Rio Grande Drainage (Geographic Keyword)
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During the summer of 1994, Eastern Mimbres Archaeological Project (EMAP) staff excavated portions of four prehistoric cobble-masonry pueblos (LA 37726, LA 37727, LA 37728, and LA 3949) on the Ladder Ranch in Sierra County, New Mexico. During the course of the excavations, flotation samples were recovered from hearths, primary and secondary post holes, storage pits, mealing bins, and rodent burrows in the floors of rooms. The primary purpose ofthis report is to describe the frequencies and...
EMAP (1994) Survey Along Las Animas Creek (1994)
This report documents the result of the 1993 EMAP surface survey on the Ladder Ranch. Other 1993 EMAP activities included the excavation of two sites, the Phelps Site (LA 37691) on the Palomas Creek, and Las Animas Village (93NM1000, LA 3949), located in the surveyed area. Both sites were located on private land. The survey was conducted by a crew of two staff members and two field school students. Jill Mayo and Kolleen Kralick, working under the direction of Drs. Nelson and Hegmon,...
EMAP (1995) Archaeological research on the Ladder Ranch (1995)
How do human beings cope with their natural and social environments and how do they impact those environments? These issues are of great concern today, and they have been for thousands of years. Hunters and gatherers, farmers, and urban dwellers all must be concerned with their surroundings and how they are using their environment. Their success or failure, their very survival, depends on their interactions with others and with their landscape. Research on the Ladder Ranch traces the Mimbres...
EMAP (1995) Excavations at Las Animas Village Site (LA3949), 1995 (1995)
The Eastern Mimbres Archaeological Project (EMAP), co-directed by Drs. Margaret Nelson and Michelle Hegmon began in 1990, building upon earlier work by Nelson. EMAP focuses on the later (post-AD 1000) prehistory of the eastern Mimbres area, a portion of the Mimbres region in southwest New Mexico. In 1982 Nelson was at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque and in the early 1990s at the State University of New York, Buffalo, and Hegmon was at New Mexico State University, Las Cruces. In 1995...
EMAP (1995) Report to the National Geographic Society on Activities Conducted Under Grant 4551-91 (1995)
National Geographic Society grant 5213-94 has supported research examining the impact of population dispersion and reorganization in the prehistoric Puebloan Southwest. During the 11th through 14th centuries in the Mimbres region of southwestern New Mexico, large villages were abandoned and population reorganized into small, dispersed pueblos. The shifts in land use and social organization that emerged with this change were examined. Three objectives were pursued: 1) Documentation of regional...
EMAP (1996) Regional, Social, and Economic reorganization The Mimbres (1996)
The North American Southwest is an excellent landscape for the study of small scale societies. Sites are visible and well preserved as a result of the aridity and limited modern development in most regions. This aridity, however, posed challenges to prehistoric societies. Our research in the eastern Mimbres area of southwestern New Mexico examines prehistoric land use, challenging some of the basic assumptions that have guided understanding of Mimbres prehistory and the strategies of small...
EMAP (1998) Archaeological Research on the Ladder Ranch 1997-1998, Avilas Canyon (LA44997,45000), Las Animas Village (LA3949), Flying Fish (LA37767), SJ (LA45028).pdf (1998)
The Eastern Mimbres Archaeological Project (EMAP), co-directed by Drs. Margaret Nelson and Michelle Hegmon began in 1990, building upon earlier work by Nelson. EMAP focuses on the later (post-AD 1000) prehistory of the eastern Mimbres area, a portion of the Mimbres region in southwest New Mexico. In 1982 Nelson was at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque and in the early 1990s at the State University of New York, Buffalo, and Hegmon was at New Mexico State University, Las Cruces. In 1995...
EMAP (1999) Activities of the EMAP 1999 Season (1999)
EMAP has made great strides toward understanding the diverse options employed by prehistoric, arid-land farmers in the eastern Mimbres area. This knowledge provides valuable insights about how populations of different sizes organize their communities, and raises equally interesting questions about how sustainable adaptations are accomplished. EMAP has made outstanding discoveries, new to the field of Mimbres archaeology. We have discovered a new Mimbres adaptation, undocumented until our work on...
