The Petroglyphs of Black Mountain San Xavier Reservation, Arizona

Summary

During the portion of the San Xavier Survey which covered parts of Black Mountain, the petroglyphs reported by Fontana and others (1959) and Ferg (1979) were encountered, as were several new elements and localities. This report documents the petroglyphs found and provides limited interpretations of their significance, dating, and stylistic relationships to other petroglyphs in the Tucson area.

Data gathered from the Black Mountain site (AA:16:12) contribute toward the development of a regional data base. The principal concerns of regional data base building are: evaluation of each site's regional and environmental context, its cultural and temporal affiliations, documentation of the numbers and kinds of design elements present, and an evaluation of cultural features which may be associated with the petroglyphs. Although some limited comparisons with other sites and areas are feasible at the present time, and enough data have been gathered to formulate several hypotheses concerning the cultural significance of some of the sites in the Tucson area (Ferg 1979; Wallace 1983), we are still primarily gathering descriptive data. As such, the report from this study will be more descriptive than interpretive.

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Contact(s): Desert Archaeology, Inc.

Prepared By(s): Institute for American Research

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