A Cultural Resource Inventory for the Southwest Loop Freeway Project
Creators: name: Bostwick, Todd W.
name: Rice, Glen E.
Publisher: name: Office of Cultural Resource Management, Arizona State University
Year: 1987
Subjects: subject: Salt-Gila Basin
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/82446/salt-gila-basin
subject: Salt River
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/127/salt-river
subject: South Mountain
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/43280/south-mountain
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: Archaic
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/5629/archaic
subject: Pioneer Period
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/111/pioneer-period
subject: Historic
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/5728/historic
subject: Classic
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/12/classic
subject: Historic Native American
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/30/historic-native-american
subject: Spanish
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/31/spanish
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: Archaic
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/8/archaic
subject: AZ T:12:45 (ASM)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/109390/az-t1245-asm
subject: AZ T:12:44 (ASM)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/109389/az-t1244-asm
subject: AZ T:12:49 (ASM)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/109392/az-t1249-asm
subject: AZ T:12:46 (ASM)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/109391/az-t1246-asm
subject: AZ T:12:56 (ASM)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/109394/az-t1256-asm
subject: AZ T:12:55 (ASM)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/109393/az-t1255-asm
subject: AZ T:12:42 (ASM)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/22099/az-t1242-asm
subject: AZ T:12:43 (ASM)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/22100/az-t1243-asm
subject: AZ T:12:57 (ASM)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/109395/az-t1257-asm
subject: AZ T:12:48 (ASM)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/22101/az-t1248-asm
subject: AZ T:12:47 (ASM)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/83227/az-t1247-asm
subject: AZ T:12:54 (ASM)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/100226/az-t1254-asm
subject: AZ T:12:39 (ASM)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/109386/az-t1239-asm
subject: AZ T:12:18 (ASM)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/109385/az-t1218-asm
subject: AZ T:12:41 (ASM)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/109388/az-t1241-asm
subject: AZ T:12:40 (ASM)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/109387/az-t1240-asm
subject: Rock Ring
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/738/rock-ring
subject: House
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/259/house
subject: Canal or Canal Feature
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/275/canal-or-canal-feature
subject: Trash Mound
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/995/trash-mound
subject: House Mound
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/260/house-mound
subject: Quarry
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/293/quarry
subject: Roasting Pit / Oven / Horno
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/357/roasting-pit-oven-horno
subject: Pit House / Earth Lodge
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/263/pit-house-earth-lodge
subject: Lithic Scatter
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/490/lithic-scatter
subject: Petroglyph
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/363/petroglyph
subject: Slag
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/2255/slag
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: Ground Stone
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/7/ground-stone
subject: Obsidian
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/89/obsidian
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: Reconnaissance / Survey
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/7/reconnaissance-survey
subject: Records Search / Inventory Checking
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/8/records-search-inventory-checking

description: The Arizona Department of Transportation began plans in 1985 to construct a new highway (State Route 218) in the Phoenix metropolitan area which would extend around the western and southern sides of South Mountain. This is a report on the historic and prehistoric cultural resources of the area. The construction of State Route 218 will be funded by the State of Arizona, and this work has been conducted under the State Historic Preservation Act of 1982 (A.R.S. Title 41, Chapter 4.2, Article 1). A planning and design study for the proposed Southwest Loop was conducted by HDR Infrastructure of Phoenix, and the archaeological portion of the study was conducted by the Office of Cultural Resource Management at Arizona State University. The archaeological study began in the fall of 1985 with the development of an overview (Class I survey) based on existing data reports and site files. The second phase of the study included an archaeological field survey of the proposed alternate alignments, and was conducted in the spring of 1986, The study has identified a total of 21 cultural resources within the project area, including thirteen prehistoric sites, three historic sites, and five prehistoric -canals. Three of the sites are of particular concern because they are examples of rare and threatened categories of sites unique to the Phoenix Basin. Although an excavation program could salvage scientific data from these sites, and is a necessary step in mitigating the impact of construction, these three Hohokam sites also contain values which cannot be realized through such a documentation program. The destruction of these sites will appreciably diminish the remaining record of the Hohokam cultural and economic system. The direct impact to two of these sites can be minimized by selection of one alignment over other alternatives. However, the Southwest Loop will make the general area highly desirable for development of residential communities, and the site areas not directly impacted by construction of the highway will ultimately be effected by these secondary, associated developments.