway system in Phoenix. The Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) sponsored the project. Pueblo Grande was one of the primary villages in the Phoenix Basin and is...

  • The Pueblo Grande Project: Material Culture (1994)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Uploaded by: Joshua Watts

    Soil Systems, Inc. (SSI) of Phoenix, Arizona conducted a 16-month data recovery project at the large Hohokam village of Pueblo Grande. The site is located on the north bank of the Salt River in metropolitan Phoenix, Arizona. Approximately 20 to 25 percent of the site was excavated as the result of the expansion of the urban freeway system in Phoenix. The Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) sponsored the project. Pueblo Grande was one of the primary villages in the Phoenix Basin and is...

  • The Pueblo Grande Project: The Bioethnography of a Classic Period Hohokam Population (1994)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Uploaded by: Joshua Watts

    Soil Systems, Inc. (SSI) of Phoenix, Arizona conducted a 16-month data recovery project at the large Hohokam village of Pueblo Grande. The site is located on the north bank of the Salt River in metropolitan Phoenix, Arizona. Approximately 20 to 25 percent of the site was excavated as the result of the expansion of the urban freeway system in Phoenix. The Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) sponsored the project. Pueblo Grande was one of the primary villages in the Phoenix Basin and is...

  • Quarai Pueblo Archaeological Project
    PROJECT [not managed] Katherine Spielmann. Arizona State University (ASU).

    Arizona State University project directed by Katherine Spielmann in the summers of 1992 and 1993.

  • Quarai Pueblo Faunal Data (2000)
    DATASET [not managed] Tiffany Clark.

    Faunal data from Quarai Pueblo archaeological project.

  • Rakita - Tables C through G (2011)
    DATASET [not managed] Gordon Rakita.

    Data tables C through G to accompany Rakita's paper.

  • Rakita_The Mortuary Practices of the Casas Grandes Region: A Preliminary Database. (2011)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Gordon Rakita.

    I present a preliminary regional database of mortuary practices for the Casas Grandes region of Chihuahua, Mexico. The reported prehistoric mortuary remains from the region are overwhelmingly drawn from the Paquime and Convento sites reported by Charles C. DiPeso and colleagues. Often overlooked, however, are several smaller samples that are reported with less detail. Given the complex nature of mortuary ritual from the region (especially in the late ceramic periods), the structure of the...

  • Rattlesnake Point Pueblo National Register Nomination (1997)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Andrew Duff.

    no description provided

  • RCAP Coding Sheet - Context (2006)
    CODING SHEET [not managed] Uploaded by: Keith Kintigh

    no description provided

  • RCAP Fauna (1998)
    DATASET [not managed] Tiffany Clark.

    Rudd Creek Archaeological Project faunal database. Rudd Creek Pueblo dates from A.D. 1225 and 1300. Ca. 975 elements recorded. Corrected from original with one value for Bone Artifact value 20 (unfinished bone tool) changed to 21 (awl blank [halved bone]) to correspond with CARP Coding Sheet. Note comment says "halved radius"

  • RCAP Fauna Coding Key (2006)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Tiffany Clark.

    Note: There is an inconsistency on the coding key for taxon, code 593 is used twice. Except for taxon codes 588-593 the key is consistent with ULCPP and CARP. Because taxon codes 588-593 do not appear in the database the CARP (most recent) coding keys are used.

  • Recent Research On Tucson Basin Prehistory: Proceedings of the Second Tucson Basin Conference (1988)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text William H. Doelle. Paul R. Fish.

    The study of Tucson’s prehistory has been pursued with an unprecedented intensity in recent years, and it seemed essential that the new results that were emerging be shared on a broader basis. This volume is the outcome of papers prepared for the Second Tucson Basin Conference in conjunction with the 1986 fall meeting of the Arizona Archaeological Council.

  • Report of the Spring 2005 Field Season (2005)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Melissa Kruse-Peeples. John Briggs. Katie Johnson. Leshana Leslie. Todd Passick. Angela Ruggles. Hoski Shaafsma. Karen Schollmeyer.

