Walnut Canyon National Monument, Arizona

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WACC documents associated with archaeological work at the park.

Site Name Keywords
Walnut Canyon National Monument • Walnut Canyon

Site Type Keywords
Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex • Funerary and Burial Structures or Features • Archaeological Feature • Resource Extraction / Production / Transportation Structure or Features • Non-Domestic Structures • Rock Art

Culture Keywords
Ancestral Puebloan • Sinagua • Archaic

Investigation Types
Systematic Survey • Archaeological Overview • Data Recovery / Excavation

Material Types
Ceramic • Chipped Stone • Fauna • Macrobotanical • Shell • Pollen • Ground Stone • Building Materials

Geographic Keywords
US (ISO Country Code) • Coconino County (County) • Arizona (State / Territory) • United States of America (Country) • North America (Continent) • Arizona • Walnut Canyon • Coconino County

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  • Walnut Canyon National Monument: An Archeological Overview (1976)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Patricia A. Gilman.

    Walnut Canyon National Monument is viewed here in the environmental context of the region surrounding Flagstaff, Arizona, and in the archeological context of the Sinagua culture area, with emphases on the effective environment and on the importance of the canyon to the Sinagua. Each phase of Sinagua culture history is outlined and related to the culture history of the canyon. Neighboring prehistoric groups, including the Southern Sinagua, Cohonina, Prescott and Anasazi, are discussed in order...

  • Walnut Canyon National Monument: An Archeological Survey: Archeological Investigations in the Walnut Canyon Drainage, North Central Arizona (1985)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Anne R. Baldwin. J. Micheal Bremer.

    The 1985 survey of Walnut Canyon recorded 242 sites, of which the majority were prehistoric. The first period of occupation dates to the Sunset phase, from A.D. 800 to 950, when the southeast section of the monument was most obviously occupied; there is some indication of sporadic early use in other parts of the monument. There is a hiatus from around A.D. 950 to 1066, the date of eruption of Sunset Crater. At the beginning of the 12th century there is a dramatic increase in...

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