Faunal Material from the Gillespie Dam Site, AZ T:13:18 (ASM)

Data recovery efforts undertaken by Desert Archaeology, Inc. at the Gillespie Dam site (AZ T:13:18 [ASM]) in central Arizona resulted in the recovery of relatively small faunal assemblage. This report provides a brief description of the 37 bone specimens that were obtained from these excavations. Though conclusions are limited by the size of the assemblage, the findings of this study indicate that the residents of the Sedentary or early Classic period village followed a fairly typical Hohokam subsistence strategy that focused on the procurement of locally available small game animals. The faunal data also shed light on the nature of long-distance ties in southwestern Arizona with the recovery of a marine crab claw from a pithouse structure at the site suggesting at least occasional interactions with populations along the Gulf of California.