EMAP (1999) Artifact Catalog (1999)
This is an artifact catalog of the artifacts found during the 1999 excavation season.
EMAP (1999) Scale and Time-Space Systematics in the Post - A.D. 1100 Mimbres Region of the North American Southwest (1999)
Time-space systematics for the end of the Classic Mimbres period and subsequent developments in southwest New Mexico are outlined, and the variable spatial scale of these processes is emphasized. The regional unity of the Late Pithouse and Classic periods began to break down around A.D. 1130, a time when disparate developments characterize different portions of the region. The Terminal Classic (ca. A.D. 1130 and later) represents the first steps toward significant and rapid changes and is seen...
EMAP (1999) Survey of Seco Drainage (1999)
During 1997 and 1998, EMAP excavations also began to include earlier sites dating to the Classic Period (A.D. 1000-1150). Prior to these excavations, the majority of comparative data from the Classic Period came from the Mimbres Valley and Upper Gila regions. Excavation at eastern Mimbres sites was a step toward understanding the Classic Period in the eastern Mimbres area. The excavations revealed many material similarities between Mimbres Valley and eastern Mimbres Classic Period sites (Brady...
EMAP (2000) Corrugated Pottery, Technological Style, and Population Movement in the Mimbres Region of the American Southwest (2000)
An understanding of small-scale population movements is essential to recent research on migration. Consideration of the technological style (processes of manufacture) of pottery, in conjunction with petrographic sourcing analyses, provides means of identifying and interpreting population movements at various scales. Diverse styles characterizes Postclassic Mimbres (A.D. 1150-early 1200s) regional reorganization in southwest New Mexico. One new style, indented corrugated pottery, is similar to...
EMAP (2000) Survey of Seco Drainage (2000)
The 1999-2000 Seco survey was designed with several goals in mind. Our first objective was to document Classic period settlement on the Seco drainage, in order to expand our settlement data for the eastern Mimbres for this time period. Second, we wished to revisit Classic Period Palomas sites in order to recheck locations, maps, and to take ceramic collections from these sites. Our third overall objective was to identify Postclassic Period sites on the Seco to determine whether the Postclassic...
EMAP (2001) Macrobotanical Remains from the Flying Fish (LA37767) and Pague Well (LA130191) Sites (2001)
Eight flotation samples from two Eastern Mimbres Archaeological Project (EMAP) sites were analyzed. Cultigens, primarily maize, were present in most of the samples. A limited array of wild seed taxa were represented as well. The represented wood resources appear to have been drawn from the Great Basin Conifer Woodland biotic province, and augmented by the use of riparian resources. The woods in the assemblages were consistent with a plant resource use pattern that focused on...
EMAP (2001) Mimbres Ritual on the Ladder Ranch (2001)
Rituals were essential in the lives of the people of the Mimbres. What symbols had meaning in their ritual? How was ceremony structured? Little is known about these aspects of the past because so many prehistoric villages have been destroyed by looters. But Mimbres villages on the Ladder Ranch, in the eastern Mimbres area, have been protected from looters and we have been fortunate in finding many clues to the rituals and ceremonial practices of the people of the Mimbres.
EMAP (2001) Report of the 2000 and 2001 Excavations at Pague Well Village (2001)
Site LA 130191, Pague Well Village (Figure 1), is located on the first terrace above the North Seco drainage in the eastern Mimbres area. Pague Well Village consists of at least six roomblocks, occupied during the Classic Mimbres period (A.D. 1 000-1130) and containing anywhere from two to six rooms each. Three units were fully excavated by the Eastern Mimbres Archaeological Project (EMAP) I Arizona State University (ASU) field school during the 2001 field season: Unit 40 (Bild et al....
EMAP (2001) Report to the National Geographic Society on activities under 6612-99 (2001)
Funds from grant 6612-99 have enabled us to increase information about the Classic Mimbres period in Southwest prehistory and improve our understanding of the relationship between population, subsistence, and mobility. We thoroughly surveyed two drainages and documented most, if not all, Classic Mimbres villages on those drainages. From these data we are able to estimate population, document resource use, evaluate human impacts, and examine possible mobility strategies. These preliminary...
