Roosevelt Platform Mound Study (RPMS): Articles and Other Documents
Part of: Roosevelt Platform Mound Study
The Roosevelt Platform Mound Study (RPMS) examined the ancient architecture, ecological relationships, economies, settlement patterns, social organization, and subsistence of three Classic period community complexes in the Tonto Basin of Arizona in the geographic areas known as Pinto Creek, Cline Terrace, and Rock Island. The data came from the investigation of over 75 prehistoric sites arranged in three clusters within the Tonto Basin. There are many sites arranged in other clusters that remain unstudied. The RPMS lasted for eight years, about four of which involved field investigation of the sites.
This collection includes an article describing tDAR's work with the RPMS digital collection and four short articles that summarize the research results in general categories or about specific topics.
Site Name Keywords
Cline Terrace Platform Mound •
Pinto Point Mound •
Schoolhouse Mound •
Pyramid Mound •
Bass Point Mound •
Livingston Platform Mound Site •
Pillar Mound
Site Type Keywords
Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex
Other Keywords
Platform Mound
Culture Keywords
Hohokam •
Salado •
Ancestral Puebloan •
Mogollon
Investigation Types
Archaeological Overview •
Methodology, Theory, or Synthesis •
Heritage Management •
Site Evaluation / Testing •
Systematic Survey •
Environment Research •
Bioarchaeological Research •
Architectural Documentation •
Collections Research •
Research Design / Data Recovery Plan
Material Types
Ceramic •
Chipped Stone •
Dating Sample •
Fauna •
Fire Cracked Rock •
Ground Stone •
Building Materials •
Human Remains •
Macrobotanical •
Pollen
Temporal Keywords
Classic Period
Geographic Keywords
Gila County (County) •
Arizona (State / Territory) •
United States of America (Country) •
North America (Continent) •
USA (Country) •
Tonto Basin •
Theodore Roosevelt Lake •
Pinto Creek •
Salt River •
Salt River Basin
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Archaeology in America: Cline Terrace Platform Mound and Tonto National Monument (2009)
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The Cline Terrace site (AD 1280 to 1400) was a Hohokam style platform mound in the Tonto basin of central Arizona. Cline Terrace is one of the most thoroughly documented platform mounds in the Southwest. A modern excavation project, the Roosevelt Platform Mound Study, generated a large data set from the platform mound, as well as from three villages and two hamlet sites surrounding the mound. These data enabled detailed comparisons between a platform mound and the associated communities where...
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Archaeology in America: Hohokam Platform Mounds (2009)
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The prehistoric Hohokam people of central Arizona constructed platform mounds at more than 100 sites between AD 1250 and 1450. These were stage-like platforms 2–2.5 meters high on which the Hohokam built rooms to place them in higher and more prominent locations in comparison to other rooms in the surrounding community. Sometimes additional rooms were constructed around the base of the platform mound, and a wall was built at ground level to surround the platform mound and rooms inside a...
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Archaeology in America: Schoolhouse Point Mesa Sites (2009)
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On the southern end of the Tonto basin, along the waters of the Salt River, is a peninsula of land known as Schoolhouse Point Mesa, for the small school that once was located there. The structure and arrangement of the community on Schoolhouse Point Mesa reflect the characteristics of five other, nearby communities in the basin that also overlook the Salt River. Like the other four villages nearby, the Schoolhouse Point community grew quickly starting around AD 1250, called the Roosevelt phase...
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Making Archaeological Data and Information Discoverable, Accessible, and Usable for 21st Century Research: The Theodore Roosevelt Dam Archaeological Project, Tonto Basin, Arizona (2016)
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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...
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Platform Mounds of the Arizona Desert: An Experiment in Organizational Complexity (1993)
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Platform mounds were built by the prehistoric Salado and Hohokam people of southern Arizona from the 13th through the 15th century A.O., the Classic period. They are basically artificial, flat-topped hills on which the ruling families of the day built their homes. Additional residences and storage rooms were built around the base of a mound, and the whole was enclosed within a compound wall. Each mound was the administrative, ceremonial, and economic center for a small-scale political system,...