The Eastern Mining Area 115 KV Transmission Line Survey: Archaeological Resources in the Salt-Gila Uplands of Central Arizona

Author(s): Thomas N. Motsinger; Heidi Roberts; Richard V. N. Ahlstrom

Year: 1996

Summary

SWCA, Inc., Environmental Consultants (SWCA), of Tucson, Arizona, conducted the Eastern Mining Area (EMA) survey project under contract to Salt River Project (SRP) between October, 1993, and February, 1994. One central purpose of the project was to create an inventory of archaeological resources to assist in the planning of future improvements and other modifications to existing SRP transmission lines. The project included 107 person-field days of Class III archaeological survey along approximately 257 linear miles of existing 115 kV transmission lines and 92 linear miles of existing and proposed access roads in Pinal and Gila counties, Arizona.

The initial field survey was conducted between November 1 and December 10, 1993, and subsequent reconnaissance visits were made through March 1996 to address particular issues. The survey resulted in the recording of 81 new archaeological sites and the reevaluation of 40 previously recorded sites. The 121 sites within the transmission line rights-of-way include Archaic lithic scatters and possible Archaic roasting pits; Hohokam and Salado field houses, farmsteads, hamlets, villages, compound pueblos, rockshelters, agricultural sites, canals, ambiguous sherd and lithic scatters, and resource procurement and processing sites; Yavapai and Apache wickiup encampments; and historic Euroamerican townsites, habitations, dumps, trash scatters, and rockshelter encampments.

A second purpose of the project was to assess the cultural context of the sites by conducting an exhaustive review of the existing records on archaeological sites and survey projects within a two-milewide corridor centered on the targeted transmission lines. This archival component resulted in the documentation of over 100 previous survey projects and over 850 archaeological sites distributed along this corridor.

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The Eastern Mining Area 115 KV Transmission Line Survey: Archaeological Resources in the Salt-Gila Uplands of Central Arizona, 43. Thomas N. Motsinger, Heidi Roberts, Richard V. N. Ahlstrom. 1996 ( tDAR id: 446157) ; doi:10.48512/XCV8446157

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Keywords

Culture
Apache • Archaic • Euroamerican • Historic • Hohokam • Huhugam • Late Archaic • Salado

Material
Basalt • Black-on-white • Buffware • Ceramic • Chipped Stone • Chopper • Cibola Whiteware • Cobble • Core • Glass • Grinding Slab • Ground Stone • Hammerstone • Handstone • Mano • Metal • metate • Plainware • Projectile Point • Quartzite • Redware • Rhyolite • Scraper • Textile

