1. Archaeological Data Recovery at the Rohrig Substation, Queen Creek, Arizona
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T. Kathleen Henderson
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Metamorphic Rock Debitage ,Scapholunar (Hawk) ,Sacaton Redware ,Polychrome Bowl ,Basalt Ball ,Gila Redware Bowl ,Saguaro ,Bone (Human) ,Turquoise ,Cupule ,Pendant ,Ulna (Hawk) ,Shell Bracelet ,Fence ,Medium Mammal ,Igneous Rock Debitage ,Tuff ,Plainware Bowl ,Figurine ,Bone (Small-Medium Hawk) ,Bone (Large Mammal) ,Cob (Maize) ,Adobe ,Metamorphic Rock Chopper ,Diabase Axe ,Quartzite Tool ,Redware Jar ,Lepus sp ,Seed (Saguaro) ,1920s ,False Purslane ,Buffware ,Tonto Polychrome Ware ,Silica Core ,Shell Bead ,pottery anvil ,Diorite Axe ,Fauna ,Charcoal ,Carnegiea gigantea ,Igneous Rock Core ,Ceramic Figurine ,Lumbar Vertebra (Canid) ,Basalt Polisher ,Small-Medium Hawk ,Notch ,Antler (Cervid) ,Adobe Wall ,Casa Grande Red-on-Buffware ,Long Bone (Canid) ,Dental Element (Human) ,Glycymeris gigantea Bracelet ,Adobe Structure ,Gila Redware ,Domestic Structures ,Mammal ,Rib (Canid) ,Marine Univalve ,Obsidian Scraper ,Tabular Saw ,Cob (Zea mays) ,1910s ,Puddling Pit ,Gneiss Handstone ,Bone (Canis sp.) ,Hammerstone ,Seed (False Purslane) ,Cerithidea albonodosa Bead ,Axe ,Pottery Polisher ,Bone (cf. Lepus alleni) ,Lepus californicus ,Buffware Scoop ,Cerithidea sp ,Andesite ,Post Hole ,Ceramic ,Bone (Medium Mammal) ,Muscovite ,Tuff Figurine ,Seed (Gossypium sp.) ,Black Volcanic Rock ,Metamorphic Rock Hammer ,Basalt ,Historic ,Cremains ,Coracoid (Hawk) ,Wooden Beam ,Sherd Pendant ,Sandstone Lapstone ,Cotton ,Horse ,Trough Metate ,Ilium (Black-Tailed Jackrabbit) ,Bone (Jackrabbit) ,Sand ,Phyllite ,Bone (Canis familiaris) ,Quartzite Handstone ,Accipitridae ,Bone (Animal) ,Bone (Medium Rodent) ,Cupule (cf. Zea mays) ,Building Materials ,Trianthema sp ,Bone (Equus sp.) ,1940s ,Gossypium sp ,Schist Saw ,Plainware Scoop ,Archaeological Feature ,Jackrabbit ,Metal ,Glycymeris gigantea ,Bone (Horse) ,Redware ,Horse Burial ,Seed (Carnegeia gigantes) ,Salado Polychrome Ware ,Large Mammal ,Wood ,20th Century ,Comal ,Ground Stone ,Basalt Axe ,Femur (Canid) ,Plainware Jar ,Plainware ,Glycymeris gigantea Pendant ,Saucer Bead ,Queen Creek, AZ ,Rib (Horse) ,Disk Bead ,Ceramic Vessel ,Fibular (Canid) ,Roasting Pit / Oven / Horno ,Argopecten circularis ,Turquoise Bead ,Phalanx (Hawk) ,Zea mays ,Abrader ,Cerithidea albonodosa ,Latite ,Bone (Small Mammal) ,Thoracic Vertebra (Canid) ,Chopper ,Latite Saw ,Red-on-Buffware ,Sylvilagus sp ,cf. Zea mays ,Cerithidea Bead ,Argopecten circularis Pendant ,Tuff Abrader ,Andesite Lapstone ,Gila Polychrome Ware ,Room Block / Compound / Pueblo ,Bone ,Figurine Head ,Trash Deposit ,1930s ,Volcanic Rock ,Macrobotanical ,Casa Grande Buffware ,Shell Pendant ,Seed (Prosopis sp.) ,Cottontail ,Redware Scoop ,Scraper ,Canis sp ,Maize ,Latite Tool ,Equus ,Quartzite ,Bone (Mammal) ,Pit ,Room ,Barbed Wire ,Vessel ,Tuff Bowl ,Bone (Lepus californicus) ,Seed (Cotton) ,Synsacrum (Hawk) ,Adobe Compound ,Nail ,Sandstone ,Salt Redware ,Caudex (Agave sp.) ,Pottery Vessel ,Crematorium ,Quartzite Hammerstone ,Long Bone (Hawk) ,Salt River Project ,Humerus (Hawk) ,Bone (Rodent) ,Small Mammal ,Cupule (Zea mays) ,1960s ,Agave ,Tibia (Canid) ,Agricultural or Herding ,Cervical Vertebra (Hawk) ,Bone (Cervidae) ,Domestic Dog ,Sherd Disk ,Ball ,Bracelet ,Rhyolite Metate ,Brownware ,Rodent ,Granite Mano ,Tissue (Agave) ,Funerary and Burial Structures or Features ,Hawk Burial ,Schist Tool ,AZ U:10:2 (ASM) ,Diabase Polisher ,Saltbush ,Black-tailed Jackrabbit ,Sacaton Buffware ,Denticulate ,Seed (Trianthema sp.) ,Post Hole / Post Mold ,cf. Lepus alleni ,Bone (Hawk) ,Black-on-Brownware ,Bone (Domestic Dog) ,Tibiotarsus (Hawk) ,Lumbar Vertebra (Black-Tailed Jackrabbit) ,Antler ,Calcaneus (Canid) ,Skeleton (Dog) ,Fenceline ,Pinal (County) ,Saw ,Green Volcanic Rock ,Mano ,Caudex (Agave) ,Volcanic Rock Metate ,Arizona (State / Territory) ,SRP ,Polisher ,Sweetwater Buffware ,Adobe Room ,Conus sp ,Furculum (Hawk) ,Shell ,Flake ,Scoop ,Prosopis sp ,Vesicular Basalt ,1950s ,Midden ,Metate ,Volcanic Rock Mano ,Scapula (Hawk) ,Resource Extraction / Production / Transportation Structure or Features ,Chipped Stone ,Seed ,Grandiorite ,Quartzite Mano ,Silica Debitage ,Phoenix Basin ,Structure ,Lithic Debitage ,Donut Stone ,Radius (Hawk) ,Wood (Mesquite) ,Buffware Jar ,Axial Element (Human) ,Cremation ,Redware Bowl ,Ditch ,Jar ,Grandiorite Anvil ,Polychrome Ware ,Marine Shell ,Roasting Pit ,Human Remains ,Igenous Rock Denticulate ,Classic Period ,Appendicular Element (Human) ,Hawk ,Burial ,Schist ,Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex ,Mesquite ,Granite Lapstone ,Southwest Germann Site ,Tabular Tool ,Tarsometatarsus (Hawk) ,Igneous Rock Notch ,Skeleton (Hawk) ,Red-on-Brownware ,Wood (Prosopis sp.) ,Lapstone ,Laevicardium elatum ,Ceramic Comal ,Beam ,Hohokam ,Atriplex sp ,Ornament ,Cupule (Maize) ,Igneous Rock Flake ,Dog Burial ,Disk ,Phyllite Tool ,Core ,Bone (Lepus sp.) ,Apache Tear ,Adult Cremains ,Bead ,Long Bone (Horse) ,Bone (Cottontail) ,Seed (Mesquite) ,cf. Prosopis sp ,Compound ,Granite ,Charcoal (Saltbush) ,Wall ,Antelope Jackrabbit ,Igneous Rock Hammer ,Skull (Horse) ,Diorite ,Cranial Bone (Human) ,Seed (cf. Prosopis sp.) ,Animal Burial ,Core Hammer ,Snaketown Buffware ,Metamorphic Rock Core ,Hohokam Buffware ,Phalanx (Canid) ,Cervidae ,Bone (Accipitridae) ,Prehistoric ,Rohrig Substation ,Bone (Sylvilagus sp.) ,Gneiss ,Obsidian Debitage ,Water Control Feature ,Marine Bivalve ,Canis familiaris ,Basalt Lapstone ,Tivela sp ,Handstone ,Grandiorite Mano ,Cremation Burial ,Polychrome Jar ,Caudex ,Bone (Black-Tailed Jackrabbit) ,Data Recovery / Excavation ,Buffware Bowl ,Child Cremains ,Bowl ,Bone (Antelope Jackrabbit) ,Medium Rodent - Abstract
The Southwest Germann site is among the largest of prehistoric Hohokam settlements in the Queen Creek area. The Rohrig Substation property is located at its southwestern edge and overlaps a previously unreported habitation locus. Archaeological testing (Phase 1 data recovery) at the substation documented the presence of adobe-walled rooms, puddling pits, and trash deposits that were probably contained within an adobe-walled compound on the easternmost side of the Rohrig property. Salt River Project decided to restrict substation construction to the western 2 acres of the property to preserve the habitation features. Phase 2 data recovery focused on the 2-acre construction area. Features documented during the Phase 2 effort included a large midden, several small pits, a roasting pit, several crematoria, secondary cremations, and animal burials. Diagnostic ceramics indicated the locus was primarily occupied during the late Soho and early Civano phases of the Classic period (A. D. 1250-1350). The Rohrig Substation investigations were designed to obtain new information about the types of cultural activities that occurred on the margin of large Hohokam habitation areas in the Queen Creek area. The data recovery research provides new insights about residential activity, subsistence, mortuary practices, and patterns of interaction within the the Southwest Germann site. The results of the project suggest the Classic period inhabitants of the Rohrig Substation locus had strong ties with populations in the middle Gila River Basin and a set of traditions and customs strongly rooted in the past. Contributions of expertise were provided by Jenny L. Adams, Michael W. Diehl, T. Kathleen Henderson, Gary Huckleberry, Penny Dufoe Minturn, R. Jane Sliva, Arthur W. Vokes, Jennifer A. Waters, and Gregory J. Whitney.
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- 2006
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