Gila County (County) (Geographic Keyword)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Rachel Fernandez

The mountainous zone below the Mogollon Rim in central Arizona was home to Apache in the pre-Reservation period (pre-A.D. 1875). Four Western Apache site components, dating between the late seventeenth and late nineteenth centuries A.D., were identified during excavations conducted in advance of the realignment of the Preacher Canyon and Little Green Valley segments of State Route 260 between Payson and Heber: Plymouth Landing, AZ O:12:89/AR-03-12-04-1411 (ASM/TNF), McGoonie, AZ...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Karina Casey

The four Apache components reported here were excavated as part of the archaeological work conducted in advance of the Arizona Department of Transportation’s realignment of State Route 260 between Payson and Heber. All archaeological work on this project is confined to that portion of the highway below the Mogollon Rim, on Tonto National Forest land and private inholdings. The sites described here were excavated during the Preacher Canyon segment and the Little Green Valley segment of the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Brian Kenny.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Dixileta Site, located on State Trust land. The Preclassic Hohokam site is comprised of trash middens, a possible ball court, artifact scatter, and fire cracked rock. The file consists of an Arizona State Museum archaeological survey form, site steward program resource nomination form, an aerial photograph, two maps of the site location, correspondence, a memorandum related to signage installation, two highway maps, and land lease records. The...

DOCUMENT Full-Text J. Jefferson Reid.

This documentation is submitted in support of a recommendation that archaeological clearance be granted for construction associated with the Arizona Public Service Company Cholla-Saguaro 500 kV Transmission Line at Site CS-126, within direct impact areas. The expected impacts will result from APS tower 420 and SRP tower 417 This report includes the research design developed for work at this site in accordance with the general research proposal presented in the documentation for determination...

DOCUMENT Full-Text J. Whatley. T. Bone. C. Lovely. M Taylor. Nadia Arambula. D. Ericson. J. Beckley. Jennifer Burke. Scott Wood.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Dos Cerros site, located on Tonto National Forest land. The site is comprised of up to six room blocks, retaining walls, and artifact scatter; and was likely inhabited during the Hohokam Classic Period. The file consists of three heritage inventory forms with hand drawn site maps, as well as a map of the site location. The earliest dated document is from 2004.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Patti Fennen. V. Collins.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Dry Creek Ruin site, comprised of a limestone and river boulder pueblo with trash middens, terracing, and artifact scatter, located on Tonto National Forest land. The file consists of a cultural resource preliminary inventory form, cultural resources inventory form, one page site data overview, and map of the site location. The earliest dated document is from 1928.

DOCUMENT Full-Text A.B. Young. C. Stephens. J. S. Carey. J. S. Wood.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Dugan Ranch Site, located on Tonto National Forest land. The site is comprised of a Classic Period Hohokam compound or caserón with 43 rooms, as well as roasting pits, field houses, checkdams, terraces, artifact scatter, and burials. The file consists of a heritage inventory form, site map, two pages of field notes, an Arizona State University Site Survey Form, and a map of the site location. The earliest dated document is from 1968.

DOCUMENT Full-Text J. S. Wood.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the E. Verde Pictograph Cave site, comprised of a rock shelter with white pictographs and a small number of associated artifacts, located on Tonto National Forest land. The file consists of a heritage inventory form, two black and white photographs, pictograph sketches, and a map of the site location. The earliest dated document is from 2003.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Gregory R. Seymour. R. Thomas Euler.

This report has been prepared in conjunction with the continuing archaeological evaluation and investigation plan for Bureau of Land Management (BLM), State of Arizona, and privately held lands near Kelvin, Pinal County, Arizona. Specifically, this report provides site evaluations and the results of a testing program conducted at ten sites located near Elder Gulch in the Middle Gila Basin of central Arizona. This testing program was conducted from April 24 through May 16, 1990 by SWCA...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Katherine Spielmann. Marc Baker. Judi Cameron. J. Philip Dering. Suzanne K. Fish. Michael Waters.

This volume serves two purposes. It summarizes the subsistence data from the RPMS project and explores what we have learned from the subsistence-related data from the RMPS investigations, as well as the related Roosevelt Rural Sites Study and the Community Development Study. The Roosevelt Platform Mound Study (RMPS) research design was particularly concerned with Classic period sociopolitical organization. Because platform mounds similar to those of the Hohokam were built across the basin...

DOCUMENT Full-Text T.J. Ferguson. Roger Anyon.

Report detailing two days of fieldwork with Apache consultants on the S.R. 260 - Payson to Heber project.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Glen Rice. Arleyn Simon. David Jacobs. Owen Lindauer.

