Continued Work on the Ray Robinson Collection: Four Salado Sites in the Northern San Pedro Valley Region of Southeastern Arizona

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

As investigations continue into the Ray Robinson Collection by Archaeology Southwest’s dedicated team of volunteer researchers, attention now turns to assemblages collected by Robinson in the northern San Pedro Valley (and vicinity) of southeastern Arizona. During Ray’s consulting work for mining companies in the area, he documented four sites near the present-day towns of Kearny, Winkelman, and Mammoth. Using Ray’s extensive field notes and other available historical information, our research indicates that three of these sites might have been professionally recorded after Ray visited them. Most notable is the Smith Wash site (AZ BB:1:3 ASM), a late Salado room block of 50–75 structures located west of the Gila-San Pedro confluence. We have also tentatively linked two other sites in this collection with professionally recorded sites along the San Pedro that date to the Salado period (fourteenth century CE). The fourth Salado site (Mustang), at the San Pedro-Gila confluence, is currently beneath mine tailings and to our knowledge has not been professionally recorded. This paper will share the results of the documentary research conducted on each of the Robinson site locations and present a detailed inventory of the artifact assemblages from each including ceramic typological and obsidian sourcing analyses.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Abstract Id(s): 35661.0