Archeological Notes On Texas Canyon, Arizona No. 3
Author(s): William Shirley Fulton
Year: 1938
Summary
In the introduction to Archeological Notes on Texas Canyon, Arizona, published in 1934 (Vol. XII, No. 2 of this series), certain conclusions were drawn and set forth as being “personal opinions, naturally subject to revision when and if..." In the earlier monograph referred to above, it was stated: ". . it is my present belief that from the time of the first settlement on this site, the inhabitants lived and developed in their own way without any interference, either friendly or otherwise, and that the culture is pure."
In this current monograph, the author desired to alter that expression, and to substitute therefor the suggestions made in various places in the accompanying text, but still with no attempt to arrive at any definite conclusions. For, conclusions which today may seem logical, are tomorrow found to have been reached by faulty reasoning.
Since the publication of the last report on the archeology of Texas Canyon, the work has covered an additional area of about half an acre at Site I, and another half an acre at the other sites. The conditions existing through the first several seasons of excavation, when the ground, on account of its moisture, was rather easily worked, have definitely changed. Where formerly a pick was never found necessary to break up the earth, of late it has been a requisite tool, and, in consequence, the progress of the work has been somewhat retarded. A similar situation exists in the water supply of this district. Dug wells that have produced an abundance of water are now so dry that their supply is negligible. This change has occurred in only three years, and so, in any conjecture as to why certain inhabited sites were abandoned, the question of drought of such intensity as to make living conditions so difficult that people chose to move elsewhere, is one for careful consideration.
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Archeological Notes On Texas Canyon, Arizona No. 3. William Shirley Fulton. 1938 ( tDAR id: 448856) ; doi:10.48512/XCV8448856
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Keywords
Culture
Hohokam
Material
Building Materials
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Ceramic
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Chipped Stone
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Ground Stone
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Human Remains
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Shell
Site Type
Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex
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Domestic Structures
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Pit House / Earth Lodge
Investigation Types
Data Recovery / Excavation
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Site Evaluation / Testing
Geographic Keywords
Arizona (State / Territory)
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Cochise (County)
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Dragoon, AZ
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Interstitial Zone D
Spatial Coverage
min long: -110.104; min lat: 32.008 ; max long: -109.97; max lat: 32.079 ;
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