Dance Circle Arizona Site Steward File

Author(s): Sherry Lerner; Grace Schoonover

Year: 1980

Summary

This is an Arizona Site Steward file forthe Dance Circle sites, located on Tonto National Forest land. The sites are comprised of comprised of a large basalt circle with smaller adjoining room, extensive petroglyphs, and a small artifact scatter.

The file consists of a Tonto National Forest heritage inventory form, Central Arizona Water Control Study site description form, a report which appears to have been produced as a part of a Rock Art course and which includes descriptions of all petroglyphs on site, four hand drawn site maps, three pages of field notes containing sketches of petroglyphs, a map comparing feature locations to the datum point location, and two maps showing site location. The earliest dated document is from 1980.

Cite this Record

Dance Circle Arizona Site Steward File. Sherry Lerner, Grace Schoonover. 1980 ( tDAR id: 399652) ; doi:10.6067/XCV89P33GK

Keywords

Culture
Hohokam

Material
Basalt • Building Materials • Ceramic • Chipped Stone • Fine Grained Basalt • Masonry • Plainware • Tonto Plainware

Site Name
AR-03-12-01-187 (USFS) • AZ:U2:100 (AAS) • AZ 4:2:127 (ASU) • AZ 4:2:129 (ASU) • AZ U:2:27 (ASU) • Dance Circle

Site Type
Archaeological Feature • Artifact Scatter • Ceremonial Enclosure • Cobble Enclosure • Field House • Masonry Wall • Petroglyph • Rock Art • Rock Ring • Structure

Investigation Types
Site Stewardship Monitoring

General
Hammerstone

Geographic Keywords
Arizona (State / Territory) • Cave Creek Region • Tonto National Forest

Temporal Keywords
Classic Period • Prehistoric

Temporal Coverage

Calendar Date: 1150 to 1400 (Approximate date range provided for the site.)

Spatial Coverage

min long: -112.214; min lat: 33.464 ; max long: -111.069; max lat: 34.266 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): Arizona State Parks

Landowner(s): U. S. Forest Service

Prepared By(s): Arizona State Parks; Tonto National Forest

Record Identifiers

Project No.(s): 79-62; 02-153

Project Name(s): CAWCS

File Information

  Name Size Creation Date Date Uploaded Access
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This file is unredacted.

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Contact(s): Arizona State Parks