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Cambios Estilisticos en la Reproduccion de Piezas Ceramicas de Mata Ortiz, Norte de Chihuahua, Mexico: un Estudio Etnoarqueologico (1989)
Mata Ortiz es un pequeño poblado en el norte de México, localizado en el estado de Chihuahua (véase la Fig. 1), a 1,600 metros sobre el nivel del mar en las faldas de la montaña conocida localmente como Cabeza del Indio. La aldea está limitada hacia el occidente por la Sierra la Breña, que se encuentra aproximandamente a 10 Kilómetros; al oriente del asentamiento se localiza el río Palanganas, un cauce de temporal que es la principal fuente de abastecimiento, de agua para los habitantes de Mata...
Catalogue of Microfilm of Selected Documents from the Municipal and Church Archives of Janos, Chihuahua, Mexico (1955)
This catalog refers to some 3,000 pages of historical documents microfilmed in Jano, Chihuahua, by the authors who were members of the 1954 Archaeological Expedition into Northwestern Chihuahua, sponsored by the Department of Anthropology and the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania. Janos is a small town of about 800 people located in the northwestern corner of the state of Chihuahua, Mexico. The town grew up around the Spanish presidio or garrison of San Felipe y Santiago de...
Cultural Analyzation of Pre-Historic Indian Sites in Northern Chihuahua, Mexico (1964)
This report provides a cultural analysis of the area of Northern Chihuahua in Mexico based off surveys and excavations of prehistoric Indian sites done primarily in the Sierra Madres and at Cases Grandes.
The End of Casas Grandes: The Legacy of Charles C. Di Peso Fifty Years after the Joint Casas Grandes Project (2009)
Charles Di Peso believed that Paquime, the primary center for the Casas Grandes culture, succumbed to an attack in A.D. 1340. He further argued that the culture survived in the Sierra Madre, where it was encountered by early Spanish military adventurers. Other reviews of the data have come to different conclusions. In this essay, I examine and discuss the available chronometric data.
From Archaeology to Ideology in Northwest Mexico: Cerro de Moctezuma in the Casas Grandes Ritual Landscape (2011)
The research presented here explores why a few people left their valley-dwelling neighbors to build and live at El Pueblito on Cerro de Moctezuma, the only hilltop settlement constructed during the Casas Grandes Media period (A.D. 1200-1450) in what is today northwest Chihuahua, Mexico. These people also constructed the only currently recognized trails to a settlement, a massive rock agricultural system and subterranean oven, and an unparalleled crowning hill summit precinct. Comparative...
The Hatch Site: A Preliminary Report on an Assemblage of Cremation and Inhumation Burials from Northwestern Chihuahua, Mexico (1994)
The Hatch Site, is located on the property of Herman Hatch, just southwest of Colonia Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico, along the Piedras Verdes River. An apparent cemetery consisting of both cremation and inhumation burials is what presently constitutes the Hatch Site. The author is inclined to believe that the remains of a village are only a couple of hundred yards to the west and southwest of the cemetery. This belief is based on the information given to by the workmen who have plowed this area...
A Historic House Excavation Near Janos, Northwest Chihuahua, Mexico (1957)
The historic site, Chihuahua D:4:2, was excavated as part of a long-range plan to study the aboriginal and alien cultures of northwestern Chihuahua. This plan includes an archaeological survey of the area, test excavations in representative sites in order to define cultural assemblages or phases, and finally, through the use of the information thus derived, a study of the cultural dynamics of the area. It is believed that the study of the aboriginal cultures of this region should begin at a...
The Historical Geography of Northwestern Chihuahua (1937)
Northwestern Chihuahua provides the field for a definition of the traditional Mexiacn plateau, a distinction between Sierra Madre Occidental and basin-and-range geomorphology, the discussion of basin-and-range orogeny, the relative roles of wind, gravity and water in denudation, and the problem of climatic change. Within an environment of varied climate, vegetation and terrain, a prehistoric people developed a coherent culture which can be reconstructed somewhat from rests of dwellings,...
La Lucha del Barro: Two Potterymaking Families of Mata Ortiz (1991)
In the past 20 years, pottery making has become a way of life for some inhabitants of Mata Ortiz, Chihuahua, Mexico. What began as a revival of the prehistoric Casas Grandes ceramic tradition has become an artistic school in its own right. The contemporary pottery is a creative restatement of the ancient ware. Two families of potters are documented ethnographically, providing data on what the craftspeople call "la lucha del barro," or the struggle of the clay. Research literature on potters in...
