The Valencia Site Testing Project: Mapping, Intensive Surface Collecting, and Limited Trenching Of a Hohokam Ballcourt Village in the Southern Tucson Basin
Creators: name: Elson, Mark D.
name: Doelle, William H.
Publisher: name: Desert Archaeology, Inc.
Year: 1986
Subjects: subject: Arizona (State / Territory)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/335/arizona-state-territory
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: Rillito Phase
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/5630/rillito-phase
subject: Early Rincon Subphase
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/6018/early-rincon-subphase
subject: Snaketown Phase
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/211/snaketown-phase
subject: Middle Rincon Subphase
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/6019/middle-rincon-subphase
subject: Preclassic Period
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/5604/preclassic-period
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: Archaic
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/8/archaic
subject: Historic
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/25/historic
subject: Late Archaic
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/11/late-archaic
subject: Valencia Site
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/560/valencia-site
subject: AZ BB:13:15 (ASM)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/21552/az-bb1315-asm
subject: Cremation Area
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/1869/cremation-area
subject: Trash Midden
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/351/trash-midden
subject: House
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/259/house
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: Ball Court
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/310/ball-court
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: Rock Alignment
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/360/rock-alignment
subject: Road
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/299/road
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: Fire Cracked Rock
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/5/fire-cracked-rock
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: Ground Stone Analyses
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/160837/ground-stone-analyses
subject: Lithic Analyses
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/101867/lithic-analyses
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: 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
subject: Site Evaluation / Testing
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/10/site-evaluation-testing

description: Mapping, surface collection, and testing at the Valencia site (AZ BB:13:15 [ASM]), a large prehistoric Hohokam village in the Tucson Basin, provided a wealth of new and significant information. More than 20,000 artifacts were recovered through controlled collection. These data allowed for a more precise reconstruction of the site chronology and structure, and indicated that the Valencia site was initially occupied during the Snaketown phase and continued through the Early Rincon subphase. Occupation drastically decreased during the Middle Rincon subphase and the site was essentially abandoned by the Late Rincon subphase. An isolated and discrete component in the southern section of the site was tested through backhoe trench excavation to determine the significance of this area and the location of the southern site boundary. Twenty-six subsurface features were recorded in trenches spaced 50 m apart. These included 20 pithouses and it is estimated that the southern component contained a substantial occupation during the Rillito phase; as many as 60 to 85 houses are predicted to be present. The southern boundary of the site was defined through the testing.