North America: Southwest United States (Geographic Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jeffrey Ferguson. Sean Polun. Francisco Gomez. Robert Walker. Zachary Smith.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. LiDAR surveys have revealed vast areas of ancient human settlement in parts of the world that are poorly known due to dense vegetative cover, but the use of LiDAR as a survey tool has not been fully explored in regions like the American Southwest that feature minimal vegetation and generally good surface visibility. Our research program in the Lion...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jorge Barcelo. Allen Denoyer.

This is an abstract from the "Mogollon, Mimbres, and Salado Archaeology in Southwest New Mexico and Beyond" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Pine pitch is a form of glue whose main ingredients are pine resin and some sort of fibrous binder. There are various recipes that involve using different binders such as herbivore dung, ash, and organic fibers. Some formulas also call for beeswax or a form of fat to keep the pitch pliable and resist...

DOCUMENT Citation Only E Adams.

Excavation of a four-room pueblo in northeastern Arizona revealed complex closure practices that involved ash. A 5-cm thick layer of ash deposited on a defined, but extensive, exterior occupation surface adjacent to the pueblo, then covered with artifacts prior to the pueblo’s wall being pushed on top, suggests the essential role ash played in the life and "death" of the pueblo. By reconstructing the pueblo’s life history, the role of ash is examined and argued to be essential in the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Joshua Ramsey. Keith Lyons.

This is an abstract from the "The Vanishing Treasures Program: Celebrating 20 Years of National Park Service Historic Preservation" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Canyon de Chelly National Monument’s enabling legislation language is unique among units of the National Park system. Rights, title and interest to all lands and minerals were retained by the Navajo tribe upon the Monument’s establishment in 1931. Legal authorities are therefore executed...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kathryn Putsavage.

Scholars acknowledge that religious and secular rituals are difficult to distinguish. This is especially true in the archaeological record, where human beliefs and worldviews must be understood through material correlates. In order to make categories simpler to use, Western scholars have tended to dichotomize religious and secular. Exploring the role of Mesa Verde style mugs in the Ancestral Puebloan world, this paper takes an object biography approach and acknowledges that boundaries between...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elaine Franklin.

This is an abstract from the "Research, Education, and American Indian Partnerships at the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Since its founding in 1983, public engagement has been a fundamental aspect of the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center’s mission. This presentation provides a synthesis of the center’s education work and contextualizes it within the constructs of cognitive theory and social semiotics. Included...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael Terlep.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Researchers, most recently Crown and colleagues (2016), have long highlighted the significance of polydactyly (having more than five digits on a hand or foot) within rock imagery and material culture across Mesoamerica and the American Southwest. Anthropomorphic and zoomorphic figures displaying polycephaly (multiple heads) is another frequent depiction...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rubén Mendoza.

This is an abstract from the "Chicanx Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. With a pedigree firmly rooted in the evolution of the American automobile, lowriders trace their origins to the low-slung custom cruisers and social clubs of the 1930s and 40s. In effect, Mexican immigrants of that time were drawn to mutual aid societies in their quest for identity, kinship, camaraderie, and support. This thereby fueled the rise of lowriders and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Victoria Evans. Linda Gregonis.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. All cultures use symbols to convey ideas. In archaeological contexts those symbols have become ways to define and differentiate archaeological cultures. But what did the symbols mean to the artisans who created them? The art that Hohokam craftspeople produced embodied the world (seen and unseen) as they understood it. They were influenced by weather, animals...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Samantha Kirkley.

Project Archaeology is an educational organization dedicated to teaching scientific and historical inquiry, cultural understanding, and the importance of protecting our nation’s rich cultural resources. It is a network that makes archaeology education accessible to students and teachers nationwide through high-quality educational materials and professional development. Built on the Understanding by Design curriculum model, Project Archaeology: Investigating Shelter is a complete archaeological...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily Dawson.

