DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Lisa Champagne.

The Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) directed Archaeological Consulting Service, Ltd. (ACS) to complete a Class III cultural resources survey of 1,420 acres along the lower San Pedro River. Reclamation, in partnership with the Nature Conservancy, plans to acquire this land and designate it a conservation easement as mitigation for the destruction of riparian habitat during construction of the Central Arizona Project fish barriers. ACS conducted a Class III cultural resources survey of the...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Donald W. Jolly. Lourdes Aguila. Michael Droz. Teresa L. Hoffman.

The Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) directed Archaeological Consulting Service, Ltd. (ACS) to complete a Class III cultural resources survey of 1,420 acres along the lower San Pedro River. Reclamation, in partnership with the Nature Conservancy, plans to acquire this land and designate it a conservation easement as mitigation for the destruction of riparian habitat during construction of the Central Arizona Project fish barriers. ACS conducted a Class III cultural resources survey of the...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Grant Fahrni.

Arizona State Parks and Trails (ASPT) requested Logan Simpson conduct a Class III cultural resources inventory of approximately 19.21 acres located on the south side of Patagonia Lake within Patagonia Lake State Park, Santa Cruz County, Arizona. The survey and monitoring were conducted to facilitate ASPT’s proposed plan to construct several cabins with associated access roads and a parking lot. The survey consists of two distinct project areas—one for the proposed development and one for a...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text David A. Bild.

The Salt River Project (SRP) is planning to upgrade the current carrying capacity of 18.3 miles of the existing Silver King to Goldfield 230kV line north of Queen Valley and Superior, Pinal County, Arizona. In order to accomplish this, SRP plans to “bundle” the existing 230kV conductors by adding a second conductor to each of the three existing single-conductor phases. This 230kV line was originally intended for two circuits of bundled conductors and permitted for such on Forest Service lands by...

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

EPS Group Inc. (EPS) requested that Logan Simpson Design Inc. (LSD) perform a Class III cultural resources survey along an undeveloped alignment of Riggs Road in Queen Creek, Maricopa and Pinal counties, Arizona. The Town of Queen Creek is planning to construct a four-lane, divided rural roadway along the Riggs Road alignment using funds from the FHWA administered by the ADOT Local Government Section. The roadway will have a raised median and will be built within existing undeveloped land and...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Lisa Champagne.

Other entries related to work done on the withdrawn lands along the Salt River can be found at the following link: https://core.tdar.org/collection/27771 The Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) has identified approximately 510 acres of land for a Class III (intensive) cultural resource survey. The land was withdrawn for the Salt River Project (SRP) and is located upstream from the Granite Reef Diversion Dam on the south side of the Salt River. The withdrawn land is within the Tonto National...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Donald W. Jolly. Kristin L. Fangmeier.

Other entries related to work done on the withdrawn lands along the Salt River can be found at the following link: https://core.tdar.org/collection/27771 The Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) has identified approximately 510 acres of land for a Class III (intensive) cultural resource survey. The land was withdrawn for the Salt River Project (SRP) and is located upstream from the Granite Reef Diversion Dam on the south side of the Salt River. The withdrawn land is within the Tonto National...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Heidi Roberts.

On November 29 and December 9, 1994, archaeologists from SWCA, Inc., Environmental Consultants of Tucson, Arizona, conducted an archaeological survey for an environmental restoration project on a 70 acre parcel of land owned by the Arizona State Land Department. The purpose of the survey was to identify and record archaeological sites that may be eligible for inclusion to the National Register of Historic Places. This project involves the environmental restoration of a state land parcel that is...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text David A. Bild.

SRP is planning to upgrade the current carrying capacity of 18.3 miles of the existing Silver King to Goldfield 230kV line. In order to accomplish this, SRP plans to “bundle” the existing 230kV conductors by adding a second conductor to each of the three existing single-conductor phases. To add the new conductors, SRP will need to re-open some original access roads, and the selected wire, puller, sleeving, and anchor sites used during the original 1978 line construction. The existing...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Michael M. Gregory.

During July 28 through August 2, 1991, Archaeological Research Services, Inc., performed a cultural resources survey within the State Route 87 right-of-way between mileposts 177.86 and 188.78. This 10.92 mile long by 200 ft wide survey corridor crosses Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community land between McDowell Road and Shea Boulevard north of Mesa in Maricopa County, Arizona (U.S.G.S. Mesa, Ariz. 7.5' 1967/1972/1973; U.S.G.S. Sawik Mountain, Ariz. 7.5' 1964/1982; U.S.G.S. Granite Reef Dam,...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Paul M. Rawson.

Trico Electric Cooperative, Inc. (Trico), proposes to use federal funds administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Utilities Service (RUS) to construct a new 477 ACSR (aluminum conductor steel reinforced) 25-kilovolt (kV) overhead electric tie line in unincorporated Pima County, Arizona. The line would constitute new construction on State Trust land within an existing ASLD easement. Trico contracted SWCA Environmental Consultants (SWCA) to conduct a cultural resources survey of...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Michael Stubing. Korri Turner. Erin Davis.

