Willow Creek Trail Ruin Arizona Site Steward File

Author(s): J. Scott Wood; E. Morgan; T. Bone

Year: 1991

Summary

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for Willow Creek Trail Ruin, located on Tonto National Forest land. The site consists of a Hohokam room block with accompanying agricultural rock piles, terrace, checkdams, artifact scatter, cemetery, and petroglyphs. Additional features may include roasting pits and a sleeping circle. However, site descriptions vary greatly including in the number and configuration of rooms.

The file consists of a heritage inventory form, cultural resources preliminary inventory form, site inspection/maintenance assessment form, several pages of field notes and daily log for archaeological survey, a hand drawn site map, and a map of the site location. The earliest dated document is from 1991.

Cite this Record

Willow Creek Trail Ruin Arizona Site Steward File. J. Scott Wood, E. Morgan, T. Bone. 1991 ( tDAR id: 399681) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8ST7RQ4

Keywords

Culture
Hohokam • Verde Hohokam

Material
Black-on-Whiteware • Ceramic • Chert • Chipped Stone • Claystone? • Fire Cracked Rock • Fossiliferous Chert • Glass • Granite • Ground Stone • Jasper • Obsidian • Plainware • Quartzite • Redware • Soapstone? • Tonto Plainware • Tonto Redware • Tonto Redware Verde Variety • Vesicular Basalt • Walnut Black-on-Whiteware • White Chert • Whiteware • Wingfield Plainware • Wingfield Redware

Site Name
AR-03-12-01-48 • Willow Creek Trail Ruin • Willow Creek Trail Run • Willow Springs Trail

Site Type
Agricultural or Herding • Archaeological Feature • Artifact Scatter • Caserón • Cemetery • Checkdam • Compound Wall? • Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex • Domestic Structures • Funerary and Burial Structures or Features • Lithic Scatter • Midden • Petroglyph • Resource Extraction / Production / Transportation Structure or Features • Roasting Pit? • Rock Alignment • Rock Art • Rock Pile • Room Block • Room Block / Compound / Pueblo • Sleeping Circle? • Terrace • Trash Midden • Wall

Investigation Types
Reconnaissance / Survey • Site Stewardship Monitoring

General
Bone (Human) • Ceramic Spindle Whorl • Core • Flake • Hammerstone • Long Bone (Human) • Mandible (Human) • Mano • Metate • Spindle Whorl

Geographic Keywords
Arizona (State / Territory) • Cave Creek Region • Tonto National Forest

Temporal Keywords
Classic Period • Early Classic Period • Historic • Prehistoric

Temporal Coverage

Calendar Date: 1150 to 1300 (Site date range based on ceramic analysis.)

Calendar Date: 1100 to 1300 (Site date range given on cultural resources preliminary inventory form.)

Spatial Coverage

min long: -112.206; min lat: 33.275 ; max long: -111.02; max lat: 34.153 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): Arizona State Parks

Landowner(s): U. S. Forest Service

Prepared By(s): Arizona State Parks; Tonto National Forest

Record Identifiers

Project Number(s): 91-250A; 01-48; 91-230A; 04-02

File Information

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