Research Design for the Investigtion of the Marana Community Complex

摘要

The Marana Archaeological Project was conducted as part of the construction of Phase A of the Tucson Aqueduct, a feature of the Central Arizona Project being built under the authority of the Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the Interior, to bring water from the Colorado River to the Phoenix and Tucson Basins of Central Arizona. This is a design for the archaeological investigation of a complex of sites in the vicinity of Marana, Arizona. The proposed study will focus on the organization of Classic Period Communities, and is designed to generate data which can be used for a quantitative evaluation of degrees of specialization in craft production, access to trade goods, subsistence activities, and status. The research design presents a set of field and analytical methods necessary for the recovery of the appropriate categories of data, and includes discussions of methods, and statistical procedures for the reconstruction of community patterns.