Mission Guevavi: Excavations in the Convento

Abstract

Investigations at an 18th century Jesuit mission near Nogales, Arizona were undertaken in 1964–65 and 1965–66 by the Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society. Nine rooms in the living quarters were fully or partially excavated as well as some outlying structures. Material culture was sparse as the mission had evidently been intentionally stripped upon abandonment about 1773. Architectural remains were not sufficiently diagnostic to determine functions for individual rooms. After abandonment, the mission was re-occupied for local mining activities. Little information was obtained on the location or nature of the Indian village for which the mission was presumably built.