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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.


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  • Hohokam Archaeology Along the Salt-Gila Aqueduct, Central Arizona Project, Volume VI: Habitation Sites on the Gila River (1984)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Uploaded by: Rachel Fernandez

    This is one of nine volumes of reports on archaeology conducted for the United States Bureau of Reclamation along the route of the Salt-Gila Aqueduct, a component of the Central Arizona Project extending a distance of 58 miles from east of Phoenix, Arizona, to the Picacho Reservoir area. Eight prehistoric habitation sites were excavated in the Florence, Arizona area, as a part of this project, representing Colonial through Classic Period Hohokam occupations in this area. This volume includes...

  • Hohokam Ballcourts and the Mesoamerican Connection (1982)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text David R. Wilcox. Charles Sternberg.

    This report is a systematic, comparative study of Hohokam features inferred to be ballcourts. It is designed to contribute to our internationally renowned National Historic Landmark. The ballcourt hypothesis is carefully reassessed and supporting evidence is adduced. A model of the changing structure of the Hohokam regional system is derived from an analysis of the ballcourts and other data. The connections between the Southwest and Mesoamerica implied by the ballcourts are closely examined, and...

  • Hohokam Ballcourts and Their Interpretation (1983)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text David R. Wilcox. Charles Sternberg.

    This document is a comprehensive report on Hohokam ballcourts prepared by David Wilcox and Charles Sternberg under NPS P.O. CX8100-0-0009. Due to sensitve locational data, permission must be granted to view this document.

  • Hohokam Chronology: an Essay on History and Method (1978)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Michael B. Schiffer.

    This chapter approaches Hohokam chronology from several different but interrelated standpoints. First, I review the history of research in order to ferret out the origins of various ideas about Hohokam chronology. Emphasis is placed on evaluating the methods and evidence that previous investigators used to arrive at their conclusions. Secondly, a new chronology is constructed based on absolute dates. And, finally, suggestions are offered for additional chronological research, especially in the...

  • 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...

  • The Hohokam Culture as Related to Other Southwestern Culture (1962)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text E.B. Sayles.

    The purpose of this report is to show the evolution and development of the Hohokam culture in relation to other Southwestern cultures. 1) The evidence is given, primarily, by maps and figures to provide a summary showing: a) The environment; b) The distribution of aboriginal cultures and the basic traits which characterize them at various times; and c) The location of tribes speaking a common language at the time of European contact. 2) An interpretation of...

  • The Hohokam Expressway Project: A Study of Prehistoric Irrigation in the Salt River Valley, Arizona (1976)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text W. Bruce Masse.

    In 1970, and again in 1972, archaeologists from the Highway Salvage Program of the Arizona State Museum intensively surveyed the route of the proposed Hohokam Expressway in Phoenix, Arizona. This expressway was proposed in order to connect Interstate 10 with 44th Street and provide a north-south access route across the Salt River to relieve the traffic congestion caused by periodic flooding of the river (Fig. 1). Because a portion of the proposed right-of-way runs adjacent to Pueblo Grande and...

  • Hohokam Farming on the Salt River Floodplain: Excavations at the Sky Harbor Airport North Runway (2003)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Uploaded by: Rachel Fernandez

    Archaeological monitoring, testing, and data recovery in advance of construction related to the expansion of Sky Harbor International Airport's North Runway, including the realignment of 24th Street north of Buckeye Road. The work was authorized by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for the purpose of compliance with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended, and conducted in accordance with a Memorandum of Agreement (1993) executed by the FAA with the...

  • Hohokam Farming on the Salt River Floodplain: Refining Models and Analytical Methods (2004)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Uploaded by: Rachel Fernandez

    This is the second of two volumes presenting the results of data recovery investigations at the Dutch Canal Ruin (AZ T:12:62 [ ASM]), conducted by Desert Archaeology, Inc., at the western end of the North Runway, Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. The Dutch Canal Ruin is a prehistoric agricultural site, dating between 1,700 and 500 years ago, consisting of fieldhouses and farmsteads scattered along a network of canals on the geological floodplain of the Salt River. The first volume...

  • Hohokam Farming Settlements in North Scottsdale: Archaeological Excavations at AZ U:1:183 (ASM) and AZ U:1:186 (ASM) (2001)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Uploaded by: system user

    This report discusses excavation results at two Hohokam farmsteads (AZ U:1:183 [ASM] and AZ U:1:186 [ASM]) in north Scottsdale, Arizona. Data recovery investigations identified one pithouse and several extramural features at both sites. In addition, a pole-and-brush-lined surface structure was identified at AZ U:1:186 (ASM) that suggests the pithouse may have functioned as a cold-season dwelling while the surface structure served as a warm-season dwelling. Architecture and material culture...

  • Hohokam Farmsteads Along Cave Creek, Arizona (2002)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Uploaded by: system user

    In 1998 and 1999, archaeologists from SWCA and volunteers from the Desert Foothills Chapter of the Arizona Archaeological Society conducted archaeological investigations at four sites in the Estado de Cholla project area, located southwest of the town of Cave Creek, Arizona. Three isolated Hohokam habitation structures were fully excavated at two of the sites. Each of the three houses was catastrophically burned and each contained intact, abundant, floor-contact artifact assemblages. More than...

  • 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 Irrigation and Agriculture on the Western Margin of Pueblo Grande: Archaeology for the PHX Sky Train Project (2015)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Uploaded by: adam brin

    The results of phased data recovery efforts for the City of Phoenix Aviation Department in advance of construction of the PHX Sky Train are presented in this report. Investigations were conducted within the Sky Train's 44th Street Station area, located immediately west of 44th Street and south of the Grand Canal in Phoenix, Arizona. Twelve medium to large prehistoric canals were encountered during the project, which was an anticipated discovery given the project's location northwest of the Park...

