Roosevelt Platform Mound Study (RPMS): Reports and Manuals

Part of: Roosevelt Platform Mound Study

This sub-collection contains the all of the volumes in the Roosevelt Monograph series. The first volume describes the project background and research design (A Design for Salado Research). The second volume introduces the archaeology of the Tonto Basin and its interpretation at the time of the studies were initiated (Developing Perspectives on Tonto Basin Prehistory). The fourth through ninth volumes report the results of Roosevelt Platform Mound Study excavations. The final three volumes provide syntheses of the project results.

This sub-collection also includes: (1) a map showing the study area and the general locations of the different investigations; and, (2) the extensive Field and Laboratory Manuals used for the program.

Site Name Keywords
AZ U:4:7(ASM) • AZ U:4:9(ASM) • AZ U:4:10(ASM) • AR-03-12-06-132(USFS) • AR-03-12-06-785(USFS) • AR-03-12-06-295(USFS) • AR-03-12-06-296a(USFS) • AZ U:4:75(ASM) • AR-03-12-06-293(USFS) • AZ V:5:121(ASM)

Site Type Keywords
Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex • Non-Domestic Structures • Domestic Structures • Funerary and Burial Structures or Features • Mound / Earthwork • Plaza • Archaeological Feature • Artifact Scatter • Midden • Post Hole / Post Mold

Other Keywords
Recording Technicalities • Recording Guidelines • Archaeological Laboratory Manual • Field recording systems and procedures

Culture Keywords
Hohokam • Salado • Ancestral Puebloan • Mogollon • Archaic • Late Archaic • Historic

Investigation Types
Heritage Management • Data Recovery / Excavation • Methodology, Theory, or Synthesis • Architectural Documentation • Collections Research • Environment Research • Archaeological Overview • Site Evaluation / Testing • Systematic Survey • Research Design / Data Recovery Plan

Material Types
Ceramic • Chipped Stone • Dating Sample • Fauna • Macrobotanical • Ground Stone • Human Remains • Pollen • Shell • Building Materials

Temporal Keywords
Hohokam Classic period • Gila Phase • Hohokam pre-Classic period • Roosevelt Phase • Classic Period • Miami Phase • Prehistoric • Hohokam Sedentary period • Hohokam Late Classic period • Hohoham Classic period

Geographic Keywords
Gila County (County) • Arizona (State / Territory) • United States of America (Country) • North America (Continent) • USA (Country) • Theodore Roosevelt Lake • Tonto Basin • Tonto National Forest • Rock Island • Pinto Creek

Resources Inside This Collection (Viewing 1-17 of 17)

  • The Archaeology of Schoolhouse Point Mesa, Roosevelt Platform Mound Study: Report on the Schoolhouse Point Mesa Sites, Schoolhouse Management Group, Pinto Creek Complex (1997)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Owen Lindauer.

    This report describes the archaeological investigations and results for studies of sites on Schoolhouse Point Mesa, a large geographic unit naturally bounded by the Salt River on its northern end and by major washes on its eastern and western sides (see Figure 1.1). Although people living on the mesa may have interacted with people living on the other side of major washes or rivers, the ease of interaction among people living on the mesa would have made them relatively more...

  • Archaeology of the Salado in the Livingston Area of Tonto Basin, Roosevelt Platform Mound Study: Report on the Livingston Management Group, Pinto Creek Complex. Part 1 (1994)
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    Platform mounds appeared about 100 years later in the Tonto Basin than in the more southerly parts of the Sonoran Desert (e.g., Hayden 1957:186-189; Fish et al. 1992). The first small mounds were built in the Tonto Basin in the decades following A.D. 1250, but the concept gained rapid acceptance, and by the mid-1300s, the 50-kilometer length of the basin was dominated by ten large, regularly spaced mounds (Wood 1989). The mounds and their associated communities were occupied until shortly after...

  • Archaeology of the Salado in the Livingston Area of Tonto Basin, Roosevelt Platform Mound Study: Report on the Livingston Management Group, Pinto Creek Complex. Part 2 (1994)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Claudine Gravel-Miguel

    This report is the second part of the third site description volume for the Roosevelt Platform Mound Study. The two-part report describes the archaeology and artifacts of sites in the Pinto Creek Complex, Livingston Management Group located east of Pinto Creek. The chapters in this part of the report describe the analyses and results of recovered data, including ceramics, lithics, ground stone, shell, special artifacts, physical anthropology, pollen, plant remains,and faunal remains.

  • Classic Period Settlement in the Uplands of Tonto Basin, Roosevelt Platform Mound Study: Report on the Uplands Complex (1997)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Theodore J. Oliver.

    This report is the third site description volume for the Roosevelt Platform Mound Study. This volume describes 52 Uplands Complex sites investigated by the Roosevelt Platform Mound Study. Excavations or surface collections were conducted at 32 of the sites. These sites were in four study units located in the bajadas and foothill-transition zone of the piedmont that surround and define the Tonto Basin. Although the four Uplands Complex study units are in separate localities, the term "uplands"...

  • A Design for Salado Research (1990)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Claudine Gravel-Miguel

    This is the introduction to the Roosevelt Platform Mound Studies. The Roosevelt Platform Mound Study investigated the physical and social organization of three Classic period community complexes in the Tonto Basin of Arizona known as Pinto Creek, Cline Terrace, and Rock Island. The data were collected from the investigation of 79 prehistoric sites arranged in three clusters within the Tonto Basin. There are many other sites not examined by the investigations described in this series of...

