Arizona’s historic and archeological properties are tangible reminders of the people and events that molded the state. Arizona’s archeological sites hold the clues to 12,000 years of culture, land use, settlement, and exploration. Arizona’s historic preservation programs encourage the protection of historic and archeological resources that are associated with important past events, themes, and people; that are representative of periods and types of architecture; possess high artistic value; or that are likely to yield valuable information about the past.
Territories are spatial units that encompass the broadest range of a society’s land-use behaviors as well as the history of human interactions with the natural landscape. Drawing from published documents pertaining to the North American Indian Land Claims and to Read More …
This report describes the results of an archaeological sample survey of the Alamo Reservoir area. Included is a summary of previous regional archaeological research and the archaeological background of the area. A discussion of natural environmental variables is presented. Ten Read More …
A series of sites are currently being developed to preserve and interpret the history and ecology along the north/south Camino Real in Arizona from Tucson to just north of the border with Mexico. The goal of which is to provide Read More …
The Fort Lowell-Adkins Steel property contains significant cultural resources spanning the prehistoric and historic periods. These include prehistoric pit structures, pits, artifact caches, and a trash mound. Historic period features include structural remains, planting pits, irrigation ditches, fence lines, and Read More …
National Register of Historic Places. The three components at the Archer site consisted of a BIII-PI farmstead, a possible PII-III farmstead, and early 20th century artifact scatter. The Thompson House included (1) a. component that might be contemporaneous with earliest Read More …
Ballenger’s camp, one of the four Mormon colonies along the Little Colorado River in northern Arizona, was formally named Brigham City in 1878 in honor of Mormon leader Brigham Young. Brigham City was reasonably prosperous and could boast a school, Read More …
An apparently ideal location turned dangerous not long after the Mormon colonists chose the site on which to build the Obed Fort in 1876. The site was located next to two freshwater springs feeding a lush cienega, full of cattails Read More …
Abandoned less than six years after its founding, the Mormon settlement in the Forestdale Valley, on what is now the Fort Apache Indian Reservation in east-central Arizona, continues to raise questions. The settlement in the Forestdale Valley, 60 miles south Read More …
I stated last issue that there are no historic survivals of Hohokam T-shaped stones. A stout-hearted diffusionist might disagree. Although no such objects are known to me from the ethnographic Southwest or surrounding areas, similarly shaped food-processing tools are known Read More …
Trail preservation issues dominated discussion at the Mid-Year OCTA Board meeting in Independence in April, where the Board of Directors approved a six-point resolution affirming that trail preservation is the organization’s top priority.