Ancestral Puebloan (Culture Keyword)
6,726-6,750 (7,421 Records)
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A Post-Glacial Pollen Sequence From Dark Canyon Cave, New Mexico (1961)
Unpublished report, 1961 Complacent pollen records associated with both extinct fauna and archaeological remains argues that Southwest has been semi-arid throughout Late- and Post-Pleistocene.
POSTER: Evaluation of the Effect of the Permian Basin Programmatic Agreement on the Archaeological Record: Field Survey and Document Review of 164 Projects (2018)
Poster presentation
Potsherds: An Introduction To the Study of Prehistoric Southwestern Ceramics and Their Uses in Historic Reconstruction (1953)
The purpose of this little book is to outline in a concise form the methods used to make bits of broken pottery contribute to the history of the Southwest. In the interpretation of archaeological finds, pottery plays a most important role because of its wide distribution in time and space, its resistance to atmospheric weathering, and the number of culture traits that can be observed in pottery fragments. The manufacture of pottery is an old human activity. In the Old World pottery has been made...
Pottery Mound (LA 416) Fauna (2000)
The faunal remains analyzed in this study derive from excavations that were undertaken by the University of New Mexico in 1979. The materials were recovered from a 5 X 5 m test unit that had been placed in a midden area along the northern edge of the site. Deposits in this area were characterized by a relatively dense accumulation of stratified trash that had depths up to 3.4 meters. Due to the large volume of animal bone that was obtained from these excavations, the dataset only includes those...
PreHispanic American Southeast and Southwest Comparative Mortuary Database (2013)
The Prehispanic American Southeast and Southwest Comparative Mortuary Database is a relational database that served as the primary data management tool for the dissertation titled "Interactions with the Incorporeal in the Mississippian and Ancestral Puebloan Worlds." The database contains mortuary data for the following prehistoric settlements: Mississippian - Irene Mounds site Zuni area - Hawikku and Kechiba:wa Hohokam (Salt River Valley) - Pueblo Grande, Casa Buena, Grand Canal Ruins,...
Prehistoric Agricultural Strategies in West-Central New Mexico (1987)
Environmental fluctuations are frequently cited as a major factor effecting population displacement and cultural development in the American Southwest. Recent research suggests that the interaction of environmental, demographic, and behavioral variables might account for these presumed causal relationships, but behavioral responses to environmental fluctuations remain poorly understood. The environmental factors most likely to have been stressful to agriculturalists such as the prehistoric...
Prehistoric Agriculture at La Plata: Exploring Soil Texture Changes across Features (2007)
Numerous factors affect soil composition, including the parent rock, time, rainfall, wind, and animal burrowing and wastes, but human activities undoubtedly cause the most extensive change in soil properties over the shortest periods of time. At Pueblo La Plata, intensive agricultural practices were utilized for just over 200 years, and yet, six centuries later, the legacies created on the landscape are still as visible. This paper will focus on the effects of prehistoric agriculture on soil...
A Prehistoric Context for Southern Nevada (2012)
In 2010 the Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation), Lower Colorado Region, obtained funding through the Southern Nevada Public Land Management Act (SNPLMA) as a Southern Nevada Agency Partnership sponsored project to synthesize these new data and update Margaret Lyneis’ prehistoric context. Toward this goal, HRA Inc., Conservation Archaeology was selected by Reclamation to incorporate the new archaeological data and update the Prehistoric Context for Federal land managers, et al., to use for...
Prehistoric Painted Pottery of Southeastern Arizona (2000)
Statistical Research, Inc., was contracted in 1996 by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to perform a variety of tasks pertinent to collections of prehistoric ceramics from archaeological work conducted on Fort Huachuca Military Reservation located in southeastern Arizona. The bulk of the contract consisted of two tasks—teaching a class on the ceramics and prehistory of southeastern Arizona and preparing a guide to prehistoric pottery found at sites in this region of the American Southwest. The...
Prehistoric Settlement and Adaptation in the Ramah Valley, New Mexico (1973)
This paper will attempt to reconstruct the valley-wide systems of subsistence of six pueblos occupying a small valley in northwestern New Mexico around 1300 A.D. As any investigation of this nature must be, it is a hypothetical model, built using data rom a variety of sources, including archaeological excavation, settlement pattern analysis, ethnographic analogy, and the natural limitations of the environment.
Prehistoric Villages, Castles, and Towers of Southwestern Colorado (1919)
A report on dozens of sites in SW Colorado and nearby Utah visited by Fewkes under the auspices of the Bureau of American Ethnology, on brief trips in 1917 and 1918.
Prehistory of the St. Johns Area, East-Central Arizona: The TEP St. Johns Project (1981)
The TEP (Tucson Electric Power) St. Johns Project was conducted by the Cultural Resource Management Section of the Arizona State Museum under contract to Tucson Electric Power Company and was designed to mitigate impacts to cultural resources located within a proposed railroad right-of-way corridor east of St. Johns, Arizona. The proposed corridor begins at a point 8 miles northeast of St. Johns and extends 27 miles southward to the proposed TEP SpringerviIle Generating Station north of...
