A Summary of the Archaeological Excavations at the Mesa Riverview Development, Mesa, Maricopa County, Arizona

Summary

This report presents a summary of the archaeological excavations conducted by SWCA at the Mesa Riverview development project. Archaeological investigations were conducted in the area by the Mesa Southwest Museum in compliance with City of Mesa guidelines on cultural resources. SWCA Environmental Consultants was requested by DERITO/KIMCO RIVERVIEW, LLC to assist the Museum with the excavation of features discovered during the test trenching that was done in this area in September 2005. The trenching and subsequent feature excavation were conducted under the overall direction of Jerry Howard, Curator of Anthropology at the Mesa Southwest Museum, who is serving as the project Principal Investigator. During both the testing and subsequent data recovery, SWCA’s team included Douglas R. Mitchell as the project manager, Dr. John Lindly as the senior archaeologist, Ron Ryden as field director, and Jennifer Butts, Sylvia Kadlubowski, Sam Taylor, Jim Shrieve, and Chris Rayle as archaeological technicians. Chris North collected GPS data during the fieldwork with a Trimble GeoXT unit and Chris Query produced the project maps. The data recovery fieldwork was conducted in October, 2005.

The project area lies near several large Hohokam canals and sites AZ U:9:135 (ASM) and AZ U:9:136 (ASM). AZ U:9:135 (ASM) consists of four canals and a small field camp and AZ U:9:136 (ASM) was a cluster of canals and several pits. In the Riverview area SWCA documented twenty features including one pithouse, 11 pits, 6 canal segments, one historic ditch and one cremation during the test trenching. Jerry Howard, of the Mesa Southwest Museum, recommended that a sample of the features be excavated prior to development. This report provides a summary of the feature excavations.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SWCA DAHA Resources   •
• Digital Archive of Huhugam Archaeology (DAHA)

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Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): SWCA Environmental Consultants

Contributor(s): John Lindly; Jennifer Butts; Sylvia Kadlubowski; Sam Taylor; Jim Shrieve; Chris Rayle; Chris North; Chris Query

Field Director(s): Ron Ryden

Principal Investigator(s): Jerry Howard

Project Director(s): Douglas R. Mitchell

Repository(s): Mesa Southwest Museum

Prepared By(s): SWCA Environmental Consultants

Submitted To(s): City of Mesa; Derito/Kimco Riverview L.L.C.

Record Identifiers

SWCA Project No.(s): 10237-031

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