The history of electrical street lighting in Tucson, Arizona, an inventory of existing original and reproduction light poles in city right-of-way, and recommendations for preservation and best practices.
Most studies of Upper Palaeolithic art are characterized by a focus on the interpretation of imagery and the (often implicit) view that temporal and spatial variability is primarily stochastic in nature. The art is taken to be adaptively...
moreMost studies of Upper Palaeolithic art are characterized by a focus on the interpretation of imagery and the (often implicit) view that temporal and spatial variability is primarily stochastic in nature. The art is taken to be adaptively neutral and, thus, serves to monitor chronology ...
In 1995, archaeologists excavated remnants of the Tucson Pressed Brick Company (TPBCo), a brickyard established in the late nineteenth century and operating in Tucson, Arizona, through 1974 (Diehl and Diehl 1996). A documentary and...
moreIn 1995, archaeologists excavated remnants of the Tucson Pressed Brick Company (TPBCo), a brickyard established in the late nineteenth century and operating in Tucson, Arizona, through 1974 (Diehl and Diehl 1996). A documentary and archaeological study of TPBCo revealed that changes in the fortunes of Tucson's brick industry were tied to ideological as well as economic stimuli. Tucson's brickyards thrived and declined in conjunction with trends in architectural styles and also as a consequence of deliberate efforts to craft a public image of the city first as a "modern" city, and later as the "Old Pueblo."
A 4.5-acre strip of land between a private development north of Canada del Oro Wash and the wash channel itself is under consideration for bank protection. The affected land is owned by Pima County, and work would be funded privately. A...
moreA 4.5-acre strip of land between a private development north of Canada del Oro Wash and the wash channel itself is under consideration for bank protection. The affected land is owned by Pima County, and work would be funded privately. A cultural resources survey was requested by RECON Environmental, Inc., to determine whether any significant cultural resources are present within the proposed work area. Construction plans were not available at the time of this survey. Therefore, it was assumed that ground disturbance could occur at any location within the project area.
A Class I cultural resources inventory has been completed for two proposed material pits along State Route 86. The NE Project Area has been previously surveyed and does not contain any significant cultural resources. The SW Project Area...
moreA Class I cultural resources inventory has been completed for two proposed material pits along State Route 86. The NE Project Area has been previously surveyed and does not contain any significant cultural resources. The SW Project Area has also been surveyed for cultural resources, but the work was conducted
thirty years ago and the transect spacing employed for the project would not meet current ASM survey standards. The SW Project Area contains one known site (AZ AA:16:550 [ASM]), a late historic trash dump that does not meet standards for the Arizona or National Registers.
The project area is located in historic Block 72 in downtown Tucson. The property contains the remains of the Southern Pacific Freight Depot (c. 1905) and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a contributing element...
moreThe project area is located in historic Block 72 in downtown Tucson. The property contains the remains of the Southern Pacific Freight Depot (c. 1905) and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a contributing element of the Tucson Historic Warehouse District. This assessment determined that property continues to meet eligibility requirements for the National Register under criteria A and C. Because development plans for the project area have not yet been made available, it is not possible at this time to determine whether construction of a brewery on Block 72 will adversely affect the Tucson Historic Warehouse District.
The history of electrical street lighting in Tucson, Arizona, an inventory of existing original and reproduction light poles in city right-of-way, and recommendations for preservation and best practices.
Section 106 report for an undertaking at Herrera-Quiroz Park (formerly Oury Park) with historical background.
Proceeding from the information exchange theory of style, we argue that the changing temporal and spatial distributions of mobile and parietal art in Paleolithic Europe are related aspects of a single evolutionary process: alternating...
moreProceeding from the information exchange theory of style, we argue that the changing temporal and spatial distributions of mobile and parietal art in Paleolithic Europe are related aspects of a single evolutionary process: alternating selective pressures differentially favoring the expression of assertive and emblemic style over the 30–7 kyr BP interval. These pressures result from demographic and social change across the European subcontinent in the late Pleistocene and early Holocene. We develop a model of cultural selection for symbolic behavior manifest as art that proceeds from and parallels natural selection in neo‐Darwinian evolutionary theory.
Exploratory study of window glass excavated from a Native American village adjacent to Fort Ross in northern California, a Russian-American Company settlement in the 18th and 19th centuries. This document is a senior honors thesis that...
moreExploratory study of window glass excavated from a Native American village adjacent to Fort Ross in northern California, a Russian-American Company settlement in the 18th and 19th centuries. This document is a senior honors thesis that received the University of California Kroeber Prize in 1992.
This report presents the results of a cultural resources survey that was requested by the City of Tucson. The project is located along a 0.7 mile segment of Houghton Road in the City of Tucson and unincorporated Pima County, Arizona. The...
moreThis report presents the results of a cultural resources survey that was requested by the City of Tucson. The project is located along a 0.7 mile segment of Houghton Road in the City of Tucson and unincorporated Pima County, Arizona. The City is collaborating with Pima County to design and construct a new automobile overpass and approaches to span the Union Pacific Railroad. The existing structure was built in 1962. It was documented using a State of Arizona Historic Property Inventory form.
This report contains documentation of railroad alignment segments and culvert bridges within the proposed El Paso & Southwetern Alignment historic district in Tucson, Arizona. Plans for the Greenway currently call for preservation of...
moreThis report contains documentation of railroad alignment segments and culvert bridges within the proposed El Paso & Southwetern Alignment historic district in Tucson, Arizona. Plans for the Greenway currently call for preservation of contributing features in place. Documentation is
based on standards of the Historic Engineering and Architecture Record (HAER), as modified by the Arizona State Historic Preservation Office’s Documentation Standards for Historic Properties.
This report presents the results of a cultural resources assessment for the proposed Modern Streetcar Project in Tucson, Pima County, Arizona. The work was requested by the City of Tucson to determine whether construction of the line and...
moreThis report presents the results of a cultural resources assessment for the proposed Modern Streetcar Project in Tucson, Pima County, Arizona. The work was requested by the City of Tucson to determine whether construction of the line and associated facilities will have any effect on significant archaeological or historical properties.
This report contains architectural plans and elevations, and photographs of the former U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey Magnetic Observatory (Magnetic Observatory), now part of the Morris K. Udall Regional Park in Tucson, Arizona.