Archaeological Investigations of Early Village Sites in the Middle Santa Cruz Valley, Analyses and Synthesis, Part I
Creators: name: Brin, Adam
Publisher: name: Center for Desert Archaeology
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Santa Cruz River
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subject: southeastern Arizona
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subject: Middle Santa Cruz River Valley
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subject: Interstate 10
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subject: Tucson, AZ
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subject: Arizona (State / Territory)
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subject: Early Agricultural period
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subject: Cienaga phase
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subject: Agua Caliente phase
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subject: Hohokam
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subject: Archaic
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subject: Middle Archaic
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subject: Late Archaic
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subject: Santa Cruz Bend
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subject: AZ BB:13:468 (ASM)
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subject: Stone Pipe
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subject: AZ AA:12:745 (ASM)
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subject: AZ AA:12:746 (ASM)
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subject: Canal Site
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subject: Square Hearth
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subject: AZ BB:13:425 (ASM)
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subject: Funerary and Burial Structures or Features
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subject: Resource Extraction / Production / Transportation Structure or Features
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subject: Cremation
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subject: Agricultural or Herding
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subject: Trash Deposit
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subject: Canal or Canal Feature
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subject: Archaeological Feature
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subject: Inhumation
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subject: Thermal Pit
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subject: Hearth
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subject: Animal Burial
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subject: Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex
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subject: Hamlet / Village
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subject: Domestic Structures
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subject: Non-Thermal Pit
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subject: Pit
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subject: Refuse Pit
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subject: Roasting Pit / Oven / Horno
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subject: Storage Pit
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subject: Pit House / Earth Lodge
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subject: Post Hole / Post Mold
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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: Dating Sample
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subject: Fauna
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subject: Ground Stone
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subject: Macrobotanical
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subject: Early Village Sites
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subject: Alluvial Stratigraphy
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subject: Archaeological Overview
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subject: Data Recovery / Excavation
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subject: Site Evaluation / Testing
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description: A series of archaeological investigations were conducted from 1993 to 1995 at four prehistoric sites in the middle Santa Cruz Valley. This fieldwork was part of the Arizona Department of Transportation's archaeological mitigation program of the Interstate 10 Corridor Improvement Project through Tucson, Arizona. The sites included the remains of three early farming settlements--the Santa Cruz Bend (AZ AA:12:746 [ASM]), Square Hearth (AZ AA:12:745 [ASM]), and Stone Pipe (AZ BB:13:425 [ASM]) sites—occupied during various intervals between about 800 B.C. and A.D. 550, and also having later occupations. At the fourth site, the Canal site (AZ BB:13:468 [ASM]), segments of several prehistoric canals constructed between about A.D. 1000 and 1450 and of a canal built in the late nineteenth century were identified. These sites provide new information about several watershed changes during the prehistory of southwestern North America, including the transitions to agricultural dependence and sedentism; the shifts from houses-in-pits to more substantial pithouses and from round to rectilinear architecture; the first appearances of house groups, storehouses, communal structures, and possibly plazas, formal burial areas, and ditches for water control; the specializations and increased efficiencies of flaked and ground stone tools; the inception of ceramic vessel technology and the first stage of pottery-making as an economic process; the development of shell ornament production and other crafts; the establishment of local and long-distance trade networks; and possibly an indigenous sequence of development of water control technology. This volume includes summaries of the results of various analyses, syntheses of the new data, comparisons with previous data, and discussions of significance. Document includes errata sheet.