Vanishing River Volume 1: Part 1, Scorpion Point Village: Chapters 1 - 4

Part of the Lower Verde Archaeological project

Author(s): WIlliam L. Deaver

Editor(s): Richard Ciolek-Torello

Year: 1997

Summary

The Scorpion Point site is located on a remnant of a Pleistocene terrace about 37 m above the Verde River. Researchers began the fieldwork expecting to find no more than a dozen pit houses representing a few small pre-Classic period farmsteads scattered along the terrace above the Verde River. Instead, they found the remains of a ball court village with at least 50, and perhaps as many as 300, pit houses.

At the conclusion of fieldwork at Scorpion Point Village, archaeologists with the Lower Verde project had identified 284 features, including 57 pit structures, 5 inhumations, 20 cremations, 2 ball courts, and 199 extramural features. These features represented a settlement that was occupied intermittently from the end of the Pioneer period through the Sedentary period. Many of the surface features represented a later, Classic period reuse of the site area for dry-farming and a still-later, historical-period construction camp.

The pre-Classic period occupation of Scorpion Point is treated in this volume. The Classic period agricultural site is described in Volume 2, Chapter 4. The historical-period component has been treated in Douglas et al. 1994.

Cite this Record

Vanishing River Volume 1: Part 1, Scorpion Point Village: Chapters 1 - 4. WIlliam L. Deaver, Richard Ciolek-Torello. In Vanishing River: Landscapes and Lives of the Lower Verde Valley: The Lower Verde Archaeological Project: Volume 1: Descriptions of Habitation and Nonagricultural Sites. Pp. 1-87. Tucson, AZ: Statistical Research, Inc. Press. 1997 ( tDAR id: 368779) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8XD0ZQF

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Keywords

Culture
Historic • Historic Native American • Hohokam

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

Site Name
AR-03-12-01-819(USFS) • AR-03-12-01-820(USFS) • AR-03-12-01-821(USFS) • AR-03-12-01-822(USFS) • AZ U:2:22(ASU) • AZ U:2:39(ASM) • AZ U:2:80 (ASM) • AZ U:2:81(ASM) • AZ U:2:82(ASM) • AZ U:2:83(ASM) • Scorpion Point Village

Site Type
Agricultural Field or Field Feature • Artifact Scatter • Funerary and Burial Structures or Features • Hamlet / Village • Hearth • Midden • Pit • Post Hole / Post Mold • Rock Alignment • Water Control Feature

Investigation Types
Archaeological Overview • Data Recovery / Excavation

Geographic Keywords
Central Arizona • lower Verde River

Temporal Keywords
Hohokam Classic period • Hohokam Colonial period • Hohokam Pioneer period • Hohokam pre-Classic period • Hohokam Sedentary period • Protohistoric / Historic Periods

Spatial Coverage

min long: -111.845; min lat: 33.804 ; max long: -111.591; max lat: 34.082 ;

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