Archaeological Investigations of the Eastwing Terminal Mitigation Project, Maricopa County, Arizona
Creators: name: Rodgers, James B.
name: Jannifer W. Gish
name: J., Kenneth
Publisher: name: Museum of Northern Arizona, Department of Anthropology
Year: 1985
Subjects: subject: Salt River
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/127/salt-river
subject: Agua Fria River
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/224/agua-fria-river
subject: Eastwing Terminal
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/82931/eastwing-terminal
subject: Lake Pleasant / Agua Fria River
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/54247/lake-pleasant-agua-fria-river
subject: Sun City, AZ
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/79799/sun-city-az
subject: Calderwood Butte
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/79244/calderwood-butte
subject: Agua Fria River Valley
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/79979/agua-fria-river-valley
subject: Santa Cruz Phase
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/213/santa-cruz-phase
subject: Sacaton Phase
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/214/sacaton-phase
subject: Preclassic Hohokam period
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/5609/preclassic-hohokam-period
subject: Hohokam
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/21/hohokam
subject: Pre-Classic Hohokam
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/8459/pre-classic-hohokam
subject: NA17,319
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/23006/na17319
subject: Eastwing Site
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/81782/eastwing-site
subject: NA18,267
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/81781/na18267
subject: Trash Midden
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/351/trash-midden
subject: Domestic Structures
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/256/domestic-structures
subject: Archaeological Feature
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/339/archaeological-feature
subject: Non-Domestic Structures
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/309/non-domestic-structures
subject: Pit House / Earth Lodge
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/263/pit-house-earth-lodge
subject: Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/251/domestic-structure-or-architectural-complex
subject: Midden
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/347/midden
subject: Settlements
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/252/settlements
subject: Pollen
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subject: Shell
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subject: Ceramic
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subject: Chipped Stone
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subject: Dating Sample
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subject: Fauna
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subject: Macrobotanical
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subject: Archaeological Overview
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/1/archaeological-overview
subject: Data Recovery / Excavation
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/5/data-recovery-excavation
subject: Research Design / Data Recovery Plan
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/9/research-design-data-recovery-plan

description: The purpose of this report is to disseminate all relevant information concerning the recent investigation of two sites situated northwest of Phoenix and in the south-central part of Arizona. Limited field excavation and archival research reveal that the Marinette Canal (NA18,267) may have been fed by well water, local runoff, and the seasonal flow of the Agua Fria River. This historic canal was built in 1910 by Mr. R.P. Davie and the Marinette Canal and Land Company. It heads along Calderwood Butte and extends almost 10 km southward toward the present community of Sun City, Arizona. Most of the present investigation was undertaken at the Eastwing site, a late Colonial-early Sedentary Hohokam village situated across an old stream terrace of the lower Agua Fria River valley. This site was initially established and subsequently maintained by cultivating corn in an adjacent akchin field and exploiting a wide variety of locally available biotic and abiotic resources. The abandonment of this agricultural village is hypothesized to correlate with a climatic shift to xeric conditions and a corresponding emphasis on canal irrigation systems, which characterize the agricultural activity of the northern Salt River Valley between about A.D. 1000 and A.D. 1250. This is a draft report with notations within the text and margins.