Ancestral Puebloan (Culture Keyword)

DOCUMENT Full-Text James T. Abbott. R. Blake Roxlau. William B. Butler. Howard C. Higgins. Timothy M. Deignan.

This report evaluates the applicability of several near-surface geophysical methods to intrasite archaeological prospection in New Mexico. The Investigations explored the effectiveness of resistivity, gradiometer, magnetometer, ground penetrating radar, and magnetic susceptibility techniques for verifying the presence and nature of architectural and other cultural features at Kirtland Air Force Base. The research involved the application of these techniques to five sites (LA 107488, LA 53672, LA...

DOCUMENT Full-Text James T. Abbott. John C. Acklen. Howard C. Higgins.

This report presents the results of a two-phase evaluation of erosion hazards and the need for stabilization of prehistoric archaeological sites on Kirtland Air Force Base. Phase I consisted of the evaluation of erosion vulnerability of specific, previously-identified sites located within alluvial environments on the base (e.g., within the drainages of Tijeras Arroyo and Arroyo del Coyote). Based on this evaluation, ten sites were selected for field revisits and evaluation. These sites include...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard D. Holmes.

This report details the environment, prehistory, ethnography, and history of Kirtland Air Force Base in a format suitable for the lay audience. The report begins with an examination of the location and environment. This discussion examines the origin of the mountains and rivers, the plants and animals, and how the climate has changed over time. Research into the geomorphology, paleontology, and wildlife is summarized. The report continues with an examination of the prehistoric peoples and...

DATASET Alison Rautman.

This faunal dataset derives from excavations conducted by Michigan State University in 1994 at Kite Pueblo (LA 199). Kite Pueblo is the square adobe pueblo occupied between circa A.D. 1220 to 1300. The pueblo has a glaze A occupation shown by surface artifacts and masonry construction atop the adobe pueblo.

DATASET Kari Schmidt.

Faunal assemblage excavated at LA 12587, a late Coalition Pueblo site located on land managed by Las Alamos National Laboratory.

DATASET Kari Schmidt.

Faunal assemblage excavated from LA 125290, a Coalition Period Pueblo site on land managed by the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

DATASET Kari Schmidt.

Faunal assemblage excavated from LA 4618, a Coalition Period Pueblo site located on land managed by the Las Alamos National Laboratory.

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Faunal assemblage excavated from LA 86534, a Coalition Period Pueblo site on land managed by the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

DATASET Leah Fitzgerald. Tony Aliano. Angela Mowrer.

Spreadsheet of artifacts associated to LA 9228 at the Department of Anthropology and Applied Archaeology

DOCUMENT Full-Text Katherine Spielmann. Lisa Baldwin. John Briggs. Kari Horn. Karen Schollmeyer. Caitlyn Wichlasz.

While the archaeological work at Pueblo La Plata has begun to provide critical data concerning prehistoric demography, ceramic accumulations, and use of plants and animals, it was on the transect surveys that the collaboration between archaeological and ecological research came to fruition in the 2004 field season. This report discusses the data collection protocol that was developed to collect archaeological, small mammal, plant, and rock cover data on these transects, and presents preliminary...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard G. Ervin.

In early 1986, archeologists from the Western Archeological and Conservation Center (WACC), National Park Service (NPS), surveyed developed areas and other high-use areas within Lake Mead National Recreation Area (NRA). The 1986 Archeological Survey of Developed Areas was designated project LAME 86A. This report describes the results of the LAME 86A project and two earlier developed areas surveys, and so provides a complete record of such surveys at Lake Mead. One of the previous surveys was...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Cye W. Gossett.

A total of 19 archaeological sites were located or relocated during a sample survey (Class II) of 1,400 acres along Tijeras Arroyo east and south of the City of Albuquerque. Eleven archaeological sites were newly discovered during this survey, while 8 sites were relocated within the selected survey units. The purpose of the survey was to determine the types of sites that remain undisturbed along a 1 mile wide corridor of the canyon from east of the present day town of Carnuel to the confluence...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Melissa Kruse-Peeples. Hoski Schaafma. Katherine Spielmann. John Briggs.

