SHESC: Digital Archive of Huhugam Archaeology (DAHA)

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

This preliminary report of archaeological data recovery for the City of Phoenix Sewer Relief Project has been prepared to summarize the results of data recovery efforts. Mechanical trenching and stripping on ASLD revealed 24 features: 3 pithouses, 3 pithouse remnants, 3 cremations, 1 partial secondary inhumation, 1 homo, 1 thermal pit, 4 non-thermal pits, 2 middens, and portions of an isolated vessel. In addition, four previously documented prehistoric canals and a newly identified settling...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Glennda Gene Luhnow.

MCDOT plans to improve Northern Avenue to be a parkway in the Phoenix metropolitan area where no freeways are planned. At the request of Mr. Robin Shishido of Parsons, a cultural resource assessment of the project area of potential effects (APE) was conducted by Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd. (ACS). The purpose of the cultural resource assessment was to identify any historic properties in the APE that could be affected by the undertaking (Schilling and Jones 2012). Two historic...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Mark L. Chenault. Michael Stubing.

This document is the preliminary report for Phase II data recovery at a portion of Pozos de Sonoqui (AZ U:14:49 [ASM]). Pozos de Sonoqui is a National Register of Historic Places (NRHP)-eligible property located in Queen Creek in southeastern Maricopa County. Under contract with Maricopa County Department of Transportation (MCDOT), archaeologists from the cultural resources program at Jacobs Engineering (Jacobs) in Phoenix, Arizona, conducted data recovery at the site from January 8, 2013,...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Caven P. Clark. Scott Crownover.

This is a draft report on the archaeological survey of a 4,800-acre tract south of the Gila River referred to as the Cochran Survey. The initial phase of the project involved a 1500-acre survey identifying and evaluating prehistoric and historic cultural properties on Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) lands. The survey area was located in Pinal County. In total, 15 sites and 116 isolates were recorded in the survey area, most of which were believed to relate to Hohokam cultural facies....

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

The City of Phoenix (COP) Street Transportation Department and Flood Control District of Maricopa County (FCDMC) are jointly funding a construction project to be undertaken in southwest Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona. The project is located north of the historic Roosevelt Irrigation Canal and involves County-owned and private land to be acquired by COP and FCDMC. The project will involve the construction of a detention basin and conveyance channel. A review of site files and maps at Pueblo...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Chris North. Tina Hart. Michael S. Foster.

Logan Simpson Design Inc., under contract to SRP, completed Phase I archeological data recovery at five sites and Phase II data recovery at two of the sites along the Pinal West To Pinal Central Extra-High Voltage Transmission Line and at the Pinal Central substation site, Pinal County, Arizona. The sites are located south and east of the town of Casa Grande. Three of the sites—AZ AA:1:104(ASM), AZ AA:2:301 (ASM), and AZ AA:2:303(ASM)— are Historic era and two—AZ AA:2:284(ASM) and AZ...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Daniel H. Sorrell. Linda Countryman.

This preliminary report briefly summarizes the results of an archaeological data recovery program implemented by EcoPlan Associates, Inc. (EcoPlan) on a portion of multicomponent (prehistoric and historic) cultural resource site AZ T:12:70 (ASM) in downtown Phoenix. Data recovery at AZ T:12:70 (ASM) - the prehistoric components of which are referred to as “Pueblo Patricio” - commenced following archaeological testing within the project area (refer to Sorrell 2006a). This document is intended to...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Holly S. DeMaagd. Barbara S. Macnider.

At the request of U S West Communications (US West), Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd. (ACS) performed archaeological monitoring along a utility right-of-way. The right-of-way is within the south side access road for the Grand Canal, which passes through the City of Phoenix administered Pueblo Grande National Historic Landmark (Pueblo Grande; AZ U:9:7(ASM)). The canal is administered by the Salt River Project and owned by the Bureau of Reclamation. Limited testing within the right-of-way...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Daniel H. Sorrell.

The City of Phoenix’s (COP) Downtown Development Office plans to construct facilities related to the Phoenix Bioscience Center on COP-owned land in downtown Phoenix. The COP cost center number for the project is ED10000012. Because project activities may cause adverse impacts to subsurface cultural resources - both prehistoric and historic - the COP Parks and Recreation Department Pueblo Grande Museum (PGM), which coordinates archaeological projects for all COP departments (Bostwick 2004)...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text David P. Doak. Mark Slaughter.

