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DOCUMENT Citation Only Kea Warren.

Among the artifacts found at the site of Calixtlahuaca, excavations recovered an unusually large quantity of sherd disks. Calixtlahuaca is an Aztec Postclassic (AD 1130-1530) site located in the Toluca Valley of Central Mexico. These sherd disks, or tejos, were created from bowls and pots broken during antiquity. The potsherds were worked until they were circular in shape. Other researchers have suggested potential uses for these worked sherds, including gaming tokens (for the game patolli), net...

DOCUMENT Full-Text T. Kathleen Henderson.

The Southwest Germann site is among the largest of prehistoric Hohokam settlements in the Queen Creek area. The Rohrig Substation property is located at its southwestern edge and overlaps a previously unreported habitation locus. Archaeological testing (Phase 1 data recovery) at the substation documented the presence of adobe-walled rooms, puddling pits, and trash deposits that were probably contained within an adobe-walled compound on the easternmost side of the Rohrig property. Salt River...

DOCUMENT Full-Text David A. Gregory. Diane L. Douglas.

The Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation), United States Department of the Interior, was in the initial stages of the Water Management Project designed to bring Central Arizona Project water to the Gila River Indian Community (GRIC). Under terms of a contract signed in 1992 with the GRIC, facilities designed and constructed by Reclamation would deliver 173,000 acre-feet of water annually onto the reservation. Federal law mandates consideration of potential impacts of such projects upon cultural...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Glen Rice.

This is a report on archaeological field investigations conducted in 1994 and 1995 at a Classic period Hohokam compound located in the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community of Arizona. The work was performed at the southern locus of site AZ U:9:14 (ASM) under the direction of Glen Rice as part of a course in archaeological field methods taught in the Department of Anthropology at Arizona State University (course number ASB 231 for undergraduates and ASB 532 for graduate...

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This project includes images of ceramic and perishable artifacts from Accession AZRU-61 recovered during the 1984 Archeological Investigations for Modifications to West Ruin Drainage project. Excavations associated with the project were under the direction of Jim Trott of the National Park Service, Santa Fe support office. In addition to trench excavations in the Aztec West plaza, several rooms (225, 221, 222, 223, 129, 158(2), 204, 232, and 255) in the north and west wings of the great house...

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McElmo/Mesa Verde Black-on-white bowl rim sherd chipped into a disk shape from West Plaza Trench, Aztec West Ruin, Accession AZRU-00061, Catalog #7600, FS126. Analysis by Tori Myers and Lori Reed, 2005. Image Aztec Acc61 Ceramic 40: interior view of worked sherd showing painted design. Note: rim edge on lower right side.

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Sherds recovered from Room 225 showing dipper wear and worked edges, Aztec West Ruin, Accession AZRU-00061, Catalog #s 7588 (FS 166), 6833 (FS 111), 7615 (FS 170). Analysis by Tori Myers and Lori Reed, 2005. Image Aztec Acc61 Ceramic 6: Worked sherds: Left: Catalog #7588, McElmo/Mesa Verde Black-on-white, ladle bowl fragments having dipper wear on rim edge; Center: Catalog #6833, Pueblo III style black-on-white, single coil jar handle reworked into a possible gaming piece; Right: Catalog #7615:...

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Worked sherds, disks formed by grinding or chipping, Aztec West Ruin, Accession AZRU-00061. Analysis by Tori Myers and Lori Reed, 2005. Image Aztec Acc61 Ceramic 62 and 63: interior and exterior surface views of sherd disks: a) White Mountain Red Ware indeterminate polychrome small chipped disk (Catalog #5590, FS79, Room 204); b) Pueblo III style b/w small chipped disk (Catalog #9997, FS79, Room 204); c) Mesa Verde style b/w small chipped disk (Catalog #9984, FS64, Room 204); d) Pueblo II/III...

