The Roosevelt Community Development Study, Number 14, Volume 2: Ceramic Chronology, Technology, and Economics

Part of the Roosevelt Community Development Study-Center for Desert Archaeology (DRAFT) project

Editor(s): James M. Heidke; Miriam T. Stark

Year: 1995

Summary

The Roosevelt Community Development Study (RCD) was one of three data recovery mitigative 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 Desert Archaeology, Inc. to complete the research for this investigation.

The RCD study involved involved the testing and excavation of 27 sites in a four-mile continuous area along the north bank of the Salt River, in the lower Tonto Basin of central Arizona. Sites within the project area exhibited a great range of functional, temporal, and, likely cultural diversity. These sites included two with platform mounds (the Meddler Point and Pyramid Point sites), a 100-room masonry pueblo (the Griffin Wash site), smaller masonry compounds (e.g., the Porcupine site), and pithouse hamlets and farmsteads (e.g., the Hedge Apple and Eagle Ridge sites). Temporal components ranged from the Early Ceramic period (A.D. 100-600) at Locus B of the Eagle Ridge site, through the Roosevelt phase (A.D. 1250-1350) of the Classic period. .

The Center for Desert Archaeology's Anthropological Papers No. 14 consist of three report volumes that present the artifact and environmental analyses. More than 150,000 artifacts were recovered from the RCD excavations. The focus of this volume (Volume 2) is the ceramic artifact collection. The volume's organization and chapter thumbnails are presented in Chapter 5, and Chapter 6 offers an overview of the RCD ceramic collection. Temporal trends in the buffware and decorated brownware ceramics (Chapter 7), nonbuffware decorated ceramics (Chapter 8), utilitarian ceramic temper (Chapter 9), and utilitarian ceramic manufacturing technology (Chapter 10) are then reviewed. Chapter 11 places the early plainware pottery recovered from one RCD site in the context of the Greater Southwest. Chapter 12 uses temper and paste composition data to probe the origins of the inhabitants of one early Colonial period RCD site. Chapter 13 investigates the relationship between shaped ceramic and stone disks and the evidence for textile production recovered from the project. Chapter 14 explores the relationship between utilitarian vessel form and function, and that study leads into the discussion of technological style and methods for addressing cultural identity using utilitarian ceramics that is presented in Chapter 15. Chapter 16 uses a characterization of early Classic period utilitarian ceramic production, distribution, and consumption to model prehistoric Tonto Basin interaction. Finally, Chapter 17 summarizes the results of the chronological, technological, and economic studies given throughout the volume and places them in the context of the project area's settlement over time.

Volume 1 (Chapters 1-4) describes the stone and shell artifacts. Volume 3 (Chapters 18-22) covers the paleobotanical and osteological data.

Cite this Record

The Roosevelt Community Development Study, Number 14, Volume 2: Ceramic Chronology, Technology, and Economics. James M. Heidke, Miriam T. Stark. Anthropological Papers ,14, Volume 2. Tucson, Arizona: Center for Desert Archaeology. 1995 ( tDAR id: 378206) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8KS6SDT

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Keywords

Culture
Ancestral Puebloan • Hohokam • Salado

Material
Ceramic

Site Name
AR-03-12-06-1001(USFS) • AR-03-12-06-1002(USFS) • AR-03-12-06-1045(USFS) • AR-03-12-06-1537(USFS) • AR-03-12-06-1538(USFS) • AR-03-12-06-1539(USFS) • AR-03-12-06-1540(USFS) • AR-03-12-06-1541(USFS) • AR-03-12-06-1542(USFS) • AR-03-12-06-1543(USFS) • AR-03-12-06-1544(USFS) • AR-03-12-06-1545(USFS) • AR-03-12-06-1547(USFS) • AR-03-12-06-1548(USFS) • AR-03-12-06-1605(USFS) • AR-03-12-06-1606(USFS) • AR-03-12-06-192(USFS) • AR-03-12-06-193(USFS) • AR-03-12-06-2029(USFS) • AR-03-12-06-2041(USFS) • AR-03-12-06-2088(USFS) • AR-03-12-06-217(USFS) • AR-03-12-06-25(USFS) • AR-03-12-06-26(USFS) • AR-03-12-06-29(USFS) • AR-03-12-06-96(USFS) • AZ V:5:1(ASM) • AZ V:5:100(ASM) • AZ V:5:101(ASM) • AZ V:5:103(ASM) • AZ V:5:104(ASM) • AZ V:5:105(ASM) • AZ V:5:106(ASM) • AZ V:5:107(ASM) • AZ V:5:110(ASM) • AZ V:5:122(ASM) • AZ V:5:123(ASM) • AZ V:5:131(ASM) • AZ V:5:176(ASM) • AZ V:5:177(ASM) • AZ V:5:178(ASM) • AZ V:5:189(ASM) • AZ V:5:4(ASM) • AZ V:5:90(ASM) • AZ V:5:91(ASM) • AZ V:5:92(ASM) • AZ V:5:93(ASM) • AZ V:5:94(ASM) • AZ V:5:95(ASM) • AZ V:5:96(ASM) • AZ V:5:97(ASM) • AZ V:5:98(ASM) • AZ V:5:99(ASM) • Eagle Ridge • Griffin Wash • Hedge Apple • Las Manos • Meddler Point • Porcupine • Pyramid Point Show More

Site Type
Archaeological Feature • Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex • Domestic Structures • Funerary and Burial Structures or Features • Hamlet / Village • Hearth • Midden • Pit • Pit House / Earth Lodge • Platform Mound • Room Block / Compound / Pueblo • Settlements

Investigation Types
Site Evaluation / Testing

General
Salado Cultural Group Sites • Tonto Basin Prehistory

Geographic Keywords
Pinto Creek • Roosevelt Lake • Salt River • Sierra Ancha • Theodore Roosevelt Dam • Tonto Basin

Temporal Keywords
Gila Butte Phase • Gila Phase • Hohokam Classic period • Hohokam pre-Classic period • Roosevelt Phase

Temporal Coverage

Calendar Date: 750 to 1450

Spatial Coverage

min long: -111.013; min lat: 33.619 ; max long: -110.926; max lat: 33.674 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): USDI Bureau of Reclamation, Phoenix Area Office

Contributor(s): Ronald J. Beckwith; james burton; Andrew Christenson; James Heidke; Elizabeth Miksa; Miriam T. Stark; Deborah L. Swartz; James M. Vint; Henry Wallace

Principal Investigator(s): William Doelle

Project Director(s): Douglas Craig; Deborah Swartz; Mark D. Elson

Landowner(s): US Forest Service, Tonto National Forest

Sponsor(s): USDI Bureau of Reclamation, Phoenix Area Office

Permitting Agency(s): US Forest Service, Tonto National Forest

Repository(s): Archaeological Research Institute, Arizona State University; Center for Archaeology and Society, Arizona State University

Prepared By(s): Center for Desert Archaeology

Submitted To(s): USDI Bureau of Reclamation, Phoenix Area Office

Record Identifiers

Bureau of Reclamation Contract No.(s): 1-CS-32-01220

Notes

Redaction Note: In the public version of the report: Figure P.2 has been redacted due to the level of detail it contains about site locations. Detailed site features in Figures P.6, P.7, and P.8 have been retained, but geographical information has been redacted.

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