Archaeology at the Gillespie Dam Site: Data Recovery Investigations for the Palo Verde to Pinal West 500kV Transmission Line, Maricopa County, Arizona

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Editor: Henderson, T. Kathleen

Publisher: Desert Archaeology, Inc.

Pub Date: 2011

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good.  Binding tight.  No marks, tears, bends or folds.  3 fold-out map and charts.  Very light edge and corner wear.  Appears unused.

Notes: Technical Report No. 2009-06.  The Gillespie Dam site is primarily located around a single transmission tower carrying a 500kV power line.  “The site is a prehistoric Hohokm-Patayan settlement with an overlay of Historic era material…Although covering less than an acre, the staging area contained surprising number of prehistoric features, including numerous pithouses, a cobble-buttressed adobe structure, ramadas, a storehouse/granary, and myriad other feature types typical of the range of outdoor activities that would be associated with a residential locus in a Hohokam village.” (From the Abstract).  The site was apparently occupied from the tenth century to sometime in the thirteenth century.  The site was also the location of a canal, identified as the Wolfley, or the original Gila Bend Canal.  RARE.  NO paper copies available for sale.