This guideline describes the field recording procedures, codes, techniques of recording, taking photos, illustrating excavations units and other field methods and techniques used as part of the Roosevelt Platform Mound Study (1989-1998).

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jeremy Haines. S. Courtright. E. Morgan.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Fort Jeremy site, comprised of a fortified hilltop, clay hearth, and artifact scatter, located on Tonto National Forest land. The file consists of a heritage inventory form and map of the site location. The earliest dated document is from 1997.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Tyler Sutton

This document is the first of three volumes presenting the results of a two-phase data recovery program conducted by Statistical Research, Inc. (SRI), at 29 prehistoric sites and segments of 2 historical-period roads—Reno Road and the old Bush Highway—along a 25-mile-long segment of State Route 87 (SR 87, or the Beeline Highway), between Saguaro Lake Road and the Gila County Line. A fourth volume presents the findings of a study of the historical-period roads within the project area performed by...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Tyler Sutton

This document is the second of four volumes presenting the results of a two-phase data recovery program conducted by Statistical Research, Inc. (SRI), at 29 prehistoric sites and segments of 2 historical-period roads—Reno Road and the old Bush Highway—along a 25-mile-long segment of State Route 87 (SR 87, or the Beeline Highway), between Saguaro Lake Road and the Gila County Line. A fourth volume presents the findings of a study of the historical-period roads within the project area performed by...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Joseph Crary.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Garden Valley Ruin, located on Tonto National Forest land. The site consists of a Hohokam farming village with masonry room blocks, terraces, field houses, a pit house village, trash middens, artifact scatter, and isolated rooms. The file consists of a heritage inventory form, two maps of the site location, six cultural resource preliminary inventory forms, and six forms entitled Proposed Variables for Site Recording on Tonto and Prescott...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Robert Bischoff.

This is an abstract from the "Geometric Morphometrics in Archaeology" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Traditional analyses of projectile points often use visual identification, the presence or absence of discrete characteristics, or linear measurements to classify points into distinct types. Geometric morphometrics provides additional tools for analyzing, visualizing, and comparing projectile point morphology. In this study, I compare the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text John Kevin.

This is an Arizona Site Steward File for the Gisela Mound site, comprised of a platform mound and pueblo, located on Tonto National Forest land. The file consists of a basic data sheet and site map.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Monroe Amsden. Germick .

This is an Arizona Site Steward File for the Gisela Pueblo 580 site, located on Tonto National Forest land. The site is comprised of a pueblo compound, trash midden, roasting pits, checkdams, terraces, and a possible partial wall. The file consists of a heritage inventory form, five hand drawn site maps, an unlabeled data form, and two maps of the site location. The earliest dated document is from 1929.

DOCUMENT Full-Text J. S. Wood.

This is an Arizona Site Steward File for the Gisela Pueblo 581 site, comprised of a multi-room structure, artifact scatter, and roasting pit, located on Tonto National Forest land. The file consists of a cultural resources preliminary inventory form. The earliest dated document is from 1983.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Scott Wood. Elaine Zamora.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Gisela Schoolhouse Mound site, located on Tonto National Forest land. The site is comprised of a platform mound, indicative of a Salado settlement, and artifacts from 1895 through 1939 when the area held the third schoolhouse for the community of Gisela. The file consists of a site data form, four maps of the site location, a site map, and a summary description of the site. The earliest dated document is from 1986.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Scott Wood.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Grapevine Point Ruin site, located on Tonto National Forest land. The historical site is comprised of multiple concrete foundations, steel pipes, possible latrines, non-native botanicals, and accompanying historic artifact scatter; and may be the location of a power canal tender's home. Select records also mention lithic and ceramic scatter as well as a pueblo. The file consists of a site information sheet, two site maps, two copies of a Central...

PROJECT Uploaded by: Tiffany Clark

This project consists of fauna that was recovered during excavations by the University of Arizona at Grasshopper Pueblo (AZ P:14:1 [ASM]).

DATASET John Olsen.

This dataset consists of a portion of the faunal assemblage that was excavated by the University of Arizona at Grasshopper Pueblo. These data were entered into a digital format from the original faunal coding cards on file at the Arizona State Museum. **NB: up to this point we have not reached the cards for the avian fauna; only mammals are included in this dataset.** In cleaning the digital file February 2018 K. Spielmann undertook the following: The No of Specs column was edited to be a...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Noreen Fritz. Ross Curtis.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Hackberry Road Ruin, comprised of one or two compounds with accompanying artifact scatter and sheet trash, located on Tonto National Forest land. The file consists of a heritage inventory form, two site maps, two copies of an artifact data sheet with sherd sketches, two copies of a preliminary inventory form, and an archaeological site inventory form. The earliest dated document is from 1990.