In September and October of 1995, a team of archaeologists from the Tucson office of SWCA, Inc., Environmental Consultants conducted testing operations at nine sites located on private lands at the mouth of Pima Canyon, north of Tucson, Arizona. The sites-AZ BB:9:227, 228, 229, 230, 232, 233, 234, 235, and 236 (ASM)--were originally recorded in 1987 during a survey conducted by SWCA (Seymour 1992). Testing was done according to a SHPO-approved plan of work submitted in July, 1995. The work was...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Joseph M. Garrotto. Lynn A. Neal.

SWCA, Inc., Environmental Consultants conducted a Class III archaeological survey of a 160-acre parcel of privately owned land south of New River. Three sites, AZ T:4:252 (ASM), AZ T:4:253 (ASM), and AZ T:4:254 (ASM), were discovered within the project area. Sites AZ T:4:242 (ASM) and AZ T:4:254 (ASM) were determined by the Arizona State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) to be ineligible to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) (Bilsbarrow 2000a). This document therefore summarizes...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Judson Joel White. A.E. (Gene) Rogge.

The City of Phoenix proposes to construct a fire station in the northeastern comer of the Sky Harbor Airport to provide service to the airport as well as the surrounding neighborhood. While the fire station would be operated by the City of Phoenix Fire Department, the City of Phoenix Aviation Department would finance construction of the facility using airport users’ fees. Because the U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has oversight over Sky Harbor Airport,...

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

This document combines the preliminary results of archaeological eligibility testing at AZ BB:9:360 (ASM) with a data recovery plan-of-work based on the results of testing. This document was prepared at the request of Merry, Carnell, Schlecht, Inc., on behalf of the Tanque Verde Unified School District. Archaeological testing at AZ BB:9:360 (ASM) involved controlled surface collection and the excavation of three backhoe trenches totaling 77 m in length. Three archaeological features including...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Richard L. Boston. Michael Droz. Kelly Melaniphy. Bruce G. Phillips. Shirley Powell. Kimberly Redman.

Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd. (ACS), of Tempe, Arizona, has completed Phase I archaeological testing and small-scale data recovery at the Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. The “Phase I” testing and data recovery is actually the second of a multi-phase project. The first monitored geotechnical boring and coring (Ryan et al. 2001); subsequent phases will include additional monitoring, testing, and data recovery. ACS carried out these activities as a subcontractor to Kimley-Horn...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Eric S. Cox.

The City of Phoenix is renovating and expanding the Civic Plaza in downtown Phoenix. The project involves demolition of the North Hall and construction of a larger, replacement facility in the same area, as well as construction of a new Terrace Building on Symphony Terrace. Symphony Hall also will be refurbished. The project is not a federal undertaking subject to Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act. The State of Arizona will provide up to $300 million to match City of Phoenix...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Ellen Ruble.

Pima County and the City of Tucson have developed a Master Plan for the expansion of facilities at Christopher Columbus Park, located on the northwestern side of Tucson, Pima County, Arizona. Previous cultural resource surveys and test excavations have identified the presence of archaeological sites within the expansion area that will be affected by implementation of the Master Plan. Phase 1 data recovery excavations were conducted to determine the extent and distribution of subsurface cultural...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Garland J. Marris.

In examination of the topography represented on five different maps of the state of Chihuahua, Mexico, demonstrated a remarkable degree of uniformity of physiographic features in the northeastern part of the state. There was simultaneously demonstrated a singular degree of contradiction for the southeastern part of the state.

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Northland Research, Inc. (Northland) is pleased to submit this proposal for archaeological testing to ComSense, Inc. for the Casa Nueva project. The project area is approximately 4.7 acres. This proposal was solicited by Mark Appleby of ComSense, Inc. as a prelude to obtaining federally guaranteed construction loans for proposed low-income housing to be built in the Casa Nueva project area. Investigation of archaeological resources is a pre condition of obtaining Federal Housing Authority loans...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Donald R. Keller. Donald E. Weaver, Jr..

Two proposed substation site alternatives along the Agua Fria River were surveyed for archaeological resources by the Museum of Northern Arizona in December 1982. One small previously recorded potsherd concentration and a number of isolated artifacts were located within the Westwing area. An extensive Hohokam site was located within the Eastwing parcel, along with a segment of the historic Marinette Heading Canal. The Westwing substation alternative is strongly recommended in preference to the...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Charles Steen. Gordon. Vivian. L.R. Caywood.

