Ister Flats Arizona Site Steward File

Author(s): R. Neily; C. Donta; J. Howard

Year: 1992

Summary

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Ister Flats site, located on Tonto National Forest land. The site is comprised of a Late Classic Sinagua room block with courtyards, trash mounds, a rock-lined pit, and artifact scatter.

The file consists of a site data form, hand drawn maps of the site, maps of the site location, an artifact diversity form, a Tonto National Forest cultural resources inventory form, a Central Arizona Water Control Study site description form, and an Arizona State University site survey form. The earliest form dates to 1929.

Cite this Record

Ister Flats Arizona Site Steward File. R. Neily, C. Donta, J. Howard. 1992 ( tDAR id: 399664) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8W097S1

Keywords

Culture
Sinagua

Material
Basalt • Black-on-Orangeware • Black-on-Yellowware • Bone • Building Materials • Ceramic • Chalcedony • Chert • Chipped Stone • Fauna • Fire Cracked Rock • Gila Polychrome Ware • Glass • Granite • Ground Stone • Jeddito Black-on-Yellowware • Limestone • Little Colorado Whiteware • Metal • Mineral • Obsidian • Orangeware • Plainware • Polychrome Ware • Quartz • Redware • Rhyolite • Shell • Smudged Redware • Tusayan Whiteware • Tuzigoot White-on-Redware • White-on-Redware • Whiteware • Yellowware Show More

Site Name
0:14:64 (ASU) • AR-03-12-01-577 (USFS) • AZ 0:14:90 (ASM) • Ister Flat Ruin • Ister Flats • Verde 14:7:6P

Site Type
Agricultural or Herding • Archaeological Feature • Artifact Scatter • Check Dam • Compound • Courtyard • Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex • Domestic Structures • Granite Pueblo • Limestone Pueblo • Lithic Scatter • Midden • Pit • Pueblo • Resource Extraction / Production / Transportation Structure or Features • Rock Alignment • Room Block / Compound / Pueblo • Sherd Scatter • Trash Midden • Water Control Feature

Investigation Types
Reconnaissance / Survey • Site Stewardship Monitoring

General
Arrow Point • Awl • Bone Awl • Core • Debitage • Flake • Hammerstone • Knife • Mano • Metate • Projectile Point • Shatter • Tabular Knife

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

Temporal Keywords
Late Classic Period

Temporal Coverage

Calendar Date: 1300 to 1400 (Date range given for site occupation.)

Spatial Coverage

min long: -112.137; min lat: 33.416 ; max long: -110.923; max lat: 34.446 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): Arizona State Parks

Contributor(s): Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd.; Arizona State University (ASU)

Landowner(s): U. S. Forest Service

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

Record Identifiers

Project Name(s): CAWCP II; Horseshoe Lake Site Reassessment

File Information

  Name Size Creation Date Date Uploaded Access
Ister-Flats--8-Sites.pdf 1.51mb Oct 19, 2015 11:15:16 AM Confidential
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