A San Pedro Phase Agricultural Field and Early Ceramic Period Occupations in the Middle Santa Cruz Valley, Southern Arizona: Investigations at the Stewart Brickyard and Rillito Loop Sites

Autor: Brin, Adam
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2013
Předmět:
Dating Sample
Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex
Artifact Scatter
Pima (County)
Petrographic Analysis
Stewart Brickyard site
Agricultural or Herding
Middle Santa Cruz River Valley
Agua Caliente phase
Radiocarbon Dating
Early Agricultural period
Archaeological Feature
planting bed
Canal or Canal Feature
Hohokam
AZ AA:12:486 (ASM)
Fauna
Interstate 10
Ground Stone
AZ AA:12:961 (ASM)
AZ AA:12:252 (ASM)
Southern Arizona
Pollen
Hearth
Rillito Loop
Site Evaluation / Testing
Pit House / Earth Lodge
Historic Pits
Fire Cracked Rock
Roasting Pit / Oven / Horno
Arizona (State / Territory)
Well
Domestic Structures
Tortolita Phase
Early Ceramic period
AZ AA:12:51 (ASM)
AZ AA:12:256 (ASM)
Trash Deposit
Cortaro Fan
Mid 20th Century
Resource Extraction / Production / Transportation Structure or Features
Chipped Stone
San Pedro phase
Macrobotanical
Ceramic
Research Design / Data Recovery Plan
Marana
AZ
Data Recovery / Excavation
Pit
Human Remains
DOI: 10.6067/xcv8428782
Popis: Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) proposed widening Interstate 10 (I-10) in northern Pima County, Arizona. Desert Archaeology, Inc., was contracted to mitigate the potential effects construction would have on significant cultural resources. A phased data recovery program was completed that addressed construction impacts at five archaeological sites along the l-10 corridor. Phase 1, exploratory trenching, tested for subsurface deposits at AZ AA:12:51 (ASM), AA:12:252 (ASM), AZ AA:12:486 (ASM), and AZ AA:12:256 (ASM). Cultural deposits were not identified in the project area at AA:12:486 or AA:12:256, and these two sites were excluded from further work. Phase 2 investigations, consisting of horizontal mechanical stripping and hand-excavation, mitigated the remaining two sites and revealed a canal complex recorded as AZ AA:12:961 (ASM). Results as a whole for the project area indicate a sequence of small, dispersed activity locales, which were occupied intermittently over an exceedingly long duration of time. AA:12:252 included a small, limited-activity area consisting of clustered pits that date from the Agua Caliente phase to the Tortolita phase. Components at AA:12:51 are not dissimilar, and indicate occupations perhaps as early as the unnamed phase, with reoccupations during the San Pedro, Tortolita and Early Rincon phases. Environmental and subsistence data, artifacts, and features were generally infrequent at the investigated sites, making interpretations tenuous. The most significant finding was a San Pedro phase irrigated field system and associated canals, AA:12:961, at AA:12:51. Multiple crops were grown during a limited interval, and the structure of the field demonstrates a high degree of irrigation competency.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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