Results of Archaeological Data Recovery at Site AZ AA:12:73 (ASM) for the Avra Valley Road Improvements Project, Pima County, Arizona
Creators: name: Desruisseaux, Danielle
Publisher: name: SWCA, Inc. Environmental Consultants
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Arizona (State / Territory)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/335/arizona-state-territory
subject: Tuscon Basin
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/84195/tuscon-basin
subject: Santa Cruz River
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/76790/santa-cruz-river
subject: Pima (County)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/7353/pima-county
subject: Hohokam Sedentary period
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/143/hohokam-sedentary-period
subject: Middle Rincon
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/7652/middle-rincon
subject: Early Rincon
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/7653/early-rincon
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: Huntington Ruin
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/103791/huntington-ruin
subject: AZ AA:12:73 (ASM)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/102946/az-aa1273-asm
subject: Pit
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/355/pit
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: Hearth
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/343/hearth
subject: Post Hole / Post Mold
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/359/post-hole-post-mold
subject: Pollen
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/13/pollen
subject: Shell
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/14/shell
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: Fauna
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subject: Ground Stone
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subject: Radiocarbon Dating Analysis
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subject: Archaeomagnetic Analysis
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/151026/archaeomagnetic-analysis
subject: Pollen and Macrofloral Analysis
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/160742/pollen-and-macrofloral-analysis
subject: Data Recovery / Excavation
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/5/data-recovery-excavation
subject: Records Search / Inventory Checking
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/8/records-search-inventory-checking
subject: Site Evaluation / Testing
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/10/site-evaluation-testing

description: Huntington Ruin, site AZ AA:12:73 (ASM), is a large Hohokam village site located just northwest of Rillito Peak at the northern tip of the Tucson Mountains. Between February 17 and 28, 1998, archaeologists from SWCA. Inc., Environmental Consultants (SWCA) conducted data recovery excavations at the northern periphery of this site as part of the Avra Valley Road Improvements Data Recovery Project. The goal of the project was to mitigate impacts to buried cultural deposits located within the proposed road improvement construction right-of-way (ROW). The nature, extent, and significance of the archaeological deposits within the ROW was determined during an archaeological testing project that SWCA conducted in December 1997 (Thurtle et al. 1998). The subsequent data recovery fieldwork was conducted per the request of Ms. Linda Mayro, Pima County Archaeologist, and was based on SWCA's plan of work submitted to Ms. Mayro (Thurtle et al, 1998). Two cultural features (one pit structure and one extramural thermal feature) and an accumulation of cultural trash were identified during data recovery. This report describes SWCA's investigations at this portion of the site, including the results of analyses of all artifacts and botanical samples recovered within the ROW, and the results of radiocarbon and archaeomagnetic dating.