Sabina Canyon, A Family Oasis

The article appears with the permission of The Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, (520) 7981201 The numbers and kinds of archaeological features identified during the recent Sabino Canyon Ruin-area survey, described in Robin Rutherfoords, An Editor: Tracy Cunningham

Archaeological Survey of the Sabino Canyon Ruin Area is quite impressive. Old Pueblo Archaeology Centers survey relocated all five Hohokam adobe-and-rock-walled housing compounds and outlying rocklined house foundations, the ancient Sabino Creek irrigation canal, and most of the other outdoor prehistoric rock alignments

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The View From the South Rim

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Las Vegas: Vacationing Like the Locals

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(Continued from page 1) that were shown on the first comprehensive map of the ruin made in 19201921 by A. E. Douglass and H. B. Leonard. However, it also revealed that the ruin is about twice as large as that early map suggests. We now know there are several dense artifact concentrations that probably represent locations where the Hohokam had lived in pithouses, outside the ruins visible surface housing compounds. These heavy artifact scatters and other architectural features we located suggest the Sabino Canyon settlement was founded by pithouse-building Hohokam Indians between A.D. 1000 and 1100 near where Sabino and Bear creeks converge. It was not

till after 1100, however, that site occupants began building the settlements above-ground, pueblo-like housing compounds, in an area more than 200 meters north of the originally settled area. Another major find is an ancient canal on the Bear Creek side of the ruin. Segments of this canal ( are traceablefor approximately 500 meters, much farther than the visible remnants of the canal we already knew about on the Sabino Creek side. Sabino Canyon Ruin Archaeological Features Identified