Studies Along the Lower Agua Fria River: The Eastwing Site and the Marinette Canal
Creators: name: Rodgers, James B.
Publisher: name: Museum of Northern Arizona Press
Year: 1987
Subjects: subject: Lower Agua Fria River Valley
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subject: Phoenix, AZ
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subject: Northern Salt River Valley
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subject: Calderwood Butte, AZ
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subject: Maricopa (County)
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subject: Arizona (State / Territory)
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subject: Late Santa Cruz Phase
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subject: Early Sacaton Phase
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subject: 20th Century
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subject: Prehistoric
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subject: Early Sedentary Period
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subject: Colonial Hohokam
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subject: Santa Cruz / Soho Hohokam Phases
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subject: Late Colonial Period Hohokam
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subject: Hohokam
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subject: Sedentary Hohokam Period
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subject: NA17,319
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subject: Marinette Canal
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subject: Eastwing Site
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subject: NA18,267
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subject: Archaeological Feature
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subject: Pit
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subject: Trash Mound
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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: Post Hole / Post Mold
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subject: Isolated Artifact
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subject: Laevidcardium elatum
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subject: Rodent
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subject: Pecten vogdesi
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subject: Santa Cruz Red-on-Buffware
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subject: Ceramic
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subject: Chipped Stone
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subject: Wingfield Plain
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subject: Hairpin
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subject: Aequipecten circularis
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subject: Ground Stone
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subject: Projectile Point
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subject: Shell ornaments
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subject: Kana-a Black-on-Whiteware
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subject: Bird bone
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subject: Human Remains
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subject: Flakes
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subject: Anodonta californiensis
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subject: Abrading Stones
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subject: Macrobotanical
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subject: Knives
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subject: stone rings
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subject: Pecten sp.
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subject: Glycymeris sp.
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subject: Hammerstone
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subject: Projectile Point
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subject: Jar lid
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subject: Gaming Piece
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subject: Shell Ring
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subject: Stone Bowl
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subject: Ornaments
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subject: Ceramic Spindle Whorl
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subject: Bone Awl
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subject: Manos
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subject: Archaeological Overview
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subject: Data Recovery / Excavation
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subject: Methodology, Theory, or Synthesis
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description: Two sites, one prehistoric and one historic, situated northwest of Phoenix and in the south-central part of Arizona, are discussed. Limited field excavation and archival research reveal that the historic site, the Marinette Canal (NA18,267), built in 1910, may have been fed by well water, local runoff, and the seasonal flow of the Agua Fria River. It heads along Calderwood Butte and extends almost 10 km southward toward the present community of Sun City, Arizona. The prehistoric site, the Eastwing site, is a late Colonial-early Sedentary Hohokam village situated across an old stream terrace of the lower Agua Fria River Valley. This site was initially established and subsequently maintained by cultivating corn in an adjacent akchin field and exploiting a wide variety of locally available biotic and abiotic resources. The abandonment of this agricultural village is hypothesized to correlate with a climatic shift to xeric conditions and a corresponding emphasis on canal irrigation systems, which characterize the agricultural activity of the northern Salt River Valley between about A.D. 1000 and A.D. 1250.