Life at the River's Edge: Hohokam Irrigation and Settlement Along the Red Mountain Freeway Between the Price Freeway and McKellips Road
Creators: name: Brin, Adam
Publisher: name: SWCA, Inc., Environmental Consultants
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Mesa, AZ
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subject: Red Mountain Freeway
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/80870/red-mountain-freeway
subject: McKellips Road
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/80869/mckellips-road
subject: Dobson Road
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subject: Pioneer Period
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subject: Late Archaic
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subject: Pre-Classic
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subject: Late Sedentary Period
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/6049/late-sedentary-period
subject: Early Classic Period
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/5628/early-classic-period
subject: Hohokam
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/21/hohokam
subject: Archaic
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subject: Late Archaic
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/11/late-archaic
subject: AZ 11:9:149 (ASM)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/84974/az-119149-asm
subject: AZ 11:9:136 (ASM)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/84973/az-119136-asm
subject: AZ U:9:6 (ARS)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/84976/az-u96-ars
subject: AZ U:9:135 (ASM)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/84975/az-u9135-asm
subject: Domestic Structures
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/256/domestic-structures
subject: Resource Extraction / Production / Transportation Structure or Features
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subject: Agricultural or Herding
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/273/agricultural-or-herding
subject: Canal or Canal Feature
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/275/canal-or-canal-feature
subject: Archaeological Feature
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subject: Pit
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subject: Artifact Scatter
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/340/artifact-scatter
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: Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/251/domestic-structure-or-architectural-complex
subject: Rock Concentration
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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: Fauna
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subject: Ground Stone
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subject: Macrobotanical
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subject: Hohokam Irrigation Systems
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subject: Environment Research
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/13/environment-research
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: Archaeological testing and data recovery were conducted along a segment of the Red Mountain Freeway (Loop 202) corridor between the Price Freeway and McKellips Road, including a realigned segment of Dobson Road in Mesa, Arizona. Conducted under contract to Stanley Consultants, Inc., for the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT), the work was done in four phases (testing and data recovery for each of two segments) between October 1994 and April 1996. One site (AZ U:9:6 [ARS]) was found to lie entirely outside of the freeway right-of-way. Although no other sites were visible on the surface of the Holocene floodplain, trenching revealed three sites beneath Salt River flood deposits and within the right-of-way. AZ U:9:135 (ASM) was a repeated-use field house or farmstead site that included four canals, one a probable segment of Canal Muertos. AZ U:9:136 (ASM) was primarily an irrigation site that included three pit features and four canals, including a probable segment of Turney’s (1929) Canal 9. AZ U:9:149 (ASM) was a burned farmstead that included four pit houses, a canal, and three pit features. These sites indicate a change in the use of the Lehi Terrace from irrigation and agriculture during the Pioneer and Colonial periods, to a brief period of limited habitation during the late Sedentary and early Classic periods, followed by an abandonment of habitation sites and a return to irrigation through the Classic period.