Step 3: Arable Soils

 Carla Van West and Jeff Altschul have suggested that five specific soil types in Tonto Basin would have been suitable for Salado agricultural techniques. Given this information, it is easy to create a layer in which these five types have been coded as a 1 and the remainder coded as 0. The green portions of this map show the locations of soils belonging to this group.

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