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DOCUMENT Full-Text R. Neily. C. Donta. J. Howard.

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...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Scott Wood. Stone Morris.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the K.A. Ranch Site, located on Tonto National Forest land. The site is comprised of the remnants of two prehistoric canals, artifact scatter, and a storage pit. The file consists of a site data form, map of the site location, two Central Arizona Water Control Study site descriptions, two Arizona State University site survey forms, and a hand drawn site map. The earliest forms date from 1964.

DOCUMENT Full-Text J.S. Wood. Morris. Stone.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Kentuck Ruin site, located on Tonto National Forest land. The site is comprised of a masonry pueblo of more than 100 rooms with accompanying lithic and ceramic scatter, burials, bedrock mortars, and outlying structures. The file consists of a Tonto National Forest heritage inventory form, hand drawn site maps, two Arizona State University site survey forms, a page with a brief handwritten site description, a site information card, and a map of the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text James B. Shaeffer.

This book is a general historic and cultural overview of the Kanishba ruins located on the Fort Apache Indian Reservation in Central Arizona. First mentioned in archaeological publications in 1892 by Adolph Bandelier, this large and prominent site eventually was investigated as part of an archaeological research program of the University of Arizona. In 1931, Dr. Byron Cummings, then Director of the Arizona State Museum and Head of the Department of Anthropology, established a camp near the site...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Byron Cummings.

Written by Byron Cummings, at the time of its publication the Director Emeritus of the Arizona State Museum, this book describes the excavations and other investigations of Kinishba that Cummings organized and led during the 1930s. This report, which Cummings wrote for general readers, was published "under the auspices of the Hohokam Museums Association and the University of Arizona. The book describes the site's architectural and archaeological features and artifacts, as well as the ancient...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jim E. O'Connor. Jonathan E. Fuller. Victor R. Baker.

This report to the Salt River Project documents findings of the 1985-1986 study of paleofloods in the Salt River Basin of central Arizona. Included are descriptions and analyses for flood deposits preserved at sites on the Verde and Salt Rivers and Tonto Creek. Stratigraphic interpretation, hydraulic modeling, and radiometric dating allowed us to make inferences about paleoflood timing, frequency, and magnitudes during the latest Holocene at the three study sites. These results can be compared...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Patti Fenner.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Lime Creek Petroglyph site, comprised of a two-room structure, petroglyphs, and sherd and lithic scatter, located on Tonto National Forest land. The file consists of a cultural resources preliminary inventory form, nearly empty cultural resources inventory form, a note on photographs (not in the file), and two maps of the site location. The earliest dated form is from 1986.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Roger Kelly. J. S. Wood.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Lion Spring Ruin site, comprised of a compound with a granite room block, trash, and a possible cemetery, located on Tonto National Forest land. The file consists of a heritage inventory form, hand drawn site map, and a Museum of Northern Arizona form. The earliest dated document is from 1967.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Connie A. Darby.

Archaeological survey for the development of an access road in the Little Green Valley section of the State Route 260 - Payson to Heber project.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Phillip Schnering.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Lookout Site, comprised of pottery and a compound constructed of Malpais boulders, located on Tonto National Forest land. The file consists of a cultural resources inventory form, archaeological site inventory form, archaeological survey card, and a map of the site location. The earliest dated document is from 1958.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Scott Wood. F. Olson. A. Olson.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Lower Mayfield Canyon Ruin site, located on Tonto National Forest land. The site consists of a settlement, alternatively described as a caserón, compound, or pueblo, as well as trash deposits containing human bones. The file consists of a site data form, heritage inventory form, three site maps, three pages of unlabeled site data forms, and a map of the site collection. The earliest dated document is from 1929.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Dave Breternitz. Hinckley. Schoen. Lyle M. Stone. J. Ravesloot.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Mad as Hell Ruin site, comprised of multiple Salado compounds with trash mounds and artifact scatter, located on Tonto National Forest land. The file consists of two heritage inventory forms, a site data card, three printed site maps, a hand drawn site map, and an archaeological site inventory form. The earliest dated document is from 1959.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Francis McManamon. Keith Kintigh.

