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Roosevelt Platform Mound Study (RPMS)

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Theme: 
Culture, Heritage and Identity

Description

The Roosevelt Platform Mound Study (RPMS) was a nine year (1989 to 1998) Data
Recovery Project that excavated 123 villages and 6 platform mounds in Tonto Basin dating
from A.D. 1200 to 1450. The four years of field work included the establishment of a field
station in the Lake Roosevelt area supporting a staff of five senior researchers, 20 field
archaeologist and 10 laboratory analysts. This project documented changes in platform
mounds between A.D. 1270 and 1400 and provided unusually rich comparative data from
the surrounding villages housing the people who helped construct the platform mounds.
Funded through the Department of Interior Bureau of Reclamation under permit from the
Tonto National Forest as part of the modification of the Theodore Roosevelt Dam.

 

Publications: 

Publications - RPMS Project Reports

Jacobs, David, editor (1994)

Archaeology of the Salado in the Livingston Area of Tonto Basin: Roosevelt Platform
Mound Study, Report on the Livingston Management Group (PART 1 AND 2).
Anthropological Field Studies No. 32. Office of Cultural Resource Management,
Department of Anthropology, Arizona State University, Tempe.

Lindauer, Owen, editor (1995)

Where the Rivers Converge: Roosevelt Platform Mound Study, Report on the Rock
Island Complex. Anthropological Field Studies No. 33. Office of Cultural Resource
Management, Department of Anthropology, Arizona State University, Tempe.

Oliver, Theodore (1997)

Classic Period Settlement in the Uplands of Tonto Basin: Roosevelt Platform Mound
Study, Report on the Uplands Complex. Anthropological Field Studies No. 34. Office
of Cultural Resource Management, Department of Anthropology, Arizona State
University, Tempe.

Lindauer, Owen, editor (1996)

The Place of the Storehouses: Roosevelt Platform Mound Study, Report on the
Schoolhouse Point Mound, Pinto Creek Complex (PART 1 AND 2). Anthropological
Field Studies No. 35. Office of Cultural Resource Management, Department of
Anthropology, Arizona State University, Tempe.

Jacobs, David, editor (1997)

A Salado Platform Mound on Tonto Creek: Roosevelt Platform Mound Study, Report
on the Cline Terrace Mound, Cline Terrace Complex. Anthropological Field Studies
No. 36. Office of Cultural Resource Management, Department of Anthropology,
Arizona State University, Tempe.

Lindauer, Owen, editor (1997)

Archaeology of Schoolhouse Point Mesa: Roosevelt Platform Mound Study, Report on
the Schoolhouse Point Mesa Site, Schoolhouse Management Group, Pinto Creek
Complex. Anthropological Field Studies No. 37. Office of Cultural Resource
Management, Department of Anthropology, Arizona State University, Tempe.

Oliver, Theodore and David Jacobs, editors (1997)

Salado Residential Settlements on Tonto Creek, Roosevelt Platform Mound Study,
Report on the Cline Mesa Sites, Cline Terrace Complex (PART 1 AND 2).
Anthropological Field Studies No. 38, Office of Cultural Resource Management,
Department of Anthropology, Arizona State University, Tempe.

Spielmann, Katherine A. editor (1998)

Environment and Subsistence in the Classic Period Tonto Basin; The Roosevelt
Archaeological Study, 1989 to 1998. Anthropological Field Studies No. 39, Office of
Cultural Resource Management, Department of Anthropology, Arizona State
University, Tempe.

Simon, Arleyn A., editor (1998)

Salado Ceramics and Social Organization: Prehistoric Interactions in the Tonto Basin;
The Roosevelt Archaeological Studies, 1989 to 1998. Anthropological Field Studies
No. 40, Office of Cultural Resource Management, Department of Anthropology,
Arizona State University, Tempe.

Rice, Glen E., Editor (1998)

A Synthesis of Tonto Basin Prehistory: The Roosevelt Archaeological Studies, 1989 to
1998. Anthropological Field Studies No. 41, Office of Cultural Resource Management,
Department of Anthropology, Arizona State University, Tempe.

Team Members: 

Research Team

  • Glen E. Rice, Senior Principal Investigator
  • Charles Redman, Co-Principal Investigator
  • Brenda Shears, Project Manager
  • Linda Williams, Asst. Project Manager
  • Arleyn Simon, Project Director
  • David Jacobs, Project Director
  • Owen Lindauer, Project Director
  • Peter McCartney, Project Director
  • Mary Carroll. Project Director
  • Lynn Simon, Logistics Coordinator/ Cartographer
  • Greg Phillips. Cartographer
  • Carol Griffith, Public Outreach
  • Kim Savage. Public Outreach

Project Consultants

  • Kate Spielmann (environmental)
  • Keith Kintigh (quantitatitve)
  • Suzie Fish (pollen)
  • Phil Derring (macrobotanical)
  • Michael Waters (geomorphology)
  • Christy Turner (Physical Anthropology)
  • Marcia Regan (Physical Anthropology)
  • Joel Irish (Physical Anthropology)
  • James Burton (Geology)
  • Jean-Christophe Komorowski (Geology)
  • Steven Shackley (Obsidian)

Crew Chiefs

  • Christopher Loendorf
  • William Matthews
  • Theodore Oliver
  • Kathy Niles Hensler
  • Vern Hensler
  • Et al.
Funding Sources: 

U.S. Department of Interior: Bureau of Reclamation ($7,769,100)