Carter & Burgess, Inc.  (C&B) conducted a Class III,  non collection  cultural  resources survey of approximately  1,346 acres of privately owned  land within the  proposed  Merrill Ranch development,  located  northwest of Florence,  Pinal County, Arizona  (Figure  1). The survey was conducted at the request of Vanguard  Properties as part of ongoing efforts to determine whether significant cultural  resources exist within the Merrill  Ranch development,  prior to the proposed construction  of...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Justin P. Rego.

Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement and Power District (SRP) requested that Logan Simpson Design Inc. (LSD) perform a Class III cultural resources survey prior to anticipated staging of 18 wire pulling locations for a new 230-kV transmission line from Kortsen Road to Thornton Road for the Desert Basin Generating Station, west of Casa Grande in Pinal County. The Class III survey was undertaken to identify, document and evaluate the Arizona/National Register of Historic Places (A/NRHP)...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Eric Davis. Korri Turner.

A cultural resources survey to locate and evaluate cultural resources within a portion of the Boyce Thompson Arboretum State Park (BTA) prior to geotechnical activities associated with the construction of a proposed new entry road and parking lot.

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Hoski Schaafsma.

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

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text David H. Greenwald.

On December 27, 1990, SWCA, Inc. Environmental Consultants, conducted an archaeological survey on the Salt River Pima and Maricopa Indian Reservation for Salt River Project for a proposed substation. Approximately 2.07 acres located in a modern field were surveyed. Isolated artifacts consisted of a single piece of heat-altered rock and five pieces of mafic igneous flaked debitage. Archival investigations revealed that the project area is located in the extreme northwestern portion of Pueblo...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Scott L. Fedick.

On February 27, 1986, Scott L. Fedick of Archaeological Research Services, Inc. (ARS), performed a cultural resources survey at the proposed location of the Salt River Project Central Support Complex. The survey was undertaken at the request of Salt River Project in order to determine if cultural resources, which may include prehistoric or historic archaeological sites or objects, historically or architecturally significant structures or buildings, were present which could be affected by...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Lourdes Aguila.

Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd. (ACS) conducted a Class III (Intensive), non-collection cultural resources survey on approximately 170 miles of the Arizona, Arizona Crosscut, Grand, Tempe, Tempe Crosscut, Consolidated, Eastern, South, Western, Highline, and Kyrene Branch Canals in Maricopa County, Arizona. The survey was undertaken at the request of Jon S. Czaplicki, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) archaeologist and Contracting Officer's Technical Representative for Contract...

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

This report presents the results of a cultural resources survey of three small parcels of land located within the San Rafael State Park in Santa Cruz County. The work was requested HDR Engineering, Inc. to determine whether road improvements and the construction of a new parking lot will have any effect on significant archaeological or historical remains that may be present. William H. Doelle, Ph.D., of Desert Archaeology, Inc., is the Principal Investigator for the project. Homer Thiel of...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Richard Ciolek-Torello. Jeffrey A. Homburg.

This volume presents the results of two archaeological surveys conducted by Statistical Research for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Los Angeles District, in what is known in planning circles as the Rillito Corridor. When Statistical Research began these studies, we quickly realized that the Rillito Corridor was one of the most surveyed areas in southern Arizona. Several comprehensive overviews of the culture history of the area were available, but despite this microscopic attention, no...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text John Marshall.

Northland has completed cultural resources testing at two parcels. During the project, 83 trenches were mechanically excavated, totaling 1,613.3 meters. Trenches were roughly 20 m long, 65 cm wide, and 1.5 m deep. They were laid out in a checkerboard pattern across both loci, with trenches spaced 40 m apart east-west. This equates to approximately a 1.25 percent subsurface sample of the 20.7 acre project area. Testing confirmed the presence of features associated with Las Canopas (AZ...

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The present paper is a preliminary attempt to consider the history and processes of cultural contact of several now-extinct aboriginal groups that inhabited the area of centra northern Mexico during part of the Spanish Colonial period. While the general region comprises roughly the area south of the Rio Grande, east of the Florido River in Chihuahua, north of the town of Parras and the Laguna district (Torreon, Coahuila), and west of the modern highway that runs south from Piedras Negras to...

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Survey instrument for DAHA User Needs Survey

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Keith Kintigh.

The Digital Archive of Huhugam Archaeology (DAHA) is a digital research collection of major archaeological reports relating to the Huhugam “culture” of central and southern Arizona. The User Needs Survey was conducted to better understand the research needs of our principal users—archaeologists and others working in cultural heritage management who concerned with Huhugam archaeology.

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Keith Kintigh.

Summary data tables for Digital Archive of Huhugam Archaeology User Needs Survey.

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

Archaeological test excavations at site AZ AA:12:869 (ASM) within the Dalrymple parcels resulted in the discovery of one probable prehistoric pithouse, two prehistoric pits, and one historical hearth. Archival research into the historic component of the site led to the discovery of an early local horse slaughtering and dog food production industry physically evidenced by a slaughterhouse that is recommended eligible for the National Register of Historic Places. Additional archaeological data...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Roy Reeves III.

This document is a report regarding the damage caused by House Sparrows (Passer Domesticus) to the Great House at Casa Grande Ruins National Monument. The report breaks down the amount of debris left by the sparrows over a 1 year period and projects the amount of debris that might be left over time is the issue remains untreated.