This document is regarding a proposed 12 foot deep pit to be dug in the center room of the Great House at Casa Grande Ruins National Monument. It is a series of communications regarding the risks vs the rewards of this proposed project. The communications are between the park archaeologist and the regional archaeologist and the document includes a construction project proposal.

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Kathryn Puseman.

Two stone tool fragments were recovered from a late Sedentary Hohokam farmstead in the foothills near Cave Creek, Arizona. These tools are similar in shape to previously tested tabular knives used to process agave from floors at sites AZ U:2:73 (ASM), AZ U:2:80 (ASM), and AZ U:2:93 (ASM) in central Arizona; therefore, the two stone tool fragments were tested for the presence of agave proteins using a cross-over immunoelectrophoresis method.

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

Room corner construction data for the sites of Pueblo de las Mujeres, Pueblo la Plata, and Richinbar Ruin

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Soil Systems, Inc..

This document contains two tables that serve as a guide to the archaeological projects conducted at Pueblo Grande from 1990 to 2008. The tables contain information on the post-Hohokam Expressway projects from SSI's Pueblo Grande Cultural Park Testing project to ACS' Lightrail Preconstruction project. The Master Provenance Table lists project names and numbers, the unit number(s) for each project, the provenience designation (PD) numbers used during each project, and the feature numbers used...

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Pueblo Grande Field Report for site 62, owned by the Salt River Indian Reservation, and includes the features: trashmounds, sherd areas, house mounds, a ball court and Old Pima Round Houses and artifacts like: tin, porcelain recovered and construction material.

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Michael Foster. Lorrie Lincoln-Babb. Mark R. Hackbarth. David Abbott. JoAnne Miller. Heidi Moore. Susan J. Smith. Korri Dee Turner. Tobi Taylor.

During July 1994, Soil Systems, Inc. (SSI) conducted an archaeological data recovery project at Pueblo Grande, AZ U:9:1(ASM). The project area lies immediately west and north of the original museum building. The data recovery project carried out by SSI was conducted under contract to the City of Phoenix and was associated with the expansion of the museum facilities at the Pueblo Grande Museum and Cultural Park, which are administered by the City of Phoenix Parks, Recreation, and Library...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Frank M. Parcher.

Parcher Guide on Pueblo Grande Museum and the report "The Vanished People" by Charles C. DiPeso that provides information on the Hohokam site, Pueblo Grande, located in Phoenix, Arizona.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A data table pertaining to 100 agave plants at Pato Pueblo, Perry Mesa.

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

A data table pertaining to 231 agave plants at Pueblo la Plata, Perry Mesa.

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text M. Zyniecki.

The City of Phoenix sponsored a voluntary archaeological project at the proposed location of a new recreation building. The project area is within the large Hohokam village of Pueblo Viejo, AZ T:12:73(ASM). The village was occupied from the Colonial period through the Classic period and covers about 640 acres. Field work at the site was conducted between March 30 and April 14, 1992, by a crew of four. Post-excavation monitoring of utility trenches by a single archaeologist took place September...

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

Five hundred and twenty-two sherds recovered from excavations at the West Branch site were submitted for temper characterization. Temper source characterization was based on Lombard's (1987c) reconnaissance mapping of temper resource compositional zones, or petrofacies, in the Tucson Basin and Avra Valley; and incorporates refinements to the Tucson Basin model made by Lombard (1987a, 1987b, 1987d, 1990) and Heidke (1994); and refinement of the Avra Valley model made by KamiUi (1994). Samples...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text David Phillips. Helen Wearing. Jeffery Clark.

Five programs in the R programming language, simulating disease in the prehistoric Southwest/Northwest

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A survey at this Hohokam site in Arizona for Glen Rice (ASU).

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text John M. Andresen.

This document regards the radio carbon dating of the wooden beams used in the construction of the Great House at Casa Grande Ruins National Monument.

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Gordon Rakita.

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

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Douglas B. Craig.

Archaeological fieldwork for the Rancho Vistoso Survey was done between March 31, 1986 and July 3, 1986. A total of 240 person days was expended surveying the nearly 8,000 acres within the project boundaries. Forty-six sites and 128 non-sites were recorded and given field designations (FD’s). Two large prehistoric villages, known from earlier archaeological work in the area, were also mapped in detail and systematic surface collections made. The following section describes all surface artifact...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Gary Huckleberry. T. Kathleen Henderson. Connie A. Darby.

