Cultural Resources Survey of a Portion of Dead Horse Ranch State Park, and a Proposed Alignment for a New Access Road in Yavapai County, Arizona

Author(s): M. Zyniecki; Thomas N. Motsinger

Year: 1991

Summary

An archaeological survey of a portion of Dead Horse Ranch State Park, Yavapai County, Arizona, was completed for the Arizona Department of Transportation and Arizona State Parks by SWCA, Inc., Environmental Consultants, under contract to Entranco Engineers, Inc., in July 1990. The project was undertaken for a proposed new access road to the park and a bridge across the Verde River as well as for proposed improvements within the park.

Sites AZ N:4:18 (ASM) and AZ N:4:31 (ASM) had been formally recorded within the project area prior to the current project. These two sites were evaluated during the survey. In addition, 21 sites and 36 isolated occurrences were formally recorded. The two previously recorded sites are eligible for inclusion to the National Register of Historic Places. All of the remaining 21 sites may be eligible for nomination to the National Register of Historic Places, although Sites AZ N:4:39 (ASM) and AZ N:4:44 (ASM) are more likely to be eligible than the others. Only Isolated Occurrence 46 of the total 36 isolated occurrences may be eligible for inclusion to the National Register of Historic Places. Two sites that were recorded during a survey in the past were not relocated during this survey.

Monitoring of the geo-technical testing revealed two subsurface cultural features. One feature was within Site AZ N:4:18 (ASM), a previously recorded site eligible for inclusion to the National Register of Historic Places. The second subsurface feature observed during geo-technical testing was outside the current boundaries for any known site. Glass fragments that may be historic or modern were uncovered in a third area.

The evaluation of all resources in the project area can be accomplished through subsequent testing, such as hand or mechanical testing, mapping, and/or systematic surface collections. In addition to aiding in the formal determination of eligibility for inclusion to the National Register of Historic Places, this may also assist Arizona State Parks in future cultural resource management planning at Dead Horse Ranch State Park. A number of sites were defined as spatially large artifact scatters. The extent of surface artifacts at several of these sites may have resulted from materials being transported by sheet wash or by historic/modern activities such as farming. Testing of sites may provide information on the distribution of subsurface features, resulting in the redefinition of site boundaries into smaller areal units. A primary result of such investigations may assist park managers with more reliable information on site limits when future improvements are planned within the park.

Cite this Record

Cultural Resources Survey of a Portion of Dead Horse Ranch State Park, and a Proposed Alignment for a New Access Road in Yavapai County, Arizona. M. Zyniecki, Thomas N. Motsinger. Flagstaff, AZ: SWCA Environmental Consultants. 1991 ( tDAR id: 399336) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8QZ2CSH

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

Keywords

Culture
Anglo • Euroamerican • Historic • Historic Native American

Material
Abalone • Alabaster • Alameda Brownware • Apache Ware • Aquamarine Glass • Awatovi Yellowware • Azurite • Basalt • Bird • Black Glass • Black Mesa Black-on-Whiteware • Black-on-Grayware • Black-on-Redware • Black-on-Whiteware • Brass • Brown Glass • Brownware • Buffware • Building Materials • Cafeteria Ware • Ceramic • Chalcedony • Chert • China • Chipped Stone • Cibola Black-on-Whiteware • Clear Glass • Cobalt Glass • Cohonina Ware • Concrete • Corn • Deer • Fauna • Fire Cracked Rock • Fish • Flagstaff Black-on-Whiteware • Floyd Black-on-Grayware • Glass • Gray Chert • Grayware • Green Glass • Ground Stone • Gypsum Board • Human Remains • Igneous Rock • Jasper • Jeddito Plainware • Kana-a Black-on-Whiteware • Limestone • Little Colorado Whiteware • Macrobotanical • Malachite • Masonry • Metal • Mollusk • Obsidian • Orangeware • Plainware • Porcelain • Prescott Black-on-Grayware • Prescott Grayware • Purple Glass • Quartzite • Rabbit • Red Chert • Red Jasper • Red-on-Buffware • Redware • Rhyolite • River Cobble • Rodent • Sandstone • San Francisco Grayware • San Francisco Mountain Grayware • Tsegi Orangeware • Tusayan Black-on-Redware • Tusayan Black-on-Whiteware • Tusayan Whiteware • Tuzigoot Redware • Verde Brownware • Verde Grayware • Vesicular Basalt • White Porcelain • Whiteware • Wingfield Plainware • Yellow Chert • Yellow Jasper • Yellowware Show More

Site Name
AZ N:4:18 (ASM) • AZ N:4:31 (ASM) • AZ N:4:32 (ASM) • AZ N:4:33 (ASM) • AZ N:4:34 (ASM) • AZ N:4:35 (ASM) • AZ N:4:36 (ASM) • AZ N:4:37 (ASM); • AZ N:4:38 (ASM) • AZ N:4:39 (ASM) • AZ N:4:40 (ASM) • AZ N:4:41 (ASM) • AZ N:4:42 (ASM) • AZ N:4:43 (ASM) • AZ N:4:44 (ASM) • AZ N:4:45 (ASM) • AZ N:4:46 (ASM) • AZ N:4:47 (ASM) • AZ N:4:48 (ASM) • AZ N:4:49 (ASM) • AZ N:4:50 (ASM) • AZ N:4:51 (ASM) • AZ N:4:54 (MNA) • AZ N:8:21 (ASM) • Ireye Site • Kish Site

