Times of Transition: Excavations at the Pima Animal Care Center, Tucson, Pima County, Arizona

Editor(s): Michael W. Lindeman

Year: 2018

Summary

Excavations at the Pima Animal Care Center (PACC) revealed a unique portion of the prehistoric Hohokam landscape. Uncovered were the vestiges of a settlement that was occupied for two short periods at the beginning and the end of the Hohokam pre-Classic. Both periods of occupation occurred during times of transition in the prehistoric Tucson Basin. The Tortolita phase occupation corresponds with the founding of villages and the transition to Hohokam lifeways throughout southern and central Arizona. The Late Rincon-Tanque Verde phase occupation occurred during the transition between the Hohokam pre-Classic and the Classic period, spanning the time between the abandonment of pre-Classic villages and the advent of Classic period villages centered on platform mounds. Occupation during the intervening time was absent, although it is argued that the area was not abandoned during this period, but rather, remained an integral part of the Hohokam landscape.

Data recovery and archaeological monitoring during the current project resulted in the identification of 281 archaeological features at AZ AA:12:46(ASM) and 15 features at AZ AA:12:980 (ASM). All water-control features were included in AZ AA:12:980(ASM), with all other feature types assigned to AZ AA:12:46(ASM). The features and the artifacts that filled them provide a unique opportunity to examine the social and economic context of the Hohokam landscape during times of transition.

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Times of Transition: Excavations at the Pima Animal Care Center, Tucson, Pima County, Arizona, 07. Michael W. Lindeman. 2018 ( tDAR id: 448385) ; doi:10.48512/XCV8448385

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Keywords

Culture
Hohokam • Huhugam

Material
Building Materials • Ceramic • Charcoal • Charcoal Flecking • Chipped Stone • Dating Sample • Fauna • Fire Cracked Rock • Ground Stone • Human Remains • Macrobotanical • Pollen • Schist • Scraper • Shell

Site Name
AZ AA:12:46 (ASM) • AZ AA:12:980 (ASM)

Site Type
Agricultural or Herding • Animal Burial • Archaeological Feature • Bone Scatter • Canal or Canal Feature • Channel • Cremation • Crematorium • Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex • Domestic Structures • Funerary and Burial Structures or Features • Hearth • Outhouse Pit • Pit • Pit House / Earth Lodge • Post Hole / Post Mold • Reservoir • Resource Extraction / Production / Transportation Structure or Features • Roasting Pit / Oven / Horno • Settling Basin • Thermal Pit • Wall

Investigation Types
Archaeological Overview • Data Recovery / Excavation • Geophysical Survey • Records Search / Inventory Checking

General
Artifact Analysis • Ceramic Analysis • Macrobotanical Analysis • Pollen Analysis • Sediment Analysis • Vertebrate Faunal Analysis

Geographic Keywords
Pima (County) • Tucson, AZ • Tucson Basin

Temporal Keywords
Classic Period • Colonial Period • Early Agricultural period • Historic Period • Late Rincon Phase • Snaketown Phase • Tanque Verde Phase • Tortolita Phase • Tucson Phase

Spatial Coverage

min long: -111.049; min lat: 32.271 ; max long: -111.017; max lat: 32.297 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): Desert Archaeology, Inc.

Contributor(s): Jenny L. Adams; Michael W. Diehl; James Heidke; Gary A. Huckleberry; Michael W. Lindeman; John A. McClelland; Mary F. Ownby; Manuel Palacios-Fest; R. Jane Sliva; Deborah L. Swartz; J. Homer Thiel; James M. Vint; Christine H. Virden-Lange; Jennifer A. Waters

Field Director(s): Deborah L. Swartz; Greg Whitney

Principal Investigator(s): Bill Doelle

Project Director(s): Patricia Castalia

Prepared By(s): Desert Archaeology, Inc.

Submitted To(s): Pima County Cultural Resources & Historic Preservation

Record Identifiers

Arizona Antiquities Act Project Specific Permit No.(s): 2016-72ps

Project No.(s): PACC 16-108

Accession No.(s): 2016-93

Pima County Contract No. (s): CT 16-221

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