Ancestral Puebloan (Culture Keyword)
6,901-6,925 (7,421 Records)
The study of prehistoric mortuary practices in the American Southwest is undergoing tremendous change in the new millennium. The challenges (and opportunities) of NAGPRA implementation, declines in the number of large samples being excavated, and loss of data from previously excavated samples have altered mortuary archaeology in the region. Given this state of affairs, the development of an integrated regional database of prehistoric mortuary practices is imperative. This session at the 76th...
Spanish Missionization and Puebloan Food Resource Utilitization at Quarai Pueblo, New Mexico (1997)
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A Spatial Analysis of San Juan Red Ware Using Least Cost Paths (2017)
A fundamental part of interaction is distance. Distance can be calculated in many ways. GIS applications allow the calculation of least cost paths between locations. Often the length of this path is used as the distance between points; however, the amount of time it takes to traverse a path may differ for paths with the same length that traverse different topography. In this poster, I use the distribution of San Juan Red Ware in a portion of the southwestern United States to examine the...
A Spatial Analysis of the Level of Constructedness of the Small Sites around Pueblo la Plata and Pueblo Pato (2007)
The level of constructedness of archaeological sites can provide insight into the amount of planning, labor and time invested into building structures. Further understanding into the time, labor and planning invested into architecture can allow for inferences to made on the residential mobility of the population, intensity of surrounding land use and social importance assigned to each pueblo (Cameron 1999). This paper will explore and compare the architectural constructedness of small sites...
Spirit of the Wilderness Survey: Archeological Inventory at Petrified Forest National Park (2008)
The Spirit of the Wilderness Archeological Survey in Petrified Forest National Park was a three year long cultural resources inventory of more than 9,000 acres of the Petrified Forest National Park wilderness begun in July, 2003 and concluded in June of 2005. Identification and recording of previously undocumented sites was conducted in four separate field sessions, each lasting for three or four weeks. In total, 6,735 acres were surveyed in the Rainbow Forest Wilderness Area. In the Painted...
Spring 2004 Architecture Studies at Pueblo La Plata (2004)
Studies of the architecture of Pueblo La Plata, particularly room construction sequences, formed one component of the Legacies on the Landscape project research in 2004. The goals of this portion of the project were to improve our understanding of how the pueblo was built, and to gain a sense of population size and changes over time. In particular, we wished to determine whether a sizeable core area of rooms (representing the first construction phase of the pueblo) was visible, and whether the...
Spruce Tree House: The Social History of a Thirteenth-Century Cliff Dwelling (2015)
As one of the best preserved ancestral Pueblo sites in the Southwest, Spruce Tree House presents a unique opportunity to examine aggregation during the 1200s; a time fraught with significant social and religious changes, intensifying intraregional violence, and extreme climatic conditions that ends with widespread Pueblo exodus from the region. This paper presents our fine-grained reconstruction of how Spruce Tree House developed over time based on detailed architectural documentation and a...
Statistical Documentation for Neutron Activation Analysis Compositional Group Assignments (2018)
This document provides detailed information on the statistical procedures used to produce compositional groups from NAA data in the greater Cibola region sample, as well as table documenting statistical assessments of those groups. This document accompanies: Peeples, Matthew A. (2018) Connected Communities: Networks, Identity, and Social Change in the Ancient Cibola World. University of Arizona Press. Tucson, AZ.
Stodder_PI Mesa Verde_ALP Field Forms and Data Fields
The Animas-La Plata Field Burial Forms outline the data fields that the project recorded for the documentation of mortuary features and/or human remains.
Stodder_PI Mesa Verde_ALP PI Mortuary Data
This data set contains several sheets of data on burial features and isolated human remains documented by the Animas-La Plata project during data recovery at a number of sites in Ridges Basin, SW Colorado. One sheet presents data for recorded burial features and individual interments. Three other sheets present data on isolated human remains uncovered at these sites.
Stodder_PI Mesa Verde_Mortuary and Biological Data Sources (2011)
In this data set, Stodder presents key published sources for Pueblo I period mortuary and the biological data in the Mesa Verde area of southwestern Colorado.
Stodder_PI Mesa Verde_Paper_Data and Metadata Issues in Documenting Pueblo I Mortuary Variation in the Mesa Verde Region (2011)
Mortuary data from Pueblo I sites in the Dolores and Animas-La Plata Project areas suggest that the structural and nonstructural contexts of burials are critical to understanding mortuary practice in this pivotal era and in earlier and later Ancestral Pueblo groups. Extramural interment contexts and their spatial relationships to houses, surface structures, and stockades are worthy of systematic study. Pithouse burials on floors and benches, in ventilators and in fill, vary in temporal relation...
