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Archaeological Investigations at the Hedgpeth Hills Petroglyph Site
This report presents the results of mitigation activities at the 99,000 square meter Hedgpeth Hills petroglyph and ground stone manufacturing site...
Site Name Keywords
Hedgpeth Hills Petroglyph site •
AZ U:8:159(ASM) •
Schoolhouse Point Mound •
Indian Point Ruin •
Cline Terrace Mound •
Casa Bandolero •
Bass Point Mound •
Pinto Point Mound •
Sand Dune •
Saguaro Muerto
Site Type Keywords
Archaeological Feature •
Rock Art •
Petroglyph •
Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex •
Settlements •
Hamlet / Village •
Domestic Structures •
Pit House / Earth Lodge •
Room Block / Compound / Pueblo •
Platform Mound
Culture Keywords
Hohokam •
Archaic •
Ancestral Puebloan •
Patayan •
Salado
Investigation Types
Archaeological Overview •
Data Recovery / Excavation •
Research Design / Data Recovery Plan •
Site Evaluation / Testing •
Systematic Survey •
Environment Research •
Bioarchaeological Research •
Heritage Management
Material Types
Ceramic •
Chipped Stone •
Dating Sample •
Fauna •
Ground Stone •
Human Remains •
Macrobotanical •
Pollen •
Shell •
Wood
Temporal Keywords
Roosevelt Phase •
Miami Phase •
Gila Phase
Geographic Keywords
Arizona (State / Territory) •
United States of America (Country) •
North America (Continent) •
Tonto Basin •
Salt River •
Gila County (County) •
US (ISO Country Code) •
Maricopa County (County) •
Skunk Creek •
Roosevelt Lake
Collections
Deer Valley Petroglyph Preserve Digital Collections The reports and records in this collection describe the rock art now interpreted at the The Deer Valley Rock Art Center (DVRAC) and the archaeological investigations that led to DVRAC’s founding in 1994. Paper copies of the reports and other archives, as well as its research library, are now housed at the Center for Archaeology and Society Repository at Arizona State University. In an effort to both preserve these documents and make them more accessible to rock art researchers, a portion of these records are now available on...
Theodore Roosevelt Dam Archaeological Project The Center for Archaeology and Society (CAS) and the Center for Digital Antiquity (DA) at Arizona State University have created and are making available via tDAR, a collection of digital documents, data sets, and other information. This digital collection comprises many of the results of the detailed and intensive archaeological investigations undertaken for the Theodore Roosevelt Dam project in the Tonto Basin of central Arizona.
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Hedgpeth Hills Rock Art Recording and Investigations
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This project contains documents relating to the rock art recording and investigations that were conducted by J. Simon Bruder during the early 1980s. The documents associated with this project include a synthesis report of fieldwork, field maps of the Hedgpeth Hills, and locality record sheets for each rock art panel.
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Roosevelt Platform Mound Study
PROJECT
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...