Ancestral Puebloan (Culture Keyword)
5,651-5,675 (7,426 Records)
The Legacies on the Landscape Project is an ongoing collaboration between ecology and archaeology faculty, graduate, and undergraduate students at Arizona State University. The project was born out of the recognition that strongly integrated interdisciplinary research was essential for understanding human-ecosystem interactions. Our particular case study is focused on understanding the long-term legacy of prehistoric human land use on the ecology of semi-desert grasslands in the Southwestern...
The Legacy of Terracing (2005)
When trying to analyze human impact on the environment one of the first questions that comes to mind is what long-term effects agriculture has on the land. This research examines the effect of agricultural terracing in terms of soil content and fertility. Specifically, does prehistoric agricultural terracing affect the number and type of seeds in the soil, and thereby the soil’s fertility? Soil fertility is a complex question and studies have been done to analyze the chemical content of soils...
Legacy Records and Digital Innovation: The Chaco Research Archive and Beyond (2016)
This is a pdf copy of the PPT slides used for the presentation in the SAA symposium. Over the last 12 years, the authors of this paper have been involved in a range of digital curation activities pertaining to legacy records and the integration and manipulation of those data to create new knowledge about the past. Primarily, we have worked together to create the Chaco Research Archive (CRA) and a variety of complementary projects including a mobile application and, more recently, the Salmon...
Linear Ground Features Upon and Adjacent to Perry Mesa, Yavapai County, Arizona (2007)
Although not ubiquitous, unique cultural features known as “racetracks” are characteristic (Ahlstrom et al. 1992) of the Perry Mesa Tradition (Fish et al. 1975), which existed in Central Arizona’s mesa and canyon complex between ca A.D. 1300 and 1400 (Ahlstrom et al. 1992) . Prior to this season’s research, eight racetracks had been identified at pueblos upon Perry Mesa and neighboring Black Mesa (Wilcox et al. 2001). As a result of research this semester, the number of confirmed and likely...
Linked Provenience-Feature Class (2000)
The linked provenience category is an organized way to describe how a feature was excavated, and where artifacts were found within that feature. The categories are numerically based in order to systematically define excavation strategy and the execution of that strategy. Each vertical and horizontal strategy is denoted with a corresponding number---for example horizontal excavation strategies are broken down into whole study unit, locus, segment, half, strip, quadrant, etc. (Wilshusen et al....
Los Alamos National Laboratory Coalition Pueblo Sites
Four Coalition period (A.D. 1150-1325) room blocks have been excavated by archaeologists at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). The sites are located approximately 40 miles northwest of Santa Fe in northern New Mexico. One site (LA 4618) was excavated in the early 1990s (Schmidt 2006; Vierra et al. 2002b), and three sites (LA 12587, LA 86534, and LA 135290) were excavated as part of the Department of Energy (DOE) Land Conveyance and Transfer Project (Vierra et al. 2002a:Figure 1). Based on...
The Los Gigantes Community: Post-Chacoan Settlement in the Zuni Region of the American Southwest (1999)
Poster presented at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Chicago, IL.
Lower Pescado Village Faunal Data (1997)
Archaeological fauna from Lower Pescado Village, Zuni Indian Reservation. Data reported in Michael Etnier's 1997 University of Washington MA thesis. Dataset is full inventory of faunal IDs from Lower Pescado Village (NM12-I109) by Michael A. Etnier. Etnier, M.A. 1997. Dietary Change at Lower Pescado Village (NM12-I109). Unpublished Master's Thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
Lower Pescado Village, Zuni Indian Reservation, Excavations
Nan Rothschild's and Susan Dublin's 1990s excavations at Lower Pescado Village on the Zuni Indian Reservation in New Mexico.
The Lower Verde Archaeological Project
The Lower Verde Archaeological Project (LVAP) was a four-year data recovery project conducted by Statistical Research, Inc. (SRI) in the lower Verde River region of central Arizona. The project was designed to mitigate any adverse effects to cultural resources from modifications to Horseshoe and Bartlett Dams. The Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, Arizona Project’s Office sponsored the research program in compliance with historic preservation legislation. The LVAP’s...
The Lower Zuni River Archaeological District National Register Nomination (1993)
The Lower Zuni River Archaeological District is located approximately 39 km (24 miles) northeast of St. Johns, Arizona where the Zuni River crosses the Arizona-New Mexico state line (Figures 1 and 2). Within this district are 89 archaeological sites that represent extensive prehistoric occupation of the area between about A.D. 800 and A.D. 1175, and historic use and occupation dating from the 1880s. A wide range of prehistoric site types are represented. Several ceramic and lithic...
Macrobotanical Remains (1985)
The DAP research design was structured to systematically address broad domains of inquiry that encompass economy and adaptation, paleodemography, social organization, extra-regional relationships, and cultural process. The variables used in the botanical datasets represent the various lines of evidence needed to mitigate “bioturbation, preservation, and sampling biases” and establish the “case for cultural association of botanical remains preserved in the archaeological record” (Petersen, Clay...
