The Greenway Road and 17th Avenue Petroglyph site (AZ T:8:102[ASU])
Creators: name: Bostwick, Todd W.
Publisher: name: Pueblo Grande Museum
Year: 1989
Subjects: subject: Moon Hill
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/84158/moon-hill
subject: Arizona (State / Territory)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/335/arizona-state-territory
subject: Phoenix, AZ
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/76695/phoenix-az
subject: Phoenix Basin
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/27/phoenix-basin
subject: Prehistoric
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/53/prehistoric
subject: Hohokam
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/21/hohokam
subject: AZ T:8:101 (ASU)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/116494/az-t8101-asu
subject: AZ T:8:100 (ASU)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/116493/az-t8100-asu
subject: AZ T:8:102 (ASU)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/116495/az-t8102-asu
subject: Canal or Canal Feature
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/275/canal-or-canal-feature
subject: Artifact Scatter
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/340/artifact-scatter
subject: Petroglyph
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/363/petroglyph
subject: Chipped Stone
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/2/chipped-stone
subject: Ground Stone
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/7/ground-stone
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

description: On August 11, 1988, Tanner Construction Company contacted the City of Phoenix Archaeology Section and informed the Pueblo Grande Museum staff that a local homeowner had complained about the possible damage to an archaeological site located next to a street improvement project in Northern Phoenix. The archaeological site (AZ T:8:102[ASU]) is a cluster of petroglyphs (rock art) pecked onto boulders located on the north side of Moon Hill, adjacent to Cave Creek. Pueblo Grande staff visited the petroglyph site August 12, and confirmed its identification as prehistoric, since many of the petroglyph designs are similar to those associated with the prehistoric Hohokam populations that inhabited the Salt River Valley (Schaafsma 1980). Conversations with the field supervisor for Tanner Construction Company and with the City of Phoenix Major Streets Division engineers determined that the Greenway Road project had the potential to adversely impact the northern edge of the petroglyph site. This impact would not result from road construction, but from rechannelization of Cave Creek on the south side of Greenway Road which included the removal of the boulders to widen the channel. The following is a report of the City Archaeology Section's investigation of site AZ T:8:102(ASU). Previous research conducted at the site is summarized, results of the present study are discussed, and comparisons are made with other Hohokam petroglyph analyses.