North America: Northern Southwest U.S. (Geographic Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Phillips. Karen Armstrong. Karen Price.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeology, Cultural Heritage, and Public Education at Tijeras Pueblo, New Mexico" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Most of the archaeological collections from Tijeras Pueblo were submitted to the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, University of New Mexico. As was typical at the time, the collections were stored in a warehouse, using non-archival materials, with only minimal records about what was stored where. Beginning...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jeremy Brunette. Jonathan Stark.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Twenty years ago, cultural resource managers produced a multiple-property evaluation of extant Manhattan Project properties at Los Alamos National Laboratory titled “Sentinels of the Atomic Dawn.” “Sentinels” recorded 49 standing buildings and two archaeological sites. Since that initial evaluation, 29 of the 49 buildings have been demolished and the two...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Patricia Crown.

A small room in the north-central part of Pueblo Bonito, Room 28 is best known for the large assemblage of cylinder jars discarded in it. The UNM excavations reveal a complex history for the room, including use as an outdoor activity area perhaps under a ramada, construction of walls, remodeling, construction of shelving to hold the cylinder jars, and termination by burning. Ceramics, stratigraphy, radiocarbon and tree-ring dates provide the basis for understanding the sequence of use and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rebecca Simon. Shanna Diederichs.

This is an abstract from the "Adopting the Pueblo Fettle: The Breadth and Depth of the Basketmaker III Cultural Horizon" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Basketmaker III earthen architecture in the northern Southwest is commonly understood to have a use-life of one, maybe two generations. This understanding comes in part from experimental studies combined with the recent modeling of momentary populations. Crow Canyon Archaeological Center identified...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Robert Bischoff.

This is an abstract from the "Transcending Modern Boundaries: Recent Investigations of Cultural Landscapes in Southeastern Utah" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. San Juan Red Ware was produced primarily in southeastern Utah beginning around AD 750, and these vessels were traded throughout the Four Corners region of the U.S. Southwest. Its distribution in southeastern Utah demonstrates intriguing patterns of consumption, as some areas within the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rolfe Mandel.

This is an abstract from the "2023 Fryxell Award Symposium: Papers in Honor of Timothy Beach Part II" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. During the 1930s and 1940s, Kirk Bryan and Claude C. Albritton Jr. studied the stratigraphy of late Quaternary alluvial fills in the Chihuahuan Desert of the Big Bend region, southwest Texas. A significant outcome of that work was the recognition of three stratigraphic units that were differentiated based on...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matt Liebmann.

The enigmatic first contacts between the Zuni people and Esteban Dorantes, an enslaved Moor, has provided fodder for historical and anthropological speculation for more than 475 years. Conjecture regarding what really happened between Esteban and the Zuni began within a few days of this initial encounter in 1539, and continues down to the present day. Despite centuries of debate, supposition, and guesswork based on scanty historical records, archaeological evidence has yet to be brought to bear...

DOCUMENT Citation Only R.G. Matson. William Lipe.

This is an abstract from the "Transcending Modern Boundaries: Recent Investigations of Cultural Landscapes in Southeastern Utah" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. During the Basketmaker II (BM II) many of the features that characterize succeeding Puebloan cultures were developed. There are two main BM II agricultural adaptations--the earlier canyon floodwater farming and the later mesa-top dry-farming. On Cedar Mesa, the earlier form is best known...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Julie Solometo. Wesley Bernardini. Dalton Olson. David Biddle.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Shields and shield bearers are recurrent and widespread motifs in Pueblo IV (AD 1300-1540) rock art. Polly Schaafsma has argued that depictions of shields and shield bearers in the Rio Grande were part of an iconographic complex that expressed ideas about warfare and war ritual. When inscribed on the landscape, shields may have recalled actual warfare, but...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Larry Baker.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In northwestern New Mexico, there are thousands of archaeological sites that span the complete cultural and temporal spectrum of human occupation in the region. Many of these cultural resources are located in remote areas and as backcountry sites, are often prey to looting and vandalism, particularly those exhibiting standing architecture and rock art. In many...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kari Schleher.

This is an abstract from the "Adopting the Pueblo Fettle: The Breadth and Depth of the Basketmaker III Cultural Horizon" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Dillard site (5MT10647)-the earliest community center identified in the Mesa Verde region-may contain among the oldest examples of multi-household pottery production during the Basketmaker III period. A thorough understanding of how pottery was produced, decorated, and obtained at this early...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Judson Finley. Erick Robinson.

This is an abstract from the "Global Perspectives on Climate-Human Population Dynamics During the Late Holocene" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Northeastern Utah’s Uinta Basin marks the northernmost extent of maize agriculture diffused from the American Southwest, with as many as a dozen distinct Fremont pithouse communities forming between AD 300-1350. Recent work in the Cub Creek locality of Dinosaur National Monument demonstrates that Fremont...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard E. Terry. Glenna Nielsen-Grimm. Deanne Matheny. Ray Matheny.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeological Research in Montezuma Canyon, San Juan County, Utah" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Many of the elements associated with foodstuffs and mineral ores were deposited in the surface of soils and floors of ancient dwellings. Phosphorus and certain heavy metals remain chemically sorbed on soil and floor particles. Soil samples were collected from ancient patios of two structures associated with the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Amy Schott.

