Archaeological Data Recovery Project at the West Branch Site, AZ AA:16:3 (ASM)
Creators: name: Dart, Allen
name: Swartz, Deborah L.
Publisher: name: Center for Desert Archaeology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Santa Cruz River
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/76790/santa-cruz-river
subject: Tucson Basin
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/2758/tucson-basin
subject: Pima (County)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/7353/pima-county
subject: Tucson, AZ
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/76651/tucson-az
subject: Arizona (State / Territory)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/79515/arizona-state-territory
subject: Rillito Phase
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/5630/rillito-phase
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: Sacaton Phase
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/214/sacaton-phase
subject: Late Rincon
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/7687/late-rincon
subject: Tanque Verde
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/7691/tanque-verde
subject: Pleistocene age
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/7755/pleistocene-age
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: AZ AA:16:3 (ASM)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/97511/az-aa163-asm
subject: West branch Site
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/104186/west-branch-site
subject: Funerary and Burial Structures or Features
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/301/funerary-and-burial-structures-or-features
subject: Domestic Structures
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/256/domestic-structures
subject: Burial Pit
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/307/burial-pit
subject: Pit House / Earth Lodge
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/263/pit-house-earth-lodge
subject: Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/251/domestic-structure-or-architectural-complex
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
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/4/fauna
subject: Red-on-Buff
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/2629/red-on-buff
subject: Ground Stone
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/7/ground-stone
subject: Human Remains
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/9/human-remains
subject: Macrobotanical
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/10/macrobotanical
subject: Metal
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/11/metal
subject: Red-on-Brown
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/2635/red-on-brown
subject: Redware
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/444/redware
subject: Analysis of Archaeomagnetic Samples
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/161010/analysis-of-archaeomagnetic-samples
subject: Data Recovery / Excavation
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/5/data-recovery-excavation
subject: Reconnaissance / Survey
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/7/reconnaissance-survey
subject: Heritage Management
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/24/heritage-management
subject: Records Search / Inventory Checking
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/8/records-search-inventory-checking
subject: Research Design / Data Recovery Plan
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/9/research-design-data-recovery-plan

description: The excavations at the West Branch site, AZ AA:16:3 (ASM), were conducted for the City of Tucson Water Department prior to the replacement of a water line. Twenty-two archaeological features were recorded in the narrow right-of-way. All were excavated or tested except one of the trash deposits recorded in a backhoe trench, and a human secondary cremation that was identified during the excavations and left in place. The other features include remnants of eight pithouses, one possible pithouse, one extramural surface or pithouse floor, seven extramural pits, and three trash deposits. They all date between A.D. 1000 and 1150. Because of the small size of this project, the goal of the investigations was to supplement the studies that were initiated during the 1986 investigations by the Institute for American Research. Research goals focused on formation processes, subsistence, and intrasite and intersite economic specialization. Ceramic manufacture was evident at the locus in at least one structure. In fact, 92 percent of the ceramics recovered from the locus were manufactured somewhere in the West Branch community. Although there is evidence that the occupants of the West Branch site produced and distributed ceramics, little is known of what was received in exchange for the ceramics.