Review Draft (Project No. 03-09): Archaeological Investigations on State Lands along the Santan Expansion Project Pipeline Corridor, Pinal County, Arizona

Author(s): David R. Hart; Douglas B. Craig

Year: 2004

Summary

Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement and Power District (SRP) plans to construct a natural gas pipeline along its Santan Expansion Project, between Gilbert and Coolidge in Maricopa and Pinal counties, Arizona. In order to mitigate the impact of pipeline construction on culturally significant properties, SRP contracted Northland Research, Inc. (Northland) to recover archaeological data from 10 sites located along the proposed 36-mile long pipeline corridor. Northland subsequently conducted eligibility and extent testing in portions of the 10 sites that fell within the SRP pipeline corridor and found that seven of the sites warranted additional data recovery (Hart and Craig 2003). Four of the sites where additional work was recommended were located on or near the middle Gila River, under the jurisdiction of the Arizona State Land Department (ASLD). These four sites, AZ U:15:248(ASM), AZ U:14:54(ASM), AZ U:14:361(ASM), and AZ U:14:74(ASM), were considered eligible for the Arizona and National Registers of Historic Places (AZ/NRHP) based on their potential to inform on local and regional prehistory (Hart and Craig 2003). The following report documents the results of Northland’s data recovery operations at these sites.

Cite this Record

Review Draft (Project No. 03-09): Archaeological Investigations on State Lands along the Santan Expansion Project Pipeline Corridor, Pinal County, Arizona, 103. David R. Hart, Douglas B. Craig. 2004 ( tDAR id: 427185) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8427185

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Keywords

Culture
Hohokam

Material
Andesite • Carbonized wood fragments • Ceramic • Chert • Chipped Stone • Classic Redware • coarse-grained mica schist • Diabase • Early Sacaton-Casa Grande • Fine Grained Basalt • Gila Butte • Glycymeris sp. • Ground Stone • Indeterminate redware • Indeterminate Salado polychrome • Late Sacaton • Macrobotanical • Mano • metate • Middle Sacaton 1, 2 • Plainware • Preclassic ceramic • Quartzite • Rhyolite Core • Rhyolite flakes • Shell • Unidentified red-painted Hohokam Show More

Site Name
AZ U:14:361 (ASM) • AZ U:14:54 (ASM) • AZ U:14:74 (ASM) • AZ U:15:248 (ASM)

Site Type
Archaeological Feature • Canal or Canal Feature • Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex • Domestic Structures • Field House • Non-Thermal Pit • Pit • Pit House / Earth Lodge • Ramada • Roasting Pit • Roasting Pit / Oven / Horno • Storage Pit • Thermal Pit

Investigation Types
Archaeological Overview • Data Recovery / Excavation

General
Andesite Flake • Andesite shatter • Carbonized Wood • Chert Flake • Diabase Debitage • Fine grained basalt flake • Fine grained basalt shatter • Quartzite Flake • Rhyolite Core • Rhyolite Flake • Rhyolite Shatter • Salt River Project • Santan Expansion Natural Gas Pipeline • SRP

Geographic Keywords
Coolidge, AZ • Maricopa (County) • Pinal (County) • Santan Mountains

Temporal Keywords
10th Century • 12th Century • 8th Century • AD 1150 - 1300 • AD 750 - 1150 • AD 950 - 1150 • Classic Period • Colonial Period • Pre-classic period • Sedentary Period

Temporal Coverage

Calendar Date: 950 to 1300 (Date range of occupation of listed sites based on ceramic analysis)

Spatial Coverage

min long: -112.243; min lat: 32.998 ; max long: -111.485; max lat: 33.084 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): Salt River Project Cultural Resource Manager

Contributor(s): David R. Hart; Douglas B. Craig; Dave R. Abott; Johna Hutira; John T. Marshall

Prepared By(s): Northland Research, Inc.

Submitted To(s): Salt River Project

Record Identifiers

Arizona Antiquities Act Project Specific Permit No.(s): 2003-119ps

ASM Burial Agreement Case No.(s): 03-12

ASLD R-O-W Application No.(s): 16-107631

ASM Permit No.(s): 2203-14bl

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