Archeological Investigations Along the Salt-Gila Aqueduct

Author(s): Pat H. Stein

Year: 1979

Summary

In 1978, the Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) directed the Museum of Northern Arizona (MNA) to complete an intensive archaeological survey of the proposed alignment for the Salt-Gila Aqueduct, a feature of the Central Arizona Project. The survey area was 11,115 acres and included the 60 mile-long transmission line (with a typical width of 200 meters), three proposed utility line locations, one flood retention dike location, 11 possible spoil or realignment areas, and a subsidence well. Seventy archaeological sites were recorded during this survey. Following pedestrian survey, the MNA also conducted archaeological testing at selected sites to evaluate their eligibility for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places.

The survey had two general goals: 1) to assess the significance of archaeological resources in the project area and to recommend ways of mitigating adverse impacts to them which might result from construction and 2) to generate and synthesize data that would significantly enhance scientific knowledge about the project area, specifically about the use of the area through time.

This report addresses the second goal and synthesizes the survey data providing models of aboriginal utilization of riverine and nonriverine resource zones in the study area. The mitigation report that addresses the first goal can be found at tDAR ID 53593.

Cite this Record

Archeological Investigations Along the Salt-Gila Aqueduct. Pat H. Stein. Flagstaff, AZ: Museum of Northern Arizona. 1979 ( tDAR id: 53594) ; doi:10.6067/XCV83N257S

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Keywords

Culture
Anglo • Archaic • Cochise • Euroamerican • Historic • Hohokam • Mexican-American • Pima • Yuman

Material
Adobe • Andesite • Barbed Wire • Basalt • Bone • Brass • Buffware • Building Materials • Casa Grande Red-on-Buffware • Ceramic • Chalcedony • Chipped Stone • Cobble • Cruciferae • Euphorbia sp. • Fire Cracked Rock • Gila Butte Red-on-Buffware • Gila Plainware • Gila Plainware, Gila Variety • Gila Plainware, Salt Variety • Gila Polychrome Ware • Gila Redware • Glass • Granite • Ground Stone • Human Remains • Jasper • Lower Colorado Buffware • Macrobotanical • Metal • Mica • Micaceous Quartz • Mineral • Obsidian • Plainware • Plantago sp. • Polychrome Ware • Purple Glass • Quartz • Red-on-Buffware • Redware • Rhyolite • Sacaton Red-on-Buffware • Salt Redware • Sandstone • Santa Cruz Red-on-Buffware • Schist • Shell • Slate • Socorro Whiteware • Tonto Polychrome Ware • Vesicular Basalt • Whiteware • Wingfield Plainware • Wood • Zea sp. Show More