The Perry Mesa region in central Arizona was the location of a major pulse of residential occupation and extensive agricultural land use from about a.d. 1275 to a.d. 1450. Recent research carried out by a collaborative team of archaeologists and ecologists has documented the ways in which short-term and small-scale agricultural land use transformed ecological systems in the region over long periods of time. Results from recent analyses relating to different spatial scales of prehistoric...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Cara Steiner Kiggins.

The architecture of Las Mujeres (also known as Squaw Creek Ruin and NA 12555) was examined as part of the Legacies on the Landscape research project during the Spring 2007 field season. Room construction sequences, as indicated by bonded or abutted corners, are indicators of population growth. These patterns of bonded and abutted corners suggest whether a pueblo was built all at once or instead built incrementally through the gradual accretion of rooms. A gradual accretion of rooms could...

IMAGE Gary Brown.

Aztec West, Sector 3, Kiva F (photographed by Gary Brown prior to backfilling). Kiva was built on second story above filled-in first-story enclosure housing. No publication exists on the kivas excavated by AMNH (but see unpublished Morris kiva notes). Image AZRU-G01-01: Overview of architectural housing looking west from top of second story in Room 49 (roof ledge on interior wall of Room 49 indicates break between first and second stories). Image AZRU-G01-02: View of kiva interior looking SW...

IMAGE Gary Brown. Joel Gamache.

Aztec West, Sector 3, Kiva G composite quadrant elevations created by copying individual images (photographed in 1999 by Art Ireland prior to backfilling and in 2010 by Joel Gamache as part of East Wing Condition Assessment). Late PII above ground kiva (see Morris 1924). Image AZRU-J99.KivaG.A: South quad copied from AZRU1999R280005; Image AZRU-J99.KivaG.B: East quad copied from AZRU1999R270036; Image AZRU-J99.KivaG.C: North quad copied from AZRU1999R270030; Image AZRU-J99.KivaG.D: West...

IMAGE Gary Brown. Joel Gamache.

Aztec West, Sector 3, Kiva G enclosing wall overviews (kiva photographed in 2010 by Joel Gamache as part of post-backfilling Condition Assessment). Late PII above ground kiva located in the NE sector of the East Wing (see Morris 1928). Image AZRU-E Wing_Kiva G_3A: East interior enclosing wall NE oblique copied from cIMG_6253; AZRU-E Wing_Room Kiva G_3B: North jamb of east interior enclosing wall doorway copied from cIMG_6267; AZRU-E Wing_Kiva G_3C: Close-up of east interior enclosing wall...

IMAGE Gary Brown. Joel Gamache.

Aztec West, Sector 3, Kiva G overviews (kiva photographed in 1999 by Art Ireland prior to backfilling). Late PII above ground kiva located in the NE sector of the East Wing (see Morris 1928). Image AZRU-E Wing_Kiva G_2A: NW jamb of SE niche copied from AZRU1999R280023; AZRU-E Wing_Room Kiva G_2B: East wall of southern recess copied from AZRU1999R280026; AZRU-E Wing_Kiva G_2C: Close-up of southern recess copied from AZRU1999R280025; Image AZRU-E Wing_Kiva G_2D: West wall of southern recess...

IMAGE Gary Brown. Joel Gamache.

Aztec West, Sector 3, Kiva G overviews (kiva photographed in 1999 by Art Ireland prior to backfilling). Late PII above ground kiva located in the NE sector of the East Wing (see Morris 1928). Image AZRU-E Wing_Kiva G_1A: SE quad overview copied from AZRU1999R280020; AZRU-E Wing_Room Kiva G_1B: NE quad overview copied from AZRU1999R280019; AZRU-E Wing_Kiva G_1C: NW quad overview copied from AZRU1999R280018; Image AZRU-E Wing_Kiva G_1D: SW quad overview copied from AZRU1999R280017; Image AZRU-E...

