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Archaeological Monitoring and Data Recovery for the 20th Street South of Osborn Road Sidewalk Project, Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona (TR2010-4) (PDF)

The City Archaeology Office recommended archaeological monitoring of the 20th Street sidewalk improvements project because the project area lay within the boundary of Grand Canal Ruins, AZ T:12:256 (ASM), a large Hohokam village site that included a platform mound, adobe surface rooms and compounds, pithouses, human burials, and associated artifacts. A prehistoric pithouse was identified during monitoring of the project construction activities. Subsequently, the City Archaeologist requested limited data recovery be undertaken to expose, sample, and document the pithouse.