The Eleventh Hour Site (Site Name Keyword)

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The Bird of the Next Dawn: The husbandry, translocation and transformation of the turkey (2012)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Tyr Fothergill. University of Leicester.

This thesis follows the palaeopathological and social history of the turkey, Meleagris gallopavo, over a thousand years (AD 900- c. 1900) and illuminates the evolving nature of turkey-human relationships. Interdependent analyses of zooarchaeological data and historical documentary sources were undertaken for this project. Palaeopathological and metrical data were gathered from turkey elements excavated from archaeological sites in the American Southwest, the UK and Éire; these were used with...


Excavations at 29SJ633: the Eleventh Hour Site, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico (1991)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Peter J. McKenna. H. Wolcott Toll. Catherine M. Cameron. William B. Gillespie. Judith Miles.

Chaco Canyon, located in the approximate center of the San Juan Basin of northwestern New Mexico (Figure 1.1), has been the focus of archeological research for nearly a century. Many large and small sites have been investigated. Figure 1.2 indicates the location of sane of the large sites within and just outside Chaco Culture National Historical Park. Research carried out by the Chaco Project focused on the development of the Chaco Anasazi from the earliest appearance of nan through the...