Mesa Verde (Geographic Keyword)
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Faunal data from Albert Porter Pueblo, excavated by Crow Canyon Archaeological Center 2001-2004. Faunal analysis was by Shaw Badenhorst and Jonathan C. Driver in 2008, using methodology described in the CCAC Manual for the Description of Vertebrate Remains. Context information was integrated by Karen G. Schollmeyer in 2011 using data supplied by CCAC. Site dates are AD 1020-1280, fauna is from the period AD 1060-1280. Users should reference both this dataset and Badenhort's 2008 dissertation...
Antiquities of the Mesa Verde National Park, Spruce-Tree House (1909)
Fewkes' report on the site of Spruce-Tree House, Mesa Verde National Park. The report describes the ancient architecture and some of the contents of the site, which Fewkes investigated in 1907. He also includes a long section of the 1892 publication by Nordenksiold (The Land of the Cliff Dwellers) describing his earlier investigation of the site.
Castle Rock Pueblo faunal dataset (2011)
Faunal data from Castle Rock Pueblo, excavated by Crow Canyon Archaeological Center 1990-1994. Faunal analysis was by Jonathan C. Driver in 2000, using methodology described in the CCAC Manual for the Description of Vertebrate Remains. Context information was integrated by Karen G. Schollmeyer in 2011 using data supplied by CCAC. Faunal material is from the period AD 1256-1285. Additional information on Castle Rock Pueblo and its fauna is available on the web at...
CCAC Synthetic Archaeobotany Table: All Charred Plant Taxa and Parts Identified (2021)
This table provides a complete list of identified charred plant taxa recovered from systematically collected flotation and opportunistically gathered macrofossil samples from 43 Central Mesa Verde area Ancestral Puebloan settlements occupied ca. AD 420-1280 that were excavated by Crown Canyon Archaeological Center. For information concerning archaeobotanical analysis methods and identification criteria see references for Adams 2004 and Adams and Murray 2004 in the Crow Canyon Archaeobotanical...
CCAC Synthetic Archaeobotany Table: Top Plant Ranking and Ubiquity Data (2021)
This table presents ranking information for the top ten plant foods and top five fuelwoods based on presence (ubiquity) synthesized across 43 Ancestral Puebloan settlements occupied ca. AD 500-1280 excavated by Crow Canyon Archaeological Center. Rankings are listed both for each period and the overall rank for each taxon across all periods is also provided. Ubiquities for each taxon (calculated from all samples) are also displayed and, where a minimum of ten samples are available, thermal...
Crow Canyon Archaeobotanical Remains
This project synthesizes archaeobotanical data from 43 Central Mesa Verde area Ancestral Puebloan settlements occupied ca. AD 500-1280 that were excavated by Crown Canyon Archaeological Center. For information concerning individual projects and full archaeobotanical reports see the Crow Canyon Archaeobotanical Remains References document.
Crow Canyon Archaeobotanical Remains References (2021)
Document with bibliographic information concerning references for the archaeobotanical identification and analysis methods, the taxonomic flora of reference, and the primary archaeobotanical reports from the 11 Crow Canyon Archaeological Center project reports
Crow Canyon Archaeological Center fauna through 2008
Faunal data collected by Jonathan Driver and graduate students from excavation projects conducted by Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, through 2008. Nineteen Ancestral Puebloan sites in the Mesa Verde region yielded fauna and other remains, primarily from the Pueblo II and Pueblo III time periods. Items archived on tDAR include the faunal datasets, coding sheets, coding guides and related manuals, and PhD dissertations based on the fauna from these projects. Archaeological information and...
The Crow Canyon Archaeological Center Field Manual (2001)
Field manual used during the excavation and analysis of the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center fauna (and other materials) through 2008. Supporting information is available at the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center's website, www.crowcanyon.org.
The Crow Canyon Archaeological Center Laboratory Manual, Version 1 (2005)
Laboratory manual used during the excavation and analysis of the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center fauna (and other materials) through 2008. Supporting information is available at the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center's website, www.crowcanyon.org.
Crow Canyon Archaeological Center Manual for the Description of Vertebrate Remains (2005)
Coding guide and recording manual for CCAC faunal data through 2008. This manual includes a discussion of size categories used and criteria for assigning specimens to specific taxonomic levels.
A Historical look at American Archeology
This project was set up by ASU undergraduate Aaron Deguzman for a individual study project that he did with FPMcManamon in the Spring semester of 2011. Included are digital copies of some of the historic publications he read and some of his written summaries and assessments of these readings. The following two paragraphs are Aaron's statement of what he hoped to get out of the readings course. What I'd like to study is the history of archeology with an emphasis on the public outlook on...
