Testing and Data Recovery at the Nance Site (AZ U:9:276[ASM]), Mesa, Maricopa County, Arizona

Author(s): Bruce G. Phillips

Year: 2007

Summary

The Nance Site was a seasonally occupied field house site located in the interior of the Salt River floodplain. Current evidence indicates that the site was sporadically occupied in the late Pioneer through the middle Classic periods. Stratigraphic evidence suggests a human presence in the general vicinity of the site during the Early Agricultural/Early Ceramic Periods; a single thermal pit (Feature 19) was found 1.4 m below the surface.

The economic activities of the Hohokam inhabitants focused on subsistence activities. The ubiquitous presence of maize, cotton, and squash pollen, and charred maize remains demonstrated that agriculture was practiced throughout the occupation. A variety of small, wild seeds (such as Cheno-Ams, grasses, and milkvetch) also were exploited. A diverse botanical assemblages indicates that people visited the site throughout the growing season and possible throughout the year. The near absence of faunal remains and low abundance of botanical remains, however, suggest that visits were short. Radiocarbon dates indicate that the majority of features (thermal and non-thermal pits) were used in the pre-Classic Period. A single field house was constructed in the early to middle Classic Period. The Nance Site is an example of the dispersed nature of cultural remains on the Salt River floodplain. Clusters of features (such as the Eastern Locus of the Nance Site) might have been established on high spots on the landscape. The inhabitants of the Nance Site likely were members of irrigation communities, groups sharing a common canal network.

Cite this Record

Testing and Data Recovery at the Nance Site (AZ U:9:276[ASM]), Mesa, Maricopa County, Arizona. Bruce G. Phillips. 2007 ( tDAR id: 475349) ; doi:10.48512/XCV8475349

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Keywords

Culture
Archaic • Historic • Hohokam • PaleoIndian

Material
Ceramic • Chipped Stone • Dating Sample • Fauna • Fire Cracked Rock • Ground Stone • Macrobotanical • Pollen • Shell

Site Name
AZ U:9:268 (ASM) • AZ U:9:276 (ASM)

Site Type
Canal or Canal Feature • Historic Structure • Pit • Pit House / Earth Lodge • Roasting Pit / Oven / Horno

Investigation Types
Data Recovery / Excavation • Ground Disturbance Monitoring

General
Canal Crismon • Canal Muertos • Chronology • Chronostratigraphy • Cultigens • Ecology • Ethnobotany • geomorphology • Huhugam Irrigation Communities • Lehi Terrace • Paleoenvironmental Parameters • radiocarbon evidence • Taphonomy

Geographic Keywords
Maricopa (County) • Mesa

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): Daniel Garcia; Jeffrey L. Baker; Daniel Sorrell; Claire E. Turhune

Prepared By(s): EcoPlan Associates, Inc.

Submitted To(s): Arizona Department of Transportation, Environmental Planning Group

Record Identifiers

EcoPlan Project No.(s): 04-712:47-Nance

EcoPlan Report Number:(s): 04-712047

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Contact(s): Daniel Sorrell; Daniel Garcia