Preliminary Draft: Excavation and Stabilization of LA 112472: A Pre-Classic Fieldhouse in Coyote Canyon Kirtland Air Force Base, Bernalillo County, New Mexico (2006)
This report describes the results of testing, limited data recovery, and stabilization of LA 112472 (U.S. Forest Service site number AR-03-03-05-850), a small structure dating to the late Developmental to Coalition period (AD 1170-1280). The site, located on U.S. Forest Service land withdrawn to the Department of Energy and managed by the Department of Defense at Kirtland Air Force Base, was exposed in a south-facing cut bank created by the construction and maintenance of Coyote Creek Road. When...
Preliminary Draft: National Register of Historic Places Evaluation of 17 Historic and Prehistoric Sites, Kirtland Air Force Base, Bernalillo County New Mexico (2009)
In the period between May 2007 and August 2007, engineering-environmental Management, Inc. (e2M) conducted a cultural resources update and testing project of 17 sites at Kirtland Air Force Base (KAFB) to determine their eligibility to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). Seven of the sites (n=7) are recommended eligible to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP), under Criterion (D) and one of the sites, LA 81732, is also recommended eligible under Criterion (C). The...
Preliminary Draft: National Register of Historic Places Evaluation of 45 Archaeological Sites, and the Description of a Newly Discovered Biface Cache, Kirtland Air Force Base, Kirtland AFB, Kirtland, Bernalillo County, New Mexico (2009)
This report presents the results of a cultural resources update and testing project of 45 sites at Kirtland Air Force Base (KAFB) to determine their eligibility to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). One new site (LA 153888) was discovered. Analysis of the results of subsurface testing, surface investigation and archival research resulted in National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) eligibly recommendations for each of the 45 sites. Most of the sites (n=33) are recommended...
Preliminary Draft: National Register of Historic Places Evaluation of 47 Archaeological Sites, Kirtland Air Force Base, Kirtland AFB, Kirtland, Bernalillo County, New Mexico (2008)
In the period between October 2005 and June 2006, engineering-environmental Management, Inc. (e2M) conducted a cultural resources update and testing project of 47 sites at Kirtland Air Force Base (KAFB) to determine their eligibility to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). Eleven of the 34 sites recommended eligible are threatened from modern disturbances (LA 69885, LA 137933, LA 137981, LA 137985, LA 137987, LA 137988, LA 137995, LA 138002, LA 138016, LA 138028 and LA 138029)....
Preliminary Draft: Testing and Evaluation of LA 38136: Changing Adaptations on the Tijeras Arroyo Terrace (2007)
This report describes the results of testing at LA 38136, a multi-component site that includes a Folsom artifact scatter, a Late Developmental-Coalition Period artifact scatter, and a series of small stone structures that date to the early historic Period. To determine whether the site warranted protection and potentially stabilization, we placed seven 1 x 1 m excavation units at the site’s three loci. Testing of the site led to three primary discoveries. First, the Folsom component is only...
A Preliminary Evaluation of the Verde Confederacy Model: Testing Expectations of Pottery Exchange in the Central Arizona Highlands (2010)
Regional demographic movements during the mid 13th-14th centuries signaled corresponding changes to social and economic networks throughout the American Southwest. In the high mesa country of central Arizona large, masonry pueblos were constructed around AD 1250–1300 overlooking the vertical walls of Perry Mesa, in the Bloody Basin, and along the middle Verde River valley. As these settlement clusters coalesced, a 45 km expanse of empty land opened between the upland pueblos and the densely...
Preliminary Palynological Investigations on West Mesa (1967)
Pollen records from 1 surface and 3 archaeological-context samples suggest the two BM II sites are not contemporaneous.
Preliminary Report on the Vertebrate Faunal Remains from the Ojo Bonito Archaeological Project (1998)
Excavations conducted by the Ojo Bonito Archaeological Project (OBAP) in 1987, 1988, and 1994 have recovered a relatively large and well-preserved faunal assemblage. This report presents the results of a preliminary study ofthe animal bone from these excavations. In the first part of analysis, an overview of the taxonomic composition of the OBAP assemblage is provided and the diversity and proportional distribution of identified fauna are described. More in-depth analyses of intra- and intersite...
PRELIMINARY REPORT: POLLEN ANALYSIS AT 5MT5376 AND 5MT9433, MONTEZUMA COUNTY, COLORADO (1989)
Pollen samples were collected from features at 5MT5376 and SHT9433 to examine the vegetal portion of the subsistence base. These Basketmaker III sites are located near Yellowjacket Canyon in the Sand Canyon Facility Site Survey Area. 5MT5376 contains surface structures and an extramural pit that were sampled for pollen. 5MT9433, on the other hand, is represented by samples from roasting pits and hearths.
Prelude to: Tapestries in Stone-A Research Design for Understanding Cliff Palace Architecture / Level 1 Architectural Documentation Database (1998)
This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the National Archaeological Database Reports Module (NADB-R) and updated. Most NADB-R records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us at...
The Process of Aggregation in the Post-Chacoan Era: A Case Study from the Lower Zuni Region (1995)
During the post-Chacoan period (A.D. I 175- 1225) the first aggregated sites in the Zuni Region of the American Southwest were built. This research examines a shift in regional settlement patterns and the reorganization of sociopolitical systems during this initial period of aggregation in the lower Zuni River region. A chronology for the post-Chacoan settlements in the case study area is built using ceramic type data. The results suggest that the process of aggregation in the Zuni region can...
Profile Map of Examined Agricultural Terraces at Richinbar Ruin (2005)
Profile Map of Examined Agricultural Terraces at Richinbar Ruin