The Center for Archaeology and Society (CAS), the Phoenix Area Office of the Bureau of Reclamation, and the Center for Digital Antiquity (DA) have created and are making freely available, via tDAR (the Digital Archaeological Record), a large collection of reports, articles, and data sets resulting from the archaeological investigations undertaken for the Theodore Roosevelt Dam project in the Tonto Basin of central Arizona. At present, this tDAR collection includes over two dozen volumes (more...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Scott Wood. E. A. Wood.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Mayfield Canyon site, located on Tonto National Forest land. The site is comprised of more than 60 bedrock metates, and a boulder dam, made or used by the Apache, Hohokam, Archaic peoples, and/or Prehistoric peoples. The site consists of a site data form and three copies of a heritage inventory form. The earliest dated document is from 2005.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Scott Wood. W. E.. Morris. Stone. H. S. G.. W. M.. J. E. Kisselburg.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Meddler Point Ruin, located on Tonto National Forest land. The site is comprised of a pueblo compound with accompanying artifact scatter, roasting pit, trash middens, wall, and burials. The file consists of a site information sheet, two maps of the site location, two cultural resources inventory forms, five site maps, multiple unlabeled information forms, a written overview of the 1929 survey method, an Arizona State University site survey form, an...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Scott Wood. Elaine Zamora. Joseph Crary.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Mesquite Flat site, comprised of a Hohokam village with accompanying artifact scatter, located on Tonto National Forest land. The site may have seen additional use by Southeastern Yavapai or Apache. The file consists of a site data form, two maps of the site location, an unlabeled site information form, and a preliminary inventory form. The earliest dated document is from 1987.

DOCUMENT Full-Text RJ Sliva.

Flaked stone weaponry production at sub-Mogollon Rim area sites in Arizona.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jerome Hesse. Adrienne Tremblay.

The cultural resources Class I Inventory consisted of a records review of the Roosevelt Lake flood control space. This study area falls within a larger area surrounding Roosevelt Lake that was the focus of Reclamation-sponsored cultural resources studies conducted from the mid-1970s through the 1990s as part of the Central Arizona Water Control Study Plan 6 environmental review and prescribed mitigation associated with increasing the height of the dam to its current height. Inventories conducted...

DOCUMENT Full-Text J. Rudy. M. Keller. Gerlach.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Mullen Wash site, comprised of a granite and basalt structure outline and lithic and sherd scatter, located on Tonto National Forest land. The file consists of a cultural resources inventory form, University of Arizona archaeological survey form, Arizona State University site survey form, Central Arizona Water Control Study site description form, hand drawn site map, and two maps of the site location. The earliest dated document is from 1951.

DOCUMENT Full-Text F. Olson. A. Olson.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for an Olson Survey site, comprised of a cave with artifact scatter, located on Tonto National Forest land. The file consists of an archeological and historical site inventory form, hand drawn map of the site location, and printed map of the site location. The earliest dated document is from 1954.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Alan Olson. Scott Wood. Roger Kelly.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Onyx Canyon site, comprised of two rock shelters with pictographs and bedrock grinding features, located on Tonto National Forest land. The site may be Apache, Archaic, Hohokam, Salado, or a combination thereof; although the documents appear to favor Apache origin. The file consists of a site data form, heritage inventory form, an archeological and historical site inventory form, a hand drawn site map, a Museum of Northern Arizona site card, a...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Steven L. Fuller. A. E. Rogge. Linda M. Gregonis.

The Orme Alternatives Project, which is part of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation's Central Arizona Project, was implemented in order to examine possible alternatives to the proposed Orme Dam and Reservoir. As reported by Canouts (1975), the proposed Orme Reservoir Project would have an extremely adverse impact upon the cultural resources of central Arizona. Therefore, the Bureau of Reclamation contracted the Arizona State Museum to evaluate the impact of two partial alternatives. One alternative...

DOCUMENT Full-Text F. Olson. A. Olson. J. S. Wood. Ross.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Oxbow Ruin site, located on Tonto National Forest land. The site is comprised of two loci, connected by artifact scatter. The Hardt/Miami Phase locus contains trash middens, hornos, jacales, and stone foundations. The Roosevelt Phase locus contains a masonry caserón, a pit house, and a cemetery. An old wagon road is also found within the site boundaries. The file consists of a heritage inventory form, hand drawn site map, and three cultural...

DOCUMENT Full-Text F. Olson. A. Olson.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Payson Pueblo 109 site, comprised of two sandstone room footings and a retaining wall, located on Tonto National Forest land. The file consists of an archeological and historical site inventory, blank sketch of the site setting form, hand drawn site map, and a map of the site location.

DOCUMENT Full-Text F. Olson. A. Olson.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Payson Pueblo 110 site, comprised of a small granite pueblo with artifact scatter and trash, located on Tonto National Forest land. The file consists of an archeological and historical site inventory form, blank sketch of site setting form, hand drawn site map, and map of the site location. The earliest dated document is from 1954.