Monitoring of the Construction of the El Paso Natural Gas Pipeline Between Guadalupe Road and the Gila River Indian Community, Maricopa County, Arizona
Creators: name: Kisselburg, JoAnn E.
name: Horton, Sarah L.
Publisher: name: Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd.
Year: 1990
Subjects: Mesa, AZ
Arizona (State / Territory)
Chandler, AZ
Gila River Indian Community
Western Canal
Tempe, AZ
Maricopa (County)
Classic Period
Sedentary Period
Resource Extraction / Production / Transportation Structure or Features
Agricultural or Herding
Canal
Canal or Canal Feature
Archaeological Feature
Pit
Trash Area
Rock Alignment
Soil Lens
Midden
Cobble Band
Pinus sp.
Compositae
Quercus sp.
Euphorbia sp.
Juniperus sp.
Creosote
Low-Spine Compositae
High-Spine Compositae
Cheno-Ams
Ephedra nevadensis
Sunflower
Labiatae
Selaginella densa
Tin
Mint
Sedge
Little Clubmoss
Spiderling
Evening Primrose
Ceramic
Spurge
Fauna
Glass
Metal
Rose
Gramineae
Pollen
Cyperaceae
Wood
Juniper
Mesquite
Bone
Sphaeralcea sp.
Globe Mallow
Boerhaavia sp.
Plastic
Grass
Onagraceae
Mormon Tea
Green Glass
Pine
Oak
Rosaceae
Larrea sp.
Prosopis sp.
EPNG
Archaeomagnetic Sample
Cranial Bone (Animal)
El Paso Natural Gas Pipeline
Glass Bottle
Bone (Animal)
Organic Matter
Shaft Bone (Animal)
Battery
Long Bone (Large Mammal)
Rib (Large Mammal)
Candona cf. patzcuaro
Pollen (Juniperus sp.)
Carbon Battery
Ostracod
Pollen (Quercus sp.)
Pollen (Cyperaceae)
Pollen (Pinus sp.)
Pollen (Prosopis sp.)
Pollen (Labiatae)
Pollen (Larrea sp.)
Can
Pollen (Ephedra nevadensis)
Pollen (Euphorbia sp.)
Ash
Pollen (Rosaceae)
Spore (Selaginella densa)
Pollen (Boerhaavia sp.)
Pollen (Onagraceae)
Bottle
Pollen (Mesquite)
Pollen (Oak)
Pollen (Juniper)
Pollen (Pine)
Pollen (Mormon)
Pollen (Spurge)
Pollen (Sunflower)
Pollen (Sedge)
Pollen (Creosote)
Pollen (Spiderling)
Pollen (Grass)
Pollen (Mint)
Pollen (Globe Mallow)
Spore (Little Clubmoss)
Pollen (Evening Primrose)
Pollen (Rose)
Southern Pacific Railroad
Limnocythere staplini
Cypridopsis vidua
SRP
Microcrustacean
Candona sp. cf. patzcuaro
Wood Chip
Cypria opthalmica
Ilyocypris bradyi
SPRR
Cup
Sediment Sample
Harmonica
Pollen (Cheno-Am)
Plastic Cup
Pollen (Compositae)
Pollen (Sphaeralcea)
Charcoal
Salt River Project
Pollen (Gramineae)
Pollen (Low-Spine Compositae)
Tin Can
Pollen (High-Spine Compositae)
Ground Disturbance Monitoring

description: Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd. (ACS) monitored the excavation of an 11.73 mi (18.88 km) long trench for the El Paso Natural Gas (EPNG) pipeline in the cities of Mesa, Tempe, and Chandler. Archaeological monitoring was recommended because of the likelihood of crosscutting prehistoric irrigation canals and the close proximity of Alta Vista, a prehistoric Hohokam habitation site (AZ U:9:48 (ASM)). The monitoring was conducted in order to document these cultural resources when they became exposed in the pipeline trench. A total of seven canals and six subsurface features were revealed in the pipeline trench. Two additional canals were identified in a sewer trench that was open at the time of the EPNG monitoring and that abutted the EPNG line. The file includes a copies of Linda Scott Cumming's Pollen Analysis of Three Canals on the El Paso Natural Gas (EPNG) Project and Manuel R. Palacios-Fest's Report on Nonmarine Ostracodes from El Paso Natural Gas (EPNG) Project, Tempe, Arizona, as appendices.