An Archaeological Survey of the Salt-Gila Aqueduct

Author(s): Mark Grady

Year: 1973

Summary

The Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) directed the Arizona State Museum to conduct a cultural resources survey of the Salt-Gila (Fannin-McFarland) Aqueduct as part of its environmental assessment of the impacts of the proposed Central Arizona Project.

Twenty-two archaeological sites and two major areas of cultural activity were identified during the survey. Of these sites, 19 were recommended for further investigation and 5 were suggested for clearance (not eligible for the NRHP). The majority of the sites in the project area are prehistoric and are associated with the Hohokam archaeological culture. Only two historical-period sites were identified. The prehistoric sites were categorized according to site function as (1) long-term multiple activity sites, (2) short-term limited activity sites, (3) temporary activity sites, and (4) lithic activity sites. Long term multiple use sites are the largest in size and range from Colonial to Classic period (A.D. 500-1400) in age. The majority of the other sites also date to the Hohokam occupation, however, there were used for shorter periods of time.

Cite this Record

An Archaeological Survey of the Salt-Gila Aqueduct. Mark Grady. Tucson, AZ: Arizona State Museum. 1973 ( tDAR id: 191011) ; doi:10.6067/XCV88C9Z42

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Keywords

Culture
Anglo • Archaic • Euroamerican • Historic • Hohokam • Salado • Yavapai

Material
Basalt • Black-on-Whiteware • Bone • Brass • Brownware • Buffware • Building Materials • Cardium sp. • Casa Grande Red-on-Buffware • Ceramic • Chalcedony • Chert • Chipped Stone • Concrete • Fine Grained Basalt • Fire Cracked Rock • Gabbro • Gila Butte Red-on-Buffware • Gila Plainware • Gila Polychrome Ware • Gila Redware • Glass • Glycymeris sp. • Ground Stone • Human Remains • Jasper • Lower Colorado Buffware • Metal • Metamorphic Rock • Mica • Mineral • Obsidian • Plainware • Polychrome Ware • Quartz • Quartzite • Red-on-Brownware • Red-on-Buffware • Redware • Rhyolite • Rincon Red-on-Brownware • Roosevelt Black-on-Whiteware • Sacaton Red-on-Buffware • Salado Redware • Salt Redware • San Carlos Brownware • Sand • Sandstone • Santa Cruz Red-on-Buffware • Schist • Shell • Silica • Silicate • Snaketown Red-on-Buffware • Tanque Verde Red-on-Brownware • Tonto Polychrome Ware • Vesicular Basalt • Volcanic Rock • Whiteware • Wingfield Plainware • Wood Show More

Site Name
AZ AA:3:10(ASM) • AZ AA:3:11(ASM) • AZ AA:3:12(ASM) • AZ AA:3:5(ASM) • AZ AA:3:9(ASM) • AZ AA:7:21(ASM) • AZ AA:7:22(ASM) • AZ U:10:10(ASM) • AZ U:10:11(ASM) • AZ U:10:3(ASM) • AZ U:10:4(ASM) • AZ U:10:5(ASM) • AZ U:10:6(ASM) • AZ U:10:7(ASM) • AZ U:10:8(ASM) • AZ U:10:9(ASM) • AZ U:14:44(ASM) • AZ U:15:14(ASM) • AZ U:15:16(ASM) • AZ U:15:17(ASM) • AZ U:15:19(ASM) • AZ U:6:77(ASM)

Site Type
Agricultural or Herding • Airstrip • Ancient Structure • Archaeological Feature • Artifact Scatter • Campsite • Circular Depression • Cobble Outline • Concrete Trough • Conrete Foundation • Cooking Pit • Corral • Depression • Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex • Domestic Structures • Encampment • Fence • Foundation • Hearth • Historic Structure • House • House Foundation • Isolated Artifact • Isolated Feature • Latrine • Lithic Scatter • Metamorphin Rock Cluster • Midden • Oven • Pit • Pit House / Earth Lodge • Pit House Depression • Platform Mound • Resource Extraction / Production / Transportation Structure or Features • Road • Road, Trail, and Related Structures or Features • Roasting Pit / Oven / Horno • Rock Alignment • Rock Cluster • Rock Concentration • Rock Outline • Settlements • Sherd Scatter • Structure • Trash Area • Trash Heap • Trash Midden • Trash Mound • Volcanic Rock Cluster • Water Control Feature • Watering Trough • Well • Wire Fence Show More

