We are continually applying relevant accessibility standards to improve user experience for everyone who visits this website. (“Entrata”) is dedicated to ensuring digital accessibility for people with disabilities. The entranceway and the area around the fire hearth were coated with plaster, while the rest of the floor was polished caliche.Entrata, Inc. The house had a usable floor area of 18.68 square meters (201 square feet). Two large posts in the floor of the house supported a roof beam. A trench around the inside of the posthole alignment probably allowed woven mats hanging from the walls to be tucked into the floor, reducing drafts. The profusion of postholes suggests extensive remodeling occurred. The people building Feature 130 dug a large pit and then set posts inside the pit to form the walls of the house. What were they like?įeature 130, Middle Rincon 2 or 3 phase pit structure, AD 1040-1080 They ranged in date from the Middle Rincon phase (AD 1000-1100) to the start of the Tanque Verde phase (AD 1150-1300). Beneath these stripped areas were many Hohokam features. Dan Arnit of Innovative Excavating carefully stripped away the contaminated soil with a backhoe to be hauled away in large roll-off containers. The Adkins family had operated a steel tank manufacturing business on the property from the 1930s to the early 2000s, leaving behind spilled oil and metal shavings that needed to be removed. In 2012 Desert Archaeology was tasked with helping to remove contaminated soil from the Adkins Steel property near the park, on the west side of North Craycroft Road. The houses were built on top of each other, indicative of an intensive re-use of the area between AD 6.
In the mid-1970s, the Arizona State Museum conducted excavations in a relatively small area and encountered nine pit structures, soil mining pits (where the Hohokam dug up soil and caliche for roofing and wall adobe and plaster), and roasting pits where food was cooked. The soldiers marched away in 1893 and Fort Lowell eventually became a park. Adolf Bandelier (1840-1914), one of the earliest ethnologists and archaeologists in the American Southwest, visited Fort Lowell in 1884 and noted the presence of a prehistoric trash mound in the fort’s Parade Ground. It is likely that the soldiers who built the fort noticed artifacts scattered about the ground.
One of the major Hohokam sites in the Tucson is the Hardy Site, located at Fort Lowell, a military fortress that was established in 1873 a few miles northeast of downtown Tucson. Hundreds of Hohokam archaeological sites have been examined by archaeologists, and when combined with oral histories of descendant Pima and O’odham people, a better understanding of the lives of these Ancestral Native Americans has been developed. The Hohokam are well known for their beautiful painted pottery, elaborate projectile points, carved stone and shell items, ballcourts, and platform mounds. The word Hohokam refers to the archaeological culture that existed in the Sonoran Desert from about AD 500 to 1450. Homer Thiel talks about the Hardy Site and what the structures and artifacts recorded there teach us about Hohokam lifeways in the eastern Tucson Basin. The Hohokam of Fort Lowell: The Hardy Site
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