Garden Valley Ruin Arizona Site Steward File

Author(s): Joseph Crary

Year: 1987

Summary

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Garden Valley Ruin, located on Tonto National Forest land. The site consists of a Hohokam farming village with masonry room blocks, terraces, field houses, a pit house village, trash middens, artifact scatter, and isolated rooms.

The file consists of a heritage inventory form, two maps of the site location, six cultural resource preliminary inventory forms, and six forms entitled Proposed Variables for Site Recording on Tonto and Prescott Overviews. The earliest dated form is from 1987.

Cite this Record

Garden Valley Ruin Arizona Site Steward File. Joseph Crary. 1987 ( tDAR id: 400835) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8SB47KP

Keywords

Culture
Hohokam

Material
Basalt • Black-on-Brownware • Brownware • Buffware • Building Materials • Ceramic • Chalcedony • Chert • Chipped Stone • Earth • Fauna • Felsic Rock • Gila Plainware • Gila Plainware, Gila Variety • Gila Plainware, Salt Variety • Gila Redware • Gila Redware, Gila Variety • Gila Redware, Salt Variety • Glass • Greenstone • Ground Stone • Masonry • Metal • Plainware • Polychrome Ware • Red-on-Buffware • Red-on-Whiteware • Redware • Sacaton Red-on-Buffware • Salt River Redware • Santa Cruz Red-on-Buffware • Stone • Turtle (Testudines) • Whiteware Show More

Site Name
AR-03-12-03-139 • Garden Valley Ruin

Site Type
Archaeological Feature • Artifact Scatter • Bedrock Grinding Feature • Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex • Domestic Structures • Field House • Hamlet / Village • Lithic Scatter • Masonry Room Block • Midden • Milling Feature • Pit House • Pit House / Earth Lodge • Resource Extraction / Production / Transportation Structure or Features • Room Block • Room Block / Compound / Pueblo • Settlements • Sherd Scatter • Trash Midden • Wall

Investigation Types
Site Stewardship Monitoring

General
Bone (Turtle) • Can • Hammerstone • Mano • Metate • Projectile Point • Turtle Shell

Geographic Keywords
Arizona (State / Territory) • North Eastern Region

Temporal Keywords
Classic Period • Colonial Period • Preclassic Period • Prehistoric • Sedentary Period

Temporal Coverage

Calendar Date: 850 to 1300 (Dates of site use indicated by ceramic analysis.)

Spatial Coverage

min long: -111.923; min lat: 33.193 ; max long: -110.786; max lat: 34.398 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): Arizona State Parks

Landowner(s): U. S. Forest Service

Prepared By(s): Arizona State Parks

Record Identifiers

Forest Service Project No.(s): 87-55

File Information

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