Cultural Resources Survey and Site Identification Testing for the Centennial Elementary Flowing Wells Junior High Safe Routes to School Transportation Enhancement Project, Pima County, Arizona
Creators: name: Rawson, Paul
Publisher: name: SWCA, Inc. Environmental Consultants
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Arizona Upland Subdivision
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/83821/arizona-upland-subdivision
subject: Arizona (State / Territory)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/335/arizona-state-territory
subject: Sonoran Desert
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/2772/sonoran-desert
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: Hohokam
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/21/hohokam
subject: Huhugam
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/8166/huhugam
subject: El Rancho Chaparral
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/101194/el-rancho-chaparral
subject: AZ AA:12:31 (ASM)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/101193/az-aa1231-asm
subject: Ceramic
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/1/ceramic
subject: Archaeological Overview
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/1/archaeological-overview
subject: Historic Background Research
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/18/historic-background-research
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

description: Pima County proposes the Centennial Elementary Flowing Wells Junior High School Safe Routes to School Transportation Enhancement Project. This project involves an area immediately surrounding two schools (Centennial Elementary and Flowing Wells Junior High). The purpose of this project is to improve pedestrian safety for students and the surrounding community and to promote healthier lifestyles. SWCA Environmental Consultants (SWCA) was retained by Parsons Brinckerhoff, the project’s engineering and design firm, to analyze the project’s potential to affect cultural resources. Background research conducted in advance of fieldwork identified no archaeological sites in the project APE. One archaeological site, AZ AA:12:31 (ASM), the El Rancho Chaparral site, was recorded in the 1930s and is plotted in AZSITE. Additionally, background research identified as being more than 50 years in age and 19 homes adjacent to the project area as being constructed in or prior to 1963. A cultural resources pedestrian survey of the APE for direct effects, resulted in the discovery of no archaeological sites, features, or artifacts. Photographs were taken of adjacent homes that were constructed in 1963 or earlier. Pedestrian survey was followed by a program of site identification testing along the east side of The identification testing was requested by Pima County, and conducted within the County- administered R/W. No artifacts were observed on the modern ground surface in the tested area, which was not within a previously recorded site. The tested area was relatively close to the location of historically mapped site AZ AA:12:31 (ASM), as shown on AZSITE, and testing was undertaken verify that there was no evidence of buried deposits within the R/W. There is no previous recommendation or determination of NRHP eligibility for AZ AA:12:31 (ASM). Testing resulted in the discovery of three Hohokam plain ware sherds and three historic-era irrigation ditches. The project area, located in the Flowing Wells Irrigation District, was farmed in the early to mid-twentieth century, which was made possible by groundwater withdrawal. The three Hohokam sherds, found in disturbed soils of the historic-era plow zone, were not considered to be part of AZ AA:12:31 (ASM). There is no evidence that the historically recorded archaeological site extends into the project APE.