  • Hohokam Irrigation Communities: A Study of Internal Structure, External Relationships and Sociopolitical Complexity (2006)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Jerry Brian Howard.

    The relationship between large-scale water control projects and the development of sociopolitical complexity is an important theoretical domain in anthropology that can benefit from the diachronic nature of archaeological data. It is argued that irrigation systems are socio-technic entities, designed not only to satisfy engineering requirements but also to accommodate the social groups operating it. This study develops a new theoretical framework for identifying the task groups operating these...

  • The Hohokam of the San Pedro Valley and Papagueria: Continuity and Variability in two Regional Populations (1978)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Bruce Masse.

    This paper examines two important regional Hohokarn populations, that of the San Pedro Valley and the Papagueria. You may ask why these two geographically separate areas are combined into a single presentation. Briefly stated, a comparison of' these two regions will hopefully serve to illustrate what I believe to be a general unity shared by southern Arizona Hohokam populations peripheral to the 11 core areas of the Gila and Salt River Valleys, and at the same time point out the variability...

  • 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.

  • Hohokam Settlement Patterns in the San Xavier Project Area (1984)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text William H. Doelle. Henry Wallace.

    The intensive archaeological survey of over 18 square miles of the San Xavier Indian Reservation has produced a substantial body of new data regarding prehistoric utilization of this portion of the Tucson Basin. In this chapter a subset of the San Xavier Project data base is utilized to examine stability and change in the prehistoric settlement patterns within the study area. There are three major goals for the present study. The first goal is to describe the analysis methods employed. The...

  • Hohokam Social Structure and Irrigation Management: The Ceramic Evidence from the Central Phoenix Basin (1994)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text David R. Abbott.

    The prehistoric Hohokam people of south-central Arizona are best known for their large and extensive irrigation works. However, just how the administration of the canal systems articulated with the organization of Hohokam society is an interesting and unresolved issue. In this study, substantial gains are made for reconstructing Hohokam social structure, the degree to which it was shaped by their irrigation economy, and the evolving interplay between hydraulic management and the pattern of...

  • The Hohokam, Sinagua and the Hakataya (1960)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Albert H. Schroeder.

    The Museum of Northern Arizona has spent a number of years sponsoring archaeological investigations which have led to defining the Sinagua culture in the neighborhood of the San Francisco Mountain area of northern Arizona. The Gila Pueblo Archaeological Foundation has devoted considerable research to the definition of the Hohokam in southern Arizona. Dr. Colton, in his various publications on the Sinagua, also demonstrated that the Hohokam up to about 1125 A.D. and the Sinagua from 1125 to...

  • Hohokam-Artifacts (1981)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Charles C. Di Peso.

    A reflection and evaluation prepared for a Hohokam Symposium regarding the approach to studying Hohokam artifacts, and a call for a "refinement of the necessary techniques used to create a substantive historical continuum of the Gila-Salt district so that one can work either backward or forward in time."

  • Hohokam-Mogollon Burial Plateaus: Notes between 1965 and 1980 (1980)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Charles C. Di Peso.

    A collection of brief notes from Hohokam-Mogollon burial plateaus with specific references to other publications.

  • 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...

  • Horseshoe Dam Modifications Supplemental Cultural Resource Class III Inventory Survey and Evaluation (1990)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Steven G. Dosh. T. Kathleen Henderson.

    Northland Research, Inc. has completed a Class III cultural resources inventory and evaluation of areas of potential impact associated with the proposed Horseshoe Dam modifications. This survey project was designated Task 13 of the Supplemental Surveys of the Regulatory Storage Division, Central Arizona Project (Plan 6). It was conducted under Contract No. 7-CS-3-05750 issued by the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation. The project area is located entirely within the Tonto...

  • The Human Experience of Social Transformation: Cross-Cultural Insights from Qualitative Comparative Analysis - Data (2018)
    DATASET [not managed] Matthew Peeples. Michelle Hegmon.

    These data accompany the Hegmon and Peeples manuscript entitled "The Human Experience of Social Transformation: Cross-Cultural Insights from Qualitative Comparative Analysis" Archaeologists and other scholars have long studied the causes of collapse and other major social transformations and debated how they can be understood. This article instead focuses on the human experience of living through those transformations, analyzing 18 transformation cases from the US Southwest and the North...

  • The Human Experience of Social Transformation: Cross-Cultural Insights from Qualitative Comparative Analysis - Supplement 1 - Coding Justifications (2018)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Matthew Peeples. Michelle Hegmon.

    Supplemental material for The Human Experience of Social Transformation: Cross-Cultural Insights from Qualitative Comparative Analysis Archaeologists and other scholars have long studied the causes of collapse and other major social transformations and debated how they can be understood. This article instead focuses on the human experience of living through those transformations, analyzing 18 transformation cases from the US Southwest and the North Atlantic. The transformations, including...

  • The Human Experience of Social Transformation: Cross-Cultural Insights from Qualitative Comparative Analysis - Supplement 1 - R Code (2018)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Matthew Peeples. Michelle Hegmon.

    R Code for analyses associated with The Human Experience of Social Transformation: Cross-Cultural Insights from Qualitative Comparative Analysis Archaeologists and other scholars have long studied the causes of collapse and other major social transformations and debated how they can be understood. This article instead focuses on the human experience of living through those transformations, analyzing 18 transformation cases from the US Southwest and the North Atlantic. The transformations,...

  • Human Vulnerability to Climatic Dry Periods in the Prehistoric U.S. Southwest (2010)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Scott Ingram.

    This study investigates the vulnerability of subsistence agriculturalists to food shortfalls associated with dry periods. I approach this effort by evaluating prominent and often implicit conceptual models of vulnerability to dry periods used by archaeologists and other scholars investigating past human adaptations in dry climates. The conceptual models I evaluate rely on an assumption of regional-scale resource marginality and emphasize the contribution of demographic conditions (settlement...

