Southwestern North American Worlds: Communities, Water, and Connected Landscapes
Southwestern North America (orientation only) · Profil avec revue des sources

Tonto: cliff households and Salado material networks

Reviewed community and place names are preserved where supported; no otherwise unknown ancient self-designation is invented.

NPS places the cliff buildings within a longer occupied basin and varied cultural relationships. The lower dwelling account describes local stone, carried timber, plaster floors and hearths as evidence of construction and domestic work.

Cliff architecture and regional interaction context Approximately 1300–1450 CE main cliff-household context Masonry, roof timber samples, ceramics, construction sequences and preservation records Globe, Arizona, United States (orientation only): approximate public-town or distant institutional orientation, not an excavation, burial, sacred-site, private compound or vulnerable-deposit location; never a territorial, ethnic, linguistic, cultural, political, religious, sovereignty, farming, water-rights or route boundary. The orientation may be far from the archaeological context. No access, collecting or travel permission is implied.
Aperçu

Agua, foyers, paysages connectés et éléments probants

Connexions de plateaux, fluviales, désertiques et fronterizas

Globe, Arizona, United States is a modern orientation, not an ancient capital or boundary. Households and regional connections changed over time; Salado material associations do not prove a single government.

Organisation politique et échelle communautaire

Households and regional connections changed over time; Salado material associations do not prove a single government. Salado is not one race or language, and a beam without exterior rings cannot give an exact construction year.

Transformation ultérieure, patrimoine vivant et réception moderne

Living communities and heritage institutions retain their own authority; this atlas cannot establish identity, ancestry, descent, recognition or membership. Materials and buildings cannot identify every resident's language; living Tribal histories require their own contexts. Later colonial, research and stewardship events are dated separately from the main archaeological context.

Regional connections NPS places the cliff buildings within a longer occupied basin and varied cultural relationships.

Brief DNAGENICS AI-assisted paraphrase of registered evidence, not author or community endorsement. Retain chronological, sampling and interpretive limits.

Source review: 2026-10-20 [S1]
Household work The lower dwelling account describes local stone, carried timber, plaster floors and hearths as evidence of construction and domestic work.

Brief DNAGENICS AI-assisted paraphrase of registered evidence, not author or community endorsement. Retain chronological, sampling and interpretive limits.

Source review: 2026-10-20 [S2]
Dating limits The upper dwelling study distinguishes near-cutting and incomplete-ring timber dates and notes damage to archaeological context.

Brief DNAGENICS AI-assisted paraphrase of registered evidence, not author or community endorsement. Retain chronological, sampling and interpretive limits.

Source review: 2026-10-20 [S3]
Séquence historique

Uma cronologia breve e documentada

Ces repères servent d'orientation et ne constituent pas une histoire complète.

  1. Longer basin use

    NPS distinguishes earlier regional occupation from the surviving cliff dwellings.

  2. Construction begins

    The upper dwelling synthesis proposes an approximate initial building interval.

  3. Later construction evidence

    A roof-beam cutting interval is specific evidence, not the date of every household.

  4. Settlement change

    NPS describes departure from the cliff buildings with uncertain causes, not extinction.

  5. Monument designation

    Federal preservation followed a later history of damage and visitation.

Culture et langue

Agricultura, artisanat, travail, croyances et travail colectivo

Langues mentionnées dans ce profil

  • Materials and buildings cannot identify every resident's language; living Tribal histories require their own contexts.

Famille linguistique: Language, material classification, political allegiance, residence and living identity are distinct; this record does not classify every ancient speaker.

Research focus: Masonry, roof timber samples, ceramics, construction sequences and preservation records.

Households and regional connections changed over time; Salado material associations do not prove a single government.

Salado is not one race or language, and a beam without exterior rings cannot give an exact construction year.

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Sources utilisées pour cette page

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  1. C1

    The Ancestral Sonoran Desert People

    National Park Service · Institutional research, heritage interpretation or community account; brief attributed paraphrase · 2024-06-03

  2. C2

    Our Story

    Huhugam Heritage Center; Gila River Indian Community · Institutional research, heritage interpretation or community account; brief attributed paraphrase · Undated institutional record; consulted 2026-10-20

  3. C3

    Las Capas Data Recovery

    Desert Archaeology, Inc. · Institutional research, heritage interpretation or community account; brief attributed paraphrase · Undated institutional record; consulted 2026-10-20

  4. C4

    Archaeological Zone of Paquimé, Casas Grandes

    UNESCO World Heritage Centre · Institutional research, heritage interpretation or community account; brief attributed paraphrase · Undated institutional record; consulted 2026-10-20

  5. C5

    Upper Cliff Dwelling Construction Sequence

    National Park Service · Institutional research, heritage interpretation or community account; brief attributed paraphrase · Undated institutional record; consulted 2026-10-20

  6. C6

    Research: Salmon Ruins

    Salmon Ruins Museum · Institutional research, heritage interpretation or community account; brief attributed paraphrase · Undated institutional record; consulted 2026-10-20

  7. C7

    People of Pecos

    National Park Service · Institutional research, heritage interpretation or community account; brief attributed paraphrase · Undated institutional record; consulted 2026-10-20

  8. C8

    Pecos

    Pueblo of Jemez · Institutional research, heritage interpretation or community account; brief attributed paraphrase · Undated institutional record; consulted 2026-10-20

  9. S1

    History & Culture: Tonto

    National Park Service · Institutional research, heritage interpretation or community account; brief attributed paraphrase · 2020-10-20

  10. S2

    Lower Cliff Dwelling

    National Park Service · Institutional research, heritage interpretation or community account; brief attributed paraphrase · 2021-01-10

  11. S3

    Upper Cliff Dwelling Construction Sequence

    National Park Service · Institutional research, heritage interpretation or community account; brief attributed paraphrase · Undated institutional record; consulted 2026-10-20

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Revisión editorial: 20 octobre 2026