The results of data recovery investigations of a prehistoric canal within the city-owned NANT property are presented in this report. The canal was identified in June 2012, while boundary testing the southern limits of the prehistoric site, Dutch Canal Ruin, AZ T:12:62 (ASM), and could be recognized as a continuation of the Barranca Canal, a previously identified alignment within the Canal Patricio System, AZ T:12:131 (ASM). Because testing had established that archaeological resources...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text William H. Doelle. Paul R. Fish.

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

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Sarah Herr. J. Scott Wood.

Hundreds of Western Apache roasting pits have been documented by archaeological surveys in Central Arizona, but prior to A.D. 2000 few had been excavated. These large, visible, accumulations of fire-cracked rock and dark soil are essentially the only enduring Western Apache modifications of the physical landscape and the best candidates for planned research on past Western Apache experience, as pre-reservation sites and features in the region are often far more subtle. Two large roasting pits,...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Richard L. Boston. E. Melanie Ryan.

On February 5, 2002, City of Phoenix Archaeologist Todd Bostwick contacted Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd. (ACS) to set up a meeting with the City’s Department of Street Transportation staff to coordinate the recovery of a burial that was encountered during the installation of a sewer line. In 1996, Mr. Bostwick recovered a cranium and a whole vessel under emergency conditions from a construction trench that had cut through a Hohokam inhumation (Bostwick 1996). The City attempted to...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Charles C. Di Peso.

Archaeologists interested in the prehistory of the Gila-Salt drainage of southern Arizona proposed that a group of Pueblo people termed the Salado, moved into the desert area of northern Pimeria Alta sometime during the Classic Period of the Hohokam historical continuum. Although this hypothesis has become a tradition, certain researchers have, on occasion, questioned its validity. The Amerind Foundation, Inc., after working for a number of years in historic contact sites in Pimeria Alta, turned...

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

Bibliographic references for research in the Agua Fria National Monument area

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Susan S. Burton.

This report provides a regional archaeological overview prepared for the Montezuma Hydroelectric Pumped-Storage Project by the Office of Cultural Resource Management, Department of Anthropology, Arizona State University, under contract with the Salt River Project, Phoenix, Arizona. Specifically, it is designed to fulfill the archaeological data requirements for the Phase I Regional Study outlined by Wirth Associates, the consulting firm coordinating all environmental studies connected with the...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Linda Schilling.

The Phoenix Area Office (PXAO), Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation), has developed an archaeological site database for the Central Arizona Project (CAP) main stem canal. The current data is based on data resulting from Class III surveys conducted in the 1970s and 1980s prior to the canal’s construction. The majority of these sites have not been revisited since they were first recorded. An unknown number of these sites were destroyed by either construction or excavation, while others are no...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Cosmos Mindeleff.

This report discusses the repairs done to the Casa Grande Ruin in 1891. There are various pictures and a topographical map of the Great House in Compound A. Mendeleff discusses the condition of the Ruins and his vision for repair including metal rods and wooden beams for the stabilization of the south wall. There is also an inventory of artifacts found at the site.

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This report provides documentation for archaeological data recovery conducted within a four-acre parcel. The parcel includes a roughly 0.73-acre area within the recorded boundary of the prehistoric Hohokam site of Pueblo Grande, AZ U:9:1(ASM). Data recovery efforts were designed to recover human remains and collect information from a sample of non-burial features in order to mitigate the impacts of proposed commercial development within the project area. Fifty-one archaeological features were...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Walter R. Punzmann. Joanne C. Tactikos.

As authorized under the Arizona Water Settlements Act of 2004, the San Carlos and Irrigation Drainage District (SCIDD) is undertaking a 10-year rehabilitation project of its irrigation system. SCIDD is the non-Indian irrigation component of the San Carlos Irrigation Project (SCIP), which provides irrigation water to the communities of Florence, Coolidge, and Casa Grande in Pinal County, Arizona. Phase 2 of this project includes modification of the canal by widening segments of Reaches 1, 2, and...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Andrea Gregory. Peg Davis. Alanna Ossa. Lesley Hudson. Thomas Jones. Joanne C. Tactikos. Walter R. Punzmann. Kerri Bastin.