The Human Experience of Social Transformation: Cross-Cultural Insights from Qualitative Comparative Analysis - Data (2018)
These data accompany the Hegmon and Peeples manuscript entitled "The Human Experience of Social Transformation: Cross-Cultural Insights from Qualitative Comparative Analysis" Archaeologists and other scholars have long studied the causes of collapse and other major social transformations and debated how they can be understood. This article instead focuses on the human experience of living through those transformations, analyzing 18 transformation cases from the US Southwest and the North...
Sand Canyon Locality site testing program faunal dataset (2011)
Faunal data from test excavations at thirteen sites in the Sand Canyon Locality, excavated by Crow Canyon Archaeological Center 1988-1991. Faunal analysis was by Jonathan C. Driver, Michael J. Brand, Lianne Lester, and Natalie D. Munro in 1999, using methodology described in the CCAC Manual for the Description of Vertebrate Remains. Context information was integrated by Karen G. Schollmeyer in 2011 using data supplied by CCAC. Additional information on these sites and their fauna is available...
Sand Canyon Pueblo faunal dataset (2011)
Faunal data from Sand Canyon Pueblo, excavated by Crow Canyon Archaeological Center 1989 through 1993. Faunal analysis was by Robert J. Muir and Jonathan C. Driver in 1999, using methodology described in the CCAC Manual for the Description of Vertebrate Remains. Context information was integrated by Karen G. Schollmeyer in 2011 using data supplied by CCAC. Fauna is from AD 1240 to 1280. Users should reference both this dataset and Muir's 1999 dissertation (available on tDAR), which has...
Shields Pueblo faunal dataset (2011)
Faunal data from Shields Pueblo, excavated by Crow Canyon Archaeological Center 1997-2000. Faunal analysis was by Tiffany A. Rawlings and Jonathan C. Driver in 2006, using methodology described in the CCAC Manual for the Description of Vertebrate Remains. Context information was integrated by Karen G. Schollmeyer in 2011 using data supplied by CCAC. Site dates are AD 775-1300, fauna is from the period AD 1020-1280. Users should reference both this dataset and Rawlings' 2006 dissertation...
Southwest Mortuary Database Project: 2011 SAA E-Session: Mortuary Practices in the American Southwest: Meta-Data Issues in the Development of a Regional Database
The study of prehistoric mortuary practices in the American Southwest is undergoing tremendous change in the new millennium. The challenges (and opportunities) of NAGPRA implementation, declines in the number of large samples being excavated, and loss of data from previously excavated samples have altered mortuary archaeology in the region. Given this state of affairs, the development of an integrated regional database of prehistoric mortuary practices is imperative. This session at the 76th...
Stodder_PI Mesa Verde_ALP Field Forms and Data Fields
The Animas-La Plata Field Burial Forms outline the data fields that the project recorded for the documentation of mortuary features and/or human remains.
Stodder_PI Mesa Verde_ALP PI Mortuary Data
This data set contains several sheets of data on burial features and isolated human remains documented by the Animas-La Plata project during data recovery at a number of sites in Ridges Basin, SW Colorado. One sheet presents data for recorded burial features and individual interments. Three other sheets present data on isolated human remains uncovered at these sites.
Stodder_PI Mesa Verde_Mortuary and Biological Data Sources (2011)
In this data set, Stodder presents key published sources for Pueblo I period mortuary and the biological data in the Mesa Verde area of southwestern Colorado.
Stodder_PI Mesa Verde_Paper_Data and Metadata Issues in Documenting Pueblo I Mortuary Variation in the Mesa Verde Region (2011)
Mortuary data from Pueblo I sites in the Dolores and Animas-La Plata Project areas suggest that the structural and nonstructural contexts of burials are critical to understanding mortuary practice in this pivotal era and in earlier and later Ancestral Pueblo groups. Extramural interment contexts and their spatial relationships to houses, surface structures, and stockades are worthy of systematic study. Pithouse burials on floors and benches, in ventilators and in fill, vary in temporal relation...
Woods Canyon Pueblo faunal dataset (2011)
Faunal data from Woods Canyon Pueblo, excavated by Crow Canyon Archaeological Center 1994-1996. Faunal analysis was by Jonathan C. Driver in 2000, using methodology described in the CCAC Manual for the Description of Vertebrate Remains. Context information was integrated by Karen G. Schollmeyer in 2011 using data supplied by CCAC. Fauna is from the period AD 900-1280. Additional information on Woods Canyon Pueblo and its fauna is available on the web at...
Yellow Jacket Pueblo faunal dataset (2011)
Faunal data from Yellow Jacket Pueblo, excavated by Crow Canyon Archaeological Center 1995 through 1997. Faunal analysis was by Robert J. Muir and Jonathan C. Driver in 1999, using methodology described in the CCAC Manual for the Description of Vertebrate Remains. Context information was integrated by Karen G. Schollmeyer in 2011 using data supplied by CCAC. Fauna is from AD 1060 to the late 1200s. Additional information on Yellow Jacket Pueblo and its fauna is available on the web at...