  • Hydrology and Agriculture in the Jumanos Portion of the Salinas Pueblo Area (2014)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Maryann Wasiolek. Jon Sandor. Katherine Spielmann.

    This document synthesizes information we gathered and inferences we drew concerning prehistoric water availability and agricultural production on a field trip to the Salinas area February 21‐23, 2014.

  • Identification of the Pima Tribe No. 10, Improved Order of Red Men Plot Within the Court Street Cemetery, AZ BB:13:156 (ASM), Tucson, Pima County, Arizona (2012)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text J. Homer Thiel.

    Archaeological testing was conducted at the Salvation Army property. Work identified 20 graves within the Improved Order of Red Men plot in the Court Street Cemetery, as well as eight prehistoric features. A portion of the property contained a single prehistoric pit and no Compliance Summary Page iii human burials. The pit was sampled. The area tested on the eastern side contained 20 graves from the Improved Order of Red Men plot, present in two separate clusters of 10 burials. Two pit houses...

  • Identity and Social Transformation in the Prehispanic Cibola World: A.D. 1150-1325
    PROJECT [not managed] Matthew Peeples.

    This project contains raw data files associated with my Arizona State University dissertation. Identity and Social Transformation in the Prehispanic Cibola World: A.D. 1150-1325 For more up-to-date versions of these data and analyses see tDAR project: "Connected Communities: Networks, Identity, and Social Change in the Ancient Cibola World" https:// core.tdar.org/project/427899/

  • Illustrations of Petroglyphs at Pueblo la Plata (2007)
    IMAGE [not managed] Will Russell.

    A series of illustrations based on petroglyphs near Pueblo la Plata, Perry Mesa

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

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  • Implements of Change: Tools, Subsistence, and the Built Environment of Las Capas, an Early Agricultural Irrigation Community in Southern Arizona (2015)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Uploaded by: Rachel Fernandez

    This volume presents data from large-scale archaeological excavations at the prehistoric site of Las Capas, AZ AA:12:111 (ASM). Data recovery was conducted by Desert Archaeology, Inc. and included investigations at both the site itself and a well-developed associated canal, AZ AA:12:753 (ASM), and agricultural field system. An Arizona Antiquities Act permit was obtained, as Pima County, the sponsoring agency, is a subdivision of the state and, as such, is subject to the Arizona Antiquites Act....

  • INAA Data from the greater Cibola Region (2018)
    DATASET [not managed] Matthew Peeples. Andrew Duff. Deborah Huntley. Gregson Schachner. Karl W. Laumbach. Michael Glascock. Jeffrey Ferguson.

    These data represent all of the new and previously published INAA ceramic compositional data and group assignments from Peeples 2018: Connected Communities Peeples, Matthew A. (2018) Connected Communities: Networks, Identity, and Social Change in the Ancient Cibola World. University of Arizona Press. Tucson, AZ.

  • Indian Pageant photos 1926-1930 (1926)
    IMAGE [not managed] Uploaded by: alycia hayes

    These images are of the Indian Pageant, an annual event that took place between 1926 and 1930 on Compound B at the Casa Grande Ruins National Monument.

  • Informal Commentary on Supt. Voll's Memo of January 9 (1966)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Roland Richert.

    This commentary discusses a plan for action on Compound B at Casa Grande Ruins National Monument.

  • Ingesting Digital Data Sets and Project Reports from Soil System, Inc.’s Data Recovery at Pueblo Grande, Phoenix, AZ – FINAL REPORT (2012)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text M Scott Thompson. Rebecca Hill. Cory Breternitz. David Abbott.

    In fiscal year 2011, The Soil Systems, Inc. (SSI) Pueblo Grande project was awarded grant funding from the Digital Archaeological Record (tDAR) to preserve SSI’s digital data from a series of archaeological projects conducted at Pueblo Grande village (AZ U:9:7), Phoenix, AZ. These data are the results of incompletely reported projects that SSI directed after completion of the Hohokam Expressway project in the late 1980’s. The project goals were to collect all available digital data from these...

  • Inspiration I (1974)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Phil Smith.

    A brief report of the Inspiration I Hohokam site along with photograph negatives (not scanned). The site was investigated through a W.P.A. project under state-wide sponsorship of University of Arizona and local sponsorship of Gila Pueblo, City of Globe, and Gila County and began in October 1938. A sufficient number of characteristic Hohokam traits are present in the sites of the Globe-Miami area to warrant definite inclusion of these sites in the Hohokam culture.

  • Installation of Subsurface Drainage Piping in Compound A (1997)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text James M. Rancier. Donald L. Spencer.

    These documents are: a form for assessment of action that would impact cultural resources in the Great House in Compound A at the Casa Grande Ruins National Monument and a document supporting the proposed action. The recommendation supports additional ground level drainage ports to be installed in selected rooms in various locations by removing historic and prehistoric wall fabric.

  • Integrated Pest Management, Compound A (1996)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Nathan Allen.

    This document is an assessment of actions that might impact the cultural resources in Compound A at the Casa Grande Ruins National Monument. The report details a plan to remove various invasive weed species.

  • Intensive Testing for the San Xavier Farm Rehabilitation Project, San Xavier District, Tohono O'odham Nation, Pima County, Arizona: Artifact Photo Log (2006)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd..

    This is part of the San Xavier Farm Rehabilitation Project. Additional entries related to this project can be found at the following link: https://core.tdar.org/collection/27482 Reclamation is assisting the San Xavier District and the San Xavier Farm Cooperative in the extensive rehabilitation of approximately 1,700 acres of active and fallow farmland along the Santa Cruz River at San Xavier. While some present and former fields will be modified to better accommodate water application from...

  • Intensive Testing for the San Xavier Farm Rehabilitation Project, San Xavier District, Tohono O'odham Nation, Pima County, Arizona: Artifact Photos (2006)
    IMAGE [not managed] Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd.. Michael Droz.

