Recovery of a Partial Burial from AZ T:12:10 (ASM), Las Colinas, Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona
Creators: name: Boston, Richard L.
name: E. Melanie Ryan
Publisher: name: Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd.
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Arizona (State / Territory)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/335/arizona-state-territory
subject: Phoenix, AZ
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/76695/phoenix-az
subject: Phoenix Basin
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/27/phoenix-basin
subject: Las Colinas
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/84572/las-colinas
subject: Maricopa (County)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/3900/maricopa-county
subject: Hohokam
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/21/hohokam
subject: Huhugam
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/8166/huhugam
subject: Las Colinas
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/237/las-colinas
subject: AZ T:12:10 (ASM)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/22097/az-t1210-asm
subject: AZ T:12:5 (ASU)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/106226/az-t125-asu
subject: AZ T:12:4 (ASU)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/106225/az-t124-asu
subject: Spear Site
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/106227/spear-site
subject: Las Moradas
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/100780/las-moradas
subject: Funerary and Burial Structures or Features
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/301/funerary-and-burial-structures-or-features
subject: Isolated Burial
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/305/isolated-burial
subject: Ceramic
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/1/ceramic
subject: Casa Grande red-on-buff jar
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/2983/casa-grande-red-on-buff-jar
subject: Human Remains
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/9/human-remains
subject: Osteological Analysis
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/30850/osteological-analysis
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: Records Search / Inventory Checking
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/8/records-search-inventory-checking
subject: Research Design / Data Recovery Plan
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/9/research-design-data-recovery-plan

description: On February 5, 2002, City of Phoenix Archaeologist Todd Bostwick contacted Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd. (ACS) to set up a meeting with the City’s Department of Street Transportation staff to coordinate the recovery of a burial that was encountered during the installation of a sewer line. In 1996, Mr. Bostwick recovered a cranium and a whole vessel under emergency conditions from a construction trench that had cut through a Hohokam inhumation (Bostwick 1996). The City attempted to repatriate those remains to the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community (SRJPMIC), but SRJPMIC did not wish to repatriate a partial skeleton. Unfortunately before repatriation, the street and sidewalk were reconstructed, thereby covering the remainder of the remains on Phoenix City property. Until funding could be found, the cranium and vessel have been housed at Pueblo Grande Museum. The Street Transportation Department has an on-call contract (Contract No. 100106) with SA&amp;B, Inc., to provide environmental services. Between March 11 and 19, 2002, ACS, acting as a consultant to SA&amp;B, recovered the remainder of the human remains from beneath the sidewalk. Melanie Ryan and Heather Kober carried out the excavation, and Ms. Ryan and Stephen Reichardt undertook the osteological laboratory analysis between March 19 and 22, 2002, at the ACS laboratory in Tempe. ACS performed the work under Arizona State Museum Project Specific Permit Number 2002-68ps, in accordance with the directives for implementing the Arizona Antiquities Act (A.R.S. §41-844 and §41865).