The Beeline Archaeological Project

Author(s): Richard W. Effland; Scott Fedick

Year: 1990

Summary

The Salt River Project (SRP) and Arizona Public Service Company (APS) constructed three transmission lines along a portion of the Beeline Highway on the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community (SRPMIC). SRP proposed to build a new line that connects the Pinnacle Peak, Brandow, and Papago Buttes substations. At the same time, APS proposed to realign two existing transmission lines and move them out of the Salt River channel and onto the north terrace above the river. Prior to construction, Archaeological Consulting Services Ltd. (ACS) was contracted to perform cultural resource investigations for both the SRP and APS portions of the project. A total of 13 identified sites were evaluated in 1984 as significant and, as such, potentially eligible for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places. Not all of these sites would be affected by the proposed transmission line development however. The recommendations of the studies were: (1) both SRP and APS should work to minimize adverse effects by carefully designing pole and access locations, and (2) a data recovery program to negate any adverse effects of the proposed development project should be prepared and implemented. The data recovery work was performed under the authority of the SRPMIC and an ARPA permit from the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Phoenix Area Office (BIA) (permit No. ACS/SR/PAO/0001A). Artifacts and notes were to be curated by the SRPMIC.

Cite this Record

The Beeline Archaeological Project. Richard W. Effland, Scott Fedick. Tempe, AZ: Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd. 1990 ( tDAR id: 406055) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8406055

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Keywords

Culture
Archaic • Historic • Historic Native American • Hohokam • Pima

Material
Adobe • Agate • Agave • Agave sp. • Amaranthus sp. • Amethyst Glass • Aqua Glass • Arrow-Weed • Basalt • Bone • Brown Glass • Buffware • Building Materials • Cactaceae • Cactus • Carpet-Weed • Casa Grande Red-on-Buffware • Cattle • Centrosperm • Ceramic • cf. Bos taurus • Cheno-Am • Chenopodium sp. • Chert • Chipped Stone • Clay • Cottonwood • Cruciferae • Descurainia sp. • Desert Broom • Douglas Fir • Echinocereus sp. • Fauna • Fire Cracked Rock • Fishhook Cactus • Gila Plainware • Gila Polychrome Ware • Glass • Gold Mica • Gramineae • Ground Stone • Hackberry • Hedgehog Cactus • Hornblende • Iron • Jacal • Large Mammal • Lower Colorado Buffware • Macrobotanical • Mammal • Mammillaria sp. • Mesquite • Metal • Mica • Mica Schist • Mineral • Mollugo sp. • Monocot • Mule Deer • Mustard • Obsidian • Odocoileus sp. • Panic Grass • Panicum sp. • Parker Buffware • Parker Red-on-Buffware • Phyllite • Pincushion Cactus • Plainware • Plantago sp. • Plantain • Polychrome Ware • Ponderosa Pine • Porcelain • Prosopis sp. • Quartzite • Red-on-Buffware • Redware • Rhyolite • Sacaton Red-on-Buffware • Salt Redware • Sand • Schist • Sheet Iron • Shell • Silver Mica • Steel • Stoneware • Sycamore • Tansy Mustard • Tin • Tonto Plainware • Tonto Polychrome Ware • White Fir • Wingfield Plainware • Wood Show More

Site Name
AZ U:9:10 (ASU) • AZ U:9:14 (ASU) • AZ U:9:15 (ASU) • AZ U:9:19 (ASU) • AZ U:9:61 (ASU) • AZ U:9:62 (ASU) • AZ U:9:64 (ASU) • AZ U:9:65 (ASU) • AZ U:9:67 (ASU) • AZ U:9:68 (ASU) • AZ U:9:8 (ASU) • AZ U:9:9 (ASU)

Site Type
Adobe Structure • Agricultural or Herding • Archaeological Feature • Arrow Rock Alignment • Artifact Scatter • Canal • Canal or Canal Feature • Charcoal Deposit • Compound • Compound Wall • Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex • Domestic Structures • Hearth • Historic Structure • Horno • Jacal Structure • Limited Activity Site • Lithic Scatter • Midden • Oven • Pit • Platform Mound • Plaza • Post Hole • Post Hole / Post Mold • Pot Bust • Resource Extraction / Production / Transportation Structure or Features • Roasting Pit • Roasting Pit / Oven / Horno • Rock Alignment • Rock Cluster • Rock Oven • Rock Ring • Room • Room Block / Compound / Pueblo • Sherd Scatter • Structure • Trash Midden • Trash Mound • Wall Show More

