{"id":73,"date":"2003-10-29T15:49:04","date_gmt":"2003-10-29T21:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mjhinton.com\/wild\/index.php\/uncategorized\/archaeologists-churn-up-ancient-tools-figurine-near-prescott-az\/"},"modified":"2003-10-29T15:49:04","modified_gmt":"2003-10-29T21:49:04","slug":"archaeologists-churn-up-ancient-tools-figurine-near-prescott-az","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=73","title":{"rendered":"Archaeologists churn up ancient tools, figurine near Prescott, AZ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Prescott Newspapers Online\" href=\"http:\/\/www.communitypapers.com\/DAILYCOURIER\/myarticles.asp?P=841433&amp;S=400&amp;PubID=11496\">Prescott Newspapers Online<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Archaeologists uncovered one of the largest pestles ever found on the Prescott National Forest while excavating a site for the Gray Wolf landfill expansion last week.<\/p>\n<p>A pestle is a long, conical grinding tool with a pointed end that ancient native people used to grind harder items such as nuts and minerals for paint. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><b>People of the Prescott Culture<\/b> during the Chino phase, which dates between 1100 A.D. and 1300 A.D., used the site. <\/p>\n<p>After that time, drier sites the Prescott Culture and others inhabited around the Southwest such as the <b>Hohokam, Anasazi and Mogollon<\/b> experienced widespread abandonment. They left during the \u201cGreat Drought of the Southwest.\u201d Tree-ring dating shows the drought occurred between 1276 and 1299.<\/p>\n<p>The Prescott Culture range covered much of western Yavapai County, especially in the Prescott Basin, as far back as 200 A.D. They had <b>a strong Hohokam influence<\/b>, in that the Hohokam settled the upper Agua Fria watershed around 750 A.D. to 850 A.D.<\/p>\n<p>Archaeologists disagree about whether the <b>Yavapai<\/b> people are related to the Prescott Culture. Some theorize that the Yavapai came to this area after the Prescott Culture abandoned it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prescott Newspapers Online Archaeologists uncovered one of the largest pestles ever found on the Prescott National Forest while excavating a site for the Gray Wolf landfill expansion last week. A pestle is a long, conical grinding tool with a pointed end that ancient native people used to grind harder items such as nuts and minerals &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=73\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Archaeologists churn up ancient tools, figurine near Prescott, AZ<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}