Clearwater Photo Gallery
Excavations at the Clearwater site were conducted by Desert Archaeology, Inc., in 2004. Findings from the Clearwater site indicated—for the first time—that ancient farmers were living in the Tucson Basin as early as 4000 B.C. The images below provide a window into the newly-defined Early Agricultural period.
Archaeologists from Desert Archaeology, Inc., excavating one of the first homes in Tucson.
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A pair of pithouses on the Santa Cruz River floodplain.
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Most villages from the Early Agricultural period contain one structure that is larger than the other homes.
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Some of the earliest ceramics in North America were found at the Clearwater site.
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Overlapping pithouses illustrate both time-depth and natural site formation processes.
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The earliest known irrigation canals in North America are found in the Tucson Basin.
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A pithouse from the much later Hohokam occupation.
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