El Corrido de Pablo y Suzy Pescado: Inspiring Archaeological Investigations in Northwest Mexico

Summary

We discuss Paul and Suzy Fish´s integral role in archaeological research in northwest Mexico, an important region that has been little studied by relatively few archaeologists to date. Over more than 25 years, along with our colleagues and many students, our archaeological investigations have included a reanalysis of the funerary mound at Guasave, Sinaloa and an evaluation of the relationship between Mesoamerica and Northwestern Mexico, the Pleistocene people of Sonora and Mexico, the Early Agricultural period at La Playa (SON F:10:3) and other sites, paleoethnobotanical studies and environmental reconstruction in several sites in Sonora, regional systematic survey of the Río Fuerte Valley in Sinaloa, the long-distance exchange routes linking West Mexico with northwest Mexico and the American Southwest, research at the exceptional Fin del Mundo Clovis site and 12,000 years of human adaptations and the climatic changes in the Sonoran Desert. Most recently, we have begun research in the Sahuaripa region of eastern Sonora in order to investigate both the long-distance and regional interaction spheres and socio-politico-economic organization of the Río Sonora and Serrana archaeological traditions. We believe that this research effectively expresses the depth and breadth of Paul and Suzy’s multifaceted archaeological perspectives.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 82nd Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC (2017)   •
• Regional to International Collaborations in American Archaeology: The Legacy of Suzanne Fish and Paul Fish

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Abstract Id(s): 15329