Archaeological Investigations at Nine Sites in the Madera Highlands Development, Pima County, Arizona

Author(s): Jerry D. Lyon

Year: 2005

Summary

Between March 27 and June 1, 2001, SWCA Environmental Consultants conducted archaeological investigations at nine archaeological sites on the 920-acre Madera Highlands property owned by Harvard Investments. The property encompasses lower bajada ridges and upper river terraces on the east side of the Santa Cruz River near the towns of Continental and Green Valley, Pima County, Arizona.

The SWCA's excavations at Madera Highlands involved testing and data recovery at nine ridgetop sites in the Continental Group. The sites were situated strategically below wild bajada and mountain resources, overlooking arable alluvial fans where washes disgorge from the bajada, and a short distance from irrigable bottom land. Architectural remains at eight small sites represented five or fewer pit houses, but multiple courtyard groups were identified at one large site. The sites were occupied during the Rincon-Tanque Verde transition.

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Archaeological Investigations at Nine Sites in the Madera Highlands Development, Pima County, Arizona, 240. Jerry D. Lyon. 2005 ( tDAR id: 442492) ; doi:10.48512/XCV8442492

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Keywords

Culture
DRAGOON • Historic • Hohokam • Huhugam • Mogollon

Material
Altar Polychrome • Animal Bone • Awl • Babocomari Bichrome • Black-on-white • Buffware • Ceramic • Cerros Red-on-White • Chipped Stone • Chopper • Core • Daub • Encinas Red-on-Brown • Fauna • Galiuro Red-on-Brown • Ground Stone • Hammerstone • Handstone • Lapstone • Mano • metate • Micaceous plainware • Mineral • Netherstone • Nogales Polychrome • Paloparado Plainware • Pestle • Pink-on-Brown • Pink-on-Red • Plainware • Pollen • Projectile Point • Ramanote Red-on-brow • Red-on-Brown • Red-on-Buff • Rio Rico Polychrome • Scraper • Shell • Tabular Tool • Trincheras Purple-on-Brown • Trincheras Purple-on-Red • Wingfield Plainware Show More

Site Name
AZ EE:1:275 (ASM) • AZ EE:1:276 (ASM) • AZ EE:1:279 (ASM) • AZ EE:1:280 (ASM) • AZ EE:1:281 (ASM) • AZ EE:1:282 (ASM) • AZ EE:1:283 (ASM) • AZ EE:1:286 (ASM) • AZ EE:1:287 (ASM)

Site Type
Archaeological Feature • Cemetery • Cremation • Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex • Domestic Structures • Funerary and Burial Structures or Features • Hearth • Inhumation • Isolated Burial • Midden • Pit • Pit House / Earth Lodge • Post Hole / Post Mold • Roasting Pit / Oven / Horno • Rock Alignment • Shade Structure / Ramada • Storage Pit • Trash Midden

Investigation Types
Archaeological Overview • Data Recovery / Excavation • Historic Background Research • Reconnaissance / Survey • Records Search / Inventory Checking • Research Design / Data Recovery Plan

General
Archaeofaunal Analysis • Flake Stone Analytic Methods • Flotation Analysis • Ground Stone Analysis • Pollen Analysis

Geographic Keywords
Arizona (State / Territory) • Continental, AZ • Green Valley, AZ • Interstitial Zone D • Pima (County) • Santa Cruz River • Sonoran Desert • Upland Sonoran Subdivision

Temporal Keywords
Cañada del Oro Phase • Classic Period • Colonial Period • Cortaro Phase • Gila Butte Phase • Pioneer Period • Preclassic Period • Proto-Historic • Rillito Phase • Rincon Phase • Sacaton Phase • Santa Cruz Phase • Sedentary Period • Tanque Verde Phase

Spatial Coverage

min long: -110.976; min lat: 31.757 ; max long: -110.751; max lat: 31.958 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): SWCA Environmental Consultants

Contributor(s): Jenna Bray; Linda Gregonis; Jerry D. Lyon; Regina Chapin-Pyritz; Richard Holloway; Shannon Twilling; Victoria Evans; Joseph Howell; Gavin Archer

Prepared By(s): SWCA Environmental Consultants

Submitted To(s): Harvard Investments, Inc.

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