The Petrified Forest National Park in northeastern Arizona contains extensive sand sheets and dunes. Archaeologists have long recognized the importance of the eolian landscape for prehistoric agriculture. Archaeological sites dating from c. 200-1400 A.D. correlate with eolian landscape features, which suggests that eolian soils were used for dry-farmed dune agriculture. Eolian soils are not always conducive to dry-farmed agriculture; however, dune farming is known ethnographically, and has been...

DOCUMENT Citation Only William Willis. Haley Dougherty. Joseph Curran. Eric Fries. Benjamin Van Alstyne.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeology of the Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. During the summer of 2018, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Shivwits Research Project conducted an archaeological survey and documentation project on the remote southern end of the Shivwits Plateau. This region has seen little anthropological research since it was first explored by archaeologists in the early to mid-20th...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Susan Smith. Karen Adams.

This is an abstract from the "Adopting the Pueblo Fettle: The Breadth and Depth of the Basketmaker III Cultural Horizon" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Large archaeobotanical datasets concentrated in a specific region are rare, especially those representing multiple sites excavated over several years. The Basketmaker Communities Project is one such rare research program that resulted in the analysis of hundreds of macrobotanical, flotation, and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Daniel Perez.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeology of the Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological investigations pertaining to the upland zone of the Virgin Branch Puebloan region—namely, the Colorado Plateaus—have historically been limited in both number and scope. Recent expeditions to various sites on the Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument, however, have helped expand the archaeological record of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jacqueline Kocer.

Chipped stone and ground stone from Room 28 backfill included fill from adjacent rooms and lends insight to the technology used during room occupation. I summarize both debitage and formal tool analyses with a special discussion on projectile point types. Most material proportions fall within the range of those in other Chaco Canyon assemblages but with a lower frequency of Narbona Pass and Zuni Spotted Chert. General types of ground stone are discussed in the analysis and jar lid metric data...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kenneth Wintch. Deanne Matheny. Ray Matheny.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeological Research in Montezuma Canyon, San Juan County, Utah" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper presents the history of archaeological surveys by Brigham Young University in upper and middle Montezuma Canyon during the latter half of the 20th Century. The sequence, methods, context and goals of those various inventories are briefly presented, followed by a brief discussion of salient results and patterns...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sean Dolan.

Excavation is often the way to mitigate for the loss of cultural resources to comply with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act. However, excavation is not always the most practical solution. A case study is presented to demonstrate how alternative mitigations advance the research value of cultural resources, and increase flexibility in land-use decisions by agencies while satisfying the mutual interests of stakeholders. In 2012, four prehispanic Ancestral Puebloan fieldhouses...

DOCUMENT Citation Only William Marquardt.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Miniature vessels are generally placed into one of three categories by archaeologists; children’s toys, ritual offerings, or test pots to assess clay quality. Previous studies in the Southwest have explored these small bowls and jars as introductory entries to the potter’s craft, made by small hands under the tutelage – or in emulation – of their elders (Crown...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jessica Yaquinto. Kathleen Van Vlack.

The BLM Utah Monticello Field Office (MFO) selected Living Heritage Anthropology (LHA) to document tribes' connections to and ethnographic resources within their field office. The MFO is located in southeastern Utah and includes much of the greater Cedar Mesa area. In order to achieve this goal, LHA is currently conducting an ethnographic literature review of tribal perspectives of and connections to the MFO. As part of this process, with the field office, LHA has been initiating conversations...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Karen Schollmeyer. Jeffery Ferguson. Jacques Burlot. Joan Brenner Coltrain. Virginie Renson.

This is an abstract from the "Isotopic and Animal aDNA Analyses in the Southwest/Northwest" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Changes in resource acquisition patterns are important components of larger social transformations, including shifts in the source areas and transport patterns of important animal resources. In the Mesa Verde region, increasing population aggregation and shifting settlement locations from AD 750 through 1225 also increased...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tim Riley.

This is an abstract from the "Cordage, Yarn, and Associated Paraphernalia" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Cordage was vital in the daily life of Fremont farmers across the Colorado Plateau. Yet, this humble technology rarely receives the full attention of textile specialists, focused on the intricate half-rod and bundle coiled parching trays, yucca sandals, and other more impressive aspects of the perishable fiber record. This talk examines a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alissa Healy. Jana Comstock.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Gallina culture is one with a fascinating history of violence, defensive environments, unique artifacts, and most importantly—the sustained habitation of pitstructures for the duration of their 200 year occupation (AD 1100—1300). This behavior is dissimilar to the surrounding pueblo period cultures. Several cultural resource management firms have conducted...