Upper Mayfield Canyon Ruin Arizona Site Steward File

Author(s): Scott Wood; F. Olson; A. Olson; Mark Zyniecki; E. A. Wood; Elaine Zamora

Year: 2000

Summary

This contains the Arizona Site Steward file for the Upper Mayfield Canyon site, located on Tonto National Forest land. The site is comprised of masonry room blocks; compounds, including one of quartzite and limestone; a limestone pueblo; and houses. Areas between residential structures contain abundant trash deposits. Human graves and one dog burial are also located on site.

The file consists of two site steward data forms, two heritage inventory forms, an Arizona State Museum archaeological survey form, three hand drawn site maps, five maps of the site location, a site inspection/maintenance assessment form, and four pages of repeated forms. The earliest dated document is from 1954.

Cite this Record

Upper Mayfield Canyon Ruin Arizona Site Steward File. Scott Wood, F. Olson, A. Olson, Mark Zyniecki, E. A. Wood, Elaine Zamora. 2000 ( tDAR id: 400869) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8SX6G1Q

Keywords

Culture
Apache? • Historic • Payson Tradition

Material
Basalt • Black-on-Whiteware • Bone • Building Materials • Calcined Bone • Ceramic • Chalcedony • Chert • Chipped Stone • Dogoshi Black-on-Whiteware • Fauna • Fire Cracked Rock • Ground Stone • Holbrook Black-on-Whiteware • Human Remains • Kana'a Black-on-Whiteware • Limestone • Little Colorado Whiteware • Masonry • Mineral • Plainware • Polychrome Ware • Preacher Canyon Chert • Quartz • Quartzite • Redware • Rhyolite • Sandstone • Snowflake Black-on-Whiteware? • St. Johns Polychrome Ware • Tonto Plainware • Tonto Redware • Tonto Redware Payson Variety • Tonto Redware Verde Variety • Tusayan Whiteware • Whiteware Show More

Site Name
AR-03-12-04-34 • AR-03-12-04-35 • Ariz. O:12:6 • AZ O:12:6 ASM • Olson #45 • Payson Pueblo 34 • Payson Pueblo 35 • Upper Mayfield • Upper Mayfield Canyon Ruin

Site Type
Archaeological Feature • Artifact Scatter • Compound • Dog Burial • Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex • Domestic Structures • Funerary and Burial Structures or Features • Grave • House • Limestone Compound • Masonry Compound • Masonry House • Masonry Room Block • Pit • Pit House? • Quartzite Compound • Roasting Pit / Oven / Horno • Room Block • Room Block / Compound / Pueblo • Trash Midden?

Investigation Types
Reconnaissance / Survey • Site Stewardship Monitoring

General
Ax • Basalt Mano • Chopper • Cremation? • Flake • Gravemarker • Grooved Axe • Hammer • Hammerstone • Handstone • Knife • Mano • Maul • Metate • Projectile Point • Pulping Plane • Quartz Hammerstone • Sandstone Pueblo • Scraper

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

Temporal Keywords
Classic Period • Dilzhee Phase • Early Historic • Historic • Payson Phase • Preclassic Period • Prehistoric • Star Valley Phase

Temporal Coverage

Calendar Date: 1150 to 1300 (Time period of Preclassic Period and Payson use based on ceramic analsyis.)

Calendar Date: 1550 to 1875 (Approximate time period of possible Apache use based on ceramic 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): Arizona State Museum

Landowner(s): U. S. Forest Service

Prepared By(s): Arizona State Parks

Record Identifiers

Project No.(s): 05-01

File Information

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Upper-Mayfield-Canyon-Ruin.pdf 4.70mb Nov 18, 2015 12:14:53 PM Confidential
This file is unredacted.

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