    The document begins with an overview of the Legacies Project spring 2005 fieldwork. Subsequent chapters include: Agave Types and Distributions, Agricultural Impacts on Soil Compaction and and Settlement Size at Agua Fria National Monument, Legacy Effects on Herbaceous Plants on Agua Fria National Monument, Transect Survey Report at Richinbar, Architectural Studies at Richinbar Ruin, and an Agricultural Site Survey.

  • Report on the Palynology of Two Hohokam Sites (1978)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text James Schoenwetter.

    Archaeological pollen analysis applied to problems of antiquity estimation and paleoenvironmental reconstruction.

  • Resource Stress and Settlement Pattern Change in the Eastern Mimbres Area, Southwest New Mexico (2009)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Karen Schollmeyer.

    Dissertation by Karen Gust Schollmeyer based in part on EMAP Mimbres Classic period and Reorganization phase faunal data in tDAR. This dissertation examines the role of resource stress in the dramatic depopulation of large, long-occupied villages in the Mimbres region of the U.S. Southwest. I examine archaeological evidence and models of environmental conditions in the eastern Mimbres area of southwest New Mexico to assess the magnitude and periodicity of food stress from a combination of...

  • Reward Mine and Associated Sites: Historical Archaeology on the Papago Reservation (1980)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text George A. Teague.

    This is the final report of the Vekol Hills Archeological Project. The project was done to lessen the impact of proposed open pit copper mining on archeological resources within an area of the Papago Indian Reservation, Pinal County, Arizona. Archeological resources comprise the remains of Reward Mine, another turn-of-the-century mining camp, and a Papago camp of the same period. A program of data recovery, including mapping, surface collection, and excavation, was undertaken during 1979 in...

  • Roosevelt Community Development Study - Laboratory Manual (1992)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Norma Ajeman. Lisa Epply. Martina LaVelle. Douglas Craig. James Heidke.

    This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the National Archaeological Database Reports Module (NADB-R) and updated. Most NADB-R records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us at comments@tdar.org.

  • RSA ceramics (DAI) (2005)
    DATASET [not managed] T. Kathleen Henderson.

    Rohrig Substation (a locus of the Southwest Germann Site) ceramic data, as supplied by Kathy Henderson of Desert Archaeology, Inc. in May 2011.

  • Rudd Creek Archaeological Project (RCAP)
    PROJECT [not managed] Arizona Game and Fish.

    The Rudd Creek Archaeological Project was an Arizona State University Summer Archaeological Field School Project, sponsored in part by Arizona Game and Fish. It resulted in an exhibit at the visitor center for the ranch.

  • Saguaro National Monument an Archeological Overview (1975)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text V. K. Pheriba Stacy. Julian Hayden.

    A number of archeological surveys and excavations have been carried out within Saguaro National Monument near Tucson, Arizona, over the years, but the field work generally has been neither problem-oriented nor carried out in accordance with a suitable research design. Much of it, therefore, must be considered incomplete in terms of modern archeological theory and methods. Archeological activity both inside and outside the monument, however, has resulted in delineation of the cultural history for...

  • Salinas, New Mexico Settlement Database (2007)
    DATASET [not managed] Matthew Peeples. Rachel Johnson.

    This database contains information on all likely habitation sites with available data from the Salinas region of central New Mexico dating ca. AD 1100-1670.

  • Settlement and Demography in the Greater Mimbres Region (2007)
    DATASET [not managed] Matthew Peeples. Karen Schollmeyer.

    The database presented here contains information on all major habitation sites and smaller habitation sites from major surveys across the most densely populated portions of the Mimbres region (Mimbres Valley, Eastern Mimbres area, and the Upper Gila). The database is relatively complete for sites that date between AD 1000 and 1450 but also includes limited information on major earlier components dating between AD 200-1000.

  • SHA ceramics (DAI) (2001)
    DATASET [not managed] T. Kathleen Henderson.

    Ceramic data from the Sky Harbor excavations by Desert Archaeology, Inc in 2000. Loci related to the Dutch Canal Ruin.