    This is part of the San Xavier Farm Rehabilitation Project. Additional entries related to this project can be found at the following link: https://core.tdar.org/collection/27482 Reclamation is assisting the San Xavier District and the San Xavier Farm Cooperative in the extensive rehabilitation of approximately 1,700 acres of active and fallow farmland along the Santa Cruz River at San Xavier. While some present and former fields will be modified to better accommodate water application from...

  • Intensive Testing for the San Xavier Farm Rehabilitation Project, San Xavier District, Tohono O'odham Nation, Pima County, Arizona: Report (2007)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Robert J. Stokes. Linda Schilling.

    This is part of the San Xavier Farm Rehabilitation Project. Additional entries related to this project can be found at the following link: https://core.tdar.org/collection/27482 Reclamation is assisting the San Xavier District and the San Xavier Farm Cooperative in the extensive rehabilitation of approximately 1,700 acres of active and fallow farmland along the Santa Cruz River at San Xavier. While some present and former fields will be modified to better accommodate water application from...

  • Intensive Testing of the San Xavier Farm Rehabilitation Project, San Xavier District, Tohono O’odham Nation, Pima County, Arizona: Fieldwork Photo Log (2005)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd..

    This is part of the San Xavier Farm Rehabilitation Project. Additional entries related to this project can be found at the following link: https://core.tdar.org/collection/27482 Reclamation is assisting the San Xavier District and the San Xavier Farm Cooperative in the extensive rehabilitation of approximately 1,700 acres of active and fallow farmland along the Santa Cruz River at San Xavier. While some present and former fields will be modified to better accommodate water application from...

  • Intensive Testing of the San Xavier Farm Rehabilitation Project, San Xavier District, Tohono O’odham Nation, Pima County, Arizona: Fieldwork Photos (2005)
    IMAGE [not managed] Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd..

    This is part of the San Xavier Farm Rehabilitation Project. Additional entries related to this project can be found at the following link: https://core.tdar.org/collection/27482 Reclamation is assisting the San Xavier District and the San Xavier Farm Cooperative in the extensive rehabilitation of approximately 1,700 acres of active and fallow farmland along the Santa Cruz River at San Xavier. While some present and former fields will be modified to better accommodate water application from...

  • Interactions with the Incorporeal in the Mississippian and Ancestral Puebloan Worlds (2014)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text M Scott Thompson.

    This research explores how people’s relationships with the spirits of the dead are embedded in political histories. It addresses the ways in which certain spirits were integral “inhabitants” of two social environments with disparate political traditions. Using the prehistoric mortuary record, I investigate the spirits and their involvement in socio-political affairs in the Prehispanic American Southeast and Southwest. Foremost, I construct a framework to characterize particular social...

  • Interim Report: Archaeological Test Excavations at Seven Sites along the Santan Expansion Project Pipeline Corridor from Gilbert to Coolidge, Maricopa and Pinal Counties, Arizona (2003)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text David R. Hart. Douglas B. Craig.

    Northland Research, Inc. (Northland) has completed archaeological testing at seven sites along a pipeline corridor at the request of the Salt River Project. Two of the sites, AZ U:10:2(ASM) and AZ U:14:74(ASM), are considered eligible to the National Register of Historic Places but required archaeological testing to determine the presence and extent of subsurface features within the project area prior to construction of the pipeline. The eligibility of the five remaining sites was unknown....

  • Interim Report: Cultural Resources Extent Testing for 11.8 Acres within the Prehistoric Site of Pueblo Del Rio (AZ T:12:116 (ASM)), Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona (2007)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Scotty Moore. Gina Gage.

    Northland Research, Inc. has completed archaeological testing within a portion of Pueblo del Rio (AZ T:12:116[ASM]), a large Hohokam habitation site located about one mile north of the Salt River. The purpose of the testing was to determine the nature, extent, and significance of subsurface cultural remains within an 11.8-acre parcel located within the previously determined boundaries of the site. The testing included limited surface collections and systematic backhoe trenching to determine if...

  • Interim Report: Data Recovery at Four Archaeological Sites on State Trust Land along the Santan Expansion Project Pipeline Corridor in Pinal County, Arizona (2003)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Douglas B. Craig. David R. Hart.

    This interim report summarizes the results of archaeological data recovery on portions of four sites on State Trust land that are located along a 36-mile-long natural gas pipeline that the Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement and Power District (SRP) is planning to construct between Gilbert and Coolidge, Arizona (Figure 1). All of the sites are associated with the prehistoric Hohokam culture and are considered eligible for the Arizona and National Registers of Historic Places (AZ/NRHP),...

  • Intermontane Settlement Trends in the Eastern Papagueria: Cultural Resources Sample Survey in the Northeastern Barry M. Goldwater Range, Maricopa County, Arizona (1994)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Jeffrey A. Homburg. Jeffrey Altschul. Rein Vanderpot.

    In 1989, 1992, and 1994, Statistical Research, Inc., conducted sample surveys of the three proposed helicopter gunnery ranges on the extreme northeast corner of the Barry M. Goldwater Range. The survey was completed for the Western Air Reserve National Guard under a contract with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Los Angeles District. Approximately 15,000 acres were surveyed in all; a total of 130 archaeological sites was recorded. One hundred six of these were prehistoric, and 24 were historic....

  • 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.

  • Intersite Agave Variability among Pueblo La Plata, Pueblo Pato and Richinbar Pueblo in the Agua Fria National Monument (2005)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Shana Leslie.

    It is widely recognized that prehistoric peoples of the American Southwest cultivated and utilized agave to a great extent. The occupants of three 13th-14th century sites, found on Perry and Black Mesas in Arizona’s Agua Fria National Monument, did just that. How and to what extent their agricultural actions have affected modern day agave populations is a topic of much interest. The purpose of this paper is to provide an account of intersite agave variability among Pueblo La Plata, Pueblo Pato,...

