The Cortaro Road Site: 2800 Years of Prehistory in the Northern Tucson Basin

Editor(s): S. Jerome Hesse; Annick Lascaux

Year: 2005

Summary

Between November 9, 2001 and May 31, 2002, SWCA archaeologists conducted a series of testing and data recovery investigations at the Cortaro Road Site (AZ AA:12:232 (ASM)) for Arizona Pavilions Development in the Town of Marana, Pima County, Arizona. This work was conducted to comply with the Town of Marana's regulations for a grading permit.

Archaeological features dating to the Early Agricultural (pre-San Pedro, San Pedro, Early Cienega, and Late Cienega phases) and Early Ceramic (Tortolita phase) periods were investigated, as well as minor more recent hohokam features dating to the Sedentary (Rincon phase) and possibly Early Classic (Tanque Verde phase) periods. The Early Agricultural and Early Ceramic period occupations consisted primarily of pits used for resource processing and storage. Most of the feature information about the hohokam components appears to have been lost through historical and modern plowing. One hohokam pit structure that likely served as a field house was poorly preserved and contained a unusual mix of Tortolita phase and Tanque Verde phase ceramics.

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The Cortaro Road Site: 2800 Years of Prehistory in the Northern Tucson Basin, 172. S. Jerome Hesse, Annick Lascaux. 2005 ( tDAR id: 442487) ; doi:10.48512/XCV8442487

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Keywords

Culture
Archaic • Early Agricultural • Hohokam • Huhugam • Late Archaic • Mogollon

Material
Andesite • Basalt • Brownware • Ceramic • Chipped Stone • Cobble Pestle • Core • Dacite • Fauna • Fire Cracked Rock • Ground Stone • Hammerstone • Handstone • Macrobotanical • Mano • metate • Netherstone • Plainware • Pollen • Projectile Point • Quartzite • Red-on-Brown • Redware • Rhyolite • San Francisco Redware • Scraper • Shell Show More

Site Name
AZ AA:12:232 (ASM) • Cortaro Road Site

Site Type
Agricultural or Herding • Archaeological Feature • Canal or Canal Feature • Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex • Domestic Structures • Pit • Pit House / Earth Lodge • Post Hole / Post Mold • Resource Extraction / Production / Transportation Structure or Features • Roasting Pit / Oven / Horno

Investigation Types
Archaeological Overview • Data Recovery / Excavation • Historic Background Research • Records Search / Inventory Checking • Research Design / Data Recovery Plan • Site Evaluation / Testing

General
Artifact Analysis • Faunal Remains • Geoarchaeological Analysis • Pollen Analysis

Geographic Keywords
Arizona (State / Territory) • Marana, AZ • Pima (County) • Santa Cruz River • Sonoran Desert • Tucson Basin

Temporal Keywords
Canada del Oro • Cienega phase • Classic Period • Colonial Period • Early Ceramic • Estrella Phase • Formative Period • Gila Phase • Late Colonial Period • Pioneer Period • Rillito Phase • Rincon Phase • Sacaton • San Pedro phase • Sedentary Period • Tanque Verde Phase • Tortolita Phase • Tucson Phase • Vahki Phase

Spatial Coverage

min long: -111.248; min lat: 32.389 ; max long: -111.126; max lat: 32.512 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): SWCA Environmental Consultants

Contributor(s): Regina Chapin-Pyritz; Michael Dichl; Linda Gregonis; Richard G. Holloway

Field Director(s): Jerome S. Hesse; Annick Lascaux; David Sayre

Prepared By(s): SWCA Environmental Consultants

Submitted To(s): Arizona Pavilions Development, Inc.

Record Identifiers

SWCA Project No.(s): 5561-022; 5677-022; 5953-011

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