An Archaeological Overview of the Middle Santa Cruz Basin: A Supplemental Class I Cultural Resource Survey for Reach 3 of the Central Arizona Project - Tucson Division
Creators: name: McCarthy, Carol Heathington
name: Sires, Earl
Publisher: name: Cultural Resource Management Division, Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona
Year: 1981
Subjects: subject: Middle Santa Cruz River Valley
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/54246/middle-santa-cruz-river-valley
subject: Classic Period
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/125/classic-period
subject: Archaic Period
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/5726/archaic-period
subject: Pioneer Period
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/111/pioneer-period
subject: Sedentary Period
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/5504/sedentary-period
subject: Protohistoric
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/147/protohistoric
subject: Historic Native American
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/30/historic-native-american
subject: Cochise
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/3886/cochise
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: Salado
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/70/salado
subject: Archaic
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/8/archaic
subject: Historic
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/25/historic
subject: Euroamerican
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/28/euroamerican
subject: Hamlet / Village
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/254/hamlet-village
subject: Bedrock Grinding Feature
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/353/bedrock-grinding-feature
subject: Agricultural Field or Field Feature
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/274/agricultural-field-or-field-feature
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: Artifact Scatter
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/340/artifact-scatter
subject: Terrace
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/278/terrace
subject: Rock Shelter
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/265/rock-shelter
subject: Petroglyph
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/363/petroglyph
subject: Trail
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/300/trail
subject: Tucson Aqueduct Project
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/109111/tucson-aqueduct-project
subject: Archaeological Predictive Model
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/132953/archaeological-predictive-model
subject: Archaeological Overview
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/1/archaeological-overview
subject: Records Search / Inventory Checking
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description: In 1979 the Bureau of Reclamation contracted with the Arizona State Museum for a Class I survey of the Tucson Division of the Central Arizona Project (Westfall 1979). This study covered Reaches 1 and 2 and included Arizona archaeological grid units AA:3, AA:7, AA:8, AA:12, AA:16, and BB:9. Subsequently planning was initiated for a possible Reach 3. The possible extension of the project into three additional grids (AZ BB:13, AZ DD:4, and AZ EE:1) required further archaeological study. This report is designed to supplement the Class I survey report prepared by Westfall (1979). It includes a summary of previous archaeological research and an assessment of known cultural resources in the proposed Reach 3 project area. The detailed discussion of the archaeology of the region presented in Westfall's report is not repeated here, and the reader is referred to that volume for background information. The predictive model developed by Westfall is utilized to evaluate the cultural resource sensitivity of the expanded project area. Predictions of site distribution should be considered tentative until testing of the model by archaeological survey has been completed. Planning for Reach 3 has not as yet identified the full range of alternatives that will be considered. Consequently, this report does not contain the type of detailed evaluation of specific routes as presented in Westfall's report. Instead, the relative archaeological sensitivity of the environmental zones is discussed and should provide data for the evaluation of how alternate routes for Reach 3 may affect cultural resources. Westfall's 1979 report can be accessed at: https://core.tdar.org/document/406230/an-archaeological-overview-of-the-middle-and-lower-santa-cruz-basin-a-class-i-cultural-resource-survey-for-the-central-arizona-project-tucson-division