Site Name
AZ:U:15:28 (MNA) • AZ AA:3:10 (ASM) • AZ AA:3:10 (MNA) • AZ AA:3:2 (MNA) • AZ AA:3:3 (MNA) • AZ AA:3:4 (MNA) • AZ AA:3:5 (MNA) • AZ AA:3:6 (MNA) • AZ AA:3:7 (MNA) • AZ AA:3:8 (MNA) • AZ AA:3:9 (MNA) • AZ U:10:1 (MNA) • AZ U:10:10 (ASM) • AZ U:10:10 (MNA) • AZ U:10:11 (MNA) • AZ U:10:12 (MNA) • AZ U:10:13 (MNA) • AZ U:10:14 (MNA) • AZ U:10:15 (MNA) • AZ U:10:16 (MNA) • AZ U:10:17 (MNA) • AZ U:10:18 (MNA) • AZ U:10:2 (MNA) • AZ U:10:3 (ASM) • AZ U:10:3 (MNA) • AZ U:10:4 (MNA) • AZ U:10:5 (MNA) • AZ U:10:51 (ASM) • AZ U:10:52 (ASU) • AZ U:10:6 (ASM) • AZ U:10:6 (MNA) • AZ U:10:7 (MNA) • AZ U:10:8 (ASM) • AZ U:10:8 (MNA) • AZ U:10:9 (ASM) • AZ U:10:9 (MNA) • AZ U:14:2 (MNA) • AZ U:14:3 (ASU) • AZ U:14:30 (ASU) • AZ U:14:31 (ASU) • AZ U:14:44 (ASM) • AZ U:15:10 (ASU) • AZ U:15:10 (MNA) • AZ U:15:11 (ASM) • AZ U:15:11 (ASU) • AZ U:15:11 (MNA) • AZ U:15:12 (MNA) • AZ U:15:13 (ASM) • AZ U:15:13 (MNA) • AZ U:15:14 (ASM) • AZ U:15:14 (MNA) • AZ U:15:15 (ASM) • AZ U:15:15 (MNA) • AZ U:15:16 (MNA) • AZ U:15:17 (ASM) • AZ U:15:17 (MNA) • AZ U:15:18 (MNA) • AZ U:15:19 (ASM) • AZ U:15:19 (MNA) • AZ U:15:2 (MNA) • AZ U:15:20 (MNA) • AZ U:15:21 (MNA) • AZ U:15:22 (MNA) • AZ U:15:23 (MNA) • AZ U:15:24 (MNA) • AZ U:15:25 (MNA) • AZ U:15:26 (MNA) • AZ U:15:27 (ASU) • AZ U:15:27 (MNA) • AZ U:15:28 (ASU) • AZ U:15:29 (ASU) • AZ U:15:29 (MNA) • AZ U:15:3 (MNA) • AZ U:15:30 (ASU) • AZ U:15:30 (MNA) • AZ U:15:31 (MNA) • AZ U:15:32 (MNA) • AZ U:15:33 (MNA) • AZ U:15:34 (MNA) • AZ U:15:35 (MNA) • AZ U:15:36 (MNA) • AZ U:15:37 (MNA) • AZ U:15:38 (MNA) • AZ U:15:39 (MNA) • AZ U:15:4 (MNA) • AZ U:15:40 (MNA) • AZ U:15:41 (MNA) • AZ U:15:42 (ASU) • AZ U:15:43 (MNA) • AZ U:15:46 (ASM) • AZ U:15:47 (ASM) • AZ U:15:48 (ASU) • AZ U:15:5 (MNA) • AZ U:15:6 (MNA) • AZ U:15:7 (ASU) • AZ U:15:7 (MNA) • AZ U:15:8 (MNA) • AZ U:15:9 (MNA) • AZ U:6:61 (ASU) • Florence 8:2 • Florence Archeological District • Florence Cemetery • Los Canales • Los Canales Ruin • Mesquite Flats • NA15,610 • NA15,611 • NA15,612 • NA15,613 • NA15,614 • NA15,615 • NA15,616 • NA15,617 • NA15,618 • NA15,619 • NA15,620 • NA15,621 • NA15,622 • NA15,623 • NA15,624 • NA15,625 • NA15,626 • NA15,627 • NA15,628 • NA15,629 • NA15,630 • NA15,631 • NA15,632 • NA15,633 • NA15,634 • NA15,635 • NA15,636 • NA15,637 • NA15,638 • NA15,639 • NA15,640 • NA15,641 • NA15,642 • NA15,643 • NA15,644 • NA15,645 • NA15,646 • NA15,647 • NA15,648 • NA15,649 • NA15,650 • NA15,651 • NA15,652 • NA15,653 • NA15,654 • NA15,655 • NA15,656 • NA15,657 • NA15,658 • NA15,659 • NA15,660 • NA15,661 • NA15,662 • NA15,663 • NA15,664 • NA 15,665 • NA15,666 • NA15,667 • NA15,668 • NA15,669 • NA15,670 • NA15,671 • NA15,672 • NA15,728 • NA15,756 • NA15,771 • NA15,772 • NA15,773 • NA15,774 • NA15,775 • Queen Creek Archaeological District Show More

Site Type
Adobe Foundation • Adobe Pueblo • Agricultural Field or Field Feature • Agricultural or Herding • Air Force Base • Archaeological Feature • Artifact Scatter • Ball Court • Barbed Wire Fence • Brick Foundation • Camp • Canal • Canal or Canal Feature • Cemetery • Chicken Coop Foundation • Cobble Platform Mound • Cobble Room • Cobble Structure • Concrete Trough • Cremation • Cremation Area • Depression • Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex • Domestic Structures • Encampment • Fence • Field • Foundation • Funerary and Burial Structures or Features • Gravestone • Hearth • House Foundation • Imhoff Tank • Isolated Artifact • Lithic Scatter • Midden • Military Base • Military Structure • Non-Domestic Structures • Outbuilding • Oval Depression • Oven • Petroglyph • Pit • Pithouse • Pit House / Earth Lodge • Plant Processing Station • Platform Mound • Pueblo • Rectangular Depression • Reservoir • Resource Extraction / Production / Transportation Structure or Features • Roasting Pit • Roasting Pit / Oven / Horno • Rock Alignment • Rock Art • Rock Pile • Rock Ring • Room • Room Block / Compound / Pueblo • Settlements • Sheet Midden • Sherd Scatter • Sleeping Circle • Square Foundation • Structure • Tombstone • Trash Area • Trash Midden • Trash Mound • Trough Show More

