Archaeological Testing at AZ EE:1:225 and :226 (ASM), Rancho Sahuarita, Sahuarita, Arizona
Creators: name: Archer, Gavin H.
Publisher: name: SWCA, Inc. Environmental Consultants
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Arizona (State / Territory)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/335/arizona-state-territory
subject: Rancho Sahuarita
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/83846/rancho-sahuarita
subject: Tucson Basin
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/2758/tucson-basin
subject: Classic Period
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/125/classic-period
subject: Sedentary Period
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/5504/sedentary-period
subject: Colonial Period
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/5377/colonial-period
subject: Prehistoric
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/53/prehistoric
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: AZ EE:1:225 (ASM)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/103572/az-ee1225-asm
subject: AZ EE:1:226 (ASM)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/103573/az-ee1226-asm
subject: Funerary and Burial Structures or Features
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/301/funerary-and-burial-structures-or-features
subject: Pit
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/355/pit
subject: Pit House / Earth Lodge
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/263/pit-house-earth-lodge
subject: Midden
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/347/midden
subject: Plainware
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/174/plainware
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: Fire Cracked Rock
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/5/fire-cracked-rock
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: Red-on-Brown
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/2635/red-on-brown
subject: lithics analysis
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/144676/lithics-analysis
subject: Ceramics Analysis
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/4083/ceramics-analysis
subject: Historic Background Research
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/18/historic-background-research
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
subject: Site Evaluation / Testing
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/10/site-evaluation-testing

description: Archaeological testing fieldwork at Rancho Sahuarita sites AZ EE:1:225 and :226 (ASM) was completed on November 19, 1999. This testing phase followed the Archaeological Research Guidelines (ARG approved by the Town of Sahuarita (WestLand Resources and SWCA 1998). The guidelines provide a culture history and research design. AZ EE:1:225 and :226 (ASM) are two of a cluster of late pre-Classic Hohokam sites located along the west side of the Santa Cruz River in Sahuarita, Arizona. To summarize, the archaeological testing at sites AZ EE:1:225 and :226 (ASM) involved surface artifact collection and backhoe trench excavation. Features discovered in the backhoe trenches were recorded but not excavated. Artifacts unearthed by trenching were collected. Human remains were unearthed during test excavations and were treated in accordance with the existing Agreement of Burial Discoveries. Preliminary testing was conducted at these sites in 1997 (Tucker 1997). At AZ EE:1:225 (ASM), three features were discovered in 1997: two pithouses and one midden. In the current testing phase, two additional features were discovered: one pithouse and one secondary cremation burial. At AZ EE:1:226 (ASM), one feature, a midden, was discovered in 1997. Two features, an ash lens and a secondary human cremation, were discovered in the current testing phase. Both sites are eligible for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places and will be adversely affected by the Rancho Sahuarita development. SWCA recommends a program of data recovery at both sites to investigate the known features and mitigate the adverse effects of development to these cultural properties. Data recovery field and analytic methods should follow those described in detail in the ARG.