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The monitoring involved three discrete areas of excavation within the boundaries of Pueblo Salado. First, a vault was excavated via backhoe to install a new manhole, and then two trenches were hand-excavated to install fiber optic lines. The monitoring was conducted by ACS archaeologist Christina Carpenter. The work took place over five discontinuous night shifts between May 16 and June 13, 2005. In total, five person-days were expended in the field. No cultural resources were encountered. Recommendations: ACS’ cultural resources monitoring of the installation of a new manhole and associated duct banks at Sky Harbor International Airport within the boundaries of Pueblo Salado encountered no prehistoric or historic cultural resources. The fieldwork revealed that, because of previous construction and buried utilities in the current project area, the subsurface deposits were extremely disturbed to a depth of approximately 2.5 m. Below this disturbed layer were natural river deposits consisting of loose, sorted rocks of various sizes followed by loose sand. The natural stratigraphy appears to correspond to Strata 3C and 3E, cobble-and-point-bar deposits identified in the ACS center runway excavations underlying the cultural material (Aguila et al. 2005; Boston et al. 2001, 2003). If so, this would indicate that at least in the current project area, all culturalbearing deposits overlying these layers have been removed by construction or natural floodplain processes; therefore, no further archaeological work is necessary for this project. No prehistoric or historic cultural remains were encountered, and no historic properties were affected by this undertaking. |
