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Investigations will take place at University Indian Ruin, a Tucson archaeological preserve owned by the UA School of Anthropology.
The site is a Hohokam center with a Classic period (AD 1200 to 1450) platform mound and has occupations that may date as late as Spanish contact. The research offers an unparalleled opportunity to examine trends toward aggregation, centralization, and ultimate collapse in the southern Southwest during late prehispanic and protohistoric times.
Additional information about the site, its history of investigation, and potential for future research can be found in a draft nomination to the National Register of Historic Places (Nomination Form).
Our 2010 research design focuses on detailed mapping of adobe buildings on the platform mound and in surrounding residential compounds by combining results of past and current excavations with total station and ground penetrating radar spatial data. Results will refine the site’s developmental sequence and site chronology.
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