North America: Southern Southwest U.S. (Geographic Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sophia Draznin-Nagy. Jeffery Clark.

This poster presents the results of a project that attempted to replicate viable paint and clay combinations employed to make Salado and Maverick Mountain polychrome ceramics. We know from NAA and petrographic studies that both of these painted ceramics were locally produced and widely exchanged in the Upper Gila region. Local clays and pigments, from the Gila River Valley, were used to show how effectively different pigments adhere to clay. The study also provided an opportunity to explore the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emiliano Walker. Christian Mathews. Jeffrey Jones.

This is an abstract from the "Community Matters: Enhancing Student Learning Opportunities through the Development of Community Partnerships" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Dairy Site, AZ AA:12:285 (ASM), was first recorded in 1982 in Tucson, Arizona and in the three decades since, many investigations have been conducted. The boundaries of the site have been ever-growing, now extend well beyond the 1982 limits, and thus far are not well...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard Ciolek-Torello.

This is an abstract from the "Why Platform Mounds? Part 2: Regional Comparisons and Tribal Histories" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A unique set of architectural forms, known as platform mounds, emerged in the Phoenix Basin during the early Classic period, presumably evolving from older Hohokam dance mounds. Usually surrounded by walls enclosing compounds, platform mounds initially served as the focal points of dispersed rancheria-style villages...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephen Molinares.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Despite nearly a hundred years of research, Hohokam Ballcourt Structures remain a conundrum for archaeologists. What they were used for, who could access the courts (or the events that occurred in them), or even if the communities that built them utilized them for activities besides ballgames all remain ambiguous. This poster elucidates a performance...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Candace Sall.

This is an abstract from the "25 Years in the Casas Grandes Region: Celebrating Mexico–U.S. Collaboration in the Gran Chichimeca" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. People of the Casas Grandes and Salado regions are known for their polychrome pottery. Often pottery from both areas are found at the same sites, but the degree of interaction between the areas is not known. Neutron Activation Analysis (NAA) was conducted on Ramos and Gila Polychrome...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Thatcher Seltzer-Rogers. Alexander Kurota.

This is an abstract from the "Recent Research at Jornada Mogollon Sites in South-Central New Mexico" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Investigations at Mesilla and Doña Ana phase villages within and adjacent to the Tularosa Basin have identified a set of cultural traits associated with the Mimbres culture. Extraordinarily high frequencies of Mogollon pottery, as well as similar mortuary patterns, agricultural practices, and possible evidence of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Paul Minnis. Michael Whalen.

This is an abstract from the "Hot Rocks in Hot Places: Investigating the 10,000-Year Record of Plant Baking across the US-Mexico Borderlands" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Paquimé-centered tradition is one of the most influential communities in northwestern Chihuahua and U.S. Southwest (NW/SW). We have argued that food production and preparation was central to this polity. Some of best evidence of this are earthen ovens, one of which is...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mark Chenault. Ron Ryden. Michael Stubbing.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeologists working in west Phoenix discovered a complex of prehistoric Hohokam agricultural features consisting of a lateral canal and associated turnouts, sluice gates, field canals, and agricultural field cells in the southeastern portion of AZ T:12:206(ASM) (Site 206). The field cells appear to have dated mainly to the Sacaton phase (AD 950–1150)....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael Dice. David Barrackman. Rebekka Knierim. Darren Schubert.

Lake Cahuilla is the archaeological representation of the modern Salton Sea and represents one of the largest rift lakes in the Western Hemisphere. Formed in the Salton Basin by western-trending Colorado River runoff, in-fillings and outflows from the Colorado to the Lake and thence into the Gulf of California were episodic yet constrained by the vast Colorado River Delta. Because modern agricultural development has buried many of the ancient shorelines, the Lake’s Holocene oscillation history...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Joseph Garcia-Fox. Jesse Ballenger.

This is an abstract from the "Community Matters: Enhancing Student Learning Opportunities through the Development of Community Partnerships" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Finley and Sally Richards collection represents the largest and most complete collection of projectile points documented from the remote corners of southeastern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico. The collection, donated to the Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Daniel Martinez. Brad Beacham. Nate Myers.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. An ongoing cultural resource inventory on White Sands Missile Range in southern New Mexico identified over 100 prehistoric and multicomponent sites in the valley bottom of the Tularosa Basin, greatly exceeding the anticipated number of prehistoric resources for the approximately 4,300-acre study area. In an effort to elucidate a better understanding of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Joseph Haefner. Steven Sarich. Benjamin Johnson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. On behalf of the Texas Historical Commission and the Fort Lancaster State Historic Site (FLSHS), archaeologists from TRC Environmental Corporation conducted a systematic metal detector survey of an 11.4 acre parcel expansion of the current FLSHS boundaries, with funding provided by the National Park Service. In addition, TRC archaeologists were tasked...

DOCUMENT Citation Only William Graves. Christopher Garraty.