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

SWCA Environmental Consultants (SWCA) conducted archaeological data recovery investigations within a portion of AZ AA:12:869 for the Shannon Business Park LLC in compliance with Pima County regulations for a grading permit as required for the construction. Previously, SWCA conducted archaeological testing at the site, which had been completed in October 2000 (Tucker 2000). During testing, much of the site was found to be heavily disturbed due to modern agricultural plowing, but several...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Deborah L. Swartz.

The project along South River Road was conducted for Santa Cruz County prior to road improvements. The data recovery focused on a single site, AZ EE:9:117 (ASM), a small fieldhouse site along the Santa Cruz River, with a prehistoric and a historic-period component. The prehistoric component included two pithouse remnants, numerous extramural pits, and one unique mortuary feature. Dates recovered through several different methods suggest a long, low-intensity, prehistoric use of the site from...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Douglas R. Mitchell.

The site (AZ T:12:413[ASM]) was recommended as eligible for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places. Avoidance to the site was not feasible so data recovery was conducted under an existing City-approved Plan, entitled “General Historic Properties Treatment Plan for Archaeological Projects Within the Boundaries of the City of Phoenix, Arizona” (Montero et al. 2008). A Supplemental Data Recovery Work Plan submitted to the City (see Mitchell 2011) was approved and implemented. As a...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Bruce G. Phillips. Gregory E. Berg. Lourdes Aguila. Barbara S. Macnider.

The Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT), acting on behalf of the Federal Highway Administration, is undertaking the construction of Highway 101 (Pima Freeway) in north-central Maricopa County. The mainline right-of-way was obtained horn the Arizona State Land Department (ASLD) in the late 1980s. Archaeological Research Sendees, Inc. (ARS) suneyed most of the mainline and identified archaeological resources (Curtis and Stone 1988; B. Stone 1996; L. Stone 1989; Stone and Stone 1990). In...

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This report presents the results of archaeological data recovery conducted by SWCA, Inc. on a portion of Pinnacle Peak Village (AZ U:5:3 [ASU]), a large, Preclassic Hohokam site located in north Scottsdale, Arizona. The archaeological work was done at the request of Desert Troon Companies of Scottsdale, Arizona, owners of Troon Village, a residential development that includes portions of Pinnacle Peak Village. The project is located within Parcel 02 , a unit of Troon Village that is subject to...

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

From July to November, 1996, SWCA, Inc., Environmental Consultants conducted an archaeological testing, data recovery, and monitoring project along a segment of a proposed buried effluent pipeline for Del Webb’s Coventry Homes. Limited data recovery at site AZ AA:12:311 (ASM) was conducted from September 4th to September 20th, 1996. The monitoring phase of the project took place from September to November, 1996. The principal goal of this project was to mitigate the impacts that construction of...

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

Soil Systems, Inc (SSI) contracted with Beazer Homes Arizona Division to conduct archaeological data recovery at six prehistoric sites in the 66 acres Desert Rose project area at the base of South Mountain in south Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona. The sites at which data recovery was conducted were exclusively prehistoric sites (AZ T:12:100 [ASM], AZ T:12:102-105 [ASM], and AZ T:12:108 [ASM]). Sites where data recovery was not undertaken (AZ T:12:101 [ASM] AZ T:12:106 [ASM], and AZ T:12:107...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Brent Kober. Mark R. Hackbarth.

Under contract to Comsense, Inc., Northland Research, Inc. (Northland) has completed archaeological testing and data recovery excavations for the Casa Nueva Development, a public housing project located in downtown Phoenix. The purpose of Northland’s investigations was to thoroughly document archaeological remains in the Casa Nueva project area. This report summarizes the results of those efforts. Although small in scale, the Casa Nueva project has contributed significant new information to our...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Patricia Cook.

The City of Tucson and Pima County have proposed installation of a reclaimed waterline along Speedway Boulevard in Tucson, Pima County, Arizona. The line will affect several archaeological sites, and a data recovery plan (Elson 2004) recommended data recovery projects at three prehistoric sites — AZ BB:13:68 (ASM), AZ BB:13:123 (ASM), and AZ BB:14:4 (ASM). Monitoring was suggested as the appropriate mitigation at a fourth site, AZ BB:13:444 (ASM). Results of the data recovery excavations...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text John T. Marshall.

This report provides documentation for archaeological data recovery within a 6.9 acre parcel located near the northeastern edge of the prehistoric Hohokam village Pueblo del Rio (AZ T:12:116[ASM]). The work was conducted by Northland Research, Inc., for McCall & Associates prior to commercial development of the property. The purpose of the project was to collect information and analyze materials from a sample of features at the site. Features identified include three pit houses, a...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Kris Dobschuetz.

Esteban Group LLC is proposed to develop an apartment complex on privately owned land just south of Esteban Park. In accordance with the archaeological stipulations within the City of Phoenix Zoning Ordinance, Chapter 8, Section 802(B), it is the City’s policy to assist with the preservation of archaeological and historic resources within developments, where appropriate. Arizona Revised Statute § 41-865 states that it is unlawful for persons to disturb human burials and associated grave goods on...

