Archaeological Test and Data Recovery Program at Site AZ T:12:220 (ASM) (Las Cremaciones)
Creators: name: Czarzasty, John L.
name: To, Denise
name: Peterson, Kathleen
name: Rice, Glen E.
Publisher: name: Office of Cultural Resource Management, Department of Anthropology, Arizona State University
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Arizona
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/2/arizona
subject: Phoenix, Arizona
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/77400/phoenix-arizona
subject: Phoenix Basin
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/27/phoenix-basin
subject: Classic Period
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/125/classic-period
subject: Late Sacaton Phase
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/6111/late-sacaton-phase
subject: Civano Phase
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/5620/civano-phase
subject: Santa Cruz Phase
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/213/santa-cruz-phase
subject: Estrella Phase
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/6133/estrella-phase
subject: Sacaton Phase
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/214/sacaton-phase
subject: Hohokam
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/21/hohokam
subject: AZ T:12:220 (ASM)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/86772/az-t12220-asm
subject: Las Cremaciones
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/86774/las-cremaciones
subject: Funerary and Burial Structures or Features
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/301/funerary-and-burial-structures-or-features
subject: Trash Mound
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/995/trash-mound
subject: Ball Court
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/310/ball-court
subject: Pollen
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/13/pollen
subject: Ceramic
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/1/ceramic
subject: Chipped Stone
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/2/chipped-stone
subject: Fauna
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/4/fauna
subject: Ground Stone
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/7/ground-stone
subject: Human Remains
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/9/human-remains
subject: Data Recovery / Excavation
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/5/data-recovery-excavation
subject: Site Evaluation / Testing
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/10/site-evaluation-testing

description: Las Cremaciones is a prehistoric Hohokam village located on the south side of the Salt River in the Phoenix basin between Turney’s (1929) Canal Seven and Canal Three. The site may have been occupied for nearly 900 years, from the Estrella Phase (A.D. 500) through the Civano Phase (A.D. 1400), although the main occupation probably occurred during the Santa Cruz and Sacaton phases (A.D. 900 to 1100). The two ball courts at the site would date to these phases. When originally recorded in 1940 the site had about 15 trash mounds and at least 8 cremation cemeteries, and covered a 40-acre area (Bostwick 1993:204, 217-219); these features are no longer visible on the surface of the site, although artifacts are abundant. This report presents the results of a data recovery project conducted to comply with A.R.S. 41-865 and the City of Phoenix ordinance on historic preservation. The project investigated a Middle-to-Late Sacaton phase cremation cemetery located on the eastern margin of the site and called the Eastern Cemetery of Las Cremaciones, The excavation of the Eastern Cemetery of Las Cremaciones addressed four sets of research issues above and beyond determining whether or not any portion of a cemetery associated with the Sedentary period village of AZ T:12:220 (ASM) (Las Cremaciones) (referred to in the remainder of this report by the prior site number AZ T:12:4 [PG] [Las Cremaciones]). These research questions address the relative age of the cemetery, the health of the population of Las Cremaciones, the involvement of Las Cremaciones in long distance trade, and the variability in grave goods. Based on stylistic analysis of the decorated pottery (Chapter 3), the cemetery found to be within the project area was in use during the middle and late Sacaton phase, or approximately A.D. 1050 to 1150 (Chapter 3).