Northern Southwest (Geographic Keyword)

PROJECT David M. Plaza.

The Anasazi Origins Project (AOP) was led by Cynthia Iriwn-Williams to investigate the antecedents of Ancestral Puebloans, which she called the Oshara Tradition, in the Arroyo Cuervo Region of northwestern New Mexico. This project was fundamental to the understanding of the Archaic period in the northern Southwest at a time when this area was understudied. One result of this monumental investigation is the enormous collection of artifacts, ecofacts, and contextual documents from its field...

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The Anasazi Origins Project Digital Archives Initiative, funded by a Digital Antiquity grant-in- aid, is designed to ingest paper documents (site records, inventory sheet for notes, maps, publications, manuscripts, and presented papers) of the Anasazi Origins Project (AOP) Collection into the Digital Archaeological Record (tDAR), an online international digital repository. Furthermore, an electronic database of the AOP paper documents was created and organized using the Laboratory of...

DATASET David M. Plaza.

This database compiles data from the site records, inventory sheet for notes, and Administrative Report on the Status of the Anasazi Origins Project (AOP I) Collections Curated at Eastern New Mexico University of the Anasazi Origins Project. The Laboratory of Anthropology site record is used to organize this database.

IMAGE David M. Plaza.

USGS 7.5 minute series maps (topographic) from the AOP field campaigns and labs.

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The following pages describe the work conducted by members of Eastern New Mexico University Anasazi Origins Project at two archaeological sites, LA 9500 (La Bajada) and LA 9501 (the La Bajada Annex), located approximately 27 kilometers southwest of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Dr. Cynthia Irwin-Williams served as Principal Investigator for the Anasazi Origins Project, while the actual fieldwork discussed herein was conducted under the direction of Marshall Gettys and R. Bruce Grove. This report has...

IMAGE David M. Plaza.

Maps of the resource structures of the Arroyo Cuervo region in relation to Paleoamerican, San Jose, and Pueblo III sites

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Paper documents are a time proven technology for the preservation and dissemination of information. The advent of computers and the Internet have enhanced some basic concepts for which paper documents have traditionally been used, such as the management of information on an external platform. Some benefits of using computers are the speed and ease of aggregating and disseminating information. This research will review preservation methods on how to ingest a legacy archaeological collection into...

DOCUMENT Full-Text David M. Plaza.

Archaeology is faced with the inheritance problem of managing legacy collections, partly due to the high expense of maintaining them. Often these datasets are unorganized, thus rendering them underutilized, and difficult to properly preserve or to integrate into the current archaeological dialogue. Unfortunately, this problem is a common issue. To address this problem, an examination of the condition of the records and artifacts of legacy archaeological collections is needed. In this thesis,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Cynthia. Irwin-Williams.

Site Records from the Anasazi Origins Project (Eastern New Mexico University Site Survey Form).

DOCUMENT Full-Text Cynthia Irwin-Williams.

This is an intermediate report on the En Medio type site. One of the abiding difficulties which plague the dissemination of information in archaeology is precisely a by-product of the large comprehensive program such as the Anasazi Origins Project. Publication of new and significant data from such programs is quite commonly delayed for five to ten years after their inception due to the very size of the operation, the concomitant multiseasonal character of the field work, and the awesome size of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Cynthia Irwin-Williams.

Inventory Sheet for Notes

DATASET Leah Fitzgerald. Tony Aliano. Angela Mowrer.

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

DATASET Leah Fitzgerald. Tony Aliano. Angela Mowrer.

Spreadsheet of artifacts associated to LA 9230 at the Department of Anthropology and Applied Archaeology

DATASET Leah Fitzgerald. Tony Aliano. Angela Mowrer.

Spreadsheet of artifacts associated to LA 9233 at the Department of Anthropology and Applied Archaeology.

DATASET Leah Fitzgerald. Tony Aliano. Angela Mowrer.

Spreadsheet of artifacts associated to LA 9234 at the Department of Anthropology and Applied Archaeology.

DATASET Leah Fitzgerald. Tony Aliano. Angela Mowrer.

Spreadsheet of artifacts associated to LA 9235 at the Department of Anthropology and Applied Archaeology.

DATASET Leah Fitzgerald. Tony Aliano. Angela Mowrer.

Spreadsheet of artifacts associated to LA 9266 at the Department of Anthropology and Applied Archaeology.

DATASET Leah Fitzgerald. Tony Aliano. Angela Mowrer.

Spreadsheet of artifacts associated to LA 9266 at the Department of Anthropology and Applied Archaeology.

DATASET Leah Fitzgerald. Tony Aliano. Angela Mowrer.

Spreadsheet of artifacts associated to LA 9350 at the Department of Anthropology and Applied Archaeology.

DATASET Leah Fitzgerald. Tony Aliano. Angela Mowrer.

Spreadsheet of artifacts associated to LA 9463 at the Department of Anthropology and Applied Archaeology.

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...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Cynthia Irwin-Williams.

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

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 Cynthia Iriwin-Williams.

Some of the most intriguing problems in the p re his to r-y of the New World concern the origins and development of the sophisticated sedentary town-dwelling Indians of the Southwestern United States, particularly the Pueblos. Seventy five 'years of extensive research have yielded a considerable amount of infor- matron on the immediate background of these native Pueblo peo- pl es , whose prehistoric representatives archaeologists group under the term Anasazi Culture. However, almost all of this...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Cynthia Irwin-Williams.

Despite its intrinsic significance, the long period that preceded the development of sedentary life in the Southwest, at about the beginning of the Christian era, remains very incompletely investigated and poorly understood. This is due partly to the lower density of population and the concomitant sparsity of archaeological remains, and partly to their relatively unspectacular nature, which resulted in a degree of scientific neglect. However, from the still scanty data certain major patterns are...