As authorized under the Arizona Water Settlements Act of 2004, the San Carlos and Irrigation Drainage District (SCIDD) is undertaking a 10-year rehabilitation project of its irrigation system. SCIDD is the non-Indian irrigation component of the San Carlos Irrigation Project (SCIP), which provides irrigation water to the communities of Florence, Coolidge, and Casa Grande in Pinal County, Arizona. Phase 2 of this project includes modification of the canal by widening segments of Reaches 1, 2, and...

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

This report regards to discovery of additional compound villages at Casa Grande Ruins National Monument. The report indicates the unusual growth patterns of grass that led to this discovery and it maps out the postion of the villages and those features found therein.

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Roy W. III Reaves.

The report was genrated in 1968 by Roy W. Reaves III in regard to new compound villages in the Casa Grande Ruins National Monument.

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Paige Florie. Michael Droz. Glennda Gene Luhnow.

The Archaeological Review prepared by the City of Phoenix Archaeology Office for the project (dated 8/17/2010) identified the projected location of a previously unverified segment of Canal Patricio in a small area at the far southwestern edge of the project Area of Potential Effect (APE). The projected location of this canal was based on review of Howard’s (1991 [1992]) Central Phoenix Basin Archaeological Map. As a result, an archaeological canal testing program was required for the property...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Melissa Kruse-Peeples. Will Russell. Hoski Schaafsma. Colleen Strawhacker. JoAnn Wallace.

In the Spring and Summer of 2007 Arizona State University (ASU) conducted pedestrian survey of approximately 300 hectares of the northwestern portion of Perry Mesa region in Yavapai County, Arizona. All survey areas were located within the Agua Fria National Monument (AFNM) managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). All survey areas and located archaeological features are within the Perry Mesa National Register District. During this field season, archaeological survey efforts were focused...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Melissa Kruse-Peeples. John Briggs. Katie Johnson. Leshana Leslie. Todd Passick. Angela Ruggles. Hoski Shaafsma. Karen Schollmeyer.

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

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Katherine A. Spielmann. John Briggs. Katie Johnson. Melissa Kruse. Leshana Leslie. Todd Passick. Angela Ruggles. Hoski Schaafsma. Karen Schollmeyer.

The Legacies project is a long-term, collaborative research and teaching project between archaeology and ecology faculty and students at Arizona State University. The goal of the project is to document and understand the long-term ecological impacts of the prehistoric occupation of the semi-arid landscape of Agua Fria National Monument in central Arizona. The field research is organized through a seminar in which ecology and archaeology faculty jointly engage students in the collection and...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Caven P. Clark. Scott Crownover. Bruce G. Phillips.

This is the final report of the Cochran Survey project. The draft report can be found at the following link: https://core.tdar.org/document/393912 The Cochran Survey was administered over a period of 25 months, beginning in April 1998 and ending in May 2000. As funding became available delivery orders were submitted from the Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) to Archaeological Consulting Services (ACS) to increase the survey coverage under their Section 110 mandate. Initially, the survey...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Michael Foster.

KB Home of Phoenix, Arizona is planning the residential development of approximately 80.0 acres on the northern edge of the community of Casa Grande, Arizona. A previous archaeological survey of the parcel resulted in the identification of a single prehistoric Hohokam site, AZ AA:1:139 (ASM), in the northern half of the project area (Hart 2001). The site, which appears to extend beyond the boundary of the parcel, is described as an artifact scatter (ceramics and flaked stone) with a single...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Richard V. N. Ahlstrom.

From 1991 to 1994, Tonto National Forest (TNF) and SWCA., Inc., Environmental Consultants conducted four cultural resource surveys near Globe, Arizona for Guzman Construction in preparation for a proposed land exchange involving TNF-administered lands. This document summarizes the findings of that series of surveys. Specifically, it compiles data presented in three survey reports prepared by SWCA (Ahlstrom 1993, 1994; Ahlstrom and Euler 1991; SWCA 1992). The surveys described in these reports...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Michael S. Foster. Ronald F. Ryden.

Sun Belt Holdings-Vistancia LLC is planning a 3,825-acre housing development (White Peak Ranch) on private land in Maricopa County, Arizona. A cultural resources survey identified 16 archaeological sites within the proposed development. Three sites, AZ T:3:128 (ASM), AZ T:3:281 (ASM), and AZ T:3:283 (ASM), were recommended as eligible under Criterion D for the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP), however, the ACOE, with the concurrence of the Arizona SHPO, recommended the sites be tested...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text David Abbott. Sophia Kelly. Melissa Kruse-Peeples. Dana Nakase. Katherine Spielmann.

