Report on the Recovery of Human Skeletal Material from the Picacho Pass Battle Marker, Arizona

Author(s): Walter H. Birkby, Ph.D.

Year: 1975

Summary

On or about May 19, 1975, the Arizona State Museum was informed by Mr. Alan Gross of the State Parks System that the monument commemorating the Union dead at the Battle of Picacho Pass had been moved from its original location. Further, that while excavations for this removal were being conducted (either by the Parks personnel or the Tucson firm employed for the removal), allegedly human skeletal remains were uncovered beneath the monument. The ASM was requested to investigate and to remove the remains.

Cite this Record

Report on the Recovery of Human Skeletal Material from the Picacho Pass Battle Marker, Arizona. Walter H. Birkby, Ph.D.. Tucson, AZ: Arizona State Museum. 1975 ( tDAR id: 399362) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8BG2QTW

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Keywords

Culture
Caucasian? • Historic • Mexican?

Material
Black Cotton • Bone • Cloth • Cotton • Dark Metal • Fabric • Glass • Human Remains • Metal • Painted Wood • Tan Fabric • Textile • White Glass • Wood

Site Type
Battlefield • Coffin-Type Interment • Funerary and Burial Structures or Features • Inhumation • Isolated Burial

Investigation Types
Consultation

General
Adult Burial • Arizona Historical Society Library • Battle of Picacho Pass • Bone (Human) • Box Nail • Button • Canine (Human) • Civil War • Cross • Female Burial • Femur (Human) • Glass Button • Hand Bone (Human) • Incisor (Human) • Lt. James Barrett • Metal Button • Molar (Human) • Nail • Premolar (Human) • Pvt. George Johnson • Pvt. Wm. S. Leonard • Union Army • Wooden Cross

Geographic Keywords
Arizona (State / Territory) • Picacho, Arizona • Picacho State Park

Temporal Keywords
1880s • 19th Century • Civil War • Historic

Spatial Coverage

min long: -111.42; min lat: 32.63 ; max long: -111.388; max lat: 32.649 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): Arizona State Parks

Contributor(s): Alan Gross; Carl Rhinehart; Barry Richards; Jeff Shipman; Jack Hefketh; Dennis McCarthy; Betty Katz

Repository(s): Arizona Historical Society Museum

Submitted To(s): Arizona State Museum

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