GOAT CAMP EXCAVATIONS SPRING 2025 Hey Goat Campers! Thanks to everybody who came out this season! It was a great one and we got a lot of work done; congratulations! And, again, thanks – this project would not be happening without you. So, this notice is to let y’all know that we will not be working on Saturday, 12/28 but that we will return in the Spring. The tentative Spring schedule is as follows: March 8 and 22 April 5 and 26 May 10 and 24 June 7 and 14-15 (lab days, with perhaps others TBA) In addition, we will also be working on the Bear Flat site. Still have to work out some details with the landowner and I need to revisit the site to do some mapping and planning but here’s a (very) tentative schedule: March 29 April 6 and 27 May 25 Three of these days will be on Sundays following work at Goat Camp, which puts a bit of a burden on those of you not living in the Payson area. On the other hand, it’s a very small site with no artifacts on it and only a vague arrangement of rocks suggesting a feature so it shouldn’t take a lot of people to work… Anyway, more info to come as we get closer to the new season. So, Happy Xmas and Merry New Year to everybody and thanks yet again! Cheers, Scott Wood, retired Tonto archaeologist and Rim Country Adviser, leads the excavations at Goat Camp. Online from April 23, 2022 drone view of Goat Camp Online from April 10, 2022 “Goat Camp Virtual Field Trip” with archaeologist J. Scott Wood sponsored by Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society (AAHS), Tucson Online from June 17, 2021 “The Goat Camp Ruin Project Volunteer Archaeology in Central Arizona” with J. Scott Wood for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center AAS Goat Camp Tour Sept. 17, 2022 Goat Camp Ruin is located in Payson and was occupied from about 750 to 1280 AD. The site was originally a Hohokam colony that continued to be occupied through the Classic Period. The Classic Period occupation is called "Payson Tradition" or "Northern Salado". After several changes in ownership and extensive pot-hunting, the city of Payson took over ownership of the site. The Rim Country Chapter, with Scott Wood’s assistance, proposed creating an archaeological interpretive site as well as a hiking trail for this 6-acre parcel of land, similar to that of nearby Shoofly Ruin. Scott has led groups of volunteers each spring and fall for the past few years excavating and interpreting areas within the overall complex. The goal is not rebuilding or total excavation, but knowledge and Ceramic Checklist First Season Report Master Development Plan Third Season Report Excavation and Stabilization Plan Fourth Season Report Goat Camp 2018 Fall Plan Fifth Season Report Goat Camp 2019 Spring Plan Sixth Season Report Goat Camp 2020 Spring Plan Seventh Season Report Goat Camp 2020 Fall Plan Rev Eighth Season progress impeded by pandemic Goat Camp 2021 Spring Plan Ninth Season Report Virus Protocol Rev Tenth Season Report
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public education through an interpretive package. Shoofly excavation reports are at the bottom of the 
