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Rock ArtSite Name: South Mountain
Country: United States
NOTE: This site is 2.13 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: The Southwest Type: Rock Art
Nearest Town: Phoenix, AZ
Latitude: 33.350550N  Longitude: 112.07572W
Condition:
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4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
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1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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Rock Art in Maricopa County, Arizona.
South Mountain Park is best known for its Sonoran Desert trails and an abundance of petroglyphs scattered throughout the 16000 acre city park. There are also several Hohokam village and settlement sites.

There is a visitor center and marked trails, several of which are wheelchair accessible. The location given is or the visitor's center. Park website.

Note: Highway Plans May Detour Around Arizona Hohokam site. See comment.
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Phoenix, Arizona - December 14, 2023: Abandoned Scorpion Gulch trading post and water well - complex near South Mountain Park
Abandoned Scorpion Gulch trading store complex near South Mountain Park

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Arizona Highway May Detour Around Relics by bat400 on Saturday, 21 July 2007
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Ancient Native American artifacts likely are buried under the path of the proposed South Mountain Freeway, Phoenix's lead archaeologist and freeway planners agree. But unlike the now-U.S. 60 built in the early 1970s, construction crews won't be allowed to encase the ruins in asphalt. "That's an old saw," said Todd Bostwick, who has studied the Hohokam people for more than 25 years. "They (crews) have to dig them now."

Bostwick said he is virtually sure of Hohokam villages along the proposed 22-mile path for the South Mountain Freeway, which would run west along Pecos Road through part of the South Mountain Preserve and north to 55th Avenue. Rock art known as petroglyphs are widespread throughout the South Mountain area, leaving Bostwick little doubt that pre-historic Hohokam people settled in the area as early as 300 years before the birth of Christ.

In 1973, crews building the Superstition Freeway (now U.S. 60) unearthed Hohokam pottery shards, remnants of an extensive irrigation system and other relics east of Rural Road along the highway's path. The discovery prompted the federal government to halt construction of a two-mile segment from Rural Road to Price Road to allow archeologists time to excavate and document the discovery.

Ultimately, the federal government allowed the freeway to be built - but at ground level along that portion rather than below, as originally planned. Freeway planners at the time argued it was better to pave over the Hohokam village rather than find a new alignment for the freeway or stop its construction.

Bostwick, who has studied the ancient Hohokam people for more than 25 years, said that thinking is outdated and that a Phoenix historic preservation ordinance would prevent the same thing from happening today.

"That wouldn't pass for the South Mountain Freeway," he said. "Nowadays, you have a couple of issues: The state is very strict about doing archeology, and the city of Phoenix (ordinance)."

For more on plans for this future roadway, see the Tuscon Citizen's reprint from The Arizona Republic.
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