  • Developing Perspectives on Tonto Basin Prehistory (1992)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Francis McManamon

    This volume is the second in the Roosevelt Monograph Series and is based on papers presented by members of the research team of the Roosevelt Platform Mound Study at a symposium held at the Society for American Archaeology annual meeting in New Orleans in the spring of 1991. Three additional chapters have been added based on papers presented elsewhere during that year. We are grateful to the authors for their contributions and their early insights on the data recovered in the early phases of the...

  • Environment and Subsistence in the Classic Period Tonto Basin, The Roosevelt Archaeology Studies, 1989 to 1998 (1998)
    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...

  • A Field Plan for Salado Research (2000)
    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).

  • The Place of the Storehouses, Roosevelt Platform Mound Study: Report on the Schoolhouse Point Mound, Pinto Creek Complex, Parts 1 and 2 (1996)
    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...

  • Roosevelt Platform Mound Study Laboratory Manual: A Laboratory Plan for Salado Research (2000)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Arleyn Simon.

    The Roosevelt Platform Mound Study (RPMS) Lab manual entitled "A Laboratory Plan for Salado Research" (2000) represents the final, principal guide for the study's artifact processing, identification, and specialized analyses. In the opening chapter, the manual describes artifact processing and documentation procedures. The second chapter describes the RPMS database and data documentation procedures. In the remaining chapters, the manual details the artifact processing and specialized analyses...

  • Salado Ceramics and Social Organization: Prehistoric Interactions in Tonto Basin, The Roosevelt Archaeology Studies, 1989 to 1998 (1998)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Claudine Gravel-Miguel

    This report is the second synthesis volume of the Roosevelt Platform Mound Study (RPMS), a multi-year archaeological research project in Tonto Basin of central Arizona that began in April of 1989. This report examines ceramic types as a means of investigation community and social relationships among and between the ceramic producers and users. Stylistic, mineralogical, and chemical analyses are used to investigate these topics. The RPMS was funded by the Bureau of Reclamation, Department...

  • A Salado Platform Mound on Tonto Creek, Roosevelt Platform Mound Study: Report on the Cline Terrace Mound, Cline Terrace Complex (1997)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text David Jacobs.

    This report is the fifth site description volume for the Roosevelt Platform Mound Study and describes archaeological investigations at Cline Terrace Mound. Cline Terrace Mound is part of the Cline Terrace Complex, which is located at the northwestern end of the Tonto Basin, along the eastern bank of Tonto Creek. Cline Terrace Mound is the largest site in the complex and is located in its middle, with many other sites in the areas to the northwest and southeast along Tonto Creek. The smaller...

  • Salado Residential Settlements on Tonto Creek, Roosevelt Platform Mound Study: Report on the Cline Mesa Sites, Cline Terrace Complex, Parts 1 and 2 (1997)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Theodore J. Oliver. David Jacobs.

    This two-part report is the seventh and final site description volume for the Roosevelt Platform Mound Study, an eight-year archaeological research project in the Tonto Basin of central Arizona that began in April 1989. It was funded by the Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the Interior, and was conducted by the Office of Cultural Resource Management in the Department of Anthropology at Arizona State University. The work was performed under a permit from the Tonto National Forest. The...

  • A Synthesis of Tonto Basin Prehistory: The Roosevelt Archaeology Studies, 1989 to 1998 (1998)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Claudine Gravel-Miguel

    Between 1989 and 1993, the Bureau of Reclamation funded four archaeological projects in Tonto Basin of central Arizona, all associated with the modification of the Theodore Roosevelt Dam. The projects were assigned different research objectives and were conducted by separate research teams. The Roosevelt Bajada Survey (RBS) was a sampling survey by SWCA Inc. of portions of the bajada and foothills surrounding Tonto Basin. The Roosevelt Rural Sites Study (RRSS) conducted by Statistical Research...

  • Theodore Roosevelt Dam Project: Color Map of Project and Investigation Areas (1997)
    IMAGE Uploaded by: Francis McManamon

    The Theodore Roosevelt dam studies impact mitigation program consisted of three 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 research was necessary to mitigate any adverse effects related to modifying and raising the height of the Theodore Roosevelt Dam in the Tonto Basin. The color map shows each study's project and investigation areas. The studies are labeled by the cultural...

  • Theodore Roosevelt Dam Studies: B & W Map of the Project and Investigation Areas (1997)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: M Scott Thompson

    The Theodore Roosevelt dam studies impact mitigation program consisted of three 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 research was necessary to mitigate any adverse effects related to modifying and raising the height of the Theodore Roosevelt Dam in the Tonto Basin. A planning team composed of archaeologists from the Bureau of Reclamation, Tonto National Forest, and the State...

  • Where the Rivers Converge, Roosevelt Platform Mound Study: Report on the Rock Island Complex (1995)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Owen Lindauer.

    This report is the second site description volume for the Roosevelt Platform Mound Study. This volume describes the four sites investigated in the Rock Island Complex by the Roosevelt Platform Mound Study. It also presents some of the analyses and integrated conclusions that address the project's research objectives established by the Bureau of Reclamation and Tonto National Forest archaeologists and outlined in our research design. This volume primarily describes a single large site,...