Gila County (County) (Geographic Keyword)

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.

DOCUMENT Full-Text F. Olson. A. Olson. Joe Janes. Lindauer. S. Horton. J. S. Wood.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Payson Rock Ruin site, located on Tonto National Forest land. The site consists of a masonry complex, storage and occupied rock shelters, bedrock grinding features, prehistoric and historic petroglyphs, a wickiup ring, and associated artifacts. The site appears to have first been occupied by the Payson Tradition before being reoccupied by the Apache in historic times. The file consists of a heritage inventory form and three hand drawn site maps....

DOCUMENT Full-Text Mary Ownby. Elizabeth J. Miksa. Carlos P. Lavayén.

Petrographic analysis of sand and ceramic samples collected during the State Route 260 – Payson to Heber Archaeological Project aimed to investigate the production and exchange of pottery in this area. The quantitative analysis of sand thin sections allowed two areas of distinct sand composition (petrofacies) to be identified. When the sand temper in the sherds was analyzed qualitatively and quantitatively, it was revealed that most samples throughout the project area were produced with sand...

DOCUMENT Full-Text James M. Vint. Bruce B. Huckell. Penny Minturn.

This report presents the results of Phase 1 data recovery at 13 archaeological sites along the proposed right-of-way for the Punkin Center Section of State Route 188. The Punkin Center Section is one part of a multi-year Arizona Department of Transportation project to realign and improve a 29-km long portion of SR 188, the principal road passing through the Tonto Basin, Gila County, Arizona. The project is funded by the Federal Highway Administration and occurs on Arizona Department of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Bruce B. Huckell. James M. Vint.

This report presents the results of Phase 1 data recovery of nine archaeological sites along the proposed right-of-way for the Slate Creek Section of State Route 188. The Slate Creek Section is one part of a multiyear Arizona Department of Transportation project to realign and improve a 29-km long portion of SR 188, the principal road passing through the Tonto Basin, Gila County, Arizona. The entire project corridor extends north from Sycamore Creek to the junction of SR 188 with SR 87. The...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Bruce B. Huckell. Brenda G. Randolph. Danielle Desruisseaux.

This report presents the results of the Phase 1 testing of seven prehistoric archaeological sites falling within the proposed right-of-way for the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) Sycamore Creek Project, within the Tonto Basin, Gila County, central Arizona. The project is funded by the Federal Highway Administration and occurs on Arizona Department of Transportation right-of-way across Tonto National Forest land. The seven tested sites include a late Preclassic pithouse village [AZ...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd..

ACS performed a Class III (intensive) cultural resources inventory of approximately 34.4 acres of land located along Fossil Creek on the Coconino National Forest (CNF) in conjunction with the proposed construction of a fish barrier on Fossil Creek. The project area lies north of the confluence with the Verde River, on the west side of Fossil Creek, south of the Irving Power Plant site in the Mazatzal Mountains in central Arizona and includes the northern portion or the Mazatzal...

IMAGE Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd..

ACS performed a Class III (intensive) cultural resources inventory of approximately 34.4 acres of land located along Fossil Creek on the Coconino National Forest (CNF) in conjunction with the proposed construction of a fish barrier on Fossil Creek. The project area lies north of the confluence with the Verde River, on the west side of Fossil Creek, south of the Irving Power Plant site in the Mazatzal Mountains in central Arizona and includes the northern portion or the Mazatzal...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chad Yost. Melissa K. Logan.

Feature fill and fire-crack rock recovered from a historic roasting pit at the Tontozona Tarantula site (AZ 0:12:119) in the Tonto National Forest in Gila County, Arizona were submitted for phytolith and organic residue analysis, respectively. The fire-cracked rock was tested for organic residues using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR). Phytolith and organic residue analysis will be used to gain information regarding function of the pit feature.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Owen Lindauer.

This report describes the archaeological investigation, history, and characteristics of the Schoolhouse Point Mound site, part of the Pinto Creek Complex and the Schoolhouse Management Group. The Schoolhouse Point Mound (U:8:24/13a) is a large site with complex stratigraphy. The investigation of it reported here was intensive. The Schoolhouse Point Mound is immediately above the floodplain of the Salt River, on a mesa situated where the river makes a sweeping bend. It is also at the point...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Owen Lindauer.

The Roosevelt Platform Mound Study (RPMS) was one of three mitigative data recovery studies that the Bureau of Reclamation funded to investigate the prehistory of the Tonto Basin in the vicinity of Theodore Roosevelt Dam. The series of investigations constituted Reclamation's program for complying with historic preservation legislation as it applied to the raising and modification of Theodore Roosevelt Dam. Reclamation contracted with the Arizona State University Office of Cultural Resource...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Owen Lindauer.

The Roosevelt Platform Mound Study (RPMS) was one of three mitigative data recovery studies that the Bureau of Reclamation funded to investigate the prehistory of the Tonto Basin in the vicinity of Theodore Roosevelt Dam. The series of investigations constituted Reclamation's program for complying with historic preservation legislation as it applied to the raising and modification of Theodore Roosevelt Dam. Reclamation contracted with the Arizona State University Office of Cultural Resource...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Sarah A. Herr.

This document provides a Plan of Work for Phase 1 data recovery at AZ O:12:14 (ASM)/AR-03-12-04-075 (TNF) (referenced as AZ O:12:14/075 [ASM/TNF]). The Arizona Department of Transportation has requested that archaeological Phase 1 data recovery be conducted at the prehistoric and historic artifact scatter, O:12:14/75. This site, just west of the Preacher Canyon construction segment, will be impacted by construction of an access road to the Payson Wells site. The wells provide the water necessary...