  • Interstate 10 Frontage Road Project, Results of Phase 1 Data Recovery at AZ AA:12:746 (ASM), Tucson, Pima County, Arizona (1993)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Jonathan B. Mabry.

    As part of the archaeological mitigation program of the Arizona Department of Transportation's Interstate 10 Frontage Roads Project, the well-preserved remains of an early agricultural village were found buried in the floodplain of the Santa Cruz River during preliminary archaeological investigations at site AZ AA:12:746 (ASM) in 1993. A total of 32 prehistoric cultural features were identified, including 13 pithouses, 1 possible pithouse, 10 roasting pits, 1 trash pit, and 6 concentrations of...

  • Interstate 10 Frontage Road Project: Results of Archaeological Testing (1996)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Sam Baar.

    Between January 24 and 30, 1996, archaeologists Sam Baar, Rob Ciaccio, Allison Cohen, and Jon Shumaker of Desert Archaeology, Inc., conducted testing of the parcel of land. The archaeological testing was requested by the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) to determine if any subsurface cultural resources would be impacted by the construction of a new interstate on-ramp and was carried out under the Arizona Department of Transportation Blanket Permit No. 71343. Specifically, previous...

  • Interstate 10 Frontage Road Project: Results of Archaeological Testing and a Plan for Data Recovery at AZ AA:12:91 (ASM) (1995)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text David A. Gregory.

    The project discussed in this report is part of the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) Improvement Plan for the entire Interstate 10 corridor. A general plan for treatment of cultural resources potentially affected by the overall project has been developed by Desert Archaeology, including a project-wide research design (Mabry 1993a). Ultimately, ADOT plans to construct new frontage roads along both sides of the 1-10 freeway alignment. The current project includes the east side frontage...

  • Interstate 10 Frontage Road Project: Results of Archaeological Testing and a Plan for Data Recovery at AZ BB:13:110 (ASM) and AZ BB:13:159 (ASM), Tucson, Pima County, Arizona (1994)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Timothy W. Jones. Masa Tani. Kathy Cisco. Wilson Hughes.

    Two primarily historic period sites were tested within the 1-10 corridor improvement right-of- way. The Embankment site, AZ BB:13:159 (ASM), is literally eroding out of the 1-10 embankment on the east side of the interstate. It was found to contain a basalt foundation with a possible preserved basement, and it may be the remains of a historic habitation. The El Dumpé site, AZ BB:13:110 (ASM), is a large mounded trash deposit located on both sides of the interstate, dating from the 1930s through...

  • Investigation of Archaeological Sites Along Reach 10, Granite Reef Aqueduct, Central Arizona Project, Maricopa County, Arizona (1976)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Patricia E. Brown.

    Under contract with the Bureau of Reclamation, the Office of Cultural Resource Management (OCRM), Department of Anthropology, Arizona State University, completed archaeological investigations of six sites with Reach 10, Granite Reef Aqueduct, Central Arizona Project. The project area is located just west of Skunk Creek and north of the Deem Hills, on the west side of Interstate 17. The initial phase of investigations was an archaeological survey that OCRM archaeologists conducted in February...

  • Investigations at Milagro, A Late Preceramic Site in the Eastern Tucson Basin (1995)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Bruce B. Huckell. Lisa W. Huckell. Suzanne K. Fish.

    This report presents the results of archaeological excavations undertaken as part of a land exchange between Pima County and Magna Investment and Development, Ltd. A portion of this right-of-way included a prehistoric archaeological site known as Milagro (AZ BB:10:46), parts of which had been investigated previously. Pima County indicated that prior to completion of the land exchange, archaeological investigations must be performed along the route of a proposed sewer line, and the cutting of a...

  • Investigations at Ojo Bonito: The 1988 Arizona State University Summer Field School (1988)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Todd Howell.

    The 1988 Arizona State University Archaeological Field School under the direction of Dr. Keith Kintiqh was held at the privately-owned Hinkson ranch just southwest of the Zuni Indian Reservation. The Hinkson ranch holds qreat research potential because of a dense prehistoric occupation (primarily Pueblo II & III) that has been relatively undisturbed by pothuntinq or other destructive processes. If the great house and great kiva of the Hinkson Complex were built and occupied after the collapse...

  • Investigations at Sunset Mesa Ruin: Archaeology at the Confluence of the Santa Cruz and Rillito Rivers, Tucson, Arizona (1999)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Uploaded by: Grant Snitker

    Data recovery at Sunset Mesa Ruin, AZ AA:12:10 (ASM), uncovered a segment of a single-component Rincon phase settlement dating between A.D. 1000 and 1100, as well as the remains of a turn-of-the-century adobe homestead. Excavations were confined to a 7,500-m2 area in the northwestern corner of the site, primarily within the proposed Corps of Engineers overbank protection area along the Rillito River. The prehistoric component consisted of a discrete residential cluster of five pit houses that...

  • Investigations at the Cake Ranch Site: A Classic Period Hohokam Village in the Lower Santa Cruz River Basin, Pinal County, Arizona (1990)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Carl D. Halbirt. T. Kathleen Henderson. JoAnn E. Kisselburg.

    This report describes the results of archaeological investigations undertaken at the Cake Ranch site (AZ AA:7:3(ASM)). This work occurred prior to the construction of Lateral Segment 5 of the Central Arizona Irrigation and Drainage District South Distribution System. The Cake Ranch site is located approximately four kilometers west of the town of Red Rock, Arizona in Pinal County, Section 10, T10S, R9E. The site is a large Classic period Hohokam village situated adjacent to the Santa Cruz River...