Report on the 2009 Legacies on the Landscape BLM Scope of Work

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text James Schoenwetter.

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

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Robert Stokes.

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...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text William H. Doelle. Henry D. Wallace. Mark D. Elson. Douglas B. Craig.

The Roosevelt Community Development Study (RCD) was one of three data recovery mitigative 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 Desert Archaeology, Inc. to complete the research for...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Jeffrey Altschul. Steven D. Shelley.

The Gila Land Disposal Cultural Resources Survey is a Class II survey of approximately 5,330 acres. The project area is located approximately 15 miles west of Yuma, Arizona, near the towns of Wellton and Tacna, Arizona. The project is designed to locate, describe and evaluate cultural resources on several parcels of land, prior to their disposal by the Bureau of Reclamation. The Project Area lies south of the Gila River in a region which averages between two to four inches of rain per year,...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text A. H. Schroeder.

This document is a brief memorandum regarding resource study proposals at Casa Grande Ruins National Monument for the 1965 fiscal year. There are 4 projects proposed including: a stratigraphic test of Compound A, excavation of Compound B, a Soho phase study, and the excavation and stabilization of the ball court.

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text James B. Harrison III. S. Jerome Hesse.

SWCA® Environmental Consultants (SWCA) conducted a cultural resources inventory of a 265-acre parcel of privately held land in Sahuarita, Pima County, Arizona. This survey was conducted at the request of Rancho Sahuarita, which proposes to develop this parcel as Region 10 of the Rancho Sahuarita development. One archaeological site, a probable historic irrigation feature and agricultural field, and 15 IOs were recorded during the course of this project. The site is a Hohokam ceramic scatter...

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

A small archaeological data recovery program was conducted October 16-21, 1996 at the prehistoric Hohokam site of La Lomita, AZ U:9:67 (ASM), Phoenix, Arizona. The current archaeological work augments previous testing, data recovery, and monitoring efforts conducted prior to, and during, construction and renovation of buildings within the school grounds. The archaeological investigations and monitoring within the grounds were conducted by SWCA, Inc. for Balsz School District No. 31. Four...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Sara C. Ferland.

SWCA Environmental Services (SWCA) was contracted by the National Farm Workers Services Center, Inc. (NFWSC) to conduct archaeological testing for canals and related features in Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona. NFWSC is proposing to construct senior housing on the property. The City of Phoenix (COP) Archaeology Office recommended that testing be conducted prior to any ground disturbance due to the presence of three prehistoric canal segments on the property. No sites have been previously...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Danielle Desruisseaux.

Huntington Ruin, site AZ AA:12:73 (ASM), is a large Hohokam village site located just northwest of Rillito Peak at the northern tip of the Tucson Mountains. Between February 17 and 28, 1998, archaeologists from SWCA. Inc., Environmental Consultants (SWCA) conducted data recovery excavations at the northern periphery of this site as part of the Avra Valley Road Improvements Data Recovery Project. The goal of the project was to mitigate impacts to buried cultural deposits located within the...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Mary-Ellen Walsh. Mark R. Hackbarth.

At the request of City of Phoenix (COP) Street Transportation Department, Logan Simpson Design Inc. (LSD) investigated the discovery of human remains exposed during trenching by COP for a storm drain construction project in central Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona. The project consisted of the installation of a storm drain, catch basins, and connector pipes as well as the moving of water meters and fire hydrants. In compliance with COP policy and the Arizona Antiquities Act, LSD previously had...

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

This document reports the results of archaeological monitoring and data recovery along a proposed extension, Marana, Arizona. The alignment runs through a portion of the known prehistoric site of Los Morteros (AZ AA:12:57[ASM]), and the historic-period homestead of Charlie Maish (AZ AA:12:377[ASM]). The work was requested by Pulte Homes Corporation for sewer and road construction in a future development section and was performed between June and October 1999 (Arizona State Museum Permit Number...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Leigh Davidson.

This report presents the results of archaeological monitoring during grounddisturbing activities for the installation of a sanitary sewer line, including the excavation of a trench within the interior of the residence, and excavation of a trench in the yard to connect with an existing sewer line. The project involved excavation of 7.7 m of trenches inside the house and backyard. The trenches ranged from 0.52 to 0.9-m deep and were 0.45 to 0.7-m wide. Trenching inside the house was located in the...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Justin Rego.

