Ancient Farming Along the Salt River: Data Recovery at a 9th Century Field House Community (AZ T:12:395[ASM]) for the Coral Pointe Development in Phoenix, Arizona
Author(s): Mark L. Chenault; Douglas R. Mitchell
Year: 2010
Summary
The City of Phoenix requested that archaeological work be conducted at the location of the proposed Coral Pointe Apartments Project in Phoenix. The Project is on private property but will receive federal funding so the effects of this undertaking on cultural resources must be considered to comply with section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act. According to the City of Phoenix archaeological site files, several prehistoric canals cross the area of potential effect (APE). Although no site had been recorded in this parcel, the City required testing here due to the likelihood of buried canal features.The testing was done under the existing City-approved Plan, entitled “General Cultural Resources Testing Plan for the City of Phoenix Projects that Involve Prehistoric Canals with the City of Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona” (Stubing and Turner 2007). Buried features were discovered during the testing phase, an archaeological site number was assigned, and subsequent data recovery was conducted. The data recovery was done under an existing City-approved Plan, entitled “General Historic Properties Treatment Plan for Archaeological Projects within the Boundaries of the City of Phoenix, Arizona” (Montero et al. 2008).
Archaeological investigations in the project area included 675 linear meters of backhoe trenches and 620 sq m of mechanically stripped areas. Forty one features were identified that included field houses, pits, and canals. Ceramic evidence indicates that this site, AZ T:12:395(ASM), dates to the late Gila Butte and early Santa Cruz phases of the Hohokam Colonial period around A.D. 750-850.
Cite this Record
Ancient Farming Along the Salt River: Data Recovery at a 9th Century Field House Community (AZ T:12:395[ASM]) for the Coral Pointe Development in Phoenix, Arizona, 32. Mark L. Chenault, Douglas R. Mitchell. 2010 ( tDAR id: 440612) ; doi:10.48512/XCV8440612
Keywords
Culture
Hohokam
Material
Buffware
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Ceramic
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Charcoal
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Chipped Stone
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Clay Figurine
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Core
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Fauna
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Fire Cracked Rock
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Flakes
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Gila Butte Red-on-Buffwrae
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Gila Plainware, Gila Variety
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Gila Plainware, Salt Variety
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Ground Stone
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Hammerstone
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Macrobotanical
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Pollen
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Red-on-Brownware
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Sacaton Red-on-Buffware
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Salt Redware
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Santa Cruz Red-on-Buffware
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Snaketown Red-on-Buffware
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Wingfield Plain
Site Name
AZ T:12:395 (ASM)
Site Type
Agricultural or Herding
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Canal or Canal Feature
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Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex
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Domestic Structures
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Field House
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Fire Pit
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Hearth
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House
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Isolated Artifact
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Pit
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Pit House / Earth Lodge
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Resource Extraction / Production / Transportation Structure or Features
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Roasting Pit / Oven / Horno
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Surface
Investigation Types
Data Recovery / Excavation
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Records Search / Inventory Checking
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Research Design / Data Recovery Plan
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Site Evaluation / Testing
General
Pollen Analysis
Geographic Keywords
Arizona (State / Territory)
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Coral Pointe Development
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Maricopa (County)
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Phoenix, AZ
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Phoenix Basin
Temporal Keywords
9th Century
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Gila Butte Phase
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Hohokam
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Hohokam Colonial period
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Prehistoric
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Santa Cruz Phase
Temporal Coverage
Calendar Date: 750 to 850 (Ceramic evidence relative date)
Spatial Coverage
min long: -112.051; min lat: 33.397 ; max long: -112.012; max lat: 33.421 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): City of Phoenix Archaeology Office
Prepared By(s): PaleoWest Archaeology
Submitted To(s): NRP Group, Inc.; City of Phoenix Archaeology Office
Record Identifiers
Technical Report No.(s): 10-32
PaleoWest(s): 09-25
PGM(s): 2008-07
File Information
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Coral-Pointe-Final-Report_OCR_PDFA.pdf | 10.89mb | Jul 19, 2010 | Feb 1, 2018 2:35:06 PM | Confidential | |
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Coral-Pointe-Final-Report_OCR_PDFA_Redacted.pdf | 18.96mb | Mar 19, 2021 10:09:46 AM | Public | ||
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