Considerable functional and temporal diversity was present the sites ranged from small, isolated, single-room masonry structures and larger multi-room pueblos dating to the early Classic period (AD 1150-1300), to earlier Preclassic period (AD 750-1150) sites with subsurface pithouse architecture. Thirteen sites were tested and then intensively investigated (Chapters 6, 7, 8, and 9) while six were only tested (Chapter 10). The project was undertaken for the Arizona Department of Transportation prior to the realignment and expansion of State Route 87. The project area is situated along a 5.4 mile (8.7 km) stretch of State Route 87, approximately 10 miles south of the town of Payson, Arizona, within the boundaries of the Tonto National Forest. The Rye Creek Project involved testing and data recovery at 19 archaeological sites within the Upper Tonto Basin of central Arizona. That vestigial Hohokam social and material order signals the close affinal or probable consanguineal relationship between the Patayan and Hohokam in central Arizona, particularly during the Hohokam Preclassic. This movement to the west was driven by migration first to Lake Cahuilla in what is now the Salton Basin of southeastern California, and ultimately, to the San Diego and Tijuana coast. Outlining the investigation of this Patayan-Hohokam relationship in Arizona, coupled with evidence from the Californias, clarifies this relationship and illuminates the vestige of the Hohokam world among historic Yuman groups, particularly the Kumeyaay (historically called DiegueƱo from the Spanish moniker or Tipai/Ipai) of Imperial and San Diego Counties of southern California, and northern Baja California. The understanding of that relationship in the Southwestern archaeological community is somewhat disadvantaged by a lack of knowledge of the culture history and archaeological and historic inquiry into the Patayan and their descendant Yuman groups along and to the west of the Colorado River. The relationship between the Patayan, the ancestors of today's Yuman groups in western Arizona, southern Alta California, and northern Baja California, and the Hohokam of central Arizona has been of some interest in the archaeological community of the Southwest, particularly in Arizona.
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