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The Santa Cruz Bend site
Archaeological investigations of early village sites in the middle Santa Cruz Valley • (18) • Published In 1997 • Pages: 9-228
By: Mabry, Jonathan B., Archer, Gavin.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
'The Santa Cruz Bend site ... is buried in the historic floodplain of the Santa Cruz River in the Tucson Basin....[I]t is a large habitation site that was first occupied during the first millennium BC, and reoccupied in the eleventh century AD, and again in the early twentieth century.... Within the area of the site that was investigated ... 730 prehistoric features were identified, including 183 pit structures ... [T]he majority date to the Cienega phase (800 BC-150 AD) of the Early Agricultural period ...' (page 9). The numerous pithouses and their associated pits features are described along with a 'Big House' that may have been used for communal activities. The area of the excavations appears to have been near the middle of the site and two zones can be discerned: an inner habitation zone with a high density of pithouses and the 'Big House' with an outer zone composed of only pits used for cooking and trash disposal. Data ascribed to the Hohokam were not marked for OCM (Outline of Cultural Materials) codes.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Identification
- Settlement patterns
- Dwellings
- Public structures
- Building interiors and arrangement
- Food preparation
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Middle-Late Desert Archaic
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2010
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southwest and Basin
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Sarah Berry; 2010
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1988, 1993-1995
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 2800–190 BP(800 BC–AD 1810)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Santa Cruz Bend site; AZ AA:12:746 (ASM), south-central Arizona, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Jonathan B. Mabry and Gavin H. Archer
- Submitted to: Arizona Dept. of Transportation; Contract Nos. 90-21 and 94-46
- For bibliographical references see document 16:Mabry et al
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Indians of North America--Antiquities