Between the River and the Terrace: Archaeological Investigations Within the Red Mountain Freeway Corridor, From Gilbert Road to Higley Road

Editor(s): Mary-Ellen Walsh; Laurene Montero; Michael Stubing

Year: 2002

Summary

This report discusses the results of archaeological testing at four cultural resource sites to assess their eligibility for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP), and the results of data recovery excavations at one of the four sites to mitigate impacts from construction. Entranco completed this project at the request of the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) prior to the proposed construction of the Red Mountain Freeway (RMF) Gilbert Road to Higley Road segment between October 2000 and March 2001. The RMF project is being funded by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), and as such is a federal undertaking subject to the Section 106 process, 36 CFR § 800.16 (y), the regulations implementing the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA).

As discussed in this document, the RMF corridor encompasses the entire freeway right-of-way (R/W) and consists of areas that will be disturbed by construction of the freeway, and areas that will not be disturbed. The investigated sites included AZ U:9:226 (ASM), AZ U:10:117 (ASM), AZ U:10:122 (ASM), and AZ U:10:123 (ASM). Testing and data recovery results were previously presented in multiple preliminary reports and submitted to ADOT and consulting parties in order to allow construction to proceed on schedule.

This final report is comprehensive and describes the investigations conducted at each site, the results of all fieldwork and analyses, and the interpretation of the accumulated data to address research questions that were posed for each site. Importantly, the results of archival research also Indicate that 1) the features Identified at AZ U:9:226 (ASM) during current investigations do not represent the site that was historically recorded in that location on Turney’s 1929 map of the Salt River valley and 2) there is no historical basis for designating AZ U:9:226 (ASM) as either T-9 or Casas del Oriente as it occurs in the previous literature.

Cite this Record

Between the River and the Terrace: Archaeological Investigations Within the Red Mountain Freeway Corridor, From Gilbert Road to Higley Road, 001. Mary-Ellen Walsh, Laurene Montero, Michael Stubing. 2002 ( tDAR id: 428101) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8428101

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Keywords

Culture
Hohokam

Material
Ceramic • Chipped Stone • Fauna • Fire Cracked Rock • Ground Stone • Macrobotanical • Pollen • Shell

Site Name
AZ U:10:117 (ASM) • AZ U:10:122 (ASM) • AZ U:10:123 (ASM) • AZ U:9:226 (ASM) • Consolidated Canal

Site Type
Agricultural or Herding • Archaeological Feature • Artifact Scatter • Canal or Canal Feature • Farmstead • Field House • Limited Activity Site • Non-Thermal Pit • Pit • Pit House / Earth Lodge • Post Hole / Post Mold • Resource Extraction / Production / Transportation Structure or Features • Roasting Pit / Oven / Horno • Rock Alignment • Rock Cluster • Sheet Trash • Thermal Pit • Trash Deposit • Waffle Garden

Investigation Types
Data Recovery / Excavation • Records Search / Inventory Checking • Site Evaluation / Testing

Geographic Keywords
Arizona (State / Territory) • Maricopa (County) • Mesa, AZ • Red Mountain Freeway

Temporal Keywords
Historic • Prehistoric • Sedentary Period

Spatial Coverage

min long: -111.788; min lat: 33.466 ; max long: -111.719; max lat: 33.486 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): Salt River Project Cultural Resource Manager

Contributor(s): Erin Davis; Amy Gibbons; Laurene Montero; Bruce Phillips; Teresa Rodrigues; Korri Turner

Principal Investigator(s): Mary-Ellen Walsh

Project Director(s): Michael Stubing

Prepared By(s): Environmental Services Group, ENTRANCO, Inc.

Submitted To(s): Environmental Planning Group, Arizona Department of Transportation

Record Identifiers

TRACS No.(s): 202L MA 017 H5299 01C

Project Report(s): 2002-001

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