Research Design For The Investigation Of Cultural Resources Along The Granite Reef Aqueduct And Transmission Lines Project Central Arizona Project

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Total Pages : 443 pages
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Download or read book Granite Reef written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Under contract with the Bureau of Reclamation, the Office of Cultural Resource Management (OCRM), Department of Anthropology, Arizona State University conducted the Granite Reef Aquedcut archaeological project over a period of five years to mitigate the adverse effects of aqueduct and water control feature construction. The project was organized around a series of archaeological surveys, data recovery tasks, and problem-oriented analyses that were guided by a consistent research orientation. Project cultural resource investigations were organized according to the Granite Reef Aqueduct's individual units, or reaches, which were constructed in separate phases. The report presents cultural resource analyses and interpretations that convey the potential for interpreting the often enigmatic archaeology of the southwest deserts. It discusses the challenges inherent to studying the widely diverse and often minimal resources distributed along hundreds of kilometers of aqueduct and transmission line. The report chapters describe the project's efforts to integrate these resources into a meaningful regional framework through the use the of innovative and sometimes unconventional data recovery and analysis techniques. Realistically, it was not possible to explore all of the promising directions suggested by the data during the course of the project.