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Archaeological data recovery was conducted in the north end of the Frank Luke Addition in the City of Phoenix within a portion of the Hohokam site of La Ciudad, also known as AZ T:12:1 (ASM). This is a report on data recovery conducted in the north end of the project area. The excavations documented a borrow pit reused as a reservoir (Feature 32), an irrigation lateral (Feature 27), a small field house (Feature 29), five extramural pits and thermal features, and two pits containing historic...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Legacies on the Landscape Project, Arizona State University.

Chronometric dates obtained from excavations on Perry Mesa (after Fierro et al. 1980:259; Gummerman et al. 1975:31)

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Randall H. McGuire.

The nature of Hohokam social organization has always been at the core of debates surrounding the prehistory of southern Arizona. Changing theoretical perspectives have shifted the directions and foci of controversy but the differences in these orientations can largely be described in terms of the assumptions made about social organization. A continuing thread to the arguments has been disagreement over the nature of power relationships in Hohokam society and the importance of such relationships...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text K. J. Schroeder.

The Deem Hills Chert & Chalcedony Quarry, AZ T:8:8(PGM), is located in the Deem Hills of northwestern Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona. The site is a prehistoric quarry, exhibiting the exploitation patterns of chert and chalcedony toolstone by the prehistoric populations that first entered the foothills area west, northwest, north, northeast, and east of the Lower Salt River Valley (LSRV) This area is known as the Northern Periphery. The historical background of the site’s discovery is first...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text G. Richard Scott. Edward F. Harris.

The skeletal series recovered from Casas Grandes, Chihuahua is described and compared to samples of living Papago, Hopi, and Navajo Indians for several non-metrical dental traits (incisor shoveling, canine tuberculum dentale, maxillary molar hypocone, Carabelli's Trait, mandibular molar cusp pattern protostylid, cusp 6, cusp 7, and mandibular premolar lingual cusp number). To quantify the biological relationships between these groups Smith and Berry's mean measure of divergence (Berry, 1968) is...

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Archaeological test excavations were conducted for Desert Mountain Properties, Inc. in north Scottsdale, Arizona. Testing was conducted at nine prehistoric sites, AZ U:1:132, U:1:148, U:1:149, U:1:150, U:1:153, U:1:154, U:1:168, U:1:169, and U:1:170 (ASM). The sites included two field house loci (U:1:132 and U:1:148), three artifact scatters (U:1:149, U:1:153, U:1:170), one artifact scatter with rock features (U:1:154) and three rock-feature agricultural fields (U:1:150, U:1:168, U:1:169). Two...

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This is the introduction to the Roosevelt Platform Mound Studies. The Roosevelt Platform Mound Study investigated the physical and social organization of three Classic period community complexes in the Tonto Basin of Arizona known as Pinto Creek, Cline Terrace, and Rock Island. The data were collected from the investigation of 79 prehistoric sites arranged in three clusters within the Tonto Basin. There are many other sites not examined by the investigations described in this series of...

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The Roosevelt Platform Mound Study (RPMS) was one of three mitigative data recovery studies that the Bureau of Reclamation funded to investigate the prehistory of the Tonto Basin in the vicinity of Theodore Roosevelt Dam. The series of investigations constituted Reclamation's program for complying with historic preservation legislation as it applied to the raising and modification of Theodore Roosevelt Dam. Reclamation contracted with the Arizona State University Office of Cultural Resource...

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This volume is the second in the Roosevelt Monograph Series and is based on papers presented by members of the research team of the Roosevelt Platform Mound Study at a symposium held at the Society for American Archaeology annual meeting in New Orleans in the spring of 1991. Three additional chapters have been added based on papers presented elsewhere during that year. We are grateful to the authors for their contributions and their early insights on the data recovered in the early phases of the...

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This monograph is a collection of papers presented at the 1991 Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans. These papers present preliminary results after two years of work on the eight year mitigation program investigating Salado Platform Mound Villages in the Tonto Basin, Arizona. Each paper constitutes an individual chapter. They include: 1. Introduction 2. Pursuing Southwestern Social Complexity in the 1990s 3. Modeling the Development of Complexity in the...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Mark D. Elson. Paul R. Sheppard. Michael H. Ort.

Understanding the full range of interactions between human groups and volcanic eruptions is of great importance, not only for predicting volcanic hazards and potentially saving lives, but also for insights into human behavior and specifically, on the ways in which populations adapt to catastrophic events. However, most accounts of human/volcano interaction are confined to the past few hundred years, thereby limiting the number of cases and the formulation of predictive models. In this...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Alfred E. Johnson.

Archaeological research in east-central Arizona and west-central New Mexico has succeeded in defining a distinctive cultural entity, the Mogollon, which came into existence about A.D. 1 and lasted until A.D. 1000. The 1000 years of Mogollon culture history are characterized by the indigenous evolution of pithouse villages, brownware pottery, and various artifact forms. Flexed inhumation was the characteristic burial type. Foreign influences were relatively insignificant, resulting in the...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Elinor Ostrom.

The articles in this special feature challenge the presumption that scholars can make simple, predictive models of social–ecological systems (SESs) and deduce universal solutions, panaceas, to problems of overuse or destruction of resources. Moving beyond panaceas to develop cumulative capacities to diagnose the problems and potentialities of linked SESs requires serious study of complex, multivariable, nonlinear, cross-scale, and changing systems. Many variables have been identified by...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Leigh Anne Ellison. Francis McManamon. David Martínez. adam brin. Keith Kintigh.

