The Tuzigoot Survey and Three Small Verde Valley Projects: Archaeological Investigations in the Middle Verde Valley, Arizona

• Main Author: Tagg, Martyn D.
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: the Digital Archaeological Record
• Subjects: Hohokam; Sinagua; Data Recovery / Excavation; Site Evaluation / Testing; Systematic Survey; Tuzigoot; Montezuma Castle; Montezuma Well; Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex; Resource Extraction/Production/Transportation Structure or Features; Funerary and Burial Structures or Features; Non-Domestic Structures; Archaeological Feature; Ceramic; Chipped Stone; Fauna; Ground Stone; Human Remains; Shell; Monitoring; The Monument; Archeological Survey
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.6067:XCV8GT5K6N_meta$v=1352144648400

This report presents the results of the TUZI 86A archeological project, whose main objective was the inventory of cultural resources within Tuzigoot National Monument and a proposed land acquisition area adjacent to the monument. It states the results of the survey, presents a summary of previous work in the project area, and discusses the cultural history and natural setting of the region. This is followed by site descriptions, artifact analyses and results, interpretations of the subsistence patterns and external relationships of the sites, and the chronology of the area. The archeological survey of the monument and adjacent land identified eight sites, all of which are Southern Sinagua sites (A.D. 1100-1450). This includes the Tuzigoot pueblo and one additional site within Tuzigoot National Monument. A discussion of two nearby pueblos not in the survey area but important to the archeology of the valley is also included. In addition to the Tuzigoot survey, three additional small, unrelated archeological projects in the middle Verde Valley are reported on. These are two projects carried out during TUZI 86A, and a third project completed in 1983 but never published. During the Tuzigoot survey, the author and two other archeologists also excavated a child burial which had been on display in Montezuma Castle (MOCA 86B--Chapter 7), and surveyed a small section of land near Montezuma Well which identified three additional Southern Sinagua sites (MOCA 86A--Chapter 8). In 1983, A. Trinkle Jones monitored installation of drains in the Tuzigoot pueblo; this resulted in the recovery of an infant burial below a room floor (TUZI 83A--Chapter 6). This report is included here since it also deals with the archeology of the Verde Valley and was previously unpublished. The environmental and background information in the first part of this report applies also to these three small projects and is not repeated.