Site Name
AZ U:11:65 (ASM) • AZ U:11:66 (ASM) • AZ U:11:67 (ASM) • AZ U:11:68 (ASM) • AZ U:12:74 (ASM) • AZ U:12:75 (ASM) • AZ U:12:76 (ASM) • AZ U:12:77 (ASM) • AZ U:12:78 (ASM) • AZ U:12:79 (ASM) • AZ U:12:80 (ASM) • AZ U:12:81 (ASM) • AZ U:12:82 (ASM) • AZ U:12:83 (ASM) • AZ U:12:84 (ASM) • AZ U:12:85 (ASM) • AZ U:12:86 (ASM) • AZ U:14:112 (ASM) • AZ U:14:113 (ASM) • AZ U:15:237 (ASM) • AZ U:15:238 (ASM) • AZ U:15:239 (ASM) • AZ U:15:240 (ASM) • AZ U:15:241 (ASM) • AZ U:15:242 (ASM) • AZ U:15:243 (ASM) • AZ U:15:244 (ASM) • AZ U:15:245 (ASM) • AZ U:15:246 (ASM) • AZ U:16:248 (ASM) • AZ U:16:249 (ASM) • AZ U:16:250 (ASM) • AZ U:16:251 (ASM) • AZ U:16:252 (ASM) • AZ U:7:26 (ASM) • AZ U:7:27 (ASM) • AZ U:7:28 (ASM) • AZ U:7:29 (ASM) • AZ U:7:30 (ASM) • AZ U:7:31 (ASM) • AZ U:7:32 (ASM) • AZ U:7:33 (ASM) • AZ U:7:34 (ASM) • AZ U:7:36 (ASM) • AZ U:7:40 (ASM) • AZ U:8:593 (ASM) • AZ U:8:594 (ASM) • AZ U:8:595 (ASM) • AZ V:13:144 (ASM) • AZ V:13:145 (ASM) • AZ V:13:146 (ASM) • AZ V:13:147 (ASM) • AZ V:13:148 (ASM) • AZ V:13:149 (ASM) • AZ V:13:150 (ASM) • AZ V:13:151 (ASM) • AZ V:13:152 (ASM) • AZ V:13:153 (ASM) • AZ V:13:154 (ASM) • AZ V:13:155 (ASM) • AZ V:13:156 (ASM) • AZ V:13:157 (ASM) • AZ V:13:158 (ASM) • AZ V:13:159 (ASM) • AZ V:13:160 (ASM) • AZ V:13:161 (ASM) • AZ V:13:162 (ASM) • AZ V:5:193 (ASM) • AZ V:5:194 (ASM) • AZ V:9:316 (ASM) • AZ V:9:317 (ASM) • AZ V:9:318 (ASM) • AZ V:9:319 (ASM) • AZ V:9:320 (ASM) • AZ V:9:321 (ASM) • AZ V:9:322 (ASM) • AZ V:9:323 (ASM) • AZ V:9:324 (ASM) • AZ V:9:325 (ASM) Show More

Site Type
Agricultural or Herding • Archaeological Feature • Artifact Scatter • Bedrock Mortar • Cairn • Campsite • Check Dam • Concrete Pad • Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex • Domestic Structures • Farmstead • Field House • Habitation Site • Hamlet / Village • Midden • Mine • Pit • Ranch • Resource Extraction / Production / Transportation Structure or Features • Road • Road, Trail, and Related Structures or Features • Roasting Pit / Oven / Horno • Rock Pile • Rock Shelter • Settlements • Telegraph Pole • Terrace • Terrace Garden • Town / City • Trail • Trash Scatter Show More

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

Geographic Keywords
Apache Junction, AZ • Arizona (State / Territory) • Arizona Upland Subdivision • Florence, AZ • Globe, AZ • Goldfield, AZ • Hayden, AZ • Horse Mesa Dam • Interstitial Zone C • Interstitial Zone E • Kearny, AZ • Lower Colorado River Subdivision • Mormon Flat Dam • Phoenix Basin • Sonoran Desert • Superior, AZ

Temporal Keywords
Civano Phase • Classic Period • Colonial Period • Gila Butte Phase • Gila Phase • Pioneer Period • Preceramic period • Preclassic Period • Roosevelt Phase • Sacaton Phase • Santa Cruz Phase • Sedentary Period • Soho Phase • Tanque Verde Phase

Spatial Coverage

min long: -111.559; min lat: 32.937 ; max long: -110.667; max lat: 33.601 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): SWCA Environmental Consultants

Contributor(s): Vern Hensler

Field Director(s): Thomas N, Motsinger

Principal Investigator(s): R. Thomas Euler

Project Director(s): R. Thomas Euler

Landowner(s): Tonto National Forest; U.S. Bureau of Land Management; U.S. Bureau of Reclamation; Arizona State Land Department; Gila River Indian Community of the Bureau of Indian Affairs; U.S. Department of Defense; National Park Service

Prepared By(s): SWCA Environmental Consultants

Submitted To(s): Salt River Project

Record Identifiers

Bureau of Land Management Permit No.(s): AZ-000001

Arizona State Museum Permit No. (s): 93-16

Gila River Indian Community Archaeological License No.(s): AL-02-94

Tonto National Forest Permit No.(s): 4306-02

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