The Digital Archive of Huhugam Archaeology is an ongoing NEH funded project designed to locate, digitize, and make publicly available in tDAR grey literature reports related to Huhugam archaeology and prehistory. We will apply advanced digital humanities techniques to maximize the synthetic potential of this massive digital database, with implications for improved archaeological research, indigenous access to their cultural heritage, cultural resource management, and public outreach. This...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Rachel Fernandez. Charlene Collazzi.

The Center for Digital Antiquity at Arizona State University, in collaboration with the Amerind Museum, utilized a 2017 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to create a comprehensive digital library of archaeological investigations of the ancient Huhugam (Hohokam). The Digital Archive of Huhugam Archaeology (DAHA) now contains copies of more than 2,000 major archaeological reports, images and data sets made accessible through tDAR (the Digital Archaeological Record), an...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Center for Digital Antiquity.

The Center for Digital Antiquity at Arizona State University, in collaboration with the Amerind Museum, utilized a 2017 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to create a comprehensive digital library of archaeological investigations of the ancient Huhugam (Hohokam). The Digital Archive of Huhugam Archaeology (DAHA) now contains copies of more than 2,000 major archaeological reports, images and data sets. It is curated and made accessible through tDAR (the Digital Archaeological...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Joseph Tiffany.

The Archives of Archaeology Series is a 29-volume set jointly published by the University of Wisconsin Press and the Society for American Archaeology on opaque microcards, a now obsolete format. The Mississippi Valley Archaeology Center at the University of Wisconsin—La Crosse has digitized the original opaque microcards and made the digital copies available through tDAR. This article describes the digitization of the original records on opaque microcards.

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The mountainous zone below the Mogollon Rim in central Arizona was home to Apache in the pre-Reservation period (pre-A.D. 1875). Four Western Apache site components, dating between the late seventeenth and late nineteenth centuries A.D., were identified during excavations conducted in advance of the realignment of the Preacher Canyon and Little Green Valley segments of State Route 260 between Payson and Heber: Plymouth Landing, AZ O:12:89/AR-03-12-04-1411 (ASM/TNF), McGoonie, AZ...

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Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement and Power District (SRP) plans to construct an 88-mile-long 500-kV extra-high voltage transmission line linking the Pinal West, Santa Rosa, Pinal Central, Abel, and Dinosaur substations (ACC CEC Case No. 126). This report presents the results of Phase I data recovery (extent testing) and Phase II data recovery within a 40-m- (130-ft-) wide corridor at seven sites located on State Trust Land administered by the Arizona State Land Department (ASLD) (ASLD...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Robert E. Gasser.

This paper will synthesize the macrobotanical findings from the Tucson Aqueduct Project, Phase A (TAP), conducted by the Museum of Northern Arizona and will highlight some of the pollen and flotation results from the Salt-Gila Aqueduct Project (SGA), completed by the Arizona State Museum. Both projects were segments of the Central Arizona Project, a huge canal bringing water from the Colorado River to the farms and towns of southern Arizona. The ...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Frank Matero.

This report regards a documentation condition assessment of the Casa Grande at Casa Grande Ruins National Monument. It details structure analysis along with material testing and analysis. The report analyzes treatment methods. The report recalls a history of treatment and conservation and those important personalities involved since 1887. Included are detailed diagrams outlining the condition assessments by wall surface.

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text John H. Evans. Harry Hillman.

This document includes 4 versions of a report about lunar and solar events at the Great House at Casa Grande Ruins National Monument. These include: a presentation paper, a published version, a version prepared for Arizona Highway Magazine and a Science News summary. There is also a constellation chart to check Canopus alignment. The report outlines basic history and construction of the Great House that facilitates astronomical events. The report references computer data, cutting edge at...

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This report presents the results of archaeological testing conducted at three sites, AZ U:1:11, AZ U:1:262, and AZ U:1:263 (all ASM). The sites are located in north Phoenix, Arizona. The testing was done at the request of PK Development LLC, owner of the land, before development of a 500-acre parcel that included the sites. The proposed development will include residential areas, a golf course, and natural desert. The project is subject to Clean Water Act permitting (Section 404) through the...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text David A. Gregory.

This volume contains descriptive data for excavated features and materials collected from the Early Agricultural period component at Los Pozos (AZ AA:12.91 [ASM]). These data are analyzed and discussed in a companion volume (Gregory, ed. 2001), while a related volume (Gregory, ed. 1999) reports on the Middle Archaic component investigated at this same site. The site name acknowledges several Early Agricultural period wells discovered during work at the site. These data were collected as part of...

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The Phoenix Sky Harbor Center Project evolved as a result of the planned development of an area slightly larger than 800 acres west of Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. This volume focuses on the testing phase of the project undertaken by the Community and Economic Development Department of the City of Phoenix in consultation with the Arizona State Historic Preservation Office. Historic records of the area and recent studies within the project boundaries indicated that prehistoric...

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This volume, which focuses on archaeological data recovery efforts at Dutch Canal Ruin, is the second of four prepared for the Phoenix Sky Harbor Center Development Project. Investigators identified 20 individual loci during the testing phase within the Phoenix Sky Harbor Center at Dutch Canal Ruin and excavated a sample of eight loci (Areas 1 through 8). During the monitoring of the remote parking facility in the eastern portion of the project area, SWCA discovered and excavated additional...

