North American Database of Archaeological Geophysics

Database Report:

Site Name: Valencia Site; Site Number: _____; County: Pima; State: AZ; Country: USA; Ownership: _____; Landform: Terrace;

Date of Site: AD 600-1300; Period Type: Prehistoric; Culture: Hohokam; Site Type: Ballcourt, Settlement; Site Size: 5 km along Santa Cruz River;

Survey Type: Ground Penetrating Radar;

Instrument: Geophysical Survey System, Inc. Subsurface Interface Radar-10 (SIR-10); Sampling Interval: 59 transects, 50 cm apart; Prospecting Depth: 50-100 cm; Area Surveyed: 1,160 sq m; Date of Survey: May-1997; Land Cover Type: _____; Ground Truthing: _____;

Graphics/Imagery:

GPR profile (colorized) of pithouse structure;

GPR time slice (colorized) from 0.4-0.8 m below the surface;

Project Name: Valencia Site, AZ;

Reference: Conyers, L.B., and C.M. Cameron. (1998). Finding and Mapping Buried Archaeological Features in the American Southwest: New Ground-Penetrating Radar Techniques and Three-Dimensional Computer Mapping. Department of Anthropology, University of Denver, Denver, Colorado. Submitted to the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, National Center for Preservation Technology and Training.

Survey by: Lawrence B. Conyers, Department of Anthropology, University of Denver, 2130 S. Race Street, Denver, CO, USA, 80208; Phone: 303-871-2684; email: lconyers@du.edu. Catherine M. Cameron, Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado, Campus Box 233, Boulder, CO, USA, 80309; Phone: 303-492-0408; email: cameron@colorado.edu.

Survey for: National Center for Preservation Technology and Training.

Report Location: National Center for Preservation Technology and Training; Report Type: Research Report;

Abstract/Summary