  • Investigations of Archaeological Sites Along the 500 kV Tonto National Forest Boundary to Kyrene Transmission Line Route, Coronado Station Project, Pinal and Maricopa Counties, Arizona (1977)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text John M. Antieau.

    This report presents the results of an archaeological survey and subsequent test investigation of sites along the 68 km (42 mi) right-of-way for a proposed 500 KV transmission line from a point on the boundary of the Tonto National Forest northeast of Florence Junction to the existing Kyrene substation south of Tempe, Arizona. The power line will consist of a series of four-legged transmission towers placed at approximately 1700 foot intervals. The right-of-way varies between 30 m (100 ft) and...

  • Investigations of the Baccharis Site and Extension Arizona Canal: Historic and Prehistoric Land Use Patterns in the Northern Salt River Valley (1988)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text David H. Greenwald.

    This report presents the results of intensive data recovery through excavation of an early pre-Classic Hohokam site and an in-depth archival study of historic features, including the Extension Arizona Canal. The project was sponsored by the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) with the Museum of Northern Arizona (MNA) serving as consultants to ADOT for these archaeological and historical studies. Field work was conducted during May and June, 1987. Investigations of the Baccharis site, a...

  • It Takes a (Big) Village: Preserving the Legacy of Pueblo Grande (2015)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Cory Breternitz. Holly Young. M. Scott Thompson. Rebecca Hill.

    Archaeology can marshal new digital infrastructure not simply to rescue endangered legacy information, but to revive and enhance those data for innovative research approaches. Over the course of two decades, Soil Systems, Inc. (SSI), collected vast amounts of archaeological information and digital data during the company’s work at Pueblo Grande, one of the largest and most centrally-located of the Classic period Hohokam villages in the Salt River Valley. This poster highlights efforts to...

  • 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...

  • Jesse Walter Fewkes
    PROJECT [not managed] Uploaded by: alycia hayes

    This project contains diverse works of Jesse Walter Fewkes over time on the Casa Grande Ruins National Monument including tables, maps, images and reports.

  • K-3 Education Resources - Mimbres Pottery Digital Database
    PROJECT [not managed] Uploaded by: April Kamp-Whittaker

    This collection contains a set of lessons and associated materials for grades K-3. The lessons use the Mimbres Pottery Images Digital Database (MimPIDD) to engage students in different aspects of archaeological analyses. Students will learn about the Mimbres Region, archaeology, visual analysis, coding, analysis and assessment of data, and creative interpretation. The Mimbres Pottery Images Digital Database (MimPIDD) was created by Harvard Peabody Museum Curator emeritus Steven LeBlanc and...

  • Keeping Track: Ceremonial Racetracks, Integration, and Change in Central Arizona (2009)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Will Russell.

    Beginning in 2006 and as part of Arizona State University’s Legacies on the Landscape Project (Spielmann et al. 2005), I undertook preliminary research regarding a small corpus of long, linear clearings in the Perry Mesa region of Central Arizona. Coined “racetracks”, these had been recorded at the eight largest pueblos on Perry Mesa and neighboring Black Mesa. They had been noted by past archaeologists (e.g., Ahlstrom and Roberts 1995:37; Ahlstrom et al. 1992; North 2002; Wilcox et al. 2001;...

  • Kinishba: A Prehistoric Pueblo of the Great Pueblo Period (1940)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Byron Cummings.

    Written by Byron Cummings, at the time of its publication the Director Emeritus of the Arizona State Museum, this book describes the excavations and other investigations of Kinishba that Cummings organized and led during the 1930s. This report, which Cummings wrote for general readers, was published "under the auspices of the Hohokam Museums Association and the University of Arizona. The book describes the site's architectural and archaeological features and artifacts, as well as the ancient...

  • Kyrene Data Recovery Preliminary Field Report (For the North Half of the Pole Yard Locus) (2001)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text SWCA Environmental Consultants. Salt River Project.

    This document is the preliminary report on archaeological data recovery at a portion of the Hohokam village of Los Guanacos (AZ U:9:116 [ASM]). Salt River Project (SRP) is proposing to construct a new generating station adjacent to the existing Kyrene Generating Station in Tempe, Arizona. Prior to construction of the generating station, SRP implemented an archaeological data- recovery project within the proposed project area (Figure 1) and contracted with SWCA, Inc., Environmental Consultants...

  • 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 Lucha del Barro: Two Potterymaking Families of Mata Ortiz (1991)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Michael Allan Williams.

    In the past 20 years, pottery making has become a way of life for some inhabitants of Mata Ortiz, Chihuahua, Mexico. What began as a revival of the prehistoric Casas Grandes ceramic tradition has become an artistic school in its own right. The contemporary pottery is a creative restatement of the ancient ware. Two families of potters are documented ethnographically, providing data on what the craftspeople call "la lucha del barro," or the struggle of the clay. Research literature on potters in...

  • 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...

  • La Plaza y La Cremaria: Archaeological Investigations in a Portion of AZ U:9:165 (ASM), a Multicomponent Site in Tempe, Maricopa County, Arizona (2005)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Thomas Wright. David Abbott. Andrew Christenson. Terry Coriell. Jeffrey Eighmy. Jannifer Gish. Beau Goldstein. Jeffrey Hathaway. Scott Kwiatkowski. Bruce Phillips. Scott Solliday. Arthur Vokes.

    Data recovery within a small portion of La Plaza, AZ U:9:165 (ASM), revealed both prehistoric and historic remains. The prehistoric component included seven structure remnants, four cremation burials, six pits, 17 canal segments, and three miscellaneous features. Absolute and relative dates suggest occupation by the Hohokam during portions of the Colonial, Sedentary, and early Classic periods. The habitation-related features and burials were clustered in the northwest corner of the project...

  • Lake Pleasant 52 Sites Relocation: Photo Log (2010)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd.. Paige B. Florie.

