A Cultural Resources Survey of the Bush Highway for the Bush Highway Overlay Project: Power Road to State Route 87

Author(s): Hoski Schaafsma; Diane Fenicle; Jill Heilman

Year: 2015

Summary

The Maricopa County Department of Transportation (MCDOT) is planning a pavement preservation project along the Bush Highway from Power Road to just south of State Route (SR) 87 (also known as the Beeline Highway), Maricopa County, Arizona (Figure 1). MCDOT tasked EcoPlan Associates, Inc. (EcoPlan) with cultural resource survey in advance of road improvement. The results of the survey are presented in this report.

Cite this Record

A Cultural Resources Survey of the Bush Highway for the Bush Highway Overlay Project: Power Road to State Route 87. Hoski Schaafsma, Diane Fenicle, Jill Heilman. 2015 ( tDAR id: 473019) ; doi:10.48512/XCV8473019

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Keywords

Culture
Archaic • Euroamerican • Historic • Historic Native American • Hohokam • PaleoIndian

Material
Building Materials • Ceramic • Chipped Stone • Fire Cracked Rock • Glass • Ground Stone • Human Remains • Metal

Site Name
AR-03-12-03-414 • AR-03-12-03-55 • AR-03-12-03-602 • AR-03-12-03-625 • AR-03-12-03-66 • AR-03-12-03-693 • AR-03-12-03-76 • AR-03-12-03-813 • AR-03-12-03-814 • AZ U:3:325 (ASM) • AZ U:6:23 (ASM) • AZ U:6:256 (ASM) • AZ U:6:257 (ASM) • AZ U:6:349 (ASM) • AZ U:6:35 (ASM) • AZ U:6:350 (ASM) • AZ U:6:351 (ASM) • AZ U:6:37 (ASM) • Bush Highway • Bush Highway Bridge Structure No. 09763 • Culvert Structure No. 07779

Site Type
Ancient Earthwork • Ancient Structure • Artifact Scatter • Canal or Canal Feature • Funerary and Burial Structures or Features • Historic Structure • Isolated Artifact • Midden • Mound / Earthwork • Pit House / Earth Lodge • Road • Rock Alignment

Investigation Types
Systematic Survey

Geographic Keywords
Gila County, AZ • Mesa Ranger District • Tonto National Forest

Temporal Keywords
Archaic • Civano Phase • Classic Period • Colonial Period • Estrella Phase • Ethnohistoric • Formative • Gila Butte Phase • Historic • Hohokam • PaleoIndian • Pioneer Period • Polvóron Phase • Red Mountain • Sacaton Phase • Santa Cruz Phase • Santan Phase • Sedentary Period • Snaketown Phase • Soho Phase • Sweetwater Phase • Vahki Phase

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): Daniel Garcia

Principal Investigator(s): J.Simon Bruder

Project Director(s): Hoski Schaafsma

Landowner(s): USFS, Tonto National Forest

Prepared By(s): EcoPlan Associates, Inc.

Submitted To(s): Maricopa County Department of Transportation (MCDOT)

Record Identifiers

MCDOT Project No.(s): TT348

EcoPlan Associates, Inc. Report No.(s): 14-508004

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Contact(s): Daniel Garcia