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The following report presents the results of archaeological testing and data recovery at the Houghton Road site (AZ BB:13:398 [ASM]). These investigations provide important new insights into a virtually unknown time in Tucson Basin prehistory. The Houghton Road site represents a seasonally or semipermanently occupied hamlet that dates primarily to the Plain Ware horizon, the first period of Formative culture in southern Arizona. Excavations at the Houghton Road Site (AZ BB:13:398) add to the...

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This document is a brief history of the early custodians and superintendents of Casa Ruins National Monument.

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Thomas N. Motsinger. Heidi Roberts. Richard V. N. Ahlstrom.

SWCA, Inc., Environmental Consultants (SWCA), of Tucson, Arizona, conducted the Eastern Mining Area (EMA) survey project under contract to Salt River Project (SRP) between October, 1993, and February, 1994. One central purpose of the project was to create an inventory of archaeological resources to assist in the planning of future improvements and other modifications to existing SRP transmission lines. The project included 107 person-field days of Class III archaeological survey along...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Thomas N. Motsinger. Heidi Roberts. Richard V. N. Ahlstrom.

SWCA Inc, Environmental Consultants of Tucson, Arizona, conducted Eastern Mining Area (EMA) survey project under contract to Salt River Project (SRP) between October 1993 and February 1994. One central purpose of the project was to create an inventory of archaeological resources to assist in the planning of future improvements and other modifications to existing SRP transmission lines. The project included 107 person-field days of Class III archaeological survey along approximately 257 linear...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Thomas N. Motsinger. Heidi Roberts. Richard V. N. Ahlstrom.

SWCA, Inc., Environmental Consultants (SWCA), of Tucson, Arizona, conducted the Eastern Mining Area (EMA) survey project under contract to Salt River Project (SRP) between October, 1993, and February, 1994. One central purpose of the project was to create an inventory of archaeological resources to assist in the planning of future improvements and other modifications to existing SRP transmission lines. The project included 107 person-field days of Class III archaeological survey along...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text John Briggs. Katherine A. Spielmann. Hoski Schaafsma. Keith Kintigh. Melissa Kruse. Kari Morehouse. Karen Schollmeyer.

Over the past five decades, ecologists and archaeologists have dismantled two longstanding theoretical constructs. Ecologists have rejected the “balance of nature” concept and archaeologists have dispelled the myth that indigenous people were “in harmony with nature”. Rejection of these concepts poses critical challenges to both fields as current disciplinary approaches are inadequate to grapple effectively with real-world complexities of socioecological systems. In this review, we focus on the...

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This volume reports the results of excavations conducted at a small Colonial period Hohokam site in Phoenix, Arizona. Excavations were undertaken at El Caserío (AZ T:12:49(ASM)) as part of the East Papago Freeway Archaeological Project funded by the Arizona Department of Transportation under Contract 85 33. El Caserío contained several extramural surfaces, trash deposits, 20 pithouses, Decorated ceramic and a variety of miscellaneous pits. analyses and chronometric dates place the primary...

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Survey forms from the 1963 Wake Forest University survey of the El Morro Valley

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Chris D. North.

In April and May 2000, SWCA, Inc., Environmental Consultants (SWCA) conducted cultural resource surveys for EPNG's Line No. 2000 Project, surveying the former All American Pipeline in Cochise, La Paz, Maricopa, Pima, and Pinal counties for the Arizona segment. At the request of EPNG, SWCA began the cultural resources survey for this project in April 2000 in support of an Environmental Assessment (EA) being prepared by ENSR, Inc., in conjunction with a pipeline acquisition, conversion, operation...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Gregory R. Seymour. R. Thomas Euler.

This report has been prepared in conjunction with the continuing archaeological evaluation and investigation plan for Bureau of Land Management (BLM), State of Arizona, and privately held lands near Kelvin, Pinal County, Arizona. Specifically, this report provides site evaluations and the results of a testing program conducted at ten sites located near Elder Gulch in the Middle Gila Basin of central Arizona. This testing program was conducted from April 24 through May 16, 1990 by SWCA...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Douglas Mitchell. Walter R. Punzmann. Gary Huckleberry. Peg Davis. Emily Higgins Keppler. Jennifer Rich. Lesley Hudson. Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd..

ACS conducted testing at 10 sites within Reclamation’s CAP ROW seeking to resolve the National Register of Historic Places (Register) eligibility status of sites within the CAP ROW. This document presents the results of that testing.

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Douglas Mitchell. Peg Davis. Gary Huckleberry. Andrea Gregory.

In an effort to better manage cultural resources on Reclamation land, PXAO has developed an archaeological site database for the CAP canal. The database was developed using all the previous main stem survey data; however, the Register eligibility status of the majority of these sites was unknown following completion of the CAP. Additionally, an unknown number of sites were either destroyed by construction or excavation, while others are no longer within Reclamation’s CAP right-of-way (ROW). PXAO...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Nicola Hunt. Kolleen M. Kralick.

