Developing Perspectives on Tonto Basin Prehistory

Part of the Roosevelt Platform Mound Study project

Editor(s): Charles L. Redman; Glen E. Rice; Kathryn E. Pedrick

Year: 1992

Summary

This monograph is a collection of papers presented at the 1991 Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans.

These papers present preliminary results after two years of work on the eight year mitigation program investigating Salado Platform Mound Villages in the Tonto Basin, Arizona. Each paper constitutes an individual chapter. They include:

1. Introduction

2. Pursuing Southwestern Social Complexity in the 1990s

3. Modeling the Development of Complexity in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona

4. Factors Affecting Prehistoric Salado Irrigation in the Tonto Basin

5. Centralized Storage: Evidence from a Salado Platform Mound

6. Increasing Ceremonial Secrecy at a Salado Platform Mound

7. Patterns of Production and Distribution of Salado Wares as a Measure of Complexity

8. The Inference of Social Complexity from Distributions of Exotic Artifacts in the Tonto Basin

9. Artiodactyl Exploitation by Prehistoric Horticulturalists in the Roosevelt Lake Area, Arizona

10. Issues and Challenges in the Design of a Computerized Database

Cite this Record

Developing Perspectives on Tonto Basin Prehistory, 26. Charles L. Redman, Glen E. Rice, Kathryn E. Pedrick. Roosevelt Monograph Series, Anthropological Field Studies ,2. Tempe, AZ: Arizona State University (ASU). 1992 ( tDAR id: 405881) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8P55QD3

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Keywords

Culture
Hohokam • Salado

Material
Adobe • Amethyst • Argillite • Artiodactyl • Azurite • Basketry • Bone • Building Materials • Ceramic • Chipped Stone • Cobble • Conch • Conus sp. • Corn • Fauna • Gila Polychrome Ware • Glass • Ground Stone • Haliotis sp. • Lagomorph • Large Mammal • Malachite • Mineral • Obsidian • Pectin sp. • Pollen • Polychrome Ware • Redware • Salado Redware • Shell • Spondylus sp. • Squash • St. Johns Polychrome Ware • Strombus sp. • Turquoise Show More

Site Name
75 Dollar Site • AR 03-12-06-1011 • AR 03-12-06-1015 • AR 03-12-06-132 • AR 03-12-06-13a • AR 03-12-06-14b • AR 03-12-06-15a • AR 03-12-06-177 • AR 03-12-06-296a • AR 03-12-06-700 • AR 03-12-06-758 • AR 03-12-06-763 • AR 03-12-06-770 • AR 03-12-06-995 • AR 03-12-06-997 • AR 03-12-06-999 • Armer Ruin • Bourke's Teocalli • Cline Terrace • Dune Site • Horse Pasture • Meddler Point • Oak Creek Site • Pillar Site • Pinto Point • Porter Spring • Rock Island • Schoolhouse • Schoolhouse Mound • Schoolhouse Point • Schoolhouse Point Mound • U:3:126 • U:3:133 • U:3:140 • U:4:10 • U:4:33 • U:6:450 • U:8:23 • U:8:24 • U:8:24 (ASM) • V:5:112 • V:5:119 • V:5:121 • V:5:128 • V:5:130 • V:5:66 • V:5:68 • V:5:76 • V:5:76 (ASM) • VIV Ruin Show More

Site Type
Activity Area • Adobe Pillar • Adobe Wall • Ancient Structure • Archaeological Feature • Cobble Pillar • Cobble Wall • Compound • Compound Wall • Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex • Domestic Structures • Granary • Hearth • Masonry Room • Midden • Pedestal • Pillar • Pit • Pit House • Pit House / Earth Lodge • Platform Mound • Post Hole • Post Hole / Post Mold • Pueblo • Roasting Pit • Roasting Pit / Oven / Horno • Rock Pedestal • Room • Room Block / Compound / Pueblo • Structure • Trash Midden • Trash Mound • Wall Show More

Investigation Types
Archaeological Overview • Data Recovery / Excavation • Methodology, Theory, or Synthesis

General
Anvil • Awl • Axe • Ball • Bone (Animal) • Bone (Artiodactyl) • Bone (Lagomorph) • Bone (Large Mammal) • Bone Awl • Bowl • Central Arizona Project • Ceramic Analysis • Community Development Study • Conch Trumpet • Cranial Bone (Artiodactyl) • Cranial Bone (Large Mammal) • Database Management • Femur (Artiodactyl) • Femur (Large Mammal) • Figurine • Haliotis Debitage • Humerus (Artiodactyl) • Innominate (Artiodactyl) • Innominate (Large Mammal) • Irrigation • Knife • Lumbar Vertebra (Large Mammal) • Metapodial (Artiodactyl) • Metapodial (Large Mammal) • Ornament • Phalange (Artiodactyl) • Phalange (Large Mammal) • Pigment • Polishing Stone • Pollen (Corn) • Pollen (Squash) • Polychrome Bowl • Power • Projectile Point • Radius (Artiodactyl) • Rib (Artiodactyl) • Rib (Large Mammal) • Roosevelt Archaeology Project • Roosevelt Platform Mound Study • Rural Sites Study • Scapula (Artiodactyl) • Scapula (Large Mammal) • Secrecy • Shaft (Large Mammal) • Shell Debitage • Shell Trumpet • Social Complexity • Spindle Whorl • Sternabrae (Artiodactyl) • Stone Ball • Stone Ornament • Storage • Subsistence • Tabular Knife • Tibia (Artiodactyl) • Tinkler • Tooth (Artiodactyl) • Tooth (Large Mammal) • Trumpet • Ulna (Large Mammal) • Vertebra (Artiodactyl) • Vertebra (Large Mammal) • Vertebral Pad (Artiodactyl) • Vertebral Pad (Large Mammal) • Worked Bone • Worked Haliotis • Worked Shell Show More

Geographic Keywords
Arizona (State / Territory) • Park Creek • Phoenix, AZ • Roosevelt Lake • Salt River • Salt Valley • Sonoran Desert • Theodore Roosevelt Dam • Tonto Basin • Tonto Creek • Tonto National Forest

Temporal Keywords
Classic Period • Gila Phase • Prehistoric • Roosevelt Phase

Spatial Coverage

min long: -111.262; min lat: 33.607 ; max long: -110.928; max lat: 33.793 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): USDI Bureau of Reclamation, Phoenix Area Office

Contributor(s): James H. Burton; Judi L. Cameron; Mary S. Carroll; Carol A. Grffith; David F. Jacobs; Keith W. Kintigh; Jean-Christophe Komorowski; Owen Lindauer; Peter H. McCartney; Arleyn W. Simon; J. Scott Wood; Kim S. Savage; Brenda L. Shears; Tom Lincoln; Chula Eslamieh; Margaret Lietz

Landowner(s): U. S. Forest Service

Sponsor(s): USDI Bureau of Reclamation

Prepared By(s): Arizona State University (ASU)

Submitted To(s): USDI Bureau of Reclamation

Record Identifiers

Contract or Grant No.(s): 9-CS-32-06230

Report No.(s): DI-BR-APO-CCRR-92-14

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