Shoofly Village Ruin

The Shoofly Village Ruin is an archaeological site located in the Tonto National Forest near Payson, Arizona. Shoofly Village Arizona Site Steward File. H. S. Gladwin, F. Olson, A. Olson, R. Kelly, Rachel Most. 2000 ( tDAR id: 400868) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8959KC8 
In the 1980s Arizona State University (ASU) began the Payson Archaeological Research Expedition (PARE), a long-term research program that combined cultural resource management with an archaeological field school program. In cooperation with the Tonto National Forest, ASU personnel selected the Shoofly Village Ruins as the locale for the field school that began in 1984 and continued through four seasons. ASU personnel also conducted archaeological investigations in conjunction with a Tonto National Forest land exchange project. The goals of the research program were to define settlement patterns in the Payson region, in particular the relationship between the Shoofly Village and others, smaller with two to three structures, often three walled; rock-ringed roasting pits; and agricultural fields. Vanishing River Volume 4: Chapter 04: An Overview of Research History and Archaeology of Central Arizona. Stephanie M. Whittlesey, Stephanie M. Whittlesey, Richard Ciolek-Torrello, Jeffrey H. Altschul. In Vanishing River: Landscapes and Lives of the Lower Verde Valley: The Lower Verde Archaeological Project: Overview, Synthesis, and Conclusions. Pp. 59-142. Tucson, AZ: Statistical Research, Inc.Press. 1997 ( tDAR id: 5836) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8445JNT
The Shoofly Village was constructed around 1000, beginning a time of growth, development, and population aggregation. Occupation appears to have ended around 1300. Lindauer, Owen 1991 Communities in the Star Valley Area. In The Archaeology of Star Valley, Arizona: Variation in Small Communities, edited by O. Lindauer, R. J. Bradley, and C. L. Redman, pp. 555–576. Anthropological Field Studies No. 24. Office of Cultural Resource Management, Department of Anthropology, Arizona State University, Tempe
A book published by Charles L. Redman “People of the Tonto Rim: Archaeological Discovery in Prehistoric Arizona” Charles L. Redman 1993 People of the Tonto Rim: Archaeological Discovery in Prehistoric Arizona. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C. is a record of ASU’s research on Shoofly Village. Redman presents a settlement model that defines household communities (small sites occupied by single households), hamlets, and primary villages. Four primary villages, of which Shoofly Village is the largest, are known to be present in the area. The primary villages are evenly spaced across the landscape within relatively large production zones. Shoofly occupies the northernmost position, a vantage that permits special access to the resources directly below the Mogollon Rim and proximity to the route up and over the rim. Redman suggested that the spatial layout and architectural variability of the site indicates that it was a conglomeration of discrete units, each resembling individual hamlet sites. He proposes that formerly separate social groups, each with its own distinctive building traditions, joined together to form the Shoofly Village. The village was built in four phases, with the “core” room block of contiguous masonry rooms constructed later than the surrounding compounds of low-walled, cobble-jacal masonry structures. This suggests that the architectural differences on which Redman focuses may be temporal as well as ethnic in origin, although the other primary villages in the area have a similar layout and presumably also building history.
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*Shoofly Village Ruin on Tripadvisor
*Shoofly Village Ruin on Discover Gila County
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