North America: Northern Southwest U.S. (Geographic Keyword)
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This study examines the spatial patterning of shield iconography at late Pueblo III sites (A.D. 1250-1300) in the Tsegi Canyon system, as an indicator of shared group identity. In the mid-13th century, the Tsegi Canyon region of northeastern Arizona followed a greater regional trend of communities coalescing into defensive high canyon alcoves, accompanied by the adoption of shield iconography, likely influenced by Freemont traditions to the north. These images are variously interpreted to...
House Society Models in Anthropological and Archaeological Theory: Chaco Canyon and the Prehispanic American Southwest. (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Kin, Clan, and House: Social Relatedness in the Archaeology of North American Societies" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In recent years, a growing number of archaeologists have explored the potential of expanding Lévi-Strauss’s concept of "house societies" to better understand local as well as regional development sequences. In this paper, I draw on the work of cultural anthropologists as well as archaeologists to...
Identifying Cumulative Impacts from Wildfire and Wildfire Mitigations at Los Alamos National Laboratory (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Archaeologies of the Eastern Jemez Mountain Range and the Pajarito Plateau: Interagency Collaboration for Management of Cultural Landscapes" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The impacts of wildfire on cultural and natural resources have been discussed and analyzed for many years. Impacts include loss of irreplaceable artifacts, features, habitats, and landscapes due to increased wildfire regimes, as well as climate...
In-Field XRF of Obsidian from Sites in the Lion Mountain Community of West-Central New Mexico (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Lion Mountain Community of west-central New Mexico is the largest and most easterly example of what has been described as a Zuni Region phenomena. A focus of this research is examining interactions both within the community and the broader region. In contrast to other lines of evidence, such as architecture and ceramic typology, in-field ED-XRF analysis of...
The Indian Camp Ranch Community: a Two Hundred Year-Long History of a Basketmaker III Community in Southwest Colorado (2019)
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 is a formative period in Ancestral Pueblo history but has rarely been researched at the settlement level. Crow Canyon Archaeological Center’s Basketmaker Communities Project investigated a concentration of 79 Basketmaker III sites in a square kilometer area of southwest Colorado and...
The Interactive Effects of Risk and Climatic Variation on Food Storage Behavior (2021)
This is an abstract from the "Life Is Risky: Human Behavioral Ecological Approaches to Variable Outcomes " session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Risk, or variation in outcomes, is an inherent part of the human condition and can result in the adoption of complex behavioral patterns that seemingly contradict expectations of human rationality. Thus, complex patterns of behavioral adaptation may require considering how risk constrains or encourages...
Interpretive Strata at Tijeras Pueblo (2019)
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. Tijeras Pueblo Archaeological Site offers a variety of integrated resources that encourage appreciation of and respect for traditional pueblo lifeways past and present. Informative strata comprise a self-guided trail, museum exhibits, a pueblo garden and native plant identification. Educational...
An Investigation of Ancient Turkeys near Houck, Arizona (2018)
This research explores microscale patterns of human-avian interaction in the prehispanic Southwest by identifying evidence of Meleagris gallopavo (turkey) use at a series of multicomponent sites near Houck, Arizona. Using legacy field notes, maps, photos, and artifacts housed at the Museum of Northern Arizona, I provide information about the spatiotemporal contexts of turkey remains at the Houck site cluster. The area of focus was primarily occupied between AD 800-1250, before and during the...
Itamu umumi yooya' ökiwni ('We will arrive as rain to you'): Evidence of Historical Relationships among Western Basketmaker, Fremont, and Hopi People (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Noel Morss (1931) and researchers into the 1990s defined Fremont Culture in terms of the "Anasazi," leaving unanswered the question of the ethnic and linguistic identity of the Formative Era Fremont people. This paper expands upon the findings of two recent studies: (1) Eastern Basketmakers (EBM) were Kiowa-speakers (Ortman and McNeil 2017) and (2) Western...
Just Up the Hill and Not Down the Line: Ancestral Pueblo Obsidian Use at the Source (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Archaeologies of the Eastern Jemez Mountain Range and the Pajarito Plateau: Interagency Collaboration for Management of Cultural Landscapes" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The rich obsidian deposits found in the Jemez Mountains were utilized by all peoples in prehistory, including the Ancestral Pueblo groups who called the mountains home. For most of the geochemically-distinct geologic deposits of obsidian originating...
Keith Kintigh and the Cibola Region over the Long Term (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Attention to Detail: A Pragmatic Career of Research, Mentoring, and Service, Papers in Honor of Keith Kintigh" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper provides a brief overview of Keith Kintigh’s career and contributions, with a special emphasis on his research on Pueblo archaeology in the Cibola region of western New Mexico and eastern Arizona. The seeds of many themes in Dr. Kintigh’s research and professional...
Landscape Ecology, GIS and Faunal Abundances in Ancestral Puebloan Sites in the San Juan River Basin (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The abundance of faunal remains in archaeological sites is generally associated with the availability of those fauna on the landscape. However, over time, the spatial variability in faunal abundances could change due to environmental or anthropogenic factors. In the American Southwest, the occurrence and abundance of artiodactyls and lagomorphs varies...
Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Biomarkers from Stratified and Cumulic Soils in Highland Environments of the Jemez Mountains, New Mexico (2018)
Through his meticulous work on stratified and buried soils, Vance Holliday has transformed our understanding of Paleoindian environments in the lowlands of the Southwest and Great Plains. Inspired by Vance’s example, we have used a geoarchaeological approach to explore Paleoindian visitation and use of highland environments. Paleoindians have been visiting the Jemez Mountains for obsidian since at least the Folsom period. However, direct archaeological evidence of their presence in and use of...
Let's Cut to the Chase: An Analysis of Experimental and Archaeological Data in the Process of Butchery (2021)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This research identifies where taphonomic effects, specifically cut marks are found on zooarchaeological materials from both the archaeological and experimental contexts. Analysis of such taphonomic effects include identification of similar patterning, placement of those marks between the archaeological record, and experimental research. This allows...
Limb for Limb: Risk and Firewood Acquisition in the Southwestern United States (2021)
This is an abstract from the "Life Is Risky: Human Behavioral Ecological Approaches to Variable Outcomes " session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. There are numerous dynamics of risk associated with acquiring any resource. The risk of investing time unsuccessfully, of incurring too great an opportunity cost, and of dangers to life or limb when venturing forth all come into play. How do these different types of risk trade off and how does a human in need of...
Long-Term Changes in Human-Animal Relationships on the Pajarito Plateau (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Archaeologies of the Eastern Jemez Mountain Range and the Pajarito Plateau: Interagency Collaboration for Management of Cultural Landscapes" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Previous research from the northern American Southwest suggests that human populations gradually transitioned their animal-based diet away from artiodactyls to a focus on lagomorphs and turkeys throughout the Basketmaker to Pueblo periods. Faunal...
A Low Technology Approach to Understanding Fremont Ceramic Production (2018)
Unlike other regions of the American Southwest, many basic aspects of Fremont ceramic production have never been adequately explored, and many of the assumptions about the production process presented in the literature have never been rigorously tested. Low-technology analysis techniques such as re-firing can provide a simple and cost-effective way to begin exploring these processes and test assumptions made by past archaeologists. Re-firing Fremont ceramics has provided new information about...
Machine Learning R-CNN Identification of the Entirety of the Southwest Regional Road Network (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The United States Geologic Survey is intermittently releasing publicly available 1-meter resolution lidar of the contiguous United States through the 3-Dimensional Elevation Project. Over the past several years, large sections of lidar across southeast Utah, southwest Colorado, New Mexico, and small portions of Arizona have been released—creating an...
Maize: Phenotypic Response to Variable Depth Water Input (2021)
This is an abstract from the "Experimental Archaeology in Range Creek Canyon, Utah" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Prehistoric maize farming has been well-documented in Range Creek Canyon, Utah. Evidence includes numerous corn cobs, maize storage structures, starch on ground stone tools, and pollen and isotopic evidence from sediment cores. Maize farming experiments in Range Creek suggest dry farming would not have been a sustainable option for...
Making a Homeland and Navajo Cultural Landscapes (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Sacred Southwestern Landscapes: Archaeologies of Religious Ecology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In indigenous America fundamental consideration in addressing "the materiality of religion" is the land itself. In native thinking the land and the people comprise inseparable entities that interact and give definitions to each other. The Navajo, in their migrations into the Southwest, adapted to cultural landscapes...
Making Pottery, Making Identity: Geochemical and Design Analyses from a Small Middle San Juan Site, New Mexico (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Step by Step: Tracing World Potting Traditions through Ceramic Petrography" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This study addresses both the geochemical composition and the decorative content of ceramic sherds recovered from the Box B Site (LA 16660), New Mexico. Thorough and successful ceramic analyses by Barbara Mills, Hayward Franklin, and Elizabeth Garrett took place in the 1980s. This current project reexamines white...
Making the Most of Salmon Pueblo’s Enormous Dataset: The SPARC Project (2018)
The ruins of Salmon Pueblo were excavated by Cynthia Irwin-Williams, her staff, and students in the 1970s. A huge archive of material culture, photographs, excavation records, and analytical data was produced documenting Salmon’s Chacoan and post-Chacoan occupations. With support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Salmon Pueblo Archaeological Research Collection (SPARC) Project was created with the goal of making the enormous Salmon dataset available to scholars through an...
Managing Between Earth and Sky: Forested Landscape Cultural Resource Management in the Jemez Mountains (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Archaeologies of the Eastern Jemez Mountain Range and the Pajarito Plateau: Interagency Collaboration for Management of Cultural Landscapes" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Human use of the Santa Fe National Forest extends well back into the past. This use remains unbroken from the earliest occupation of the land by humans into the present. Unlike many other areas there has been no hiatus of human use. The ties of...
Measurements of Archaeobotanical Diversity and Richness Using Combined Macrobotanical and Microbotanical Data: Methodological and Theoretical Considerations (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent computational advances in the accessibility of robust statistical techniques used to estimate the biological richness and diversity of ecological communities using observational data provide a strong foundation for archaeological assessments of botanical richness and diversity using archaeobotanical data. While there is broad consensus amongst...
Middle Archaic Period Subsistence and Resource Use Practices in the Chuska Valley, New Mexico (2019)
This is an abstract from the "The Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project: A Multivocal Analysis of the San Juan Basin as a Cultural Landscape" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The recent discovery and investigation of a Middle Archaic period campsite in the southern Chuska Valley has provided substantial insight into the relative importance of various plant and animal resources to the mobile inhabitants of the San Juan Basin region. Data generated from...