This is an abstract from the "Culinary Archaeology" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Communities of practice are negotiated daily through the use of cuisine. In colonial settings, these communities are contested and reformed, as colonists and colonized negotiate their new found roles. Following the abandonment of the first New Mexican colony after the 1680 Pueblo Revolt, the Spanish Crown recolonized New Mexico in 1692. This second New Mexican...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Larkin Chapman. Emily Jones. Bruce Huckell. John Southon.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Ventana Cave, AZ, and Murray Springs, AZ, have long been candidates for sites demonstrating spatial and temporal overlap between Paleoindians and extinct Pleistocene horses. However, this hypothesis has never before been tested using direct radiocarbon dating, rendering previous speculation ambiguous. AMS radiocarbon dates on horse bone from human...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rachel Mueller. Christine VanPool. Todd VanPool.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This project presents the analysis of groundstone effigies from Paquimé, Chihuahua, Mexico. Paquimé was the center of the Medio period (A.D. 1200–1450) occupation of the Casas Grandes region. These effigies are small figurines ground to resemble humans and animals. Our analysis, based on Di Peso et al.’s (1974) Casas Grandes report, indicate that mountain...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Bryon Schroeder.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. There is a long history of engaged amateurs providing the professional community with productive field efforts and artifact collections and of equal length is the controversy surrounding this work. The controversy, from the perspective of this talk, focuses on the issue of artifact context and the gap between the professional and amateur communities’ stances...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jaye Smith. Jeffery Clark.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As investigations continue into the Ray Robinson Collection by its dedicated team of volunteer researchers, we return our attention to the poorly documented Safford Basin of southeastern Arizona. In addition to the preliminary data previously presented based on Ray’s investigations on the Cork and Elmer’s Farm sites, we have completed our preliminary...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lisa Young. Micah Loma’omvaya. Susan Sekaquaptewa. Gwen Setalla.

For over a century, Homol’ovi has been a place where Hopi people and archaeologists interacted and learned from each other. The creation of the Homolovi State Park and the Homol’ovi Research Project provided opportunities for collaboration. In this paper, we reflect on these changing interactions and their impact. A corn roasting pit that was built a decade ago provides important insights into ways to maintain relationships after the fieldwork component of research projects has ended.

DOCUMENT Citation Only Philip Mink.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The vast majority of Formative Period archaeological sites recorded in Grand Canyon National Park can be assigned to one of the three distinct archaeological traditions that occur within the region, Ancestral Puebloan- Kayenta Branch, Ancestral Puebloan – Virgin Branch, or the Cohonina. However, a sizable number of sites, almost 20%, have mixed assemblages...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stanley Kerr. Christina Chavez. Toni Goar.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. During the Developmental period into the Early Coalition, agricultural settlements formed along drainages, such as the Tijeras Arroyo in Coyote Canyon, Arroyo del Coyote, the Rio Grande, the Lower Jemez River, and the Rio Puerco. This change in settlement patterns, along topographic features, near water sources was evidence for the exploitation of different...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Laurie Webster.

With its strong symbolic reference to moisture and clouds, cotton has long been considered a precious textile fiber in the Americas. Adopted from Mexico as a tropical crop, it was well-established in the Salt-Gila drainage by 500 A.D., and by 1000-1100 A.D. it was adapted to the wetter microenvironments of the Colorado Plateau. Because cotton could not be grown everywhere, it became a prized element of trade and craft specialization. In this paper I examine the agricultural intensification,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Judy Berryman. Tuesday Critz. Gabriela Tepley. William Walker.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In this paper we argue that Cottonwood Spring Pueblo was a multiethnic community similar to many other 14th century village clusters in greater Pueblo World. Cottonwood Spring Pueblo (LA 175) consists of multiple pueblos and features grouped into Areas A-F along Cottonwood Wash on the western flanks of the San Andres Mountains. Variation in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ryan Arp. Steve Swanson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Large pit structures are present at several ancestral O'odham villages in the Salt and Gila River Valleys. Although morphologically similar, they are up to 5 or more times larger than contemporaneous Hohokam Preclassic domestic structures. Targeted excavation of several such structures and surrounding features suggests patterns in their locations within...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Maxwell Forton.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In January of 1943, a B-24D heavy bomber on a training run crashed near Basset Peak in the south end of the Galiuro Mountains, killing all eleven men on board. The Galiuro Mountains are located in southeastern Arizona, with much of the range being preserved within the Galiuros Wilderness Area of Coronado National Forest. Due to the remote location, much of its...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert Gardner. Robert Hard.

During the 2015 and 2016 University of Texas at San Antonio Field Schools we made use of new low-cost photogrammetry techniques to document metates and rock ring features at Early Agricultural period sites along the Upper Gila River in southeastern Arizona. We systematically photographed a number of ground stone tools and rock ring features using point-and-shoot cameras. These photos were then processed using Agisoft’s Photoscan software to produce colored 3D computer renders of the artifacts...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kristina Whitney.

This is an abstract from the "Partners at Work: Promoting Archaeology and Collaboration in the Chiricahua Mountains" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. While the Chiricahua Mountains are a part of the Sky Islands, Fort Bowie NHS and Chiricahua NM are not islands unto themselves--their rich archaeological past exists within the broader context of the landscape. In an area that has received little study compared to the rest of the American Southwest, it...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kathryn MacFarland.

This is an abstract from the "Ideas, Ethical Ideals, and Museum Practice in North American Archaeological Collections" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Arizona State Museum (ASM) Repository holds collections associated with thousands of archaeological excavations that span the advent of anthropologically oriented archaeology in the American Southwest. Encoded with these collections are various approaches to excavation and data management, which...