Recent excavations on the Arizona State University Tempe campus provide a glimpse into the early 20th-century Mexican-American neighborhoods of San Pablo and Barrio del Hoyo. Located next to the original campus grounds, San Pablo and Barrio del Hoyo were residential and commercial hubs of early Tempe. After World War II, urban development and renewal efforts by the university and land developers targeted these two neighborhoods for campus expansion and displaced their residents, quickly...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nicholas Kessler. Dakota Larrick. Christopher Baisan. Jeffery Dean. Ronald Towner.

This is an abstract from the "Isotopic and Animal aDNA Analyses in the Southwest/Northwest" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The contributions of tree-ring dating to American archaeology are well known but the benefits of the technique have largely been restricted to the uplands of the northern Southwest. While tree-ring dates have been successfully obtained from a handful of sites in the Southwest/Northwest, dendrochronology has been hampered in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katherine Wilson. Victoria Roberts.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Public outreach is a fundamental part of our mission, and as such, Shumla Archaeological Research & Education Center has adopted a variety of methods for public outreach. (1) For landowners and site stewards, we produce short reports containing photographs, maps, and hyperlinks to 3D models and Gigapans that summarize and illustrate our observations,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Russell Skowronek. Brandi Reger. James Hinthorne. Juan Gonzalez.

The U.S.-Mexico border region along the Rio Grande River, separating the southernmost Texas counties (Cameron, Hidalgo, Starr and Zapata) from the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, is a strategic corridor for prehistoric human travel connecting the Gulf of Mexico with the interior of the continent. The area contains a history of human presence extending over 11,000 years, evidenced by a wealth of projectile points that have attracted collectors for decades. To understand prehistoric people’s...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily McCuistion.

This is an abstract from the "The Archaeology of Eagle Nest Canyon, Texas: Papers in Honor of Jack and Wilmuth Skiles" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper presents the historical and contemporary context of radiocarbon dating in the Lower Pecos Canyonlands (LPC) archeological region of southwest Texas. It entwines discussions of early radiocarbon dating history, evolving dating technology and standards, regional infrastructure development,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nicole Mathwich.

In North America, the introduction of livestock as part of the Columbian Exchange had profound social and ecological consequences for indigenous communities. Historical ecology offers a holistic landscape approach to a phenomenon that archaeologically has often been viewed through shifts in diet and butchering practices. This study examines the creation of range practices at Spanish colonial Mission Lost Santos Angeles de Guevavi, near what is today Nogales, Arizona. Using multiple lines of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Caitlin Wichlacz.

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. This poster presents the results of dissertation research examining manifestations of the Salado phenomenon at Hohokam sites in the Phoenix basin of Arizona, investigating how Salado polychrome (Roosevelt Red ware) ceramics were incorporated into contemporaneous Hohokam ceramic assemblages and practices during...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alexander Kurota. Evan Sternberg. Robert Dello-Russo.

This is an abstract from the "Recent Research at Jornada Mogollon Sites in South-Central New Mexico" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. During the past four years, the Office of Contract Archeology, University of New Mexico conducted a series of archaeological test evaluations on White Sands Missile Range that uncovered evidence related to new trends in El Paso phase Jornada Mogollon residential patterns. The results of our fieldwork indicate the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Erina Gruner.

This is an abstract from the "Byways to the Past: An American Highway Archaeology Symposium" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Since 2015, WestLand Resources has excavated sites along the proposed South Mountain Freeway, Loop 202 extension in Phoenix, Arizona, for the Arizona Department of Transportation. The freeway corridor lies in the western, lower Salt River Valley near the confluence with the Gila River, within what is traditionally defined as...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrew Krug.

This is an abstract from the "25 Years in the Casas Grandes Region: Celebrating Mexico–U.S. Collaboration in the Gran Chichimeca" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Questions over the nature of long-distance exchange are central to competing models of socio-political evolution in Northwest Mexico. At Paquimé, the preeminent site in northern Chihuahua, Mexico, from 1250 to 1450 AD, excavations recovered abundant non-local goods, including macaws,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Travis Cureton. John Southard. Erick Steinbach. Jacqueline Fox.

This is an abstract from the "WHY PLATFORM MOUNDS? PART 1: MOUND DEVELOPMENT AND CASE STUDIES" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. AZ U:9:165(ASM) comprises the remains of an extensive Hohokam village on the south side of the Salt River in Arizona. Late 19th to 20th century urbanization obscured the overwhelming majority of this site, stunting our understanding of its extent and structure. This paper presents the results of recent archival research and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephen Uzzle. Karen Schollmeyer.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Fourteenth century Salado villages in southwest New Mexico show interesting contrasts with earlier villages from the Classic Mimbres period (AD 1000-1130). One of the most intriguing differences is the evidence that Salado period villagers may have employed a land-use strategy relying on more frequent mobility between villages and at larger spatial scales in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Samuel Jensen.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. From 1958 to 1961 Charles Di Peso and Eduardo Contreras Sánchez conducted extensive archaeological excavations at Paquimé and the Convento sites in Chihuahua, Mexico. These excavations produced the data that forms the bulk of our understanding about the Casas Grandes archaeological culture during the Viejo period (approximately 700-1200 AD). In the...