American Southwest (Geographic Keyword)
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Between December 2000 and June 2005 Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd. (ACS) of Tempe, Arizona, completed five field sessions of archaeological monitoring, testing/data recovery I, and data recovery II at the Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport Runway 7L-25R and Taxiways D-E (collectively referred to hereinafter as the Center Runway project). The first session monitored geotechnical boring and coring (Ryan 2001); the second through fourth seasons included additional monitoring plus...
First Came the Fires: Valles Caldera Landscape Futures in a Changing Climate (2021)
A geospatial modeling tool was developed at the landscape-scale to enable proactive management of cultural resources in a changing climate at Valles Caldera National Preserve in northwest New Mexico. Prioritization of all known cultural resources by fire sensitivity and significance was quantified by staff archaeologists and accounted for in the GIS modeling tool.
From The Leaves On The Trees In The Forest To The Stones And Sands Of The River: Archaeobotanical Investigations Of Spanish New Mexican Land Use (2022)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "New Avenues in the Study of Plant Remains from Historical Sites" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 17th-century New Mexico, subsistence activities were the major ways Spanish colonists engaged plants and created landscapes. Colonists’ relationships with plants were developed through a combination of existing notions of human-environment interactions and the creation of new practices that suited the social...
Geomorphology and Geoarchaeology Investigations in the Salado Draw Watershed, Lea County, New Mexico (2023)
The unusually high concentration of Paleoindian period sites in the Salado Draw area provides a unique opportunity to gain significant new knowledge about the Paleoindian period occupation of southeastern New Mexico. In addition to Paleoindian period materials—which include Clovis, Folsom, Dalton, Plainview, Midland, Angostura, Golondrina, and Wilson projectile points—the Salado Draw project area also contains site components dating to the Archaic, Formative, and historical periods. This study,...
Great House Formation: Agricultural Intensification, Balanced Duality, and Communal Enterprise at Mitchell Springs (2021)
Mitchell Springs provided the central Montezuma Valley of southwestern Colorado a rare and reliable water source that has been used by ancients for millennia. People began to settle near the springs in the middle of the AD seventh century and by the twelfth century a sprawling watershed-wide community with large-scale architectural and agricultural works had formed. Using a combination of data from surveys and recent excavations, this article explores the ties between the rise of elite...
Hegmon et al. Mimbres Pottery Designs in their Social Context Database (2013)
This data set contains the ceramic data analyzed for and published in "Mimbres Pottery Designs in their Social Context" by Michelle Hegmon, James R. McGrath, F. Michael O'Hara, III, and Will G. Russell in New Perspectives on Mimbres Archaeology: Three Millennia of Human Occupation in the Desert Southwest edited by Patricia A. Gilman, Roger Anyon, and Barbara Roth
High-Resolution Topography and Geomorphology of Select Archeological Sites in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Arizona (2014)
Along the Colorado River corridor between Glen Canyon Dam and Lees Ferry, Arizona, located some 25 km downstream from the dam, archeological sites dating from 8,000 years before present through the modern era are located within and on top of fluvial and alluvial terraces of the prehistorically undammed river. These terraces are known to have undergone significant erosion and retreat since emplacement of Glen Canyon Dam in 1963. Land managers and policy makers associated with managing the flow of...
A History of Indian Garden, An Administrative Site on the Tonto National Forest, Gila County, Arizona (2007)
A chronological history of the Indian Garden site, located in the Kohls Ranch section of the State Route 260 - Payson to Heber project area.
Horse Warriors and Warrior Horses (2022)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Survey in the Rio Grande Gorge of New Mexico over the past decade has revealed a robust corpus of Plains Biographic rock art depicting the coups and accomplishments of human warriors. While horses are equally present, most of them are secondary to the narratives depicted and appear as ridden mounts or captured wealth. However, an...
The Human Experience of Social Transformation: Cross-Cultural Insights from Qualitative Comparative Analysis - Data (2018)
These data accompany the Hegmon and Peeples manuscript entitled "The Human Experience of Social Transformation: Cross-Cultural Insights from Qualitative Comparative Analysis" Archaeologists and other scholars have long studied the causes of collapse and other major social transformations and debated how they can be understood. This article instead focuses on the human experience of living through those transformations, analyzing 18 transformation cases from the US Southwest and the North...
I Wasn't going to Say Anything but Since you Asked; Archaeoastronomy and Archaeology (1992)
Let me first propose two hypotheses: (1) archaeoastronomy has had little impact on mainstream archaeology; and (2) archaeoastronomers feel that their work is under-appreciated by archaeologists. For purposes this essay, I assume that there is an empirical warrant for these hypotheses: that archaeoastronomers do, in fact, feel injured because there has, in fact, been little impact on the larger discipline. My purpose is to provide the perspective of a practicing Southwestern archaeologist on why...
