Cellar Creek Ruin Arizona Site Steward File

Author(s): D. Peterson; Ron Lee; Rick Ahlstrom; J. S. Wood; Ronald J. Ice

Year: 2002

Summary

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Cellar Creek Ruin, located on Tonto National Forest land. The site is comprised of a 100 or more room structure (described as a caserón, compound, or pueblo) with defensive walls and a maze entry, accompanied by artifact scatter and at least one cemetery.

The file consists of a heritage inventory form, two types of site data form, maps of the site, an Arizona State Museum archaeological survey form, and a cultural resources preliminary inventory form. One of the site maps is from a text, Classic Period Settlement in the Uplands of Tonto Basin, and has been marked with additional notes. The earliest dated document in this file is from 1930.

Cite this Record

Cellar Creek Ruin Arizona Site Steward File. D. Peterson, Ron Lee, Rick Ahlstrom, J. S. Wood, Ronald J. Ice. 2002 ( tDAR id: 399694) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8JW8GQW

Keywords

Culture
Salado

Material
Black-on-Redware • Black-on-Whiteware • Buffware • Building Materials • Cedar Creek Polychrome Ware • Ceramic • Chipped Stone • Cibola Whiteware • Dating Sample • Diabase • Earth • Gila Black-on-Redware • Gila Polychrome Ware • Ground Stone • Pinedale Black-on-Redware • Pinedale Black-on-Whiteware • Pinedale Polychrome Ware • Pinto Black-on-Redware • Pinto Polychrome Ware • Plainware • Polychrome Ware • Quartzite • Redware • Salado Polychrome Ware • Salado Redware • Salado White-on-Redware • Shale • Shell • St. Johns Polychrome Ware • Tonto Plainware • Tonto Redware • Tularosa Black-on-Whiteware • White Mountain Redware • White-on-Redware • Whiteware • Wood Show More

Site Name
AR-03-12-06-135 (USFS) • Arizona U-4-4 • AZ U:4:4 (ASM) • Cellar Creek Ruin • Roosevelt:6:30

Site Type
Archaeological Feature • Artifact Scatter • Caserón • Cemetery • Compound • Courtyard • Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex • Domestic Structures • Funerary and Burial Structures or Features • Lithic Scatter • Maze • Pueblo • Room Block / Compound / Pueblo • Sherd Scatter • Wall

Investigation Types
Site Stewardship Monitoring

General
Core • Corrugated Ware • Flake • Mano • Metate • Tonto Corrugated Ware

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

Temporal Keywords
Classic Period • Gila Phase • Miami Phase • Preclassic Period • Prehistoric • Roosevelt Phase • Sacaton Phase

Temporal Coverage

Calendar Date: 1150 to 1300 (Miami/Roosevelt Phase site date range based on ceramic, architectural, and Carbon 14 analysis.)

Radiocarbon Date: 1260 to 1000 (C14 dates related to pottery at site.)

Calendar Date: 1300 to 1320 (Classic Period site date range based on ceramic, architectural, and Carbon 14 analysis.)

Calendar Date: 1000 to 1150 (Preclassic Period site date range based on ceramic, architectural, and Carbon 14 analysis.)

Spatial Coverage

min long: -112.072; min lat: 33.596 ; max long: -110.896; max lat: 34.525 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): Arizona State Parks

Contributor(s): Arizona State Museum; D. Peterson

Landowner(s): U. S. Forest Service

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

Record Identifiers

Project No.(s): 02-153

Project Name(s): Roosevelt Upland Survey (SWCA)

File Information

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Contact(s): Arizona State Parks