Archaeological Data Recovery in the Maricopa County Department of Transportation of the Right-of-Way within AZ T:11:106 (ASM), the Morocco Ruin, in Goodyear, Maricopa County, Arizona
Creators: name: Foster, Michael S.
Publisher: name: SWCA, Inc. Environmental Consultants
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Arizona (State / Territory)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/335/arizona-state-territory
subject: Goodyear, AZ
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/83855/goodyear-az
subject: Sonoran Desert
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/2772/sonoran-desert
subject: Phoenix Basin
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/27/phoenix-basin
subject: Maricopa (County)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/3900/maricopa-county
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: Morocco Ruin
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/24125/morocco-ruin
subject: AZ T:11:106 (ASM)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/100821/az-t11106-asm
subject: Funerary and Burial Structures or Features
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/301/funerary-and-burial-structures-or-features
subject: Domestic Structures
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/256/domestic-structures
subject: Burial Pit
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/307/burial-pit
subject: Archaeological Feature
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/339/archaeological-feature
subject: Pit
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/355/pit
subject: Pit House / Earth Lodge
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/263/pit-house-earth-lodge
subject: Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/251/domestic-structure-or-architectural-complex
subject: Pollen
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/13/pollen
subject: Shell
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/14/shell
subject: Projectile points
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/81/projectile-points
subject: Buffware
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/465/buffware
subject: Quartzite
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/217/quartzite
subject: Netherstone
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/2651/netherstone
subject: Redware
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/444/redware
subject: Hammerstone
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/94/hammerstone
subject: Polychrome
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/2752/polychrome
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: Mano
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/131/mano
subject: Fauna
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/4/fauna
subject: Ground Stone
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/7/ground-stone
subject: Macrobotanical
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/10/macrobotanical
subject: Ceramic Analysis
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/133439/ceramic-analysis
subject: Paleobotanical Analysis
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/62152/paleobotanical-analysis
subject: Flake and Ground Stone Analysis
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/160486/flake-and-ground-stone-analysis
subject: Pollen Analysis
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/50444/pollen-analysis
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: Data Recovery / Excavation
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/5/data-recovery-excavation
subject: Records Search / Inventory Checking
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/8/records-search-inventory-checking

description: This document presents the results of archaeological data recovery completed by SWCA Environmental Consultants (SWCA) in the Maricopa County Department of Transportation (MCDOT) right-of-way (ROW) in Goodyear, Maricopa County, Arizona. The area investigated lies within the boundary of AZ T:11:106 (ASM), a large prehistoric primary village site known as the Morocco Ruin. The area is the site of a proposed residential development, and in order to accommodate that and the development of a nearby subdivision, MCDOT is widening and paving. Previous archaeological testing at AZ T:T1:T06 (ASM) had resulted in the identification of several archaeological features within the realigned and widened Cotton Lane ROW (Lindly 2005). The Morocco Ruin has been examined to varying degrees many times since the 1920s. This site appears to have been a primary Classic period village, although a pre-Classic period component is also suspected. When the site was first documented in the late 1920s and 1930s, numerous habitation mounds, trash mounds, burial areas, and a prehistoric canal segment were noted. Surface evidence of features at the site has been obscured by decades of agricultural activity. More recent work at the site, primarily on the fringes of areas that were mapped as containing substantial archaeological remains in the early 1900s, has identified additional canal segments and probable thermal features. Burials have been reported from the Morocco Ruin and additional burials were discovered during testing by SWCA. The aforementioned testing phase of the project area identified two prehistoric pit houses, six pits, one rock feature, and 10 burials (Lindly 2005). The 10 burials were excavated and the area around them mechanically stripped, exposing nine additional burials (Mitchell 2006). Thus, the plan and work reported herein was to excavate the two pit houses and pits identified in testing and to conduct additional testing in previously untested portions (Foster, Mitchell, and North 2005). The 2005 testing project resulted in the identification of five features: Features 4 and 10 were pit houses and Features 2, 12, and 13 were pits. Because of irrigation-related flooding at the end of the previous testing project, Features 2 and 4 were in very poor condition when exposed and Features 12 and 13 could not be re-identified. Additional exploratory testing (backhoe trenching) in previously untested portions of the ROW along the east edge in the front yard of two farmhouses and in the driveway and utility area just south of the farmhouses was also undertaken. This resulted in the identification of three additional features, Features 20-22. Feature 20 was the remnant of a small pit of undetermined function and Feature 21 was the inhumation of a preadolescent child. The partial remains of a third pit house, Feature 22, were identified immediately east of Feature 10 during the investigation of Feature 10.