Tumacacori National Historical Park, Arizona

The Western Archeological and Conservation Center conducted excavations in the Campo Santo (cemetery), granary, and convento area of Tumacacori National Honument, Arizona, prior to a series of stabilization projects within the mission complex. A trench dug by C. Hichael Barton in the Campo Santo revealed a series of well-defined occupation levels from the early mission period. This area was found to be associated with secular functions and domestic activities, indicating that the Campo Santo...

During March 1992, archeologists from the Western Archeological and Conservation Center conducted survey, detailed mapping, and feature recording at the missions of Guevavi and Calabazas in the Santa Cruz River Valley of southern Arizona. The most prominent features at the sites today are standing walls of Spanish-period churches. However, both sites also contain prehistoric and later historic components as well. The National Park Service is in the process of acquiring 8 acres at Guevavi from...

I n the eighteenth century, Jesuits pioneered Spain's attempts to colonize and missionize the northern Pimeria Alta. Guevavi, first established by Father Eusebio Kino at a populous Piman village in 1691, was to be the first and principal mission of Spain's northern frontier in what is now Arizona. Beginning in 1701 tenacious Jesuit and later Franciscan missionaries attempted to establish permanent residency at the village. But the cumulative effects of Apache raids, food shortages, Piman...

Excavations conducted at Tumacacori National Monument, Arizona in 1979 recovered data that would have been destroyed by the installation of an underground drainage system in the Franciscan mission plaza and adjacent to the west wall of the mission church. This system was designed to aid in the stabilizaton of the historic structures. This report describes the surprisingly intact stratigraphy of the excavated area. Features and deposits were grouped into four areas of associated deposits and...

The Western Archeological and Conservation Center (WACC) reports of archaeological excavation and survey projects within the boundaries of Tumacacori National Historical Park (formerly Tumacácori National Monument).