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<< Other Photo Pages >> Marana Village Site - Ancient Village or Settlement in United States in The Southwest

Submitted by bat400 on Monday, 14 April 2014  Page Views: 4213

Multi-periodSite Name: Marana Village Site
Country: United States Region: The Southwest Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Tucson, AZ  Nearest Village: Marana, AZ
Latitude: 32.380000N  Longitude: 111.107W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
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4Good
3Ordinary
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1Awful
0No data.
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5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
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Las Capas submitted by Flickr : The white spray painted areas are prehistoric canals. Image copyright: patt.meeples (Matt Peeples), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Ancient Village in Pima County, Arizona. A major ancient human settlement — including pit houses, the likely remnants of an irrigation canal and human burials possibly dating back 4,000 years. About 145 archaeological features, including six burials, have been found on the site. More investigation of the site, including some level of excavation, is almost certain.

Experts agree discovery is significant archaeologically — the settlement is likely from the Early Agricultural Period, which predates even the Hohokam culture that was in Southern and Central Arizona from 500 to about 1450 A.D."
- Arizona Daily Star (see comments, attached.)

Located at the Twin Peaks and I-10 Interchange, the site was found during the initial development of a shopping center.

The image is from a similar site, La Capas, nearby (see nearby sites list below.)

Note: Canal, pit houses from up to 4,000 years ago found under planned Marana outlet mall site. See comments.
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Re: Canal, pit houses from up to 4,000 years ago found under planned Marana outlet ma by Andy B on Monday, 14 April 2014
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I've found some images from the excavations of the ancient village and associated canals of Las Capas, 7km away
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=23415
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Canal, pit houses from up to 4,000 years ago found under planned Marana outlet mall s by bat400 on Friday, 28 March 2014
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A major ancient human settlement — including pit houses, the likely remnants of an irrigation canal and human burials possibly dating back 4,000 years — has been discovered under the site of a planned outlet center along Interstate 10 in Marana.

Experts agree discovery is significant archaeologically — the settlement is likely from the Early Agricultural Period, which predates even the Hohokam culture that was in Southern and Central Arizona from 500 to about 1450 A.D. The find will add additional knowledge about agricultural practices that may be the oldest known in the United States, archaeologists say.

But it’s unclear if it will affect the outlet center’s progress. Its Indianapolis-based developer is already in competition with a Florida developer to build outlet centers on the northwest side.

So far, about 145 archaeological features, including six burials, have been found on the site, said a letter written last week by the State Historic Preservation Office. More investigation of the site, including some level of excavation, is almost certain.

How long that investigation will take is far from certain. While archaeological ruins don’t stop projects, they must be studied in detail.

A percentage of remains are typically excavated so they can be preserved for future study. Human burial remains typically are repatriated to the Tohono O’odham and other tribes, which has been done with those from this site.

But Peter Steere, the Tohono O’odham Tribe’s historic preservation officer, predicted the remains will delay construction into the fall or longer. Three hundred or more archaeological features could be found during excavation, and the tribe will want its monitors at the site, he said.

“The main thing that drives the time is how big crews are at the site,” Steere said. “Ten people takes a lot longer than 20 people. With archaeological work, once you get down to actually excavating the remains, it’s done by hand.”

The remains make the site one of a half-dozen or so from that time discovered in this region since 1993. All are along or near the Santa Cruz River.

Features found so far at the Marana site include 37 pit houses, the canal, 14 other architectural features, 87 features found outside the village’s settlement and the burials, said Walsh’s letter to the Corps, written last Monday.

During excavation, “we think it likely that significantly more than 18 burials will be identified,” Walsh wrote.

In an interview, Walsh said the site also likely includes roasting pits, trash pits and other houses.

“We’re looking at some kind of community at some level,” he said, adding that while there are no certain dates, the canal could come from the period 2500 to 1500 B.C.

Hohokam-era remains have also been found at this site, near the ground surface, officials said. The earlier remains were found about 12 to 13 feet below ground in late January and early February, said Gary Huckleberry, an independent geoarchaeological consultant working as a subcontractor for Paleo West, the developer’s archaeological consultant.

“We hit several features, mainly pit features at some depth, at the edge of the Santa Cruz River floodplain,” Huckleberry said last week. The pit features “are probably associated with what we call the Early Agricultural Period.”

He placed the period of these remains at 2000 B.C. to 200 A.D. He said the investigators only hit what appears to be the canal “in one trench.” The apparent canal had a U-shaped channel containing a layer of burnt charcoal, which he said is pretty common for these canals.

For more, see the Arizona Daily Star.
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