The Hohokam Expressway Project: A Study of Prehistoric Irrigation in the Salt River Valley, Arizona
Creators: name: W. Bruce Masse
Publisher: name: Arizona State Museum, The University of Arizona
Year: 1976
Subjects: subject: Phoenix
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subject: Salt River
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subject: 48th Street
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subject: Arizona
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subject: University Drive
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subject: Van Buren Street
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subject: Washington Boulevard
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subject: 40th Street
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subject: 44th Street
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subject: Sedentary
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subject: Historic
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subject: AZ U:9:2 (ASM)
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subject: AZ U:9:27 (ASM)
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subject: AZ U:9:26 (ASM)
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subject: Park of Four Waters
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subject: AZ U:9:28 (ASM)
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subject: Resource Extraction / Production / Transportation Structure or Features
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subject: Agricultural or Herding
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subject: Canal or Canal Feature
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subject: Archaeological Feature
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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: Hamlet / Village
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subject: Domestic Structures
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subject: Pit
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subject: Refuse Pit
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subject: Roasting Pit / Oven / Horno
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subject: Road, Trail, and Related Structures or Features
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subject: Railroad
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subject: Road
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subject: Pollen
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subject: Shell
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subject: Wood
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subject: Textile
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subject: Ceramic
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subject: Chipped Stone
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subject: Fauna
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subject: Fire Cracked Rock
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subject: Glass
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subject: Ground Stone
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subject: Macrobotanical
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subject: Metal
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subject: Archaeological Overview
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subject: Methodology, Theory, or Synthesis
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description: In 1970, and again in 1972, archaeologists from the Highway Salvage Program of the Arizona State Museum intensively surveyed the route of the proposed Hohokam Expressway in Phoenix, Arizona. This expressway was proposed in order to connect Interstate 10 with 44th Street and provide a north-south access route across the Salt River to relieve the traffic congestion caused by periodic flooding of the river (Fig. 1). Because a portion of the proposed right-of-way runs adjacent to Pueblo Grande and the Park of Four Waters, both important prehistoric Hohokam sites listed on the National Register of Historic Places, Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 was observed. A team of archaeologists representing the National Park Service, the Pueblo Grande Museum and a former Hohokam specialist now at a midwestern university spent several days studying the right-of-way alignment. It was their determination that while the possibility of buried resources did exist, historic modification of the land surface by farming did not allow for an adequate assessment of their significance. They recommended that the existing boundaries of the National Register properties not be expanded (as had been earlier proposed) and gave clearance to the Department of Transportation to begin the expressway project.