Prehistoric Population Aggregation of the Mt. Trumbull, AZ area

Summary

More than 20 years ago Margaret Lyneis published a thorough review of the Virgin Anasazi, summarizing what was known at the time about chronology, settlement, subsistence, spatial aggregation, exchange, and other topics. Her summary raised a number of key issues needing resolution. Among these was the nature of aggregation in the Plateau area of the Virgin Anasazi. She noted, despite evidence from other places in the Southwest of increasing residential aggregation in PII, there seemed to be little evidence of this from the Mt Trumbull area. In this paper, we present evidence from two sites (Zip Code and Zip Code 2) suggesting a pre-aggregation phase in BMIII or PI times. These sites are interesting because, although they are quite large, extensive sites, they appear to be early in age because pottery is almost entirely unpainted and non corrugated, projectile point styles also seem to pre-date PII, and radiocarbon and OSL dates suggest a BMIII or PI age. Other large sites at Mt Trumbull appear much more aggregated than the Zip Code sites, and have been identified as PII based on pottery styles, radiocarbon and OSL dates. It is likely populations were increasing and more densely clustering together in PII.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 83rd Annual Meeting, Washington, DC (2018)

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Abstract Id(s): 20539