Lower Mayfield Canyon Ruin Arizona Site Steward File

Author(s): Scott Wood; F. Olson; A. Olson

Year: 2001

Summary

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Lower Mayfield Canyon Ruin site, located on Tonto National Forest land. The site consists of a settlement, alternatively described as a caserón, compound, or pueblo, as well as trash deposits containing human bones.

The file consists of a site data form, heritage inventory form, three site maps, three pages of unlabeled site data forms, and a map of the site collection. The earliest dated document is from 1929.

Cite this Record

Lower Mayfield Canyon Ruin Arizona Site Steward File. Scott Wood, F. Olson, A. Olson. 2001 ( tDAR id: 400855) ; doi:10.6067/XCV86W9CWP

Keywords

Culture
Payson Tradition

Material
Black-on-Redware • Building Materials • Ceramic • Chipped Stone • Earth • Granite • Ground Stone • Human Remains • Little Colorado Whiteware • Masonry • Plainware • Polychrome Ware • Redware • Salado Redware • St. Johns Polychrome Ware? • Tonto Plainware • Tonto Redware • Whiteware • Wood

Site Name
AR-03-12-04-22 • Lower Mayfield Canyon Ruin

Site Type
Archaeological Feature • Caserón • Compound • Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex • Domestic Structures • Funerary and Burial Structures or Features • Granite Caserón • Granite Compound • Granite Pueblo • Inhumation • Masonry Caserón • Masonry Compound • Masonry Pueblo • Midden • Pueblo • Room Block / Compound / Pueblo • Settlements

Investigation Types
Site Stewardship Monitoring

General
Bifacial Mano • Bone (Human) • Flake Scraper • Hammer • Hammerstone • Knife • Mano • Metate • Scraper • Slab Metate • Trough Metate

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

Temporal Keywords
Payson Phase

Temporal Coverage

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

Spatial Coverage

min long: -111.934; min lat: 33.22 ; max long: -110.671; max lat: 34.529 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): Arizona State Parks

Contributor(s): David Shank

Landowner(s): U. S. Forest Service

Prepared By(s): Arizona State Parks

File Information

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Contact(s): Arizona State Parks