This report presents the results of archaeological monitoring and testing for a COP sewer line project. The project involved the installation of sewer and connector pipes, the removal of corrugated pipe and the installation of utility access holes along the existing and new sewer alignments within Broadway Road. Archaeological monitoring and test trenching were conducted under an approved Treatment Plan. No archaeological features were identified during testing, but six isolated occurrences were...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Wesley Gibson.

This report presents the results of archaeological monitoring during grounddisturbing activities at the site. Logan Simpson was requested to monitor ground-disturbing activities because of the potential to encounter cultural resources. The project involved replacing and reconnecting sewer lines from an existing house to city sewer lines. Ground-disturbing activities included mechanical and hand trenching.

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Lesley Rodriguez.

The purpose of the monitoring was to identify and record cultural resources in the vicinity of the plotted location of an unnamed prehistoric canal projected to cross the project area. This document presents the results of archaeological monitoring after the installation of a water heater. LSD inspected the water heater installation within the vicinity of a relict canal projected to occur in the project area. No ground disturbing activity was accomplished during the water heater installation.

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

This document presents the results of archaeological monitoring for two COP Neighborhood Services Department (NSD) improvement projects. The two parcels are each within the 50-ft-wide buffer zone of an unnamed canal that is projected to traverse the properties. The COP recommended archaeological monitoring to document possible cultural resources within the project area. All ground disturbing activities were monitored within 50 ft on either side of two prehistoric canals projected to cross two...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Leigh Davidson.

This report presents the results of archaeological monitoring during ground-disturbing activities at two separate playground locations. At the area of potential effects [APE] 1, the project involved removing sand and wood chip mulch from the surface and followed by rototilling and grading the exposed ground surface within one play pen. At the APE 2, the sand and wood chip mulch was removed, and the exposed ground surface was rototilled and graded within six separate play pens. In addition, one...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Cynthia Keller.

This report presents the results of archaeological monitoring. The monitoring was conducted at the request of the City of Phoenix Street Transportation Department (project no. ST87100105) under an on-call archaeological services contract between the City and SWCA, Inc. (Contract no. 100168) and was assigned project number PGM 2002-10 by the City of Phoenix Archaeology Section. Archaeological monitoring was conducted during all soil disturbing activities since the project area passes within 100...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Sara C. Ferland.

In preparation for building construction, the Salt River Project (SRP) is reconfiguring an irrigation facility on Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) easement in Phoenix, Maricopa County. Specifically, existing above ground irrigation canals are being abandoned and replaced with subsurface concrete pipes. Because Reclamation is a federal agency, the project is subject to compliance with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended. The project area is located within the...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Mark R. Hackbarth. Lesley Rodriguez.

This report presents the results of archaeological monitoring of ground-disturbing activities for a COP NSD residential rehabilitation project. The project involved excavation of a new sewer line, the removal of a chain link fence with posts, excavation of footers for a block wall (including pilaster foundations), and removal of two trees. The property is located within 50 ft of an unnamed prehistoric canal that is projected to cross the northeastern corner of the property. The property is...

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

This document presents the results of archaeological monitoring for a residential rehabilitation project. The project involved the replacement/installation of a gas line, sewer line, and water line in addition to the excavation of block fence footers, removal of topsoil to make room for landscaping gravel, and the excavation of a hole for planting a tree in the residence’s front yard. LSD monitored ground disturbing activities within the boundary of AZ T:12:217(ASM), the Dennis Addition, and a...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Michael Stubing.

The project consists of repair of rain damage to the platform mound and ball court at Pueblo Grande. The repair will be done in two phases. Phase 1, which is covered within this report, repaired damage to the protective backfill/wall capping and drainage system around the perimeter of the mound, and removed excessive sediment from the drainage sump of the ball court. Phase 2, which will be conducted at a later date, will repair damage on the top of the mound consisting of erosion beneath the...

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

This document presents the results of archaeological monitoring for the 11th Street Pedestrian Improvements Project along 11th Street . The federally funded project involves improves to bus stops with new benches; installation of permeable paving and shade trees; construction of wider sidewalks with accessible ramps; and installation of pedestrian level street lighting and way-finding signage (including the installation of utility conduits for new street lamps) and removal and installation of...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Justin P. Rego. Michael Bryk. Lesley Rodriguez.

