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Excavations at the Arroyo site, 42Ka3976 : a Pueblo II/III Virgin Anasazi farmstead

This report describes salvage excavations at a Late Pueblo II/III Virgin Anasazi residential site on the eastern Grand Staircase in Kane County. The site, sealed under a meter of post-occupational alluvium, was recently exposed in profile by the sudden down-cutting of a deep arroyo. The arroyo bisected the site exposing a variety of features including: a room block with both residential and storage rooms, two subterranean pit structures, several small semi-subterranean rooms, multiple occupation surfaces, and a burial. Excavations revealed a complex history of occupation at the Arroyo site: multiple floors in the storage rooms, multiple occupation surfaces and super positioned hearths in the surface residential room, the super positioning of two pit structures, and the occurrence of trash deposits in all of the pit structures, indicated multiple episodes of occupation. This evidence is consistent with a previously described site settlement pattern of family groups having the option of shifting among multiple residences.

Document Type / Category
Cultural Resource Series
Document Collection
BLM Library
State/Office
National Office
Author
McFadden, Douglas A.
Publication Date
2012