Investigation Types
Site Evaluation / Testing

General
Basalt Biface • Basalt Chopper • Basalt Flake • Basalt Hammerstone • Basalt Knife • Basalt Metate • Basalt Milling Equipment • Basalt Milling Implement • Basalt Projectile Point • Basalt Ring • Basalt Tool • Basin Metate • Bifacial Chopper • Bifacial Core • Blade • Bone (Human) • Bracelet • Brass Wedge • Brick • Car Wheel • Central Arizona Project • Chalcedony Core • Chalcedony Debitage • Chalcedony Flake • Chalcedony Projectile Point • Chert Blade • Chopper • Cinder Block • Clothes • Cobble Biface • Cobble Mano • Core Tool • Debitage • Flake • Glycymeris Bracelet • Hammerstone • Jar • Jasper Biface • Jasper Flake • Jasper Projectile Point • Knife • Mano • Marana Pumping Plant • Medicine Bottle • Mescal Knife • Metate • Milling Equipment • Milling implement • Nail • Nodule • Plainware Vessel • Preserve Jar • Printed Matter • Projectile Point • Quartz Flake • Quartzite Flake • Quartzite Mano • Rhyolite Core • Rhyolite Flake • Rhyolite Projectile Point • Ring • Sandstone Mano • Scraping Implement • Shell (Cardium sp.) • Shell Bracelet • Silica Flake • Silicate Flake • Slab Metate • U. S. Army • Vessel • Wheel • Window Glass • Window Wedge • Wooden Framing • Wooden Wheel Show More

Geographic Keywords
04013 (Fips Code) • 04021 (Fips Code) • Apache Junction, AZ • Arizona (State / Territory) • Basin and Range Province • Florence, AZ • Florence-Casa Grande Canal • Gila River • Marana, AZ • Maricopa (County) • McDowell Mountains • Orme Dam • Picacho Mountains • Picacho Reservoir • Pinal (County) • Queen Creek • Salt-Gila Aqueduct • Salt River • Siphon Wash • Usery Mountains

Temporal Keywords
1880s • 1890s • 1900s • 1910s • 1920s • 1930s • 1940s • 1950s • 19th Century • 20th Century • Classic Period • Colonial Period • Gila Butte Phase • Historic • Pioneer Period • Prehistoric • Sedentary Period • World War II

Spatial Coverage

min long: -111.597; min lat: 32.417 ; max long: -111.165; max lat: 33.588 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): USDI Bureau of Reclamation, Phoenix Area Office

Contributor(s): R. Gwinn Vivian; Sandra Kemrer; Sandra Schultz; William Dodge; Alfred E. Dittert, Jr., Dr.; Minabelle Laughlin; Stephanie Argeros; Gayle Hartmann; Glenn Miller; Shirley Pettengill; Barry Richards; Charles Sternberg; Sharon Urban; Donald Wood

Sponsor(s): U. S. Bureau of Reclamation

Repository(s): Huhugam Heritage Center

Prepared By(s): Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona

Record Identifiers

NADB Citation ID No.(s): 000000012329, 000000167020

NPS Contract No.(s): 494OP2O862

NADB Document ID No.(s): 1000335, 2202916

Notes

General Note: A duplicate of this NADB citation was also on tDAR as tDAR ID 77254. It has since been removed.The copies from which the NADB citations were made can be found at NPS (WR-RR), 600 Harrison St, San Francisco, CA 94107 and Bureau of Reclamation, Box 25007, Denver CO 80255.

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