Black Mesa: Survey and Excavation in Northeastern Arizona - 1968

Author(s): George J. Gumerman

Year: 1970

Summary

During the month of June and part of July, 1968, the Center for Anthropological Studies operated an archaeological field school on Black Mesa on the Hopi and Navajo Indian reservations under sponsorship of the Peabody Coal Company of St. Louis, Missouri. A total of eight sites was excavated and 56 sites were surveyed. What follows is a descriptive report of these investigations.

It should he emphasized that this report is mainly descriptive, and that interpretations, where they occur, are tentative. These words are being written after the second year of survey and excavation, and it can he assumed that there will be several years more work on northeastern Black Mesa. The decision was made, therefore, to produce descriptive reports of each year’s results and a final summary volume similar to the University of Utah’s descriptive Glen Canyon reports with their final interpretive volume after the close of the final season. The preliminary and descriptive nature of this report also holds true for the ecological data. Also in this regard, the Navajo archaeology will be discussed in a separate volume.

Cite this Record

Black Mesa: Survey and Excavation in Northeastern Arizona - 1968. George J. Gumerman. 1970 ( tDAR id: 427887) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8427887

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Keywords

Culture
Anasazi • Kayenta Anasazi

Material
Ceramic • Chipped Stone • Fauna • Ground Stone • Human Remains • Macrobotanical • Shell • Wood

Site Name
AZ D:11:11 • AZ D:11:12 • AZ D:11:13 • AZ D:11:15 • AZ D:11:2 • AZ D:11:27 • AZ D:11:3 • AZ D:11:8

Site Type
Archaeological Feature • Burial Pit • Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex • Domestic Structures • Funerary and Burial Structures or Features • Hamlet / Village • Hearth • Kiva / Great Kiva • Mealing Room • Midden • Milling Bin • Milling Feature • Pit • Post Hole / Post Mold • Room Block / Compound / Pueblo • Settlements • Shade Structure / Ramada • Storage Pit • Trash Midden • Wattle & Daub (Jacal) Structure

Investigation Types
Data Recovery / Excavation • Reconnaissance / Survey • Site Evaluation / Testing

Geographic Keywords
Arizona (State / Territory) • Black Mesa, AZ

Temporal Keywords
Basketmaker III Period • Pueblo I-III

Temporal Coverage

Calendar Date: 650 to 1200 (Overall dating for the northeastern Black Mesa area)

Spatial Coverage

min long: -110.528; min lat: 35.559 ; max long: -109.188; max lat: 36.386 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): Salt River Project Cultural Resource Manager

Project Director(s): Robert C. Euler

Sponsor(s): Peabody Coal Company

Prepared By(s): Prescott College

Record Identifiers

Library of Congress No.(s): 79-128169

Prescott College Studies in Anthropology(s): 2

SRP Library Barcode No.(s): 00030539

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