Indigenizing Catholicism in Colonial New Mexico (2022)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Spanish colonialism in the American Southwest was at once a military and a missionary project. Consequently, the Indigenous rejection of imposed Catholic traditions was a vital part of many early anti-colonial efforts—notably during the coordinated revolt of 1680, which succeeded in purging the region of both the settlers and...
Life on the Floodplain: Further Investigations at Pueblo Salado for Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, Volume 1, Preliminary Investigations and Research Design (1996)
SWCA, Inc., Environmental Consultants conducted archaeological investigations for the City of Phoenix Aviation Department for work relating to future expansion of Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. The Federal Aviation Administration served as the lead agency, with the City of Phoenix Aviation Department administering the project. The project initially consisted of a Class I (archival and literature review) and later a Class II (testing) survey within portions of planned...
Life on the Floodplain: Further Investigations at Pueblo Salado, for Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, Volume 2, Data Recovery and Re-evaluation (1996)
This is the second volume of the report produced on archaeological investigations (data recovery excavations) conducted for the City of Phoenix Aviation Administration relating to future expansion of Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. The Federal Aviation Administration served as the lead agency, with the City of Phoenix Aviation Department as administrator of the project. Results of excavations at Areas 6, 15, and 16 of Pueblo Salado (AZ T:12:47[ASM]) and additional investigations of...
Little Green Valley Slope Failure Survey (2011)
Archaeological survey for the development of an access road in the Little Green Valley section of the State Route 260 - Payson to Heber project.
Mimbres Inequality
Appendices to Will G. Russell's dissertation
Mimbres Pottery Designs in their Social Context (2015)
This document is the final submission for the forthcoming chapter: Michelle Hegmon, James R. McGrath, F. Michael O’Hara, III, and Will G. Russell Forthcoming Mimbres Pottery Designs in their Social Context. In New Perspectives on Mimbres Archaeology: Three Millennia of Human Occupation in the Desert Southwest, edited by Patricia A. Gilman, Roger Anyon, and Barbara Roth. University of Arizona Press, Tucson, submitted 2015.
Mission San Agustín Faunal Data (2019)
An excel spreadsheet containing the zooarchaeological data from AZ BB:13:6.
Mitchell Springs Ruin Group
The Mitchell Springs Ruin Group is located just south of Cortez Colorado in the heart of Montezuma Valley. This community was occupied from Basketmaker times through around A.D. 1240 and is made up of around 75 small pueblos, small great houses, a great kiva, 10+ meter diameter court kiva, and a tri-wall structure. Field schools conducted from 1990-2004 resulted in two publications.
A Model for Intensive Flaked Stone Weaponry Production Drawn from the Prehistoric Mogollon Highlands of Arizona and the Gunflint Industries of Europe (2019)
Flaked stone weaponry production at sub-Mogollon Rim area sites in Arizona.
More Data and More Computation but not Necessarily Less Theory: Assessing the Status and Near-Future Directions of Archaeology (2018)
Over the last decade many archaeologists (the author included) have increasingly employed computational approaches to make sense of the ever-larger amounts of relatively low-quality data available, to identify signals within the noise. Numerous applications of summed probability distributions of 14C dates and similarly sophisticated processing of tree-ring dates fall within this category, as do attempts to extract data related to specific research questions from the growing worldwide...
Movement, Connectivity, and Landscape in the Ancient Southwest (2011)
A collection of the papers presented at the Twentieth Anniversary Southwest Symposium, Movement, Connectivity, and Landscape Change in the Ancient Southwest looks back at the issues raised in the first symposium in 1988 and tackles three contemporary domains in archaeology: landscape use and ecological change, movement and ethnogenesis, and connectivity among social groups through time and space. Across these sections the authors address the relevance of archaeology in the modern world; new...
A New View of the Desert - The Permian Basin Programmatic Agreement Research Program in Southeastern New Mexico (2015)
The research program described in this paper is providing much needed new information for a portion of southeastern New Mexico that was previously understudied. The program is funded by an innovative approach to Section 106 compliance which trades redundant survey information for monetary contributions to a dedicated research account. The Permian Basin Programmatic Agreement (PA) has been in effect for six years. The purpose of the PA (formerly the Permian Basin Memorandum of Agreement or MOA)...
Northern Southwest Site Artiodactyl Index (2017)
Data underlying figures 3-5 in Kintigh et al.'s 2018 article in Advances in Archaeological Practice.
On the Road and In Place: A Material History of the New Buffalo Commune, NM (2022)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The New Buffalo Commune of northern New Mexico was a countercultural mecca during the late 1960s and 70s, drawing in young folks from around the country who sought escape from the industrialism, capitalism, and militarism of mid-twentieth century American society. It was a community of those who were looking to return to lost...