Investigation Types
Site Evaluation / Testing

General
ACS • American Bottle Co. • APS • Baby Food Bottle • Baling Wire • Basalt Debitage • Basalt Flake • Bean • Bean (Mesquite) • Bean (Prosopis sp.) • Beverage Can • BIA • Biface • Bone (Animal) • Bottle • Bowl • Buffware Jar • Bullet • Can • Cartridge Case • Caudex • Caudex (Agave) • Caudex (Agave sp.) • Ceramic Bowl • Chert Debitage • Chert Flake • Clay Marble • Coffee Can • Construction Nail • Core • Core Tool • Disk • Doll • Doll Foot • Doll Leg • Federal Cartridge Co. • Fence Staple • Flake • Flake Tool • Framing Member • Fruit Can • Frying Pan • Glass Bottle • Glass Marble • Globe • Grain • Grain (Gramineae) • Grain (Grass) • Hammerstone • Heart • Heart (Agave) • Heart (Agave sp.) • Hole-in-Cap Can • Hollow Globe • Horseshoe • Horseshoe Nail • Iron Pan • Iron Shovel Blade • Jar • Knife • Ligule (Panic Grass) • Ligule (Panicum sp.) • Lincoln Penny • Lithic Debitage • Marble • Meat Can • Mellin's Food Co. • Metal Disk • Metal Globe • Metal Screw Top • Nail • Nursing Bottle • Nut • Penny • Peters Cartridge Co. • Pistol Cartridge Case • Plainware Bowl • Plainware Jar • Porcelain doll • Preserve Jar • Railroad Spike • Redware Bowl • Remington-Union Metallic Cartridge Co. • Rifle Cartridge Case • Roof Cast • Round Spike • Safety Pin • Salt River Project • Sanitary Can • Screw • Screw Top • Seafood Can • Seed • Seed (Carpet-Weed) • Seed (Centrosperm) • Seed (Cheno-Am) • Seed (Cruciferae) • Seed (Descurainia sp.) • Seed (Echinocereus sp.) • Seed (Fishhook Cactus) • Seed (Hedgehog Cactus) • Seed (Mammillaria sp.) • Seed (Mollugo sp.) • Seed (Mustard) • Seed (Pincushion Cactus) • Seed (Plaintain) • Seed (Plantago sp.) • Seed (Tansy Mustard) • Shotgun Cartridge Case • Shovel Blade • Spike • Spine • Spine (Cactacaeae) • Spine (Cactus) • SRP • SRPMIC • Stem • Stem (Monocot) • Stem (Panic Grass) • Stem (Panicum sp.) • Stoneware Jar • Stove Pipe Wire • Surveyor's Stake • Tabular Knife • Thatching • Tin Can • Tobacco Can • Union Metallic Cartridge Company • Vegetable Can • Western Cartridge Co. • Whithall-Tatun & Company • Winchester Repeating Arms Co. • Wire • Wire Staple • Wire Wrapping • Wooden Stake • Wood Screw Show More

Geographic Keywords
Arizona (State / Territory) • Basin and Range Physiographic Province • Desert Region • Maricopa (County) • Mesa Terrace • Phoenix Basin • Salt River • Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community • Salt River Valley • western Arizona

Temporal Keywords
Classic Period • Historic • Prehistoric • Sedentary Period

Spatial Coverage

min long: -111.832; min lat: 33.463 ; max long: -111.792; max lat: 33.509 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): Salt River Project Cultural Resource Manager

Contributor(s): Simon Krauss; Michael Leonard; Phillip Lopez; Eric Rhoades; David Enas; Gwen Enos; Terry Leonard

Field Director(s): Scott L. Fedick

Lab Director(s): Margerie Green; Owen Lindauer

Project Director(s): Richard Effland

Sponsor(s): Richard Anduze

Permitting Agency(s): Bureau of Indian Affairs

Repository(s): Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community

Submitted To(s): Arizona Public Service Company; Salt River Project; Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community

Record Identifiers

BIA Permit No.(s): ACS/SR/PAO/0001A

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