The Picacho Reservoir Archaic Project
essay 1986 Bayham, Frank E.

Middle-Late Desert ArchaicNorth America > Southwest and Basin
Bayham describes the archaeological investigations for the Tucson Aqueduct alignment that was to bring water to the Picacho Reservoir. The archaic sites that were found around the project and were to be negatively impacted by the construction were in...

Projectile point classification and Middle Archaic stratigraphic relationships in the Picacho area
essay 1986 Bayham, Frank E.

Middle-Late Desert ArchaicNorth America > Southwest and Basin
Bayham examines and analyzes the projectile points from various sites at the Picacho Reservoir and he compares the points from the Buried Dune (AA:3:16)and Arroyo (AA:3:28) sites. Both these sites have C-14 dates and indications that their stratigrap...

Middle Archaic animal utilization in south-central Arizona
essay 1986 Bayham, Frank E.

Middle-Late Desert ArchaicNorth America > Southwest and Basin
Bayham analyzed the archaeofaunal remains from 19 sites in the Picacho Reservoir study area. Only three of the sites produced sufficient quantities of bone dated to the Middle Archaic: the Arroyo site, Locus L; the Buried Dune site; and the Gate site...

Thermoluminescence dates on hearth stones
essay 1986 Bayham, Frank E.

Middle-Late Desert ArchaicNorth America > Southwest and Basin
Bayham submitted five samples of hearth stones to determine their thermoluminescence dates. While the dates obtained were younger than C-14 dates from the same features, the dates were nontheless consistent with one another....

Regional patterns of foraging and mobility
essay 1986 Bayham, Frank E. & Shackley, M. Steven

Middle-Late Desert ArchaicNorth America > Southwest and Basin
Bayham and Shackley hypothesize that there will be a change in hunting patterns through time as people in the southwest became more settled. Specifically they state that groups that have high mobility will hunt the animal with the highest ranked retu...

Episodic use of a marginal environment
essay 1986 Bayham, Frank E. & Morris, Donald H.

Middle-Late Desert ArchaicNorth America > Southwest and Basin
Bayham and Morris present a synthesis of the prehistoric use and environmental changes that occurred in the Picacho reservoir area. 'The long-term pattern of episodic use of the ... study area coincides with temperature maxima which are inferred to i...

References cited
essay 1986 Bayham, Frank E. et al.

Middle-Late Desert ArchaicNorth America > Southwest and Basin
This document contains the references for documents nos. 23-48....

The Dune Field sites
essay 1986 Bayham, Frank E. et al.

Middle-Late Desert ArchaicNorth America > Southwest and Basin
Bayham describes the fieldwork and the sites found in the dune fields, most of which are Archaic or Middle Archaic with a few occupied also during the Hohokam period. Data attributed to the Hohokam time period were not marked for OCM (Outline of Cult...

The Arroyo site
essay 1986 Bayham, Frank E. et al.

Middle-Late Desert ArchaicNorth America > Southwest and Basin
Bayham et al. describe the various loci associated with AZ AA:3:28 (ASU). These were labeled Locus A-M. They also describe the artifacts recovered, what types of activities occurred at the site, and the field work conducted at each locus. There is al...

The Lower Bajada sites
essay 1986 Bayham, Frank E. et al.

Middle-Late Desert ArchaicNorth America > Southwest and Basin
Bayham et al. describe the various sites that were found around the Lower Bajada. Their environments are described along with the field work conducted at each site. The artifacts found are listed and the various site activities are briefly described....

Radiocarbon dates
essay 1986 Bayham, Frank E. et al.

Middle-Late Desert ArchaicNorth America > Southwest and Basin
'This appendix is a synthesis of all the radiocarbon dates, laboratory sample numbers, and provenience information.' (page 415)....

Ground stone data
essay 1986 Bayham, Frank E. et al.

Middle-Late Desert ArchaicNorth America > Southwest and Basin
This appendix is a catalog of the ground stone from the Picacho project sites....

Projectile point data
essay 1986 Bayham, Frank E. et al.

Middle-Late Desert ArchaicNorth America > Southwest and Basin
This appendix presents the recorded metric and morphological attributes for the projectile points and bifaces....

Lithic analyses data
essay 1986 Bayham, Frank E. et al.

Middle-Late Desert ArchaicNorth America > Southwest and Basin
'This appendix contains raw data from lithic analyses presented in Chapters Six, Seven, Eight, and Nine. Included here are lithic technological definitions, followed by definitions of grain size and attributes of lithic manufacture and use. Various l...

Composition of site surface ceramic assemblages, Picacho Reservoir
essay 1986 Bayham, Frank E. et al.

Middle-Late Desert ArchaicNorth America > Southwest and Basin
This appendix presents tables on ceramic assemblages and artifact densities for the sites at Picacho and for the Brady Wash Complex....

Palynology data
essay 1986 Bayham, Frank E. et al.

Middle-Late Desert ArchaicNorth America > Southwest and Basin
This appendix contains data on the species of pollen found in the Picacho study area....

Macroplant and ethnobotanical data
essay 1986 Bayham, Frank E. et al.

Middle-Late Desert ArchaicNorth America > Southwest and Basin
This appendix contains data on the macroplant remains found in the Picacho study area, ethnographic plant use, flowering season and habitat for plants, and ethnobotanical data from other archaeological sites in southern Arizona....

Faunal analysis data
essay 1986 Bayham, Frank E. et al.

Middle-Late Desert ArchaicNorth America > Southwest and Basin
This appendix contains tables on the fauna that was found at each site....