Investigation Types
Archaeological Overview

General
Andesite Flake • Andesite Scraper • Andesite Tool • Axe • Basalt Core • Basalt Debitage • Basalt Flake • Basalt Graver • Basalt Hammerstone • Basalt Mano • Basalt Metate • Basalt Tool • Bifacial Chopper • Blade • Bone (Human) • Bowl • Brass Window Wedge • Burin • Central Arizona Project • Ceramic Pipe • Chert Projectile Point • Chert Scraper • Chopper • Comales • Conduit Pipe • Core • Cross • Cupule (Zea sp.) • Debitage • Dicotyledon • Flake • Flotation Sample • Glass Bottle • Granite Hoe • Granite Mano • Graver • Hammerstone • Hoe • Jar • Jasper Flake • Kernel (Zea sp.) • Knife • Magma Railroad • Magnetometry • Mano • Metate • Nail • One-Handed Mano • Pipe • Pot • Pounder • Projectile Point • Quartz Debitage • Quartz Flake • Redware Bowl • Rhyolite Core • Rhyolite Debitage • Rhyolite Flake • Rhyolite Scraper Plane • Rhyolite Tool • Salt-Gila Aqueduct • Sandstone Metate • Schist Blade • Scraper • Scraper Plane • Skull (Human) • Slab Metate • Slate Knife • Tool • Trough Metate • Vessel • Wedge • Wooden Cross Show More

Geographic Keywords
04999 (Fips Code) • Apache Junction, AZ • Arizona (State / Territory) • Coolidge-Florence Municipal Airport • Florence, AZ • Florence Archeological District • Florence - Casa Grande Canal • Florence Retarding Dam • Gila River • Granite Reef Dam • Picacho Mountain • Picacho Reservoir • Power Line Retarding Dam • Queen Creek • Queen Creek Archeological District • Queen Creek Basin • Rittenhouse Air Force Auxiliary Field • Salt River • Sonoran Desert • Superstition Mountains • Tonto National Forest • Vineyard Road Retarding Dam • Weekes Wash

Temporal Keywords
1880s • 1890s • 1900s • 1910s • 1920s • 1930s • 1940s • 1950s • 1960s • 1970s • 19th Century • 20th Century • Civano Phase • Classic Period • Colonial Period • Gila Butte Phase • Historic • Prehistoric • Santa Cruz Phase • Sedentary Period • Soho Phase • World War II

Spatial Coverage

min long: -111.583; min lat: 32.868 ; max long: -111.289; max lat: 33.548 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): USDI Bureau of Reclamation, Phoenix Area Office

Contributor(s): A. E. Rogge; Thomas Barrs; Thomas Caldwell; Joan DeCosta; Stanley Granger; Kerry Jablonski; Robert Jablonski; Michael Miklochik; Scott Sargeant; Clarence Vynalek; Marla Yablon; Mark Keane; Ronald Yablon; David Greenwald; Cynthia Appel; Karen Chartier; Lonnie Viklund; Paul Fish, Dr.; William Doelle; Robert Nickel; Melvin Persons; Paul R. Fish

Landowner(s): Private Owner; Bureau of Reclamation; State of Arizona; U. S. Air Force; City of Florence; City of Coolidge; Coolidge-Florence Municipal Airport; Bureau of Land Management

Sponsor(s): United States Bureau of Reclamation, USDI

Repository(s): Huhugam Heritage Center

Record Identifiers

Bureau of Land Management Permit No.(s): PD-18

Department of the Interior Antiquities Act Permit No.(s): 75-AZ-102

NADB Citation ID No.(s): 000000168025

Contract or Grant No.(s): 8-07-32-V0043

Arizona State Museum Permit No.(s): 78-01

NADB Document ID No.(s): 2203923

Report No.(s): DI-BR-APO-CCRS79-3, A-77-126

Notes

General Note: The copy of this document from which the NADB record was made can be found at Bureau of Reclamation, Box 25007, Denver CO 80255.

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