Notice2023-21385
Notice of Inventory Completion: Arizona State University, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Tempe, AZ
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Published
September 29, 2023
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Arizona State University, Center for Archaeology and Society Repository (acting in place of the Arizona State University, School of Human Evolution and Social Change) has completed an inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects and has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the human remains and associated funerary objects and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice. The human remains and associated funerary objects were removed from Maricopa County, AZ.
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 188 (Friday, September 29, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 67354-67356]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-21385]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0036672; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: Arizona State University, School
of Human Evolution and Social Change, Tempe, AZ
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
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ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Arizona State University, Center for
Archaeology and Society Repository (acting in place of the Arizona
State University, School of Human Evolution and Social Change) has
completed an inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects
and has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the
human remains and associated funerary objects and Indian Tribes or
Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice. The human remains and
associated funerary objects were removed from Maricopa County, AZ.
DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary
objects in this notice may occur on or after October 30, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Allisen Dahlstedt, Arizona State University, School of Human
Evolution and Social Change, P.O. Box 872402, Tempe, AZ 85287-2402,
email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#82c3eeeeebf1e7ecacc6e3eaeef1f6e7e6f6c2e3f1f7ace7e6f7"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="42032e2e2b31272c6c06232a2e3136272636022331376c272637">[email protected]</span></a> and Christopher Caseldine, Arizona
State University, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, P.O. Box
872402, Tempe, AZ 85287-2402, telephone (480) 965-6957, email
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#fab9928893898e958a929f88d4b99b899f969e93949fba9b898fd49f9e8f"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="63200b110a10170c130b06114d200210060f070a0d06230210164d060716">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This notice is published as part of the
National Park Service's administrative responsibilities under NAGPRA.
The determinations in this notice are the sole responsibility of the
Arizona State University, Center for Archaeology and Society
Repository. The National Park Service is not responsible for the
determinations in this notice. Additional information on the
determinations in this notice, including the results of consultation,
can be found in the inventory or related records held by the Arizona
State University, Center for Archaeology and Society Repository.
Description
Human remains representing, at minimum, three individuals were
removed from Maricopa County, AZ. These disinterments occurred during
three separate projects over the course of nine years.
In 1959, the human remains of one individual were removed from the
western portion of Las Colinas--then designated The Spear Site--by an
undergraduate student in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology
at Arizona State University (ASU). No details about the project or its
curation at ASU are available. The individual is an adult of
indeterminate sex. The six associated funerary objects are: one lot
consisting of loose soil with charcoal, one lot consisting of stone
materials, one obsidian chip with a shaped edge, one ceramic sherd, one
lot consisting of shell fragments, and one lot consisting of faunal
skeletal fragments.
On April 29, 1961, ASU Department of Anthropology faculty Dr.
Donald Morris was contacted to recover a burial that had been disturbed
by a contractor doing construction-related excavation for a caisson
within the Las Colinas site. The human remains of one individual and
several cultural objects within this mortuary feature were removed and
brought to ASU. The individual is an adult, likely male. The 23
associated funerary objects are: one chert biface, one incised bone
object interpreted by Morris to be parts of a wand, one three-quarter
grooved axe, one lot consisting of faunal bone, four lots consisting of
charred fiber/textile material, two lots consisting of charred wood,
one lot consisting of shell fragments, one lot consisting of chipped
stones, one reconstructed ceramic bowl, one partially intact ceramic
jar, one partially reconstructable bowl, and eight lots consisting of
mixed ceramic sherds.
In 1967, the human remains of one individual were removed by an
unknown person. Based on bag labels, the disinterment likely took place
on March 9, 1967, as part of a salvage project for Arizona Public
Service (APS) at Las Colinas (no other field documentation records have
been located). The individual is an adult of indeterminate sex. The
three associated funerary objects are one lot consisting of unworked
shell fragments, one lot consisting of mixed ceramic sherds, and one
lot consisting of lithic debitage.
Cultural Affiliation
The human remains and associated funerary objects in this notice
are connected to one or more identifiable earlier groups, tribes,
peoples, or cultures. There is a relationship of shared group identity
between the identifiable earlier groups, tribes, peoples, or cultures
and one or more Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations. The
following types of information were used to reasonably trace the
relationship: anthropological, archeological, folkloric, geographical,
kinship, linguistic, oral traditional, and other relevant information.
Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations, the Arizona State University, Center for Archaeology and
Society Repository has determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
partial physical remains of three individuals of Native American
ancestry.
<bullet> The 32 associated funerary objects described in this
notice are reasonably believed to have been placed with or near
individual human remains at the time of death or later as part of the
death rite or ceremony.
<bullet> There is a relationship of shared group identity that can
be reasonably traced between the human remains and associated funerary
objects described in this notice and the Ak-Chin Indian Community; Gila
River Indian Community of the Gila River Indian Reservation, Arizona;
Hopi Tribe of Arizona; Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community of the
Salt River Reservation, Arizona; Tohono O'odham Nation of Arizona; and
the Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New Mexico.
Requests for Repatriation
Written requests for repatriation of the human remains and
associated funerary objects in this notice must be sent to the
Responsible Officials identified in ADDRESSES. Requests for
repatriation may be submitted by:
1. Any one or more of the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian
organizations identified in this notice.
2. Any lineal descendant, Indian Tribe, or Native Hawaiian
organization not identified in this notice who shows, by a
preponderance of the evidence, that the requestor is a lineal
descendant or a culturally affiliated Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian
organization.
Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary objects
in this notice to a requestor may occur on or after October 30, 2023.
If competing requests for repatriation are received, the Arizona State
University, Center for Archaeology and Society Repository must
determine the most appropriate requestor prior to repatriation.
Requests for joint repatriation of the human remains and associated
funerary objects are considered a single request and not competing
requests. The Arizona State University, Center for Archaeology and
Society Repository is responsible for sending a copy of this notice to
the Indian Tribes identified in this notice.
Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act,
25 U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.9, 10.10,
and 10.14.
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Dated: September 25, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2023-21385 Filed 9-28-23; 8:45 am]
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