The Clay Mineralogy of Roosevelt Lake: A Trap for Fine-Grained Sediments in East-Central Arizona

In the course of an archaeological survey of the Point of Pines area, San Carlos Apache Reservation in east-central Arizona, E. W. Haury and E. B. Sayles, of the University of Arizona, noted the presence of a number of depressions which held surface water for a considerable period of time beyond the normal time for runoff. Furthermore, these depressions, or basins, appeared to be associated to some extent with specific archaeological ruins. The possibility that these depressions were made by the aboriginal inhabitants for the purpose of establishing and maintaining a water supply, led the writer in 1948 to excavate several of the depressions to determine their nature and date of construction, length of usage, time of abandonment, and other cultural information. The work was carried on during the 1948 season of the University of Arizona archaeological field school.

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Social Change and Hunting during the Pueblo III to Pueblo IV Transition, East-Central Arizona

Journal of Field Archaeology ◽

10.1179/jfa.2001.28.3-4.271 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 28 (3-4) ◽

pp. 271-285 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Rebecca M. Dean

Keyword(s):

Social Change ◽

East Central ◽

Central Arizona

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An Alluvial Site on the San Carlos Indian Reservation, Arizona

American Antiquity ◽

10.2307/277276 ◽

1957 ◽

Vol 23 (1) ◽

pp. 2-27 ◽

Cited By ~ 23

Author(s):

Emil W. Haury

Keyword(s):

Mountainous Region ◽

Human History ◽

Indian Reservation ◽

Alluvial Deposits ◽

Subsistence Economy ◽

East Central ◽

Village Life ◽

San Carlos ◽

Central Arizona ◽

Early Human

The Mountainous belt of east-central Arizona has produced little evidence bearing on the problem of human history prior to the introduction of pottery and agriculture and the development of village life. In terms of the Christian calendar the events since about A.D. 1 are understood with varying degrees of clarity and reliability, but before the beginning of the Christian era the record for this region is still largely a void. The nature of the terrain, composed mainly of mountains with narrow, steeply pitching, and deeply entrenched valleys, has been unfavorable for the formation of the kind of alluvial deposits in which early human remains are often found. But there is no reason to suppose that the ecology of a mountainous region was less attractive to people of a primitive subsistence economy than were the plains or the broad low-lying intermountain valleys.

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