MACROFLORAL ANALYSIS AT LA 12955: A PIlI SITE SOUTHWEST OF FARMINGTON, NEW MEXICO (1985)
Site LA 12955 is comprised of two separate architectural masses, including a four room unit with associated kiva, and a two room unit. Located in the San Juan River Valley near Fruitland, New Mexico, this Anasazi site appears to have been inhabited between 1150 and 1250 AD (Beal, personal communication, September 1985). Agriculture was presumably practiced along the San Juan River to the north. Eight macrofloral or flotation samples were taken from several features at this site to...
MACROFLORAL ANALYSIS OF MATERIAL FROM THE HINDMARSH ONE (5MT9747) AND MARSHA ANN (5MT9815) SITES AT POINT LOOKOUT, SOUTHWESTERN COLORADO (1989)
Six macrofloral samples were examined from two sites (5MT9747 and 5MT9815) at Point Lookout, Colorado. These sites represents Pueblo II occupations in the Montezuma Valley just north of Mesa Verde National Park. Specific questions were addressed through examination of five samples collected from three rooms at 5MT9747, and a sixth sample collected from 5MT9815. Analysis of macrofloral remains concentrates on identification of construction and roofing materials and identification of food...
MACROFLORAL ANALYSIS OF SAMPLES FROM THE ANCHO CANYON MINE AREA, NEW MEXICO (1993)
Samples from several sites in the Ancho Canyon Mine Area, New Mexico, were examined for macrofloral remains. This area appears to be one where several cultures overlapped. Radiocarbon dates range from 290 B.C. to A.D. 1870, representing Late Archaic through historic Jicarilla Apache occupations. Macrofloral analysis is used to provide information concerning subsistence activities at these sites.
MACROFLORAL ANALYSIS OF SELECTED SAMPLES FROM AZ 1:1:17 IN THE KAIBAB NATIONAL FOREST, ARIZONA (1984)
Macrofloral analysis was undertaken at site AZ 1:1:17 along State Road 64 in the Kaibab National Forest in conjunction with archaeological mitigation. The site is located in the Upper Basin, a Pinyon-Juniper ecotone located south of Grand Canyon's South Rim. This Kayenta Anasazi site consists of three pithouses and a surface room, dating to the Pueblo II period (AD 900-1100). All four structures burned, increasing the probability that macrofloral remains would have been preserved....
Making Archaeological Data and Information Discoverable, Accessible, and Usable for 21st Century Research: The Theodore Roosevelt Dam Archaeological Project, Tonto Basin, Arizona (2016)
The Center for Archaeology and Society (CAS), the Phoenix Area Office of the Bureau of Reclamation, and the Center for Digital Antiquity (DA) have created and are making freely available, via tDAR (the Digital Archaeological Record), a large collection of reports, articles, and data sets resulting from the archaeological investigations undertaken for the Theodore Roosevelt Dam project in the Tonto Basin of central Arizona. At present, this tDAR collection includes over two dozen volumes (more...
Man, Models and Management: An Overview of the Archaeology of the Arizona Strip and the Management of Its Cultural Resources (1989)
The region encompassing the land north and west of the Colorado River in the State of Arizona is the subject of this Class I cultural resources overview. This region, commonly referred to as the Arizona Strip, contains approximately 3.5 million acres, of which 2.75 million acres are administered by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), 650,000 acres are under the jurisdiction of the USDA Forest Service, and the balance is controlled by various State and Federal agencies, Indian tribes, and...
Man, Models and Management: An Overview of the Archaeology of the Arizona Strip and the Management of Its Cultural Resources (1989)
The region encompassing the land north and west of the Colorado River in the State of Arizona is the subject of this Class I cultural resources overview. This region, commonly referred to as the Arizona Strip, contains approximately 3.5 million acres, of which 2.75 million acres are administered by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), 650,000 acres are under the jurisdiction of the USDA Forest Service, and the balance is controlled by various State and Federal agencies, Indian tribes, and...
Mano data - Chapter 6 (2019)
Mano data from Chapter 6. This dataset includes provenience, material, type, and comfort feature presence/absence information for all manos and mano fragments.
Mano measurement data - Chapter 6 (2019)
Mano measurement data for all complete manos from Chapter 6. This dataset includes provenience, material, type, comfort feature presence/absence, and length and width measurements for all complete manos.
Map of Archaeological Site Locations on Perry Mesa (2005)
Map of Archaeological Site Locations on Perry Mesa
Map of Outlying Structures at Pueblo la Plata, with Icon Size Proportionate to Number of Rooms (2007)
Map of Pueblo la Plata and outlying structures. Each structure is represented by an icon, the size of which is proportionate to the number of rooms in that structure.
Maps (2007)
Maps generated by Will Russell as part of The Racetrack Project
Maps (1985)
A small percentage of the maps reproduced from field data can be found in the series of published DAP reports, but a much larger collection of original material can be accessed via the Anasazi Heritage Center, Colorado. The maps dataset allows users to easily know what maps are available for any provenience. Maps were sequentially numbered within each site and later classified as one of 47 taxa, according to the type of information the map was meant to convey. Documenting the contents of a site...