Site Type
Agricultural Field or Field Feature • Agricultural or Herding • Archaeological Feature • Artifact Scatter • Ash Lens • Ash Stain • Cairn • Charcoal Lens • Charcoal Stain • Check Dam • Cobble Structure • Concrete Structure • Depression • Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex • Domestic Structures • Encampment • Field House? • Funerary and Burial Structures or Features • Grinding Stone • Homestead • Irrigation Ditch • Isolated Artifact • Isolated Burial • Limestone Cairn • Limestone Rock Alignment • Limestone Rockshelter • Limestone Structure • Limestone Wall • Lithic Scatter • Masonry Room • Masonry Structure • Milling Feature • Organic Stain • Petroglyph • Pit • Pit House • Pit House / Earth Lodge • Pit House Depression • Post Hole • Post Hole / Post Mold • Resource Extraction / Production / Transportation Structure or Features • Rock Alignment • Rock Cairn • Rock Circle • Rock-Lined Pit? • Rock Pile • Rock Shelter • Rock Structure Outiline • Rock Wall • Sandstone Structure • Settlements • Sherd Scatter • Stone Foundation • Structure • Structure Outline • Terrace • Thermal Feature • Trash Scatter • Wall • Water Control Feature Show More

Investigation Types
Ethnographic Research • Ethnohistoric Research • Historic Background Research • Reconnaissance / Survey

General
Adult Burial • Alabaster Button • Automobile Spring • Baling Wire • Basalt Chopper • Basalt Flake • Basalt Hammerstone • Basalt Mano • Basalt Metate • Basin Metate • Bead • Beer Bottle • Bottle • Bottle Cap • Brass Shotgun Shell • Brown Crockery • Bucket • Burned Bone • Button • Cafeteria Ware Mug • Can • Can Lid • Chalcedony Flake • Chert Core • Chert Flake • China Plate • Chopper • Cinder Block • Clem Homestead • Copper Wire • Core • Corn Cob • Crimped Can • Crockery • Female Burial • Flake • Friction Tin Lid • Glass Bead • Glass Bottle • Graffiti • Grinding Slab • Hammerstone • Harmonica Reed • Hole-in-Cap Can • Hoop • Horse Shoe • Igneous Rock Flake • Lard Tin • Levi's • Limestone Core • Lumber • Mano • Metal Bucket • Metal Button • Metal Hoop • Metal Pan • Metate • Military Button • Milk Bucket • Mug • No. 12 U.S. Climax • Obsidian Flake • Obsidian Projectile Point • Pan • Perfume Bottle • Peters No. 20 H.V. • Plate • Pocket Rivet • Projectile Point • Quartzite Core • Quartzite Flake • Quartzite Hammerstone • Remington-UMC • Remington UMC No. 12 NITRO CLUB • REM-UMC No. 10 Arrow • REM UMC No. 16 NITRO CLUB • Rhyolite Mano • Rio Verde Indian Reservation • Sandstone Core • Sandstone Flake • Sandstone Hammerstone • Sandstone Mano • Sandstone Metate • Seed Bead • Shatter • Shell Button • Shell Casing • Shingle • Shotgun Shell • Shovel Head • Soldered Can • Spring • Stove Chimney • Tin • Tricycle Wheel • UMC Co. No. 12 NITRO • Wheel • Whiskey Bottle • Winchester New Rival No. 10 • Winchester No. 12 Super Speed • Wire • Wood Stove Leg • WRA Co. 30 WCF Show More

Geographic Keywords
Arizona (State / Territory) • Coconino National Forest • Cottonwood, AZ • Dead Horse Ranch State Park • Middle Verde Valley • Verde River • Yavapai (County)

Temporal Keywords
Ceramic Period • Historic Period • Prehistoric • Protohistoric • Verde Valley Phase 2 • Verde Valley Phase 3 • Verde Valley Phase 4 • Verde Valley Phase 5

Temporal Coverage

Calendar Date: 1900 to 1920 (Approximate date range of use of AZ N:4:48 (ASM).)

Calendar Date: 1050 to 1399 (Approximate date range of use of AZ N:4:31 (ASM).)

Calendar Date: 800 to 1991 (Dates of use of Dead Horse Ranch State Park Land. 800 is an approximate date of earliest occupation. Use extended to at least the time of writing of the report, 1991.)

Calendar Date: 1850 to 1929 (Date range of historic artifacts found at AZ N:4:39 (ASM).)

Spatial Coverage

min long: -112.03; min lat: 34.738 ; max long: -112.006; max lat: 34.771 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): Arizona State Parks

Contributor(s): Thomas Motsinger; Thomas Messerli; David Purcell

Field Director(s): M. Zyniecki

Prepared By(s): SWCA Environmental Consultants

Submitted To(s): Entranco Engineers,Inc; Arizona Department of Transportation

File Information

  Name Size Creation Date Date Uploaded Access
Cultural-Resource-Survey-at-Dead-Horse-Ranch-State-Park.pdf 2.80mb Jan 10, 1991 Sep 23, 2015 10:05:04 AM Confidential
This file is unredacted.
Cultural-Resource-Survey-at-Dead-Horse-Ranch-State-Park_Redact... 3.51mb Jan 10, 1991 Feb 23, 2016 10:29:07 AM Public
Text or figures on pages 1, 3-4, 7-8, 12, 25, 44, 46, 50, 52, 54, 56, 59, 62, 68, 70, 72, 74, 81-82, 84, 89, 91-93, 95, 97, 99, 102, 105, and 108-109 have been redacted in this file.

Accessing Restricted Files

At least one of the files for this resource is restricted from public view. For more information regarding access to these files, please reference the contact information below

Contact(s): Arizona State Parks