Native American Pottery (original) (raw)

2006, Rio Nuevo Archaeology Program, 2000–2003: Investigations at the San Agustín Mission and Mission Gardens, Tucson Presidio, Tucson Pressed Brick Company, and Clearwater Site. Technical Report No. 2004-11. Center for Desert Archaeology, Tucson, Arizona. J. Homer Thiel and Jonathan B. Mabry (editors)

Prehistoric and Historic Native American pottery was recovered from three archaeological sites investigated as a part of the Rio Nuevo Archaeology project. A total of 17,073 sherds was recovered from the Clearwater site, AZ BB:13:6 (ASM), with 9,790 of those sherds recovered from features located at the San Agustín Mission locus of the site, 4,226 sherds from the Mission Gardens locus, and 3,057 sherds from the Congress Street and Brickyard loci. Another 950 sherds were recovered from canal features at AZ BB:13:481 (ASM). Finally, a total of 8,704 sherds was recovered from features located at the Tucson Presidio/Block 181, AZ BB:13:13 (ASM). Analysis focused on identifying sherds of Early Agricultural period incipient plain ware pottery, regardless of recovery context, and temporally unmixed deposits of prehistoric, Spanish, Mexican, and American Territorial period O’odham pottery.