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- Burned Shell Tinkler
Description: Conus sp. tinkled with a transverse notch; polished and burned. Dimensions: Unknown. Provenience: Upper Ruin. Collection: WACC, Tonto National Monument (Catalog No. TONT 5028). - Bone Awl
Description: Bone splinter awl. Dimensions: 7 cm long. Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center ( catalog card). - Bone Tube
Description: Bone tube. This artifact may have been used as a cigarette holder or as the source for bone beads. Dimensions: Approximately 5 cm long. Collection: On display at the Montezuma Castle National Monument Visitor Center (Catalog No. MOCA 233). - Projectile Points
Description: Ancestral Puebloan projectile points. Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center. (catalog cards - top right, top center, bottom, second from the right, top left, bottom right, and all others. - Painted Circle
Description: Painted circle, Nine Pine Cove. Date: June 9, 2010 - Roof Beams
The two beams at the rear of the room above have been in place for 800 years. Tree-ring dates obtained from various beams in the pueblo span from 1106 to 1220 but cluster around three periods: 1137, 1160, and 1190. This suggests specific periods of construction, or at least beam cutting. Many room walls also abut one another-evidence that a room was added on to one already in place. Perhaps the various building phases mark the arrival of clans, each bringing something different to the community, resulting in the "cultural brew" that makes Wupatki so unusual. Some archeologists see cultural traditions, such as Sinagua and Kayenta, not as "people" or genetic and ethnic groups, but rather as inhabited geographic regions experiencing a dynamic ebb-and-flow of populations. Migrations brought people together creating cultural dominance in some areas and shared cultural traits in others. Seen this way, specific traditions such as black-on-white pottery and T-shaped doorways could have been maintained over centuries by peoples of different linguistic and ethnic backgrounds. - Grant Negative 24
Subject: Pueblo ruins above Montezuma Well. Date: ca. mid-1940s Collection: WACC: Montezuma Castle/Well. - Small Turquoise Pendant
Description: Small turquoise pendant. Dimensions: 3/4 x 1/4 x 1/8 inches. Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card). - Full-groove Greenstone Maul
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, Atsinna Pueblo (A.D. 1275 – mid-1300s) Description: Extremely well-used full-groove greenstone maul with an elliptical cross section and battered ends. Dimensions: L 6.6. W 5.7, T 3.3 CM. Provenience: LA 99 (Atsinna Pueblo), ROOM 17, FILL. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Tuzigoot Plain or Red Sherd with Fabric Impressions, Alternate View
Description: Large Tuzigoot Plain or Tuzigoot Red olla fragment with woven fabric impressions in the interior surface. The impressions are from simple woven goods with 28-30 warps to the inch and a regular over one-under one weave. Dimensions: Unknown. Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (View catalog card). - Blunt Tipped Awl
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, Atsinna Pueblo (A.D. 1275 – mid-1300s) Description: Bone splinter awl with a blunt tip. Dimensions: L 5.4, DIAM 0.8 CM. Provenience: LA 99 (Atsinna Pueblo), Room 20, Fill. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Gourd Rind
Description: Unworked gourd rind (Lagenaria sp. or Cucubita sp.). Dimensions: L 14.7 cm Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card). - Yucca Matting
Description: Yucca matting with twilled weave (over three, under three fine weave). Dimensions: 11.5 x 7 cm. Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card). - Tusayan Black-on-Red Seed Bowl, Alternate View
Rotate Description: Large Tusayan Black-on-Red seed bowl. Dimensions: Height 14.7 cm, Diameter 24.2 cm, Opening 12.5 cm. Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card). - Testing "Grover" at Sunset Crater Volcano NM
Description: The "Grover" - short for geologic rover - was tested on the Bonito Lava Flow in Sunset Crater Volcano NM in 1964, as well. Driving the "Grover" are Gene Cernan (fore) and Harrison "Jack" Schmitt, both of whom walked on the moon as members of Apollo 17 in 1972. The lunar rover they drove while there remains at the Taurus-Littrow landing site. Collection: USGS Open-File Report 2005-1190, Figure 097c; NASA photo S-72-54502.