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The Ringo Site, Southeastern Arizona*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Alfred E. Johnson and
Raymond H. Thompson
Alfred E. Johnson
Affiliation:
Arizona State Museum, Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
Raymond H. Thompson
Affiliation:
Arizona State Museum, Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
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Abstract

Excavations by the University of Arizona Archaeological Field School in the summer of 1962 indicate that this small site in the Sulphur Spring valley was occupied from A.D. 1250 to 1325. Architectural remains consist of the two adobe-walled room-plaza complexes. Burials were extended inhumations and primary cremations. The artifact inventory is characterized by its simplicity and lack of elaboration. Locally made pottery was primarily plain red and brown with both smudging and texturing. Most of the painted pottery was traded into the site from the surrounding Chihuahua, White Mountain, Tonto Basin, and Tucson areas. The site apparently represents an essentially Mogollon complex with strong contacts with the Babicora phase in Chihuahua and additions from the general Western Pueblo sphere of influence. A Ringo phase, A.D. 1250-1350, is tentatively defined.

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American Antiquity , Volume 28 , Issue 4 , April 1963, pp. 465 - 481
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copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1963

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The data on artifacts are summarized from the Microcard publication, Archives of Archaeology, No. 22 (Johnson and Thompson 1963).

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