Roosevelt Platform Mound Study

The Roosevelt Platform Mound Study is an eight-year archaeological project conducted in the vicinity of Theodore Roosevelt Lake, Tonto Basin, Arizona. Over 1000 sites are known from the Tonto Basin; 126 sites belonging to the Salado culture were investigated by Arizona State University as part of a multi-institutional research program designed by the Bureau of Reclamation, the Tonto National Forest and the Arizona State Historic Preservation Office in response to recent modification to the Theodore Roosevelt Dam. The research was carried out by the ASU Department of Anthropology, Office of Cultural Resource Management for the Bureau of Reclamation under a permit from the Tonto National Forest..

Collections from the Roosevelt Platform Mound Study will be curated in the new Archaeological Repository along with those from the two other projects that made up the Roosevelt Archaeology Project. The short presentation below provides a brief introduction to the archaeology of this area and indicates the nature of on-line information that will be provided by this sever.

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11/27/95 - phm