This report presents the results of archaeological monitoring for a COP water line project. The project involved the installation of a new waterline along an existing alignment in Phoenix. Archaeological monitoring was conducted under the established Monitoring and Discovery Plan for the city of Phoenix (Montero and Stubing 2004). As a result of the project, five features were recorded and two previously reported sites were given ASM site numbers.

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

This document presents the results of archaeological monitoring for a residential rehabilitation project. The project involved the connection of a washing machine drain to the sewer line. LSD monitored ground-disturbing activities within the buffer zone surrounding an unnamed prehistoric canal projected to traverse the southwest corner of the project area. Field investigators examined exposed substrate for the presence of cultural deposits. No cultural resources were encountered.

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Leigh Davidson.

This report presents the results of archaeological monitoring during ground-disturbing activities. The project involved the removal of concrete slabs, footings, concrete pad and fence posts, as well as structural demolition and lot grading. Ground-disturbing activities included the mechanical removal of a tree, two cinder block wall extensions, and a portion of the house foundation; hand removal of two metal posts for a chain link fence; and hand and mechanical grading across the exposed...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Leigh Davidson.

This report presents the results of archaeological monitoring during ground-disturbing activities. The project involved two tasks: lot grading and hand excavations, and excavation within the residence beneath the tub catch-basin in the bathroom. Ground-disturbing activities outside the residence included hand excavation with shovels to grad a portion of the backyard for a proposed gravel parking area. Hand excavations were used within the residence's bathroom to remove and repair the existing...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Leigh Davidson.

This report presents the results of archaeological monitoring during ground disturbing activities at the site. The planned project involved the installation of a water sprinkler system, the installation of an AC pad and drainage swell, vegetation removal, grading in the backyard, and landscaping in the front yard. Monitoring was conducted during all trenching and general ground-disturbing activity within the project area. Field investigators examined vertical and horizontal exposures of the...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Alexandra Howard. Christopher Garraty.

This document presents the results of archaeological monitoring in advance of Sun State Builder’s (Sun State) anticipated construction of warehouse facilities within an L-shaped area. This project area is situated within a Hohokam village habitation site with a known platform mound. The project area also encompasses a historic residential property that has not been evaluated for National Registry of Historic Places (NRHP) eligibility. The project involved excavation (mechanical grading and...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Lesley Rodriguez.

This document presents the results of archaeological monitoring for a housing improvement project. The project involved the installation of a new sewer system and a fence. Logan Simpson Design (LSD) monitored 13 ft (3.9 m) of excavated trench and eleven post holes within the Casa Buena site (AZ T:12:36[ASM]). Monitoring was conducted during all ground-disturbing activity within the area of potential effects. Construction activity occurred both inside and outside of the residence. Field...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Leigh Davidson.

This report presents the results of archaeological monitoring during ground disturbing activities for the installation of approximately 12 linear meters of block fence. The project involved the excavation of two trenches, one averaging 0.33 m wide by 13.75 m long by 0.29 m deep, and the other measuring 0.39 m wide by 1.25 m long by 0.29 m deep. The trenches were expanded in 7 locations to accommodate pilasters. The pilaster footers ranged in area from 0.12 m2 to 0.4 m2 and depths from 0.32 m to...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Rebecca Hill.

This document presents the results of archaeological monitoring during ground-disturbing activities for the installation of concrete footers. The project involved the excavation of three holes for footers, each one 0.46 m deep. LSD monitored the ground-disturbing activities as the property is located within the boundaries of Leo’s Site, P:3:8(GP). Archaeological monitoring was conducted during the ground-disturbing activities related to the installation of concrete footers along the southern...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Rebecca Hill. Leigh Davidson.

This report presents the results of archaeological monitoring during grounddisturbing activities for the installation of a sanitary sewer line, including the excavation to install a new line from the residenceto the COP sanitary sewer tap located in the alley. The project involved excavation, with a backhoe, of a 45-cm-wide by 80-cm-deep by 23-m-long trench, positioned directly above the existing septic tank system. In addition, monitoring was conducted inside the house where a 20-cm-wide by...

DOCUMENT [not managed] Full-Text Rebecca Hill.

This document presents the results of archaeological monitoring during ground-disturbing activities conducted for the rehabilitation of an existing public park within Sherman Parkway. The project involved monitoring ground disturbing activities at two locations within the Sherman Parkway Park: a 250-ft-wide buffer zone that surrounds the prehistoric village site of Casa Chica, AZ T:12:412(ASM) and within a 50-ft-wide buffer zone on either side of a prehistoric canal. The site number AZ...