The Eighth Street Multi-Use Path and Streetscape Project archaeological investigation  documented over 1,200 years of human history in a small slice of Tempe. 

That history began when ancestral O’odham built a canal to provide irrigation water to fields north and south of the project.  A village segment grew up between that canal and the Salt River terrace edge, protected from floods and conveniently  located to tend nearby agricultural fields. The Salt River terrace, the canal, and the village constituted a persistent place on the landscape that influences how people live to this day. 

Read the report.