An Archaeological Assessment of the Alazan Acequia (41BX620) in the Five Points Area of San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas

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ID9365787
AuthorsDavid L Nickels (corresponding author), I Waynne Cox
Year1996
Volume1996
Issue1
PagesArticle 1-Article 1
Publication date1996-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueIndex of Texas Archaeology Open Access Grey Literature from the Lone Star State (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2475-9333 • E-ISSN: 2475-9333
PublisherR.W. Steen Library, SFASU (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.21112/ita.1996.1.1
OpenAlexW2461393376
LanguageEN
Citations received3

In May 1996, while tunneling for a sewer line at the intersection of Cornell Street and Fredericksburg Road north of downtown San Antonio, contractors with the San Antonio River Authority (SARA) encountered late-nineteenth-century Alazan Acequia from 7-14ft below the modern surface. The Center for Archaeological Research entered into a contract with SARA to document the architecture and location of the acequia. The 1876 irrigation ditch, designated site 41BX620, was documented by photographs and measured drawings. A plan map of the location was drawn, and an artist's conception of the architecture involved was produced from photographs, drawings, and archaeologists' descriptions

Archaeology · Ditch · Downtown · Excavation · Geography · Plan (archaeology · American Environmental and Regional History · Archaeology and Natural History · Latin American and Latino Studies · Architecture · Ecology

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