Their Own Road: Archaeological Investigations along State Route 260 Payson to Heber-Kohls Ranch Section
Creators: name: Fernandez, Rachel
Publisher: name: Desert Archaeology, Inc.
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Arizona (State / Territory)
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subject: Gila (County)
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subject: Kohls Ranch
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subject: Classic Period
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subject: Early Cienega Phase
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subject: Early Agricultural period
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subject: Pioneer Period
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subject: Sedentary Period
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subject: San Pedro phase
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subject: Ceramic Period
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subject: Late Historic/Modern Period
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subject: Hohokam
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subject: Huhugam
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subject: Archaic
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subject: Historic
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subject: Middle Archaic
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subject: AZ O:12:32 (ASM)
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subject: Camp Geronimo
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subject: AZ O:12:78 (ASM)
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subject: AZ O:12:97 (ASM)
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subject: AZ O:12:94 (ASM)
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subject: Forest Highway 11
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subject: AZ O:12: 96
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subject: Too New
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subject: AZ O:12:74 (ASM)
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subject: AZ O:12:75 (ASM)
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subject: AZ O:12:95
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subject: AZ O:12:33 (ASM)
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subject: Sammie Haught's Corral
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subject: AZ O:12:77(ASM)
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subject: AZ O:12:98 (ASM)
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subject: Indian Garden
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subject: AZ O:12:34 (ASM)
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subject: Payson to Colcord
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subject: Funerary and Burial Structures or Features
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subject: Remnant
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subject: Showerhouse
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subject: Amphitheater
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subject: Historic Structure
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subject: Culvert
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subject: Flagpole Foundation
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subject: Campfire Pit
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subject: Swingset
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subject: Burial Pit
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subject: Privy
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subject: Campsite
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subject: Leach Pits
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subject: Artifact Scatter
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subject: Foundation
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subject: Midden
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subject: Pit
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subject: Chimney
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subject: Quarry
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subject: Roasting Pit / Oven / Horno
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subject: Pit House / Earth Lodge
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subject: Post Hole / Post Mold
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subject: Lithic Scatter
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subject: Pollen
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subject: Shell
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subject: Wood
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subject: Hide
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subject: Ceramic
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subject: Chipped Stone
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subject: Dating Sample
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subject: Fauna
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subject: Fire Cracked Rock
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subject: Glass
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subject: Ground Stone
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subject: Human Remains
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subject: Macrobotanical
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subject: Metal
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subject: Osteological Analysis
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subject: Vertebrate Faunal Analysis
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subject: Pollen Analysis
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subject: Data Recovery / Excavation
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subject: Records Search / Inventory Checking
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subject: Research Design / Data Recovery Plan
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subject: Site Evaluation / Testing
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description: The Kohls Ranch highway section lies at the center of the State Route (SR) 260 —Payson to Heber project area. This section also crosses a number of central places of the past. Here, near its headwaters, Tonto Creek is a mountain stream, whose terraces widen briefly near the highway before the canyon narrows into the Hells Gate Wilderness to the south. Indian Garden, a mile to the east, is a spring-fed meadow. Geology transitions in this area, as the topography created by the friable granites to the east interfinger with the stepped ridges of the limestone and sandstone to the west. The narrowing of natural passageways and a reduction in arable land to the east make the Kohls Ranch section a place where roads and people have converged over the years. The well-watered places in this section were first settled nearly 3,000 years ago, were returned to in the intervening centuries, and continue to be used today. In the twentieth century, the area became a small center for government, residential, and recreational activity in this isolated region. The community after which this road section is named is designated Kohl's Ranch, after Lewis Kohl, who patented this homestead on Tonto Creek in the mid-1920s (Herr and Stein 2001). The Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) engineering plans, however, designate the section as Kohls Ranch, without an apostrophe. This distinction will be maintained when referencing the community versus the highway project.