Across the Colorado Plateau: Anthropological Studies for the Transwestern Pipeline Expansion Project, Volume XX: Conclusions and Synthesis- Communities, Boundaries, and Cultural Variation

Author(s): Joseph C. Winter

Year: 1994

Summary

The Transwestern Pipeline Expansion Project resulted in the discovery of 448 archeological sites and 174 current cultural resources, along a series of discontinuous pipeline transects and ancillary work areas between the San Juan River Valley near Bloomfield, New Mexico, and the Colorado River Valley, near Needles, California. One hundred and sixty-seven of the sites were excavated, while 51 of the current cultural resources were the subject of intensive ethnological investigations.

Three overarching research topics were at the core of the project: identifying the prehistoric, historic, and contemporary communities represented by the sites and current properties; understanding their boundaries; and analyzing the cultural variation contained within them. Project artifact analysts, environmental specialists, site excavation directors, ethnologists, and administrative staff developed more specific research questions, but all issues were connected in one way or another with the three interrelated topics, which have also been used to organize this volume. This is the twentieth and final in a series of reports that describes and interprets the sites and current resources affected by the construction of the pipeline.

Cite this Record

Across the Colorado Plateau: Anthropological Studies for the Transwestern Pipeline Expansion Project, Volume XX: Conclusions and Synthesis- Communities, Boundaries, and Cultural Variation. Joseph C. Winter. 1994 ( tDAR id: 427771) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8427771

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Keywords

Culture
Aceramic • Anasazi • Archaic • Cohonina • Historic • Navajo • Sinagua

Material
Ceramic • Chipped Stone • Fauna • Human Remains • Pollen • Projectile points • Shell

Site Name
423-104 • 423-105 • 423-132 • 423-136 • 423-137 • 423-139 • 423-141 • 423-142 • 423-143 • 423-144 • 423-145 • 423-147 • 423-148 • 423-149 • 423-151 • 423-152 • 423-153 • 423-155 • 423-156 • 423-158 • 423-75 • 423-79 • 423-80 • 423-85 • 423-88 • 423-91 • 423-94 • 423-95 • 442-102 • 442-103 • 442-107 • 442-108 • 442-115 • 442-116 • 442-117 • 442-12 • 442-129 • 442-13 • 442-135 • 442-141 • 442-142 • 442-144 • 442-3 • 442-32 • 442-33 • 442-34 • 442-45 • 442-49 • 442-50 • 442-51 • 442-52 • 442-53 • 442-55 • 442-56 • 442-59 • 442-60 • 442-63 • 442-8 • 442-83 • 442-86 • 442-87 • 442-89 • 442-90 • 442-92 • Eleanor Site • Vivian Site Show More

Site Type
Artifact Scatter • Burial Pit • Cistern • Funerary and Burial Structures or Features • Hearth • Isolated Feature • Mine • Mine-Related Structures • Mine Tunnels • Platform • Privy • Retaining Wall • Rock Alignment • Rock Pile • Trash Scatter

Investigation Types
Archaeological Overview • Data Recovery / Excavation • Site Evaluation / Testing

General
Transwestern Pipeline Company

Geographic Keywords
Arizona (State / Territory) • Bloomfield, NM • California (State / Territory) • Colorado River Valley • Needles, CA • New Mexico (State / Territory) • San Juan River Valley

Temporal Keywords
Archaic • Historic • Prehistoric

Temporal Coverage

Calendar Date: 700 to 1100 (Dating for Cohonina sites based on ceramic and projectile point analysis)

Spatial Coverage

min long: -115.104; min lat: 33.605 ; max long: -107.227; max lat: 37.736 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): Salt River Project Cultural Resource Manager

Contributor(s): Rick Morris; Michael P. Marshall; Bradley J. Vierra; Karen Ritts-Benally; Ronna J. Bradley; Orit Tamir; Christine E. Goetze

Principal Investigator(s): Joseph C. Winter

Submitted To(s): Transwestern Pipeline Company

Record Identifiers

UNM Project(s): 185-461B

Docket No.(s): CP90-2294-000

SRP Library Barcode No.(s): 00090775

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