The Stratigraphy of Chavez Pass Ruins (1978)
Study of the depositional sequence at this archaeological site.
The Structure and Organization of Basketmaker III Field Houses at the Cottonwood Seep Site (1993)
Early settlement of the Cottonwood Seep Site consisted of small, informal pit structures and large jacal surface structures that were used on a seasonal basis for a period from approximately A.D. 500 until about A.D. 800. This paper examines the structure and organization of the Basketmaker III settlement, focusing on group organization, site function, resource availability, and environmental considerations. Unlike many of the surrounding Basketmaker III field house sites, the Cottonwood Seep...
A STUDY OF ETHNOBOTANIC POLLEN FROM 5MTUMR2785 MANCOS CANYON, COLORADO (1977)
Mancos Canyon has been the site of ongoing archaeological investigations by.the University of Colorado for several years in connection with the development of the Ute Mountain Archaeological Park. Pollen analysis has supplemented the archaeological analysis since 1974. While previous pollen studies have focused on the recovery of general environmental data about the sites and their features, this study was designed to sample for ethnobotanic pollen. The basic purpose of the study is to...
Subsistence and Exchange at Gran Quivira Pueblo, New Mexico (1991)
This report presents information on the University of Iowa field school excavations at Gran Quivira Pueblo from 1984-1986.This volume provides information on the research design, excavation units, excavation procedures, stratigraphy, and chronology. A second volume provides further information on the analyses of materials recovered.
SUBSISTENCE DATA FROM ANASAZI SITES ON THE NORTH LEASE OF THE MCKINLEY MINE, NEW MEXICO: THE POLLEN AND MACROFLORAL RECORDS (1985)
Pollen and macrofloral analyses were undertaken on samples from several prehistoric sites on the North lease area of the McKinley Mine for the purpose of assessing the subsistence base of the inhabitants of these sites. In the case of site NL86 pollen and macrofloral samples were taken from stratigraphic columns and from the trash midden (Feature 6). Pollen only was recovered from the post-occupational fill of the kiva (Feature 8). Both pollen and macrofloral remains were recovered from...
SUBSISTENCE RECONSTRUCTION AT FOUR SITES ALONG THE JOHNSON CANYON ROAD, SOUTHWESTERN COLORADO: THE POLLEN RECORD (1985)
Pollen analysis was undertaken at five prehistoric sites within the Mancos Canyon Historical District in conjunction with archaeological mitigation. These five sites lie in the right-of-way of UMU Route 206, Montezuma County, Colorado. The sites are located on the mesatop south of Johnson Canyon. The present environment in the vicinity of these sites has been altered considerably within the past 30 years due to chaining activities. This area was probably covered by a moderately dense stand...
Summary of Extant Collections from Excavations on the Agua Fria National Monument (2012)
Basic data concerning collections from excavations by various projects on the Agua Fria National Monument
Summary of the Context Analysis (2014)
This is the final report on Tiffany Clark's analysis of variation in faunal discard across different contexts for eight of the assemblages used in the resource depression project.
Synopsis of the Oshara Tradition (Arroyo Cuervo Region) (2013)
Image is a drafted (traced) figure from Irwin-Williams 1973. The figure was drafted using Adobe Illustrator and saved on as a JPEG. Original illustrator is unknown.
Synthesis Report for Archaeological Testing at the New River Authorized Dam Site, Maricopa County, Arizona, Phase II (1982)
This report presents the results of additional archaeological testing at the New River Authorized Dam Site. This site, the location of a proposed flood control dam to be constructed by the United States Army Corps of Engineers, is situated along the New River about 27 km north of its confluence with the Agua Fria and 32 km northwest of downtown Phoenix. In an earlier testing program 22 prehistoric and historic sites were investigated in the upstream portion of the project area. The present work...
A Temporal Perspective on Late Prehistoric Societies in the Western Cibola Area: Factor Analytic Approches to Short-term Chronological Investigation (1974)
This paper has presented background information on the Cibola area, especially the El Morro Valley, and reasons for the investigation have been stated in terms of descriptive, methodological, and theoretical goals. Chapter 2 included descriptions of the research strategies of the Cibola Archeological Research Project and "accounts of the field investigations carried out in 1972 and 1973. In chapter 3 the focus turned to the painted ceramic materials found by the Cibola Project. The pottery...
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Test Excavations at AZ U:10:24 (ASU), Williams A.F.B, Arizona (1973)
Study of the archaeological record of 6 test pits to identify a recommended mitigation strategy for the site.