IMAGE Gary Brown. Joel Gamache.

Aztec West, Sector 2, Room 37 overviews (room photographed in 1998 by Art Ireland prior to backfilling). Late PII two-story room located in the central sector of the East Wing (see Morris 1928). Image AZRU-E Wing_Room 37_1A: South interior wall SW oblique copied from IMG0077; Image AZRU-E Wing_Room 37_1B: South interior wall SE oblique copied from IMG0079; Image AZRU-E Wing_Room 37_1C: East jamb of south wall doorway copied from IMG0080; Image AZRU-E Wing_Room 37_1D: West jamb of south wall...

IMAGE Gary Brown. Joel Gamache.

Aztec West, Sector 2, Room 38 overviews (room photographed in 1998 by Art Ireland prior to backfilling). Late PII two-story room located in the central sector of the East Wing (see Morris 1928). Image AZRU-E Wing_Room 38_1A: Upper south interior wall SE oblique copied from IMG0112a; Image AZRU-E Wing_Room 38_1B: Lower south interior wall SW oblique copied from IMG0066; Image AZRU-E Wing_Room 38_1C: Lower south interior wall SE oblique copied from IMG0111a; Image AZRU-E Wing_Room 38_1D: Upper...

IMAGE Gary Brown. Joel Gamache.

Aztec West, Sector 2, Room 38 overviews (room photographed in 1998 by Art Ireland prior to backfilling). Late PII two-story room located in the central sector of the East Wing (see Morris 1928). Image AZRU-E Wing_Room 38_2A: Upper east interior wall NE oblique copied from IMG0099a; Image AZRU-E Wing_Room 38_2B: Lower east interior wall NE oblique copied from IMG0092a; Image AZRU-E Wing_Room 38_2C: Lower east interior wall SE oblique copied from IMG0094a; Image AZRU-E Wing_Room 38_2D: Upper...

IMAGE Gary Brown. Joel Gamache.

Aztec West, Sector 2, Room 39 overviews (room photographed in 1998 by Art Ireland prior to backfilling). Late PII two-story room located in the central sector of the East Wing (see Morris 1928). Image AZRU-E Wing_Room 39_2A: Upper west interior wall NW oblique copied from AZRU1999R48-0024; Image AZRU-E Wing_Room 39_2B: Upper west interior wall SW oblique copied from AZRU1999R48-0009; Image AZRU-E Wing_Room 39_2C: Lower west interior wall SW oblique copied from AZRU1999R48-0008; Image AZRU-E...

IMAGE Gary Brown. Joel Gamache.

Aztec West, Sector 2, Room 39 overviews (room photographed in 1998 by Art Ireland prior to backfilling). Late PII two-story room located in the central sector of the East Wing (see Morris 1928). Image AZRU-E Wing_Room 39_1A: Upper south interior wall NE oblique copied from IMG0041; Image AZRU-E Wing_Room 39_1B: Upper south interior wall SW oblique copied from IMG0042; Image AZRU-E Wing_Room 39_1C: Lower south interior wall SW oblique copied from IMG0032; Image AZRU-E Wing_Room 39_1D: Lower...

IMAGE Gary Brown. Joel Gamache.

Aztec West, Sector 2, Room 40 overviews (room photographed in 1998 by Art Ireland prior to backfilling). Late PII two-story room located in the central sector of the East Wing (see Morris 1928). Image AZRU-E Wing_Room 40_1A: East interior wall SE oblique copied from IMG0003a; Image AZRU-E Wing_Room 40_1B: North interior wall NE oblique copied from IMG0011; Image AZRU-E Wing_Room 40_1C: North interior wall NW oblique copied from IMG0015; Image AZRU-E Wing_Room 40_1D: West interior wall NW...