The Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community Class III Cultural Resources Survey, Maricopa County, Arizona

Author(s): Deni J. Seymour

Year: 1991

Summary

Between March 11 and 21, 1991, SWCA, Inc., Environmental Consultants conducted a cultural resources survey of approximately 2,300 acres of Pima -Maricopa Indian Community Lands in Maricopa County, Arizona. The survey was conducted in order to locate and describe cultural remains within the project area that might be adversely affected by proposed development of the area in conjunction with the Central Arizona Project, Water Distribution Facilities.

A total of 20 sites (AZ U:5:41 through AZ U:5:60 [ASM]) and 25 Isolated Occurrences was recorded. All sites but three are prehistoric Hohokam sites; one of the exceptions (AZ U:5:55 [ASM]) may be an Archaic site. The cultural and temporal affiliation of the other two sites (AZ U:5:44 [ASM] and AZ U:5:59 [ASM]) is unknown, but they are similar to other Hohokam sites in the project area. Three classes of sites have been distinguished including limited activity sites, multiple activity sites (field houses), and small habitation sites (farmsteads). Eighteen of the twenty sites (excluding AZ U:5:41 [ASM] and AZ U:5:52 [ASM]) are potentially eligible for the National Register of Historic Places under Criterion D for their potential to yield information important for understanding the past. It is recommended that these sites be avoided. If avoidance is not possible, it is recommended that a testing program be initiated to ascertain which sites have subsurface deposits, to examine the nature and extent of these deposits, and to evaluate their eligibility to the National Register of Historic Places.

Cite this Record

The Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community Class III Cultural Resources Survey, Maricopa County, Arizona, 27. Deni J. Seymour. SWCA Archaeological Report ,91. Tucson, AZ: SWCA Environmental Consultants. 1991 ( tDAR id: 77222) ; doi:10.6067/XCV88W3G5B

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Keywords

Culture
Archaic • Hohokam

Material
Andesite • Basalt • Black-on-Whiteware • Buffware • Ceramic • Chert • Chipped Stone • Decorated Ware • Fire Cracked Rock • Gila Plainware • Gila Redware • Ground Stone • Mineral • Plainware • Polychrome Ware • Pumice • Quartz • Quartzite • Red-on-Buffware • Redware • Rhyolite • Salt Plainware • Santa Cruz Red-on-Buffware • Schist • Slate • Tonto Polychrome Ware • Tularosa Black-on-Whiteware • Vesicular Basalt • Whiteware • Wingfield Plainware Show More

Site Name
AZ U:5:41 (ASM) • AZ U:5:42 (ASM) • AZ U:5:43 (ASM) • AZ U:5:44 (ASM) • AZ U:5:45 (ASM) • AZ U:5:46 (ASM) • AZ U:5:47 (ASM) • AZ U:5:48 (ASM) • AZ U:5:49 (ASM) • AZ U:5:50 (ASM) • AZ U:5:51 (ASM) • AZ U:5:52 (ASM) • AZ U:5:53 (ASM) • AZ U:5:54 (ASM) • AZ U:5:55 (ASM) • AZ U:5:56 (ASM) • AZ U:5:57 (ASM) • AZ U:5:58 (ASM) • AZ U:5:59 (ASM) • AZ U:5:60 (ASM)

Site Type
Ancient Structure • Archaeological Feature • Artifact Scatter • Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex • Farmstead • Field House • Fire Pit • Habitation Site • Isolated Artifact • Lithic Scatter • Midden • Pit • Potbreak • Roasting Pit • Roasting Pit / Oven / Horno • Sherd Scatter • Structure • Trash Area

Investigation Types
Site Evaluation / Testing

General
Andesite Flake • Axe • Basalt Axe • Basalt Core • Basalt Flake • Basalt Knife • Basalt Projectile Point • Bowl • Buffware Bowl • Buffware Jar • Buffware Vessel • Can • Central Arizona Project • Chert Flake • Chert Scraper • Core • Evaporative Milk Can • Flake • Grinding Slab • Hammerstone • Jar • Knife • Mano • Metate • Milk Can • Pecked Stone • Plainware Jar • Projectile Point • Pumice Piece • Quartzite Core • Quartzite Mano • Rhyolite Core • Rhyolite Grinding Slab • Schist Flake • Scraper • Slate Knife • SWCA Salt-Pima Survey • Tabular Knife • Trough Metate • Vessel Show More

Geographic Keywords
04013 (Fips Code) • Arizona (State / Territory) • Lower Sonoran Desert • Maricopa (County) • McDowell Mountains • Paradise Valley • Salt River • Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community • Scottsdale, AZ • Sonoran Desert

Temporal Keywords
Classic Period • Early Classic Period • Late Classic Period • Preclassic Period • Prehistoric • Santa Cruz Phase

Temporal Coverage

Calendar Date: 700 to 1400 (Date range of the majority of described sites within the project area.)

Spatial Coverage

min long: -111.874; min lat: 33.526 ; max long: -111.787; max lat: 33.562 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

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

Contributor(s): D. Seymour; D. Doak

Prepared By(s): SWCA Environmental Consultants

Submitted To(s): Bureau of Reclamation

Record Identifiers

BOR Delivery Order No.(s): 1-PD-32-00600-001

BOR Contract No.(s): 9-CS-32-00600

NADB Citation ID No.(s): 000000167963

NADB Document ID No.(s): 2203861

Notes

General Note: The copy of this document from which the NADB citation was made is located at the Bureau of Reclamation, Box 25007, Denver CO 80255.

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