Archaeological survey in the Gila National Forest during June and July 1989 by the State University of New York at Buffalo was a continuation of previous archaeological field projects (Nelson 1982, 1983, 1985, 1988) intended to increase existing information about prehistoric occupation of the east side of the Black Range, New Mexico. The information collected in the forest survey supplements archaeological data recovered from lower elevations in the Black Range by expanding knowledge...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Diane Stoffel.

The subject of this analysis of stylistic variation is the pottery known as Classic Mimbres Black on White, specifically the naturalistic bowls, which display images of animals and/or humans. In an effort to locate and identify some meaningful signifiers within the iconographic repertoire of the Mimbres culture, the approach of pattern recognition is utilized. A number of design elements were chosen upon completion of a preliminary study which showed promise of demonstrating some...

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The Eastern Mimbres Archaeological Project (EMAP), co-directed by Drs. Margaret Nelson and Michelle Hegmon began in 1990, building upon earlier work by Nelson. EMAP focuses on the later (post-AD 1000) prehistory of the eastern Mimbres area, a portion of the Mimbres region in southwest New Mexico. In 1982 Nelson was at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque and in the early 1990s at the State University of New York, Buffalo, and Hegmon was at New Mexico State University, Las Cruces. In 1995...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Michael Diehl.

The purpose of this analysis is to assess the diet breadth and intensity of species use of prehistoric Mogollones by examining archaeobotanical samples from three archaeological sites, 83NM400, 85NM612, and 85NM613. These sites are situated along Palomas Creek, an intermittent stream which flows only after significant precipitation, and locally near springs. To date, fifty samples from floor features (storage pits, hearths, and interiors of ceramic vessels) have been analyzed. Analysis of...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Margaret C. Nelson.

This report presents information on the research goals of the excavations and general outline of the theoretical orientation, a synopsis of results from chronometric and cross-dating, summary descriptions of the architectural information from the pueblo rooms, and summary information from the faunal and ethnobotanical analysis. Excavation data establish that the surface structures were constructed by at least the early 11th century, prior to the abandonment of large villages. These small pueblos...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Margaret C. Nelson. Michelle Hegmon.

This document is a report on archaeological research conducted on the Ladder Ranch in the summer of 1993 under the direction of Drs. Michelle Hegmon and Margaret Nelson. It has been prepared for reading at various levels of detail. The introduction stands alone as a summary of the entire document. It briefly outlines our fieldwork and research findings. More detail is available in the five sections that comprise the main body of the report. These include a: Review of the archaeology of the...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Sarah Klassen.

The Eastern Mimbres Archaeological Project (EMAP), co-directed by Drs. Margaret Nelson and Michelle Hegmon began in 1990, building upon earlier work by Nelson. EMAP focuses on the later (post-AD 1000) prehistory of the eastern Mimbres area, a portion of the Mimbres region in southwest New Mexico. In 1982 Nelson was at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque and in the early 1990s at the State University of New York, Buffalo, and Hegmon was at New Mexico State University, Las Cruces. In 1995...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Michelle Hegmon. Margaret C. Nelson.

This document is a report on archaeological research conducted on the Ladder Ranch under the direction of Drs. Margaret Nelson and Michelle Hegmon. Emphasis is on the work conducted during the summer of 1994, though we also discuss analyses of 1993 materials done after the 1993 report was completed and plans for further technical analysis. This document serves as an interim report of our activities supported by the two-year (1994-1995) grant from the Turner Foundation. This report is structured...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Michael Diehl.

During the summer of 1994, Eastern Mimbres Archaeological Project (EMAP) staff excavated portions of four prehistoric cobble-masonry pueblos (LA 37726, LA 37727, LA 37728, and LA 3949) on the Ladder Ranch in Sierra County, New Mexico. During the course of the excavations, flotation samples were recovered from hearths, primary and secondary post holes, storage pits, mealing bins, and rodent burrows in the floors of rooms. The primary purpose ofthis report is to describe the frequencies and...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Jill Mayo. Michelle Hegmon. Margaret C. Nelson.

This report documents the result of the 1993 EMAP surface survey on the Ladder Ranch. Other 1993 EMAP activities included the excavation of two sites, the Phelps Site (LA 37691) on the Palomas Creek, and Las Animas Village (93NM1000, LA 3949), located in the surveyed area. Both sites were located on private land. The survey was conducted by a crew of two staff members and two field school students. Jill Mayo and Kolleen Kralick, working under the direction of Drs. Nelson and Hegmon,...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Margaret C. Nelson. Michelle Hegmon.

How do human beings cope with their natural and social environments and how do they impact those environments? These issues are of great concern today, and they have been for thousands of years. Hunters and gatherers, farmers, and urban dwellers all must be concerned with their surroundings and how they are using their environment. Their success or failure, their very survival, depends on their interactions with others and with their landscape. Research on the Ladder Ranch traces the Mimbres...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Cooper Gilbert.

The Eastern Mimbres Archaeological Project (EMAP), co-directed by Drs. Margaret Nelson and Michelle Hegmon began in 1990, building upon earlier work by Nelson. EMAP focuses on the later (post-AD 1000) prehistory of the eastern Mimbres area, a portion of the Mimbres region in southwest New Mexico. In 1982 Nelson was at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque and in the early 1990s at the State University of New York, Buffalo, and Hegmon was at New Mexico State University, Las Cruces. In 1995...

