The Sun Lakes-Casa Grande Project: Limited Archaeological Testing at Twenty-one Sites near the Toltec Buttes, Eloy, Arizona
Creators: name: Tucker, David B.
name: Doak, David P.
Publisher: name: SWCA, Inc. Environmental Consultants
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Arizona (State / Territory)
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subject: Santa Cruz River
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subject: Pinal (County)
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subject: Eloy, AZ
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subject: Classic Period
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subject: Proto-Historic
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subject: Pioneer Period
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subject: Sedentary Period
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subject: Colonial Period
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subject: Prehistoric
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subject: Santa Cruz Phase
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subject: Sacaton Phase
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subject: Ceramic Period
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subject: Gila Phase
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subject: Historic Native American
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subject: Hohokam
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subject: Huhugam
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subject: Archaic
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subject: Historic
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subject: Euroamerican
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subject: AZ AA:2:151 (ASM)
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subject: AZ AA:2:117 (ASM)
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subject: AZ AA:2:153 (ASM)
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subject: AZ AA:2:152 (ASM)
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subject: AZ AA:2:155 (ASM)
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subject: AZ AA:2:154 (ASM)
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subject: AZ AA:2:157 (ASM)
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subject: AZ AA:2:156 (ASM)
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subject: AZ AA:2:159 (ASM)
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subject: AZ AA:2:158 (ASM)
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subject: AZ AA:2:161 (ASM)
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subject: AZ AA:2:160 (ASM)
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subject: AZ AA:2:163 (ASM)
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subject: AZ AA:2:162 (ASM)
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subject: AZ AA:2:165 (ASM)
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subject: AZ AA:2:164 (ASM)
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subject: AZ AA:2:167 (ASM)
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subject: AZ AA:2:166 (ASM)
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subject: AZ AA:2:169 (ASM)
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subject: AZ AA:2:168 (ASM)
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subject: AZ AA:2:170 (ASM)
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subject: Berm
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subject: Hamlet / Village
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subject: Archaeological Feature
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subject: Pit
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subject: Trash Dump
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subject: Artifact Scatter
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subject: Roasting Pit / Oven / Horno
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subject: Hearth
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subject: Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex
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subject: Settlements
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subject: Plainware
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subject: Rhyolite
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subject: Redware
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subject: Ceramic
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subject: Animal Bone
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subject: Chipped Stone
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subject: Mano
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subject: Fauna
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subject: Fire Cracked Rock
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subject: Red-on-Buff
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subject: Glass
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subject: Red-on-White
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subject: Ground Stone
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subject: Projectile Point
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subject: Brownware
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subject: Core
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subject: Metal
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subject: Red-on-Brown
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subject: Andesite
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subject: Shell
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subject: Buffware
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subject: Basalt
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subject: Quartzite
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subject: Scraper
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subject: metate
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subject: Archaeological Overview
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subject: Historic Background Research
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subject: Data Recovery / Excavation
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subject: Reconnaissance / Survey
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subject: Research Design / Data Recovery Plan
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subject: Site Evaluation / Testing
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description: Between November 2000 and February 2001, a crew from SWCA® Environmental Consultants (SWCA) of Tucson conducted archaeological testing operations at twenty-one sites lying within a 1570-acre parcel near Toltec, a subdivision of Eloy, in Pinal County, Arizona. The work was done at the request of Mr. Jason Burgess of B&amp;R Engineering, Inc., acting on behalf of Sun Lakes-Casa Grande Development, LLC, an affiliate of Robson Communities, Inc., who intend to construct a planned community of housing and recreational facilities on the property. All of the work undertaken took place on privately held lands. The SWCA crew included, at various times, David Doak and/or Joseph Howell (field directors), Steven Ditschler, Jessica Evans, Christina Page, and Patricia Stern. Generally work was done by the field director working with one other person, along with a backhoe operator, Roger Lane, of Casey’s Backhoe Service of Chandler, Arizona. Prior to the current testing project, B&amp;R Engineering had contracted with Cultural and Environmental Systems, Inc. (CES) to conduct a Class III cultural resource survey of the 1570 acre property. This survey was conducted, but a final report was never written. All that was provided was a preliminary report consisting of a short summary of the survey, a table listing the 21 sites that were found, and a series of draft site maps. No site or feature descriptions were written. Of the 21 sites reported by CES, one site, AZ AA:2:117 (ASM), was previously recorded. The remainder, AZ AA:2:151 (ASM) through AZ AA:2:170 (ASM) were newly recorded by CES, but have not yet been registered with the Arizona State Museum. CES recommended that all sites should be considered potentially eligible to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP), and that a testing program be initiated in order to evaluate the sites. Based only on the incomplete information provided by CES and on a brief field visit by SWCA personnel, SWCA prepared a Plan of Work to conduct NRHP eligibility evaluation and limited archaeological testing at the 21 sites within the Sun Lakes-Casa Grande development. This plan of work was submitted as a courtesy to the State Historic Preservation Office for approval (November 30, 2000), despite the lack of any Federal, State, or Local regulations that would require any further archaeological work on the property. All sites within the project area were thoroughly examined and re-mapped using high-accuracy Trimble GeoExplorer Global Positioning System (GPS) machines. For the fourteen historic sites or sites with historic components, this level of data collection, combined with limited archival research, was considered sufficient to allow eligibility assessments. For the eighteen prehistoric sites or sites with significant prehistoric components, limited subsurface testing was conducted in order to gather sufficient data for assessment. Based on this work, we recommend that 8 of the 21 sites be considered eligible to the NRHP, while the remaining 13 sites are recommended ineligible. Archaeological data recovery investigations are recommended for the eight eligible properties.