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Examples of worked sherds reshaped into disks from Room 225, 204, 129, and West Plaza Trench, Aztec West Ruin, Accession AZRU-00061. Analysis by Tori Myers and Lori Reed, 2005. Image Aztec Acc61 Ceramic 53: interior view of sherd disks: a) Mesa Verde B/w rim sherd formed into a disk by chipping (fragment) from Room 225 (Catalog #6635, FS49); b) St Johns Polychrome rim sherd formed into a disk by grinding from Room 204 (Catalog #10035, FS65); c) Mesa Verde B/w rim sherd formed into a disk by...

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Worked sherds, disks formed by grinding or chipping, Aztec West Ruin, Accession AZRU-00061. Analysis by Tori Myers and Lori Reed, 2005. Image Aztec Acc61 Ceramic 55 and 56: interior and exterior surface views of sherd disks; top row: Pueblo III style b/w disk formed by grinding (fragment) (Catalog #9959, FS126, West Plaza Trench); Mesa Verde style b/w disk formed by grinding (fragment) (Catalog #6757, FS30, Room 129); Corrugated gray disk formed by grinding (Catalog #9963, FS113, Room 204);...

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Worked sherds, disks formed by grinding or chipping, Aztec West Ruin, Accession AZRU-00061. Analysis by Tori Myers and Lori Reed, 2005. Image Aztec Acc61 Ceramic 57 and 58: interior and exterior surface views of sherd disks: a) Pueblo III style b/w small ground disk (Catalog #7587, FS166, Room 225); b) Pueblo III style b/w small ground disk (Catalog #9991, FS8, Room 204); c) Pueblo III style b/w small chipped disk (Catalog #6621, FS34, Room 232); d) White Mountain White Ware indeterminate...

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Worked sherds, disks formed by grinding or chipping, Aztec West Ruin, Accession AZRU-00061. Analysis by Tori Myers and Lori Reed, 2005. Image Aztec Acc61 Ceramic 60 and 61: interior and exterior surface views of sherd disks: a) Mesa Verde style b/w chipped disk (fragment) (Catalog #9960, FS65, Room 204); b) Mesa Verde B/w chipped/ground disk (fragment) (Catalog #9956, FS166, Room 225); c) Pueblo III style b/w chipped disk (Catalog#6770, FS33, Room 129); d) Mesa Verde style b/w chipped/ground...

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Worked sherds, disks formed by grinding or chipping, Aztec West Ruin, Accession AZRU-00061. Analysis by Tori Myers and Lori Reed, 2005. Image Aztec Acc61 Ceramic 20 and 59: interior and exterior views of disks a) White Mountain Red Ware indeterminate polychrome small chipped disk (Catalog #5590, FS79, Room 204); b) Pueblo III style b/w small chipped disk (Catalog #9997, FS79, Room 204); c) Mesa Verde style b/w small chipped disk (Catalog #9984, FS64, Room 204); d) Pueblo III style b/w small...

IMAGE Lori Reed.

Worked sherds, disks formed by grinding or chipping, Aztec West Ruin, Accession AZRU-00061. Analysis by Tori Myers and Lori Reed, 2005. Image Aztec Acc61 Ceramic 19: top row: Pueblo III style b/w small ground disk (Catalog #7587, FS166, Room 225); Pueblo III style b/w small disk (Catalog #9991, FS8, Room 204); Pueblo III style b/w small chipped disk (Catalog #6621, FS34, Room 232); White Mountain Red Ware indeterminate polychrome chipped and ground disk (Catalog #9951, FS12, Room 129); Mesa...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Mark D. Elson. Deborah L. Swartz. Douglas B. Craig. Jeffrey J. Clark.

The Roosevelt Community Development Study (RCD) was one of three data recovery mitigative 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 Desert Archaeology, Inc. to complete the research for...

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This volume presents analyses of the ceramics collected from excavations conducted by Desert Archaeology, Inc. as part of the Tonto Creek Archaeological Project (TCAP) in the Tonto Basin, Gila County, of east-central Arizona. The project was funded by the Arizona Department of Transportation prior to the widening and realignment of State Route 188 from 1994 to 1996. Over the course of fieldwork from 1992 to 1996, 27 sites were investigated through mapping, surface collection, and excavation....