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National Geographic Society grant 5213-94 has supported research examining the impact of population dispersion and reorganization in the prehistoric Puebloan Southwest. During the 11th through 14th centuries in the Mimbres region of southwestern New Mexico, large villages were abandoned and population reorganized into small, dispersed pueblos. The shifts in land use and social organization that emerged with this change were examined. Three objectives were pursued: 1) Documentation of regional...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Michelle Hegmon. Margaret C. Nelson.

The North American Southwest is an excellent landscape for the study of small scale societies. Sites are visible and well preserved as a result of the aridity and limited modern development in most regions. This aridity, however, posed challenges to prehistoric societies. Our research in the eastern Mimbres area of southwestern New Mexico examines prehistoric land use, challenging some of the basic assumptions that have guided understanding of Mimbres prehistory and the strategies of small...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Michelle Hegmon. Margaret C. Nelson.

The Eastern Mimbres Archaeological Project (EMAP), co-directed by Drs. Margaret Nelson and Michelle Hegmon began in 1990, building upon earlier work by Nelson. EMAP focuses on the later (post-AD 1000) prehistory of the eastern Mimbres area, a portion of the Mimbres region in southwest New Mexico. In 1982 Nelson was at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque and in the early 1990s at the State University of New York, Buffalo, and Hegmon was at New Mexico State University, Las Cruces. In 1995...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Margaret C. Nelson. Michelle Hegmon.

EMAP has made great strides toward understanding the diverse options employed by prehistoric, arid-land farmers in the eastern Mimbres area. This knowledge provides valuable insights about how populations of different sizes organize their communities, and raises equally interesting questions about how sustainable adaptations are accomplished. EMAP has made outstanding discoveries, new to the field of Mimbres archaeology. We have discovered a new Mimbres adaptation, undocumented until our work on...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Michelle Hegmon. Margaret C. Nelson. Jennifer A. Brady. Tiffany Clark.

This is an artifact catalog of the artifacts found during the 1999 excavation season.

DOCUMENT [not managed] Citation Only Michelle Hegmon. Margaret C. Nelson. Roger Anyon. Darrell Creel. Steven A. Leblanc. Harry J. Shafer.

Time-space systematics for the end of the Classic Mimbres period and subsequent developments in southwest New Mexico are outlined, and the variable spatial scale of these processes is emphasized. The regional unity of the Late Pithouse and Classic periods began to break down around A.D. 1130, a time when disparate developments characterize different portions of the region. The Terminal Classic (ca. A.D. 1130 and later) represents the first steps toward significant and rapid changes and is seen...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Jennifer A. Brady.

During 1997 and 1998, EMAP excavations also began to include earlier sites dating to the Classic Period (A.D. 1000-1150). Prior to these excavations, the majority of comparative data from the Classic Period came from the Mimbres Valley and Upper Gila regions. Excavation at eastern Mimbres sites was a step toward understanding the Classic Period in the eastern Mimbres area. The excavations revealed many material similarities between Mimbres Valley and eastern Mimbres Classic Period sites (Brady...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Michelle Hegmon. Margaret C. Nelson. Mark J. Ennes.

An understanding of small-scale population movements is essential to recent research on migration. Consideration of the technological style (processes of manufacture) of pottery, in conjunction with petrographic sourcing analyses, provides means of identifying and interpreting population movements at various scales. Diverse styles characterizes Postclassic Mimbres (A.D. 1150-early 1200s) regional reorganization in southwest New Mexico. One new style, indented corrugated pottery, is similar to...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Jennifer A. Brady.

The 1999-2000 Seco survey was designed with several goals in mind. Our first objective was to document Classic period settlement on the Seco drainage, in order to expand our settlement data for the eastern Mimbres for this time period. Second, we wished to revisit Classic Period Palomas sites in order to recheck locations, maps, and to take ceramic collections from these sites. Our third overall objective was to identify Postclassic Period sites on the Seco to determine whether the Postclassic...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Michael Diehl.

Eight flotation samples from two Eastern Mimbres Archaeological Project (EMAP) sites were analyzed. Cultigens, primarily maize, were present in most of the samples. A limited array of wild seed taxa were represented as well. The represented wood resources appear to have been drawn from the Great Basin Conifer Woodland biotic province, and augmented by the use of riparian resources. The woods in the assemblages were consistent with a plant resource use pattern that focused on...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Michelle Hegmon. Margaret C. Nelson.

Rituals were essential in the lives of the people of the Mimbres. What symbols had meaning in their ritual? How was ceremony structured? Little is known about these aspects of the past because so many prehistoric villages have been destroyed by looters. But Mimbres villages on the Ladder Ranch, in the eastern Mimbres area, have been protected from looters and we have been fortunate in finding many clues to the rituals and ceremonial practices of the people of the Mimbres.

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Kristin S. Sullivan.

Site LA 130191, Pague Well Village (Figure 1), is located on the first terrace above the North Seco drainage in the eastern Mimbres area. Pague Well Village consists of at least six roomblocks, occupied during the Classic Mimbres period (A.D. 1 000-1130) and containing anywhere from two to six rooms each. Three units were fully excavated by the Eastern Mimbres Archaeological Project (EMAP) I Arizona State University (ASU) field school during the 2001 field season: Unit 40 (Bild et al....