Favorite Things: An Overview of Ornaments Used by the Jornada Mogollon in the Tularosa Basin, New Mexico
Author(s): Evan Kay; Alexander Kurota
Year: 2019
Summary
This is an abstract from the "Recent Research at Jornada Mogollon Sites in South-Central New Mexico" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
Recent UNM Office of Contract Archeology evaluations and surveys at numerous sites on White Sands Missile Range (WSMR) and White Sands National Monument (WSNM) offer new insight into the use, manufacture and trading of diverse objects of adornment by the Jornada Mogollon during the Doña Ana and El Paso phases. A wide variety of artifacts made from turquoise, shell, travertine, serpentine and argillite is presented. This paper also discusses two rare ornaments: a tubular bead made from the shell of a Vermetidae species (a marine invertebrate commonly called a ‘worm snail’) and lacustrine shell beads made from locally available snails. A size-specific typology of disc beads is also presented.
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Favorite Things: An Overview of Ornaments Used by the Jornada Mogollon in the Tularosa Basin, New Mexico. Evan Kay, Alexander Kurota. Presented at The 84th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Albuquerque, NM. 2019 ( tDAR id: 451470)
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Geographic Keywords
North America: Southern Southwest U.S.
Spatial Coverage
min long: -123.97; min lat: 25.958 ; max long: -92.549; max lat: 37.996 ;
Record Identifiers
Abstract Id(s): 23482