Limited Archaeological Testing at Site AZ EE:2:50 In the Pima County Cienega Creek Preserve, Arizona
Creators: name: Rieder, Morgan
name: Freeman, Andrea
name: Gregonis, Linda
name: Myers, Laurel
Publisher: name: SWCA, Inc. Environmental Consultants
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Arizona (State / Territory)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/335/arizona-state-territory
subject: Cienega Creek Preserve
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/84192/cienega-creek-preserve
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: Classic Period
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/125/classic-period
subject: Mexican Republic Period
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/7661/mexican-republic-period
subject: Early Agricultural period
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/158/early-agricultural-period
subject: Archaic Period
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/5726/archaic-period
subject: Pioneer Period
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/111/pioneer-period
subject: Tanque Verde Phase
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/6021/tanque-verde-phase
subject: Spanish Colonial Period
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/4007/spanish-colonial-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: AZ EE:2:50 (ASM)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/102306/az-ee250-asm
subject: AZ BB:14:25 (ASM)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/102307/az-bb1425-asm
subject: Pit
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/355/pit
subject: Fire-Cracked Rock Cluster
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/1700/fire-cracked-rock-cluster
subject: Pit House / Earth Lodge
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/263/pit-house-earth-lodge
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: Glass
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/6/glass
subject: Ground Stone
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/7/ground-stone
subject: Metal
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/11/metal
subject: Collections Research
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/3/collections-research
subject: Data Recovery / Excavation
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/5/data-recovery-excavation
subject: Research Design / Data Recovery Plan
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/9/research-design-data-recovery-plan

description: Between December 1 and 13, 1995, SWCA, Inc., Environmental Consultants (SWCA), conducted archaeological monitoring on a 9.7-ha (24-acre) parcel of land in the Pima County Cienega Creek Preserve. The Pima County Flood Control District, which administers the preserve, proposes to restore the mesquite bosque and sacaton plant communities that formerly dominated the parcel, in order to provide wildlife habitat. A grant (FWS No. 1448-00002-95-__) from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will support this revegetation project. At the request of Linda Mayro, Pima County Archaeologist, a total of 360 m of trenches were excavated by backhoe and monitored to determine if prehistoric or historic cultural deposits were present that would be affected by the proposed undertaking. The project was performed under Project-specific Permit No. 1996-32PS granted by the Arizona State Museum (ASM). The exposed portion of a Late Archaic site on the south bank of Cienega Creek immediately to the north of the project area had been previously recorded and designated AZ EE:2:50 (ASM). This site designation now includes a Formative component (a Hohokam Classic period village of the Tanque Verde phase) and a historic component (the original late-nineteenth-century site of the railroad settlement of Pantano), both of which are located in the present project area. An updated ASM Archaeological Site Card will be submitted to the Museum along with other project records. For this project, Mark Slaughter served as Principal Investigator and Morgan Rieder as Project Director; Dan Arnet operated the backhoe. Andrea Freeman inspected the trenches and contributed the geoarchaeological analysis of the project area. Linda Gregonis analyzed the collected sherds and contributed the section on prehistoric ceramics; Laurel Myers did the same for collected lithic artifacts. Particular thanks are due Neil and Diane Hanna, the resident caretakers of the property, who were helpful throughout the project.