The results of the RCD project are presented in four Anthropological Papers of the Center for Desert Archaeology: Anthropological Papers No.

This is one of three related data recovery projects undertaken in the Tonto Basin for the Bureau of Reclamation prior to the raising of the Roosevelt Lake dam. The Roosevelt Community Development Study (RCD) involved the testing and excavation of 27 sites in the Lower Tonto Basin of central Arizona. By examining how the inhabitants of the Harris Site organized their daily activities, a clearer picture emerges of how people interacted and negotiated social relationships during the Late Pithouse period. In addition, this thesis explores how labor investment and the production of goods were organized at the household level and how this may reflect relations between households at the site. In conjunction with contextual data, information gathered from these tools is used to determine what daily activities occurred at the site and discuss how these activities were organized within each household. The object of this research is to move beyond a typological documentation of subsistence technology and examine how ground stone tools were manufactured, maintained, and used in various household tasks. Previous studies of ground stone technology in the Mimbres Valley have often focused on addressing questions related to subsistence practices.

Ground stone technology is a category that includes a wide range of stone tool types used in a variety of processing and manufacturing tasks, as well as stone items that held intrinsic or ritual significance. This thesis examines household activities through an analysis of ground stone technology from the Harris Site (LA 1867), a Late Pithouse period (550-1000 CE) Mimbres Mogollon archaeological site.

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