Vanishing River Volume 4: Chapter 14: Prehistoric Settlement and Demography in the Lower Verde Region

Part of the Lower Verde Archaeological project

Author(s): Richard Ciolek-Torello

Editor(s): Stephanie M. Whittlesey; Richard Ciolek-Torello; Jeffrey Altschul

Year: 1997

Summary

In Chapter 14, Ciolek-Torello presents one of the first full syntheses of indigenous settlement and demographic patterns in the Verde Valley, without reference to interaction in the Hohokam core area. He begins with a summary of prehistoric settlement patterns from pre-ceramic periods through the Late Classic period across the entire Transition Zone of central Arizona. He then characterizes settlement systems in the lower Verde Valley through time and describes the archaeological sites and features that comprise these patterns. Next, he derives population estimates for settlement in the area. He compares these estimates to the carrying capacity figures that Van West and Altschul calculate in Chapter 9. Finally, Ciolek-Torello concludes with a discussion of changes in settlement and subsistence systems in the Verde Valley through time. He considers these changes in relation to patterns in surrounding areas of central Arizona.

Cite this Record

Vanishing River Volume 4: Chapter 14: Prehistoric Settlement and Demography in the Lower Verde Region. Richard Ciolek-Torello, Stephanie M. Whittlesey, Richard Ciolek-Torello, Jeffrey Altschul. In Vanishing River: Landscapes and Lives of the Lower Verde Valley: The Lower Verde Archaeological Project: Overview, Synthesis, and Conclusions. Pp. 531-596. Tucson, AZ: Statistical Research, Inc. Press. 1997 ( tDAR id: 5926) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8JM28DB

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Keywords

Culture
Archaic • Hohokam • Mogollon • PaleoIndian

Material
Building Materials • Ceramic

Site Name
Agate Ruin • Agate Site Complex • Alder Creek • Alder Creek site • Antler Ruin • Azatlan • AZ O:14:51 • AZ O:14:67/1054 • AZ O:14:98 (ASU)/990 • AZ U:2:13/233 (ASU) • AZ U:2:19 • AZ U:2:19/207 • AZ U:2:60 • AZ U:6:102 • AZ U:6:110 • AZ U:6:125 • AZ U:6:150 • AZ U:6:40 • AZ U:6:78 • AZ U:6:81 • AZ U:6:9 • AZ U:6:91 • AZ U:6:96 • Bartlett Flats site • Brazaletes Ruin • Cable Crossing • Cow Wallow • Crash Landing • CTC site • Damview site • Davenport Ruin • Diamond Bar • Dry Creek Ruin • Dry Wash site • Duberry Spring • Fort McDowell • Howard Ruin • Ister Flat Ruin • Little House • Lone Juniper • McCoy Mesa • Mercer Ruin • Middendrum • Mullen Mesa Ruin • No-see-um site • Roadhouse Ruin • Scorpion Point Village • Sears-Kay Ruin • Shaffer Ruin • Tangle Flat • The Citadel • Two Farms site Show More

Site Type
Agricultural Field or Field Feature • Agricultural or Herding • Ancient Earthwork • Archaeological Feature • Artifact Scatter • Ball Court • Burial Pit • Canal or Canal Feature • Cemetery • Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex • Domestic Structures • Encampment • Funerary and Burial Structures or Features • Hamlet / Village • Hearth • Midden • Mound / Earthwork • Non-Domestic Structures • Pit • Pit House / Earth Lodge • Platform Mound • Post Hole / Post Mold • Resource Extraction / Production / Transportation Structure or Features • Rock Alignment • Room Block / Compound / Pueblo • Settlements • Shade Structure / Ramada • Sheet Midden • Trash Midden • Water Control Feature Show More

Investigation Types
Archaeological Overview • Data Recovery / Excavation • Methodology, Theory, or Synthesis • Systematic Survey

Geographic Keywords
Central Arizona • lower Verde River

Temporal Keywords
Archaic • Colonial Period • Early Formative period • Hohokam Classic period • Hohokam Early Classic period • Hohokam Late Classic period • Hohokam pre-Classic period • PaleoIndian • Pioneer Period • Preceramic period • Sedentary Period

Temporal Coverage

Calendar Date: -10000 to 1450

Spatial Coverage

min long: -111.845; min lat: 33.804 ; max long: -111.591; max lat: 34.082 ;

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