Ancestral Puebloan (Culture Keyword)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Will Russell. Nanebah Nez.

Poised between the Sonoran Desert and Colorado Plateau, Perry Mesa and Black Mesa constitute a rugged landform split by the Agua Fria River of central Arizona. This landscape was largely unoccupied prior to the late thirteenth century but witnessed a steady and rapid stream of immigrants beginning around A.D. 1250-1275. Today, the region is enjoying newfound archaeological attention, much of which is focused on why immigrants chose this place as a destination and how they survived after...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Preston C. Payton. David E. Purcell.

SWCA, Inc., Environmental Consultants (SWCA), conducted a comprehensive Class III archaeological survey of expanded right-of-way at ten point-of-turn towers as part of ongoing cultural resources compliance for the Mead to Phoenix 500kV Transmission line project. These activities constituted only one phase of cultural resource compliance for this project undertaken by SWCA for Salt River Project (SRP). Other phases relevant to this project include relocation and re-evaluation (Anduze and Sorrel...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Katherine Spielmann.

This document explains the changes that were made to the species designations from the original GQ faunal coding key.

DATASET Sarah Oas.

Metate data from Chapter 6. This dataset includes provenience, material, type, and measurements for all metates and metate fragments.

DATASET Michelle I. Turner.

Data sheet for ceramic analysis conducted by Michelle I. Turner for Aztec North.

DATASET Kellam Throgmorton.

Dataset for chipped stone from the Aztec North great house. Analysis by Kellam Throgmorton

DATASET Karen Adams. Jean Berkebile.

This data sheet summarizes the results of archaeobotanical analysis of six flotation samples from Aztec North. Analysis was conducted by by Jean (Nikki) Berkebile and Karen Adams.

DATASET Katherine Spielmann.

This dataset contains information on mineral artifacts recovered from the 1985-1986 field seasons at Gran Quivira

DATASET Katherine Spielmann.

This dataset contains information on miscellaneous artifacts, primarily shell, from the 1985-1986 excavations at Gran Quivira.

PROJECT Uploaded by: David Dove

The Mitchell Springs Ruin Group is located just south of Cortez Colorado in the heart of Montezuma Valley. This community was occupied from Basketmaker times through around A.D. 1240 and is made up of around 75 small pueblos, small great houses, a great kiva, 10+ meter diameter court kiva, and a tri-wall structure. Field schools conducted from 1990-2004 resulted in two publications.

DOCUMENT Full-Text David M. Plaza.

Archaeology is faced with the inherent problem of managing legacy datasets. Often these datasets are in a state of disrepair, thus rendering them almost useless and difficult to properly archive or to integrate into the current archaeological dialogue. Unfortunately, this is a common issue and there is not much literature on the subject. To address this dilemma, an examination of the condition of the paper documents of a legacy dataset is needed. In this research, I will review the preservation...

IMAGE Timothy Pauketat.

This is an image of a Morning Star headdress. Image courtesy of Tim Pauketat.

IMAGE Timothy Pauketat.

This is an image of a petroglyph depicting the Morning Star. Photo courtesy of Tim Pauketat.

DATASET Caitrin Wright.

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DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Mark Mitchell

The La Botica site (5CN1061), located in Conejos County’s spectacular La Jara Canyon, is a large and complex archaeological site that preserves a remarkable record of American Indian lifeways spanning at least 7,500 years. The site is also an important locality for the San Luis Valley’s Hispano residents, who gathered medicinal plants there in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The demonstrated time depth of the site’s occupation, combined with its unique and culturally significant...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Dave Dove.

During the 2011 investigations at Champagne Spring Ruin located near Dove Creek, Colorado, a kiva dating to the last half of the A.D. 900's was partially excavated. The report describes this formal 'kiva closing' which included the dispatch and formal burial of at least 3 dogs, 10 adult turkeys, a cottontail rabit, a beheaded rattlesnake and numerous poults.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Cynthia Irwin-Williams.

Site Records from the Anasazi Origins Project (Museum of New Mexico Site Survey Form).

DATASET Nancy Akins.

Fauna recovered from LA 103919, a Late Developmental period site near Nambe.

DOCUMENT Full-Text David Kilby. James D. Gallison.

In the period between January and June of 2004, engineering-environmental Management, Inc., (e2M) conducted a cultural resources update and testing project of four sites at Kirtland Air Force Base to determine their eligibility to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). The results of the testing and evaluation for sites LA 48098, LA 69739, LA 88116, and LA 134236 are documented in this report. Each of the sites had been previously recorded, but further testing was recommended in order...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Lisa M. Smith.

The Area II survey conducted by SWCA resulted in the documentation of 50 archaeological sites and 78 isolated finds. Sixteen of the archaeological sites were newly discovered, and of the 44 previously documented sites, 33 were found and reinvestigated. The archaeological sites included 15 prehistoric/ethnographic sites associated with Native Americans, 32 historic sites potentially associated with Euro‐Americans, and 3 multi‐component sites with prehistoric/ethnohistoric and historic components....

DOCUMENT Full-Text Cynthia Irwin-Williams. Pat Hicks. Kenneth Rozen. Nell Ripley.

The nature of the Southwestern Archaic record, reflecting several thousand years of occupation by small mobile foraging groups, provides a crucial methodological and a conceptual dilemma for archaeologists working in the area. At the heart of this dilemma is the relationship between this kind of archaeological record and the concept of the archaeological site, which is central to contemporary thinking. As broadly defined, an archaeological site may be "any place of any size where there are found...

DOCUMENT Full-Text R. J. Sinensky.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Anthropologists have long been concerned with the immense variety of collective institutions developed by small-scale societies to foster solidarity, inculcate values, and manage resources. Long-term studies tracking the development and maintenance of such institutions would greatly benefit a range of social science disciplines, but are unfortunately rare. To this end, the proposed project...

DATASET Carl J. Phagan.

The Reductive Technologies Group (RTG) was responsible for supporting the broad research goals of the DAP through the implementation of mid-level research design governing the collection and analysis of data from “artifacts which were manufactured by reductive, or subtractive techniques” (Phagan 1986a:79). The RTG was headed by Roger A. Moore between 1978 and 1979 and by Carl J. Phagan from 1979 to 1985, with the assistance of T. Homer Hruby between 1980 and 1984; supporting work was provided by...

DATASET Katherine Spielmann.

Data underlying figures 3-5 in Kintigh et al.'s 2018 article in Advances in Archaeological Practice.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Earl H. Morris.

This report by Earl H. Morris summarizes his observations and interpretations of excavated rooms at Aztec West Ruin between 1916 and 1922. To quote Morris' introduction to the monograph "In compiling these notes, it was the desire of the writer to set down each and every condition observed that might aid in explaining the building of the pueblo, the cycle of its inhabitation, and the agencies of its destruction, and make possible the reconstruction of at least the cultural history of those who...