The Lower Verde Archaeological Project (LVAP) was conducted between 1991 and 1995 by a team of researchers from Statistical Research, Inc. of Tucson. The sites span a time period from circa A.D. 700 through A.D. 1400, the Pre-classic and Classic periods. The purpose of the study as outlined by the published report was to understand small-site settlement patterns, agricultural and subsistence strategies, chronology, cultural affiliation, resource procurement, exchange and craft specialization of the impacted area of the lower Verde River valley.