EMAP (2002) Archaeology and Ecology on the Ladder Ranch (2002)
It's obvious to anyone who has spent time in southwest New Mexico, the west-flowing weather is stopped by the mountains. The Upper Gila and Mimbres River Valley get more rain than the Ladder Ranch and other parts of the eastern Mimbres area. The Mimbres River created a fertile and manageable floodplain, perfect for farming with prehistoric technologies. Using nothing more elaborate than stone tools and digging sticks, people in the Mimbres Valley grew fields of corn, beans, and squash, created...
EMAP (2002) Flying Fish Village (LA37767) Report on the 2001 and 2002 Excavation Seasons (2002)
The Eastern Mimbres Archaeological Project (EMAP), co-directed by Drs. Margaret Nelson and Michelle Hegmon began in 1990, building upon earlier work by Nelson. EMAP focuses on the later (post-AD 1000) prehistory of the eastern Mimbres area, a portion of the Mimbres region in southwest New Mexico. In 1982 Nelson was at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque and in the early 1990s at the State University of New York, Buffalo, and Hegmon was at New Mexico State University, Las Cruces. In 1995...
EMAP (2002) Report on Construction Wood Use at Classic and Postclassic Sites in the Eastern Mimbres Area, Elliot (2002)
This study concerns the use of wood for primary posts in Mimbres room blocks from the Eastern Mimbres area that date to the Classic and Postclassic periods. Sixty-seven flotation samples were analyzed from floor features and post hole features believed to have served as the primary load-bearing supports in rooms excavated by the Eastern Mimbres Archaeological Project (EMAP). The probable wood type of the post for each floor feature was assigned and both synchronic and diachronic comparisons in...
EMAP (2003) Macrobotanical Analyses of Selected EMAP Samples Recovered in 2002 (2003)
Archaeological excavations at LA 37767 and LA 130191 resulted in the collection of numerous flotation samples during the 2002 field season. Of these, ten were submitted to the author for priority descriptive analysis. This report describes the procedures by which the samples were handled and the contents of the samples.
EMAP (2003) Report to the National Geographic Society on Activities Conducted under Grant 6980-01 (2003)
Funds from grant 6980-01 enabled us to gather information about the Classic Mimbres period in Southwest prehistory and improve our understanding of the relationship between population, subsistence, and mobility. Eleven separate analyses (of subsistence remains, demography, resource use, and site use life and intensity), enabled or directly supported as part of this research, facilitate comparisons between the Classic Mimbres period settlement in villages and the Reorganization...
EMAP (2003) Research and Reports from the 2001 and 2002 Field Seasons (2003)
This is a compilation of the research and reports from the Eastern Mimbres Archaeological Project 2001-2002. Articles include: Abandonment is Not as it Seems: An Approach to the relationship Between Site-Level and Regional Abandonment; The Changing Socioeconomic Contexts of Mimbres Households; Game Resources, Social Interaction, and the Ecological Footprint in Southwest New Mexico; Recent Issues in the Archaeology of the Mimbres Region of the North American Southwest; eastern Mimbres...
EMAP (2004) EMAP 2003 Agricultural Feature Survey in the Gila National Forest, Schollmeyer (2004)
The Eastern Mimbres Archaeological Project conducted non-disturbing, non-collecting surface archaeological survey in the Gila National Forest from June 5 through June 15, 2003, in order to identify prehistoric agricultural features in the eastern Mimbres area. This research was conducted as part of the larger Eastern Mimbres Archaeological Project (EMAP), directed by Drs. Michelle Hegmon and Margaret Nelson at Arizona State University. Previous EMAP research has focused on the Ladder Ranch (near...
EMAP (2006) Agriculture, Mobility, and Human Impact in the Mimbres Region of the United States Southwest (2006)
The relationships among land use, population, and environment are not simple. Larger populations impact the environment more than do smaller populations, and environmental marginality promotes greater impacts from human action. While these two statements may be correct at a broad scale, the relationships are not linear. We examine the relationships among these variables using data from eleventh- through thirteenth-century villages and hamlets of prehistoric subsistence agriculturalists from the...