Settlement and Subsistence at the Headwaters of Silver Creek, Western Arizona

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Recent Archaeological Research by PaleoWest" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The Silver Creek drainage in north-central Arizona was a focal point of Ancestral Pueblo population aggregation in the late thirteenth century during a time in which the nearby Colorado Plateau was all but depopulated. With a few notable exceptions, most of the masonry pueblos and villages in the greater Silver Creek area were subsequently destroyed by modern developments. PaleoWest recently conducted approximately 3,000 acres of cultural resource inventory near the headwaters of Silver Creek itself for fuels reduction projects on behalf of the Arizona Game and Fish Department and the Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management. The results suggest that enough archaeology remains intact to answer important questions about settlement and use of the local ecosystem during a time of climatic and cultural upheaval in the greater Southwest.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Recent Archaeological Research by PaleoWest   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Abstract Id(s): 37148.0