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GOAT CAMP EXCAVATIONS SPRING 2024


Hey Goat Campers!


It's that time again! After a great kickoff session for the season on the 9th, we're ready to continue that success this Saturday, 3/23, starting at our usual meeting time of 0900. We'll work until 1500, as always, with our typical break for lunch at noon. Bring your gloves, your water and lunch, and a jacket cuz it's gonna be a little chilly in the morning. If you have your own tools, that's fine, but if not we have plenty.  The weather should be dry for most of the week and partly cloudy on Saturday so no foreseeable problems there (or should I not have said that?).  As usual, if you plan to join us, please let me know so I can put you on the list. Hope to see y'all soon!

Also, two things: first, we will be joined about 1000 by folks from the Agave House Chapter who will be arriving for a field trip tour of the site. Second, I will be out at Shoofly Sunday morning (probably not until 1000) to do some maintenance work - weed whacking and catclaw removal - if anyone would like to lend a hand and earn some karmic credit as a volunteer for Friends of the Tonto for a few hours.

Also as usual, if you plan to join us, please let me know so I can put you on the list. Hope to see y'all soon!

Here is a schedule for Spring 2024:


Field

March 23

April 6, 27

May11, 25

June 1


Field and Lab

June 8, 9, ?

Cheers and stay safe,

Scott


Scott Wood, retired Tonto archaeologist and Rim Country Adviser, leads the excavations at 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 public education through an interpretive package.  Shoofly excavation reports are at the bottom of the Rim Chapter webpage.


Ceramic Checklist                                 First Season Report


Site Map                                                Second 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


                                                    Eleventh Season Report



         EXCAVATION



         SCREENING                                                                            CLEANING ARTIFACTS



         SORTING AND IDENTIFYING ARTIFACTS


      JIM BRITTON STABILIZING A WALL

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