A New Perspective on the Casas Grandes Tree-Ring Dates Paper Presented at the Fourth Mogollon Conference, University of Arizona, Tucson, 16-17 October (1986)
The Casas Grandes, Chihuahua phase sequence, specifically the dating of the Medio Period (A.D. 1060 to 1340) has been controversial since first proposed by the late Charles DiPeso over a decade ago. DiPeso and others indicated that the revised chronology would "... at first reading, demand a serious rethinking of accepted time relationships as they have hitherto been ascribed to by archaeologists." Previous workers in Chihuahua had interpreted Casas Grandes and its outliers as representing a...
Official Report to the Amerind Foundation, Covering a Preliminary Study of the Casas Grandes and the Valley of the Caves in the Sierra Madres, Chihuahua, Mexico, May 13-18, 1957 (1957)
Official report made by George W. Chambers to the Amerind Foundation covering trips made to the Casas Grandes and the Valley of the Caves in the Sierra Madres, Chihuahua, Mexico. This trip was made after an invitation of Dr. Charles C. Di Peso, Director of the Amerind Foundation, who made the expedition for the primary purpose of continuing arrangements preparatory to the proposed excavation and restoration of Casas Grandes in cooperation with the Mexican Government. The secondary purpose was to...
The People of Casas Grandes: Cranial and Dental Morphology Through Time (1971)
Casas Grandes offers an unusual opportunity for a physical anthropologist. There is good archaeological control of spatial and temporal distributions of the skeletal populations, and therefore the results of examinations of these skeletons can contribute important data to general studies of micro-evolutionary changes in Homo sapiens. Studies of the genetics of morphological variation and analysis of discontinous traits of skeletons aid in understanding micro-evolutionary change. This project...
Plant Microfossils Recovered from Dental Calculus at Casas Grandes, Mexico (2016)
Microfossil analysis is a technique used to better understand prehistoric diets. As part of a larger multinational project, we gathered and analyzed 112 samples of dental calculus (fossilized plaque) from human remains discovered at Paquimé and other sites in the Casas Grandes river valley to identify various microfossils still present in the silica matrix. With this information, we are able to better understand the flora present during ancient times and how it was used (food, processing, etc.).
Problems Arising from the Surface Occurrence of Archaeological Material in Southeastern Chihuahua, Mexico (1949)
In examination of the topography represented on five different maps of the state of Chihuahua, Mexico, demonstrated a remarkable degree of uniformity of physiographic features in the northeastern part of the state. There was simultaneously demonstrated a singular degree of contradiction for the southeastern part of the state.
Site Survey, Casas Grandes River Valley, Chihuahua, Mexico (1972)
Correspondence between Eleanor M. Carey and The Amerind Foundation, Inc. including two reports and a site survey written by her late husband, Dr. Henry Ames Carey. Both reports, 1953 and 1954, are of the Casas Grandes culture in Chihuahua, Mexico. The site survey is from the Corralitos Ranch.
Social Differentiation at Casas Grandes, Chihuahua Mexico: An Archaeological Analysis of Mortuary Practices (1984)
Excavations at Casas Grandes, Chihuahua, Mexico have produced 576 burials dating between the 12th and 14th centuries. Social differentiation was investigated among Casas Grandians by analyzing a series of burial attributes defined from the society's mortuary program. An attempt was made to determine the manner degree to which social life at Casas Grandes was hierarchically structured during the Medio Period (ca. A.D. 1060 to 1340). Specifically, the hypothesis that Casas Grandes was organized on...
A Study of the Water and Sewer Systems for the Casas Grandes, Mexico Prehistoric Ruins, with: A Supplemental Study of the Water and Sewer Systems for the Casas Grandes, Mexico, Prehistoric Ruins (1990)
A study of the water and sewer systems for the Casas Grandes including recommendations and the layout of ruins and excavations. Also included is a supplemental study including the results of soil samples taken at the Casas Grandes ruins.
Survey of Casas Grandes Region (1957)
The purpose of this trip is to meet Dr. Walter Taylor and Dr. Ignacio Bernal in regard to the excavation contract with Mexico and to check road distances and conditions from the museum to Juarez, El Sueco and Casas Grandes.
Survey of the Casas Grandes region, March 10-13, 1958, Dragoon-El Paso-Casas Grandes Trip (1958)
The purpose of this trip is to study logistic and employment problems involved with the proposed Casas Grandes joint expedition.