  • Shaping Space: Built Space, Landscape, and Cosmology in Four Regions (2010)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Ben Nelson. Stephen Lekson. Ivan Sprajc. Kenneth Sassaman.

    In this article, the authors seek to understand cosmological expressions in architecture and the built landscape in Mesoamerica, Northern Mexico, the US Southwest, and the US Southeast.

  • Spanish Missionization and Puebloan Food Resource Utilitization at Quarai Pueblo, New Mexico (1997)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Dee Jones.

    no description provided

  • A Spatial Analysis of the Hohokam Community of La Ciudad (1987)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Glen E. Rice.

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

  • Specialized Studies in the Economy, Environment and Culture of La Ciudad Part III (1987)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Uploaded by: Joshua Watts

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

  • Specialized Studies in the Economy, Environment and Culture of La Ciudad Parts I and II (1987)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Uploaded by: Joshua Watts

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

  • Spring 2004 Architecture Studies at Pueblo La Plata (2004)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Karen Schollmeyer.

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

  • Structure and Organization at La Ciudad (1987)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text T. Kathleen Henderson.

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

  • Studies in the Hohokam Community of Marana (1987)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Uploaded by: system user

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

  • Synthesis of Salinas Pueblo Glazeware Sources from Petrographic Analyses (2008)
    DATASET [not managed] Uploaded by: Stephanie Kulow

    This spreadsheet presents counts of glazeware ceramics for each of the Salinas Pueblos organized by petrographically-determined production area

  • Test Excavations at AZ U:10:24 (ASU), Williams A.F.B, Arizona (1973)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text James Schoenwetter.

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

  • Thompson_Salt River Valley_Paper_A Preliminary Database of Hohokam Mortuary Practices in the Salt River Valley, Phoenix Basin, AZ (2011)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text M Scott Thompson.

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

  • ULCPP Fauna (2008)
    DATASET [not managed] Tiffany Clark.

    Fauna Database from all project excavations. Ca 28,000 elements recorded.

  • ULCPP Fauna Coding Key (1999)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Tiffany Clark.

    ULCPP Fauna Coding Key

  • Upper Little Colorado Prehistory Project (ULCPP)
    PROJECT [not managed] Keith Kintigh. Andrew Duff. Arizona State Parks.

    The Upper Little Colorado Prehistory Project (ULCPP) is an Arizona State University Project that was in the field between 1992 and 1994. It included both ASU Summer Archaeological Field Schools and summer archaeology programs for K-12 teachers sponsored by a Heritage Fund Grant administered by Arizona State Parks. The project was based at Lyman Lake State Park. Excavation was accomplished at Rattlesnake Point Pueblo and Baca Pueblo both in Lyman Lake State Park. Some of the excavations at...

  • Vanishing River Volume 4: Chapter 01: The Verde River and Desert Landscapes: Introduction to the Lower Verde Archaeological Project (1997)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Stephanie M. Whittlesey. Richard Ciolek-Torello.

    Chapter 1 provides an introduction to the synthesis of the Lower Verde Archaeological Project. Whittlesey and Ciolek-Torello describe the project's environmental context, with a focus on the Verde River and its surrounding landscape. They also offer a brief introduction to the people who inhabited and used this landscape. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the research themes that guided archaeological data recovery and interpretation of the lower Verde River area.

  • Vanishing River Volume 4: Chapter 02: Archaeological Landscapes: A Methodological and Theoretical Discussion (1997)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Stephanie M. Whittlesey.

    In chapter 2, Whittlesey discusses some of the intellectual history of landscape theory and defines a landscape approach. She then considers the definition of archaeological landscapes. Finally, she discusses the utility of archaeological landscapes for interpreting both the prehistory and history of an area.

  • Vanishing River Volume 4: Chapter 03: The Vanished River: Historical-Period Impacts to Desert Landscapes and Archaeological Implications (1997)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Stephanie M. Whittlesey.