    In August and September 2010, Archaeological Consulting Services (ACS) re-visited 52 sites in Lake Pleasant Regional Park to relocate them and to assess their conditions. The photo log for the project contains detailed information for the select project photos. You can find the photos here: https://core.tdar.org/image/393022.

  • Lake Pleasant 52 Sites Relocation: Select Photos (2010)
    IMAGE [not managed] Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd..

    In August and September 2010, Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd. (ACS) re-visited 52 sites in Lake Pleasant Regional Park to relocate the sites and assess their conditions. This record contains select photos that document the relocation work.

  • Lake Pleasant 8 Sites Relocation: Photo Log (2012)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd..

    In January 2012, Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd. (ACS) re-visited 8 archaeological sites in Lake Pleasant Regional Park to relocate the sites and to assess their conditions. The photo log for the project contains detailed information for the select project photos. The photos can be found here: https://core.tdar.org/image/393026.

  • Lake Pleasant 8 Sites Relocation: Select Photos (2012)
    IMAGE [not managed] Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd..

    In January 2012, Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd. (ACS) re-visited 8 sites in Lake Pleasant Regional Park to relocate the sites and to assess their conditions. This record contains select photos that document the relocation work.

  • Lake Pleasant Condition Assessments for 41 Sites: Photo Log (2009)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd.. Christopher Rayle.

    In November and December 2009, Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd. (ACS) re-visited 41 sites in Lake Pleasant Regional Park to evaluate the sites' conditions. The photo log for the project contains detailed information for the select project photos. The photos can be found at: https://core.tdar.org/image/393019.

  • Lake Pleasant Condition Assessments for 41 Sites: Select Photos (2009)
    IMAGE [not managed] Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd..

    In November and December 2009, Archaeological Consulting Services, Inc. (ACS) re-visited 41 known archaeological sites in Lake Pleasant Regional Park. ACS archaeologists documented and assessed the condition of the sites. This record includes select photos from the assessment work.

  • The Lake Pleasant Project: A Preliminary Report on the Excavation of the Beardsley Canal Site, a Colonial Hohokam Village on the Agua Fria River, Central Arizona (1971)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Paul R. Fish.

    The following preliminary report outlines the archaeological investigation of a site within the right-of-way of Arizona Highway Department Project S-434-505 (Lake Pleasant Section) on State Route 74, the Morristown-New River Highway. The excavated portion of the site will be destroyed by construction of the roadway. Excavation was carried out by the Arizona State Museum in cooperation with the Arizona State Highway Department under the Statewide Archaeological Highway Salvage Program.

  • Land Use and Resource Exploitation of the Sonoran Desert: A Sample Survey of Cultural Resources in Mohave, La Paz, and Yavapai Counties, Arizona (1990)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Bruce A. Jones.

    In April and November, 1989, Statistical Research conducted a cultural resource survey of nearly 4,000 acres of land owned by the State of Arizona in Mohave, Yavapai and La Paz counties. The field reconnaissance documented 16 archaeological sites consisting of artifact scatters, trails, rock features, rock art and stationary grinding-features. The non-random survey strategy was based on a stratified sample of 640 acre-study units in the Hualapai and Aquarius Mountains, the Big Sandy Valley and...

  • Landscape Legacies of Prehistoric Agricultural Land Use in the Perry Mesa Region, Central Arizona (2010)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Melissa Kruse-Peeples. Hoski Schaafma. Katherine Spielmann. John Briggs.

    The Perry Mesa region in central Arizona was the location of a major pulse of residential occupation and extensive agricultural land use from about a.d. 1275 to a.d. 1450. Recent research carried out by a collaborative team of archaeologists and ecologists has documented the ways in which short-term and small-scale agricultural land use transformed ecological systems in the region over long periods of time. Results from recent analyses relating to different spatial scales of prehistoric...

  • Large Game, Agricultural Land, and Settlement Pattern Change in the Eastern Mimbres Area, Southwest New Mexico (2011)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Karen Schollmeyer.

    The 12th-century depopulation of large villages in the Mimbres region of the US Southwest has been attributed to a number of causes, including resource stress. This study combines archaeological evidence and models of environmental conditions in the eastern Mimbres area of southwest New Mexico to assess the magnitude and timing of food stress from a combination of a period of reduced precipitation and the effects of prolonged hunting and farming activities on the landscape. Results indicate that...

  • Las Animas Village (LA3949) Datum .shp (2017)
    GEOSPATIAL [not managed] Sarah Klassen.

    Maps are derived from field maps and published maps of the site.

  • Las Animas Village (LA3949) Reconstructable Vessels Photographs (2017)
    IMAGE [not managed] Uploaded by: Sarah Klassen

    Photographs of the reconstructable vessels for Las Animas Village (LA3949).

  • Las Animas Village (LA3949): A Large Multicomponent Site in the Eastern Mimbres area (2017)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Michelle Hegmon.

    Las Animas Village (LA3949) is a large multi-component site along the fertile floodplain of Las Animas Creek, west of Truth or Consequences in the Eastern Mimbres area. This document reports on excavations by the Eastern Mimbres Archaeological Project in 1993, 1994, 1995, and 1997. On the surface of the site, two components are evident: Cobble masonry Classic Mimbres roomblocks to the north, and a roughly circular adobe pueblo on the south. Underlying the adobe pueblo were some pithouses. ...

  • Las Capas Archaeological Project: Field Methods, the Retention Basin, and Extramural Feature Descriptions (2015)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Gregory J. Whitney. George L. Tinseth. Barry Price-Steinbrecher. Jessica M. Smith. Robert J. Sinensky.

    Field methods and extramural feature descriptions are presented in this report from archaeological investigations at the prehistoric site of Las Capas, AZ AA:12:111 (ASM), situated in the Tucson Basin of southern Arizona. Testing and data recovery excavations at Las Capas were conducted by Desert Archaeology, Inc., from August 2008 through September 2009, with smaller phases of fieldwork in 2012 and 2013, as part of Pima County's Regional Wastewater Reclamation Department Regional Optimization...

