Table Rock Pueblo, Arizona
Summary
In the season of 1958, a fifty-room pueblo was excavated, located on the ranch of Mr. Mark Davis, who permitted the excavation of the site and to ship back to the Museum all of the materials that were recovered and that are described herein. The site was first reported by Spier (1918). He noted the presence of Hopi-like yellow pottery and Zuni glazes from several other sites in the vicinity. Dr. John B. Rinaldo observed the pueblo in 1956 during the course of his extensive survey of the Springerville, St. Johns, and Show Low areas. In 1958, Dr. William Beeson, sometime Instructor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois and now on the staff of Sacramento Junior College, Sacramento, California, found the site during the course of his archaeological survey. Since Zuni glazes and Jeddito Black-on-Yellow pottery had been definitely reported, we thought it advisable to dig this site before pot hunters destroyed it.
The pueblo is located on a low natural hill of sandstone outcropping about 500 feet east of the present channel of the Little Colorado River and about one mile east of St. Johns, Arizona. Just east of the site a few hundred feet is a similar one, on top of which a few rooms were located and later dug.
Between these two hillocks stands a mushroom-shaped rock, the result of differential erosion. The top of this rock was relatively flat and tilted slightly toward the south. Six miniature channels had been pecked into the surface of the rock and all of the channels drained into tiny basins or pockets that had been gouged out of the sandstone.
Cite this Record
Table Rock Pueblo, Arizona. Paul S. Martin, John B. Rinaldo, Lillian A. Ross. Fieldiana Anthropology. Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Natural History Museum. 1960 ( tDAR id: 426378) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8426378
Keywords
Culture
Hawikuh Zuni
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Hopi
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Pueblo III
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Pueblo IV
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Zuni
Material
Building Materials
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Ceramic
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Chipped Stone
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Fauna
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Ground Stone
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Shell
Site Type
Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex
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Domestic Structures
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Kiva / Great Kiva
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Pit
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Pit House / Earth Lodge
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Roasting Pit / Oven / Horno
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Room Block / Compound / Pueblo
Investigation Types
Archaeological Overview
Geographic Keywords
Apache (County)
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Arizona
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Little Colorado River
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Show Low
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Springerville
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St. Johns
Temporal Coverage
Calendar Date: 1345 to 1350
Spatial Coverage
min long: -110.745; min lat: 33.583 ; max long: -109.163; max lat: 34.886 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Salt River Project Cultural Resource Manager
Repository(s): Salt River Project, Tempe, AZ
Prepared By(s): Chicago Natural History Museum
Record Identifiers
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number(s): 60-14840
File Information
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