    In Chapter 3, Whittlesey provides a description of the current state of the Verde River and discusses the history of intensive landscape modifications to the Verde and other rivers in central and southern Arizona (including the Salt, Gila, Colorado, Little Colorado, San Pedro, and Santa Cruz) . She first reviews archaeological and documentary evidence for changes to Arizona's riverine environments in both the prehistoric and historic periods. She focuses on accounts from the Spanish Colonial...

  • Vanishing River Volume 4: Chapter 04: An Overview of Research History and Archaeology of Central Arizona (1997)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Stephanie M. Whittlesey.

    In Chapter 4, Whittlesey presents a thorough summary of archaeological research and intellectual history in central Arizona. The author's goal is to situate the LVAP research in the context of central Arizona archaeology. Whittlesey provides histories of the research that has been conducted in the Verde drainage, the Tonto Basin, the Agua Fria drainage, and the Phoenix Basin. She concludes with a summary of the research trajectories and the different explanatory models applied to central...

  • Vanishing River Volume 4: Chapter 06: Yavapai and Western Apache Archaeology of Central Arizona (1997)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Stephanie M. Whittlesey. WIlliam L. Deaver.

    This chapter reviews archaeological evidence for Yavapai and Western Apache occupation of central Arizona. Whittlesey begins with a description of the only site – Site 66//1157 -- in the LVAP project area to present clearly identified Yavapai or Western Apache material culture. She also discusses the archaeological data from the Yavapai construction camps at Bartlett and Horseshoe Dams. Whittlesey then provides an overview of archaeological evidence for Yavapai and for Western Apache archaeology...

  • Vanishing River Volume 4: Chapter 09: Environmental Variability and Agricultural Economics along the Lower Verde River, A.D. 750 - 1450 (1997)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Carla R. Van West. Jeffrey Altschul.

    In Chapter 9, Van West and Altshcul examine late prehistoric period agriculture in the Transition Zone of central Arizona, and consider how agricultural production influenced population zone in this area. They begin with a description of the Transition Zone’s environmental context. They then present evidence for prehistoric agriculture in the LVAP project area. These authors use these data to model potential agricultural productivity in Horseshoe Basin. Next, they model the population sizes on...

  • Vanishing River Volume 4: Chapter 10: Temporal Variation in Undecorated Pottery: A Tool for Chronology Building (1997)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Barbara Montgomery. Stephanie M. Whittlesey.

    Chapter 10 presents results from a ceramic seriation of undecorated pottery to identify temporally-sensitive attributes. Montogomery and Whittlesey describe their analysis of particular undecorated pottery attributes, which were selected based on their potential sensitivity to temporal change. They identify several attributes that are particularly sensitive to time: temper, slip, and polish. They also note several other variables that display slight variation through time. These authors propose...

  • Vanishing River Volume 4: Chapter 11: Toward a Unified Theory of Ceramic Production and Distribution: Examples from the Central Arizona Deserts (1997)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Stephanie M. Whittlesey.

    In Chapter 11, Whittlesey describes the production and distribution of prehistoric ceramics in the lower Verde Valley. She then compares these patterns to similar data from the Agua Fria drainage and the Tonto Basin. Finally, she suggests that production and distribution patterns of ceramics in central Arizona may be better explained with a ceramic environment approach, which highlights the relationships between the landscape and the human use of resources. Whittlesey’s proposed approach centers...

  • Vanishing River Volume 4: Chapter 12: Chronological Issues of the LVAP (1997)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text WIlliam L. Deaver.

    In Chapter 12, Deaver summarizes research on the chronology of archaeological sites, features, and material remains in the LVAP project area. He begins with a synthetic discussion of the chronologic sequence in the Verde Valley area. He then presents data for the chronologic assignment of archaeological features and sites investigated during the LVAP. Next, Deaver discusses a comparison of the chronologic sequence in the Verde Valley to the sequence in the Hohokam core area in order to evaluate...

  • Vanishing River Volume 4: Chapter 13: Site Structure and Domestic Organization (1997)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Eric Klucas. Richard Ciolek-Torello. Charles R. Riggs.