  • Las Capas Archaeological Project: Ground Stone and Maize Processing Experiments (2015)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Jenny L. Adams. Joyce Skeldon Rychener. Allen J. Denoyer.

    In this report, experimental ground stone and maize processing experiments are described. These experiments stem from archaeological investigations at the prehistoric site of Las Capas, AZ AA:12:111 (ASM), situated in the Tucson Basin of southern Arizona. Testing and data recovery excavations at Las Capas were conducted by Desert Archaeology, Inc., from August 2008 through September 2009, with smaller phases of fieldwork in 2012 and 2013, as part of Pima County's Regional Wastewater Reclamation...

  • Las Capas Archaeological Project: House and Extramural Surface Descriptions (2015)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Robert J. Sinensky. Jessica M. Smith. Barry Price-Steinbrecher. George L. Tinseth.

    House and extramural feature descriptions from archaeological investigations at the prehistoric site of Las Capas, AZ AA:12:111 (ASM), situated in the Tucson Basin of southern Arizona, are provided in this report. Testing and data recovery excavations at Las Capas were conducted by Desert Archaeology, Inc., from August 2008 through September 2009, with smaller phases of fieldwork in 2012 and 2013, as part of Pima County's Regional Wastewater Reclamation Department Regional Optimization Master...

  • Las Capas Archaeological Project: Map Packet (2015)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Tyler S. Theriot. Catherine B. Gilman.

    In this report, maps are provided from archaeological investigations at the prehistoric site of Las Capas, situated in the Tucson Basin of southern Arizona. Testing and data recovery excavations at Las Capas were conducted by Desert Archaeology, Inc., from August 2008 through September 2009, with smaller phases of fieldwork in 2012 and 2013, as part of Pima County's Regional Wastewater Reclamation Department Regional Optimization Master Plan (ROMP). This massive project involved major upgrades...

  • Las Capas Archaeological Project: The Burial Assemblage (2015)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Barry Price-Steinbrecher. George L. Tinseth. J. Homer Thiel. John R. McClelland. Rachael M. Byrd. James T. Watson.

    Burial assemblage descriptions from archaeological investigations at the prehistoric site of Las Capas, AZ AA:12:111 (ASM), situated in the Tucson Basin of southern Arizona, are provided in this report. Testing and data recovery excavations at Las Capas were conducted by Desert Archaeology, Inc., from August 2008 through September 2009, with smaller phases of fieldwork in 2012 and 2013, as part of Pima County's Regional Wastewater Reclamation Department Regional Optimization Master Plan (ROMP)....

  • Las Capas: Early Irrigation and Sedentism in a Southwestern Floodplain (2008)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Uploaded by: adam brin

    In 1998, Desert Archaeology, Inc., personnel conducted archaeological data recovery fieldwork at the request of the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) for a redesigned on-ramp to the Interstate 10 (I-10) highway in the western Tucson Basin, southern Arizona. The investigated areas were within the boundaries of Las Capas, AZ AA:12:111 (ASM), a 50-hectare (123-acre) stratified site buried in the former floodplain of the Santa Cruz River. Radiocarbon dates from 46 samples of maize and...

  • Las Cremaciones: A Hohokam Ball Court Center in the Phoenix Basin (2008)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Uploaded by: adam brin

    The archaeological excavation of a prehistoric village, site AZ T:12:220 (ASM) (Las Cremaciones), at the proposed K. Hovnanian Homes Project Phoenix, Arizona, used trench sampling, block exposures and screened excavation to recover archaeological features of site AZ T:12:220 (ASM), particularly human burials. The investigation was conducted to ensure compliance with State of Arizona statute A.R.S. 41-865 pertaining to the repatriation of human remains, the City of Phoenix Ordinance on Historic...

  • Las Mujeres Architecture Study (2007)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Cara Steiner Kiggins.

    The architecture of Las Mujeres (also known as Squaw Creek Ruin and NA 12555) was examined as part of the Legacies on the Landscape research project during the Spring 2007 field season. Room construction sequences, as indicated by bonded or abutted corners, are indicators of population growth. These patterns of bonded and abutted corners suggest whether a pueblo was built all at once or instead built incrementally through the gradual accretion of rooms. A gradual accretion of rooms could...

  • A Late Archaic Occupation at AZ AA:12:105 (ASM) (1990)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Jonathan B. Mabry.

    In August, 1990, archaeologists from Desert Archaeology, Inc. monitored the excavation of a water pipeline trench through the northeastern edge of a multiple-occupation archaeological site sitting upon and buried within an alluvial fan at the western edge of the Santa Cruz River terrace. Several prehistoric cultural features in a buried occupation horizon were identified. Mesquite wood charcoal from the floor of a pithouse yielded a conventional radiocarbon date of 3040 ± 1 1 0 B.P. (radiocarbon...

  • Legacies of Prehistoric Agricultural Practices Within Plant and Soil Properties Across an Arid Ecosystem (2013)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Sharon Hall. Jolene Trujillo. Dana Nakase. Colleen Strawhacker. Melissa Kruse-Peeples. Hoski Schaafsma. John Briggs.

    Closely integrated research between archaeologists and ecologists provides a long-term view of human land use that is rare in the ecological literature, allowing for investigation of activities that lead to enduring environmental outcomes. This extended temporal perspective is particularly important in arid lands where succession occurs slowly and ecosystem processes are mediated by abiotic, geomorphic factors. Numerous studies show that impacts from ancient human actions can persist, but few...

  • 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.

  • Legacies on the Landscape: A Field Guide to the Plants of Agua Fria National Monument (2005)
    DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Joanna Iacovelli.

    An illustrated guide to the plants found on the Agua Fria National Monument