The Roosevelt Rural Sites Study, Volume 3: Changing Land Use in the Tonto Basin

Editor(s): Richard Ciolek-Torello; John R. Welch

Year: 1994

Summary

The Roosevelt Rural Sites Study (RRSS) 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 Statistical Research, Inc., to conduct this study.

The RRSS was a two-year mitigative data designed to study small habitation, agricultural, and resource processing sites, which are located away from the main centers of prehistoric habitation in the Tonto Basin, and to contribute to an ongoing synthetic study of Tonto Basin prehistory. The specific research focus of the Roosevelt Rural Sites Study in Reclamation's overall compliance program was the evolution of prehistoric rural land-use systems in the Tonto Basin. Twenty-nine prehistoric sites grouped into six study areas located in the bajada zone surrounding the lake on lands administered by the Tonto National Forest comprise the data base for this study.

The RRSS Volume 3, the final of three volumes, presents the results of archaeobotanical, soil, and paleoclimatic analyses. These results are examined within an interpretive framework developed from an examination of records pertaining to ethnographic, ethnohistoric, and historic land-use in central Arizona. The volume concludes with several synthetic chapters. These chapters relate changing rural land-use patterns to demographic and paleoclimatic factors and the overall changes in settlement and subsistence in the Tonto Basin. Finally, the authors attempt to identify the implications of this research for important issues in Tonto Basin prehistory, such as sociopolitical complexity and cultural affiliation.

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The Roosevelt Rural Sites Study, Volume 3: Changing Land Use in the Tonto Basin. Richard Ciolek-Torello, John R. Welch. Statistical Research Technical Series ,28. Tucson, AZ: SRI Press. 1994 ( tDAR id: 399113) ; doi:10.6067/XCV81N82FC

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Keywords

Culture
Ancestral Puebloan • Hohokam • Salado

Material
Macrobotanical • Pollen

Site Name
AR-03-12-06-111(USFS) • AR-03-12-06-1171(USFS) • AR-03-12-06-1464(USFS) • AR-03-12-06-1551(USFS) • AR-03-12-06-1554(USFS) • AR-03-12-06-1558(USFS) • AR-03-12-06-1560(USFS) • AR-03-12-06-1561(USFS) • AR-03-12-06-1562(USFS) • AR-03-12-06-1568(USFS) • AR-03-12-06-1574(USFS) • AR-03-12-06-1576(USFS) • AR-03-12-06-1578(USFS) • AR-03-12-06-1579(USFS) • AR-03-12-06-1580(USFS) • AR-03-12-06-1584(USFS) • AR-03-12-06-1590(USFS) • AR-03-12-06-1592(USFS) • AR-03-12-06-182(USFS) • AR-03-12-06-318(USFS) • AR-03-12-06-457(USFS) • AR-03-12-06-742(USFS) • AR-03-12-06-835(USFS) • AR-03-12-06-838(USFS) • AR-03-12-06-918(USFS) • AR-03-12-06-942(USFS) • AR-03-12-06-959(USFS) • AR-03-12-06-971(USFS) • AR-03-12-06-972(USFS) • AZ V:8:12(ASM) • AZ V:8:178(ASM) • AZ V:8:181(ASM) • AZ V:8:185(ASM) • AZ V:8:187(ASM) • AZ V:8:190(ASM) • AZ V:8:192(ASM) • AZ V:8:194(ASM) • AZ V:8:195(ASM) • AZ V:8:196(ASM) • AZ V:8:202(ASM) • AZ V:8:211(ASM) • AZ V:8:213(ASM) • AZ V:8:215(ASM) • AZ V:8:219(ASM) • AZ V:8:221(ASM) • AZ V:8:223(ASM) • AZ V:8:224(ASM) • AZ V:8:225(ASM) • AZ V:8:229(ASM) • AZ V:8:233(ASM) • AZ V:8:234(ASM) • AZ V:8:235(ASM) • AZ V:8:236(ASM) • AZ V:8:239(ASM) • AZ V:8:241(ASM) • AZ V:8:508(ASM) • AZ V:8:509(ASM) • AZ V:8:510(ASM) • AZ V:8:511(ASM) • AZ V:8:52(ASM) • AZ V:8:78(ASM) • Bald Eagle Hill • Grapevine Spring • Grapevine Vista • Marina Hill • Porter Springs Marina • Riser Site • Vineyard Point Show More

Site Type
Agricultural Field or Field Feature • Agricultural or Herding • Archaeological Feature • Artifact Scatter • Checkdam • Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex • Domestic Structures • Encampment • Field House • Funerary and Burial Structures or Features • Hamlet / Village • Hearth • House • Hunting / Trapping • Hunting Blind • Isolated Burial • Midden • Pit • Quarry • Resource Extraction / Production / Transportation Structure or Features • Roasting Pit / Oven / Horno • Rock Alignment • Settlements • Trash Midden

Investigation Types
Environment Research • Ethnohistoric Research • Site Evaluation / Testing

General
Agriculture • Ethnobotanical Report • Phytolith Analysis • Rural Settlement • Settlement patterns • Soil Analysis • Tonto Basin Prehistory

Geographic Keywords
Mazatzal Mountains • Roosevelt Lake • Salt River • Sierra Ancha • Theodore Roosevelt Dam

Temporal Keywords
Archaic • Gila Phase • Hohokam Classic period • Hohokam pre-Classic period • Roosevelt Phase • Sacaton Phase

Spatial Coverage

min long: -111.364; min lat: 33.615 ; max long: -110.924; max lat: 34.032 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): SRI Press

Contributor(s): Karen R. Adams; Jeffrey Altschul; steven bozarth; Jeffrey A. Homburg; Martin R. Rose; Carla R. Van West; Stephanie M. Whittlesey

Principal Investigator(s): Richard Ciolek-Torello

Project Director(s): John R. Welch

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

Prepared By(s): Statistical Research, Inc.

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

Record Identifiers

Bureau of Reclamation, Central Arizona Project, RFP(s): 9-SP-32-01060

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