    Chapter 13 addresses changes in social organization from the pre-Classic to Classic periods in the lower Verde Valley through an examination of changes in domestic space. First, Klucas and co-authors identify the nature (i.e., composition, arrangement, size) of the domestic residential units that occupied the prehistoric settlements. They then examine differences in these variables between different settlements (e.g., between large settlements and small farmsteads) and across time periods. These...

  • Vanishing River Volume 4: Chapter 14: Prehistoric Settlement and Demography in the Lower Verde Region (1997)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Richard Ciolek-Torello.

    In Chapter 14, Ciolek-Torello presents one of the first full syntheses of indigenous settlement and demographic patterns in the Verde Valley, without reference to interaction in the Hohokam core area. He begins with a summary of prehistoric settlement patterns from pre-ceramic periods through the Late Classic period across the entire Transition Zone of central Arizona. He then characterizes settlement systems in the lower Verde Valley through time and describes the archaeological sites and...

  • Vanishing River Volume 4: Chapter 15: Re-Thinking the Core-Periphery Model of the Pre-Classic Period Hohokam (1997)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Stephanie M. Whittlesey.

    In Chapter 15, Whittlesey reviews the Hohokam core-periphery model in light of the new data generated by the LVAP. She begins with a description of the intellectual history and the key concepts of the Hohokam core-periphery model and the Hohokam regional system model. She then examines the utility of the core-periphery model for explaining current data on Hohokam prehistory. After reviewing the distribution of several quintessential Hohokam traits among sites in the “core” and in the...

  • Vanishing River Volume 4: Chapter 16: Return to Migration, Population Movement, and Ethnic Identity in the American Southwest (1997)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text J. Jefferson Reid.

    In Chapter 16, Reid considers the impact that a return to questions about migration, population movement, and ethnic identity has on the interpretation of Arizona’s prehistory. He begins with an intellectual history of migration research in the Southwest, and offers perspective on the strength of making inferences about migration with archaeological data. He uses the arguments for migration at Grasshopper as an example of building such inferences. Reid then advances into a discussion of...

  • Vanishing River Volume 4: Chapter 18: Research Design Revisited: Processual Issues in the Prehistory of the Lower Verde Valley (1997)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Richard Ciolek-Torello. Stephanie M. Whittlesey.

    Chapter 18 provides a summary of the LVAP’s research themes and offers an overview of the research results. Ciolek-Torello synthesizes the chronology and cultural sequence of the lower Verde Valley. He places this sequence and its cultural developments in the context of other cultural sequences in central and southern Arizona. Whittlesey then summarizes the argument for an indigenous cultural tradition in the Transition Zone of central Arizona, one with roots in Mogollon prehistory and with...

  • Vanishing River Volume 4: Chapter 19: Landscapes and Lives along the Lower Verde River (1997)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Stephanie M. Whittlesey.

    Chapter 19 summarizes and compares the prehistoric, historic-period Yavapai and Western Apaches, and Euroamerican landscapes. Whittlesey considers the land-based units (i.e., domestic space, food production spaces, ritual spaces) that define interaction with the landscape during each of these cultural historical periods and attempts to identify landmarks associated with these units. She focuses on the following units: territorial boundaries, agricultural landscapes, procurement spaces, dwelling...

  • Vanishing River Volume 4: Chapter 20: The Lower Verde Archaeological Project in Context (1997)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Jeffrey Altschul. Stephanie M. Whittlesey. Richard Ciolek-Torello.

    Chapter 20 provides a brief retrospective of the LVAP. Altschul and the other authors discuss changes to the archaeological data recovery efforts and re-orientation of theoretical perspectives that took place over the six years of the project. They conclude with an overview of the project’s results and its implications for the prehistory and history of the Southwest.

  • Windwalker Tours - Manual for Archaeological Ecotourism (1999)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text James Schoenwetter.

    Manual prepared as part of guide training for proposed equestrian heritage/ecotourism project exploring trails and archaeological sites in the Lower Verde Basin, Tonto National Forest, Arizona.