The Gila Pueblo Salado

Gila Pueblo is the type-site for the Salado Culture, whose people were the late-prehistoric Western Pueblo inhabitants of the Roosevelt Basin in east-central Arizona. Their pottery has the largest areal distribution of any Southwestern prehistoric ware. The most famous of their sites are Tonto Cliff Dwellings, near the southern shore of Roosevelt Lake, and Gila Pueblo and Besh-ba-gowah, just south of Globe. Gila Pueblo was a major village, consisting of several hundred contiguous rooms. It ...