Casas Grandes (Site Name Keyword)
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In this article, the authors seek to understand cosmological expressions in architecture and the built landscape in Mesoamerica, Northern Mexico, the US Southwest, and the US Southeast.
Site Survey, Casas Grandes River Valley, Chihuahua, Mexico (1972)
Correspondence between Eleanor M. Carey and The Amerind Foundation, Inc. including two reports and a site survey written by her late husband, Dr. Henry Ames Carey. Both reports, 1953 and 1954, are of the Casas Grandes culture in Chihuahua, Mexico. The site survey is from the Corralitos Ranch.
Social Differentiation at Casas Grandes, Chihuahua Mexico: An Archaeological Analysis of Mortuary Practices (1984)
Excavations at Casas Grandes, Chihuahua, Mexico have produced 576 burials dating between the 12th and 14th centuries. Social differentiation was investigated among Casas Grandians by analyzing a series of burial attributes defined from the society's mortuary program. An attempt was made to determine the manner degree to which social life at Casas Grandes was hierarchically structured during the Medio Period (ca. A.D. 1060 to 1340). Specifically, the hypothesis that Casas Grandes was organized on...
Southwest Mortuary Database Project: 2011 SAA E-Session: Mortuary Practices in the American Southwest: Meta-Data Issues in the Development of a Regional Database
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...
Survey of Casas Grandes Region (1957)
The purpose of this trip is to meet Dr. Walter Taylor and Dr. Ignacio Bernal in regard to the excavation contract with Mexico and to check road distances and conditions from the museum to Juarez, El Sueco and Casas Grandes.
Survey of Cave Valley- Carreta Caves Casas Grandes-Cave Valley Trip, May 13-18, 1957 (1957)
The purpose of this trip is to examine the crossing at Palomas (Columbus) New Mexico and the road conditions to Casas Grandes and to compare same with the Antelope Wells crossing and road.
Survey of the Casas Grandes region, March 10-13, 1958, Dragoon-El Paso-Casas Grandes Trip (1958)
The purpose of this trip is to study logistic and employment problems involved with the proposed Casas Grandes joint expedition.
Twentieth Century Adventure with Juan Mateo Manje (1961)
Juan Mateo Manje was an old and close companion. After all, Arizona Silhouettes had lived with him for almost three years during our work with the late Harry J. Karnes, who translated Manje's Luz de Tierra lncognita, from the Francisco Fernandez del Castillo Spanish version; the first English translation we published in 1954. This was the day-by-day diary of Manje from February l, 1694, through April 15, 1701, covering seven major trips of discovery with Fray Eusebio Francisco Kino. These two...