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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kyle Waller. Adrianne Offenbecker. Gordon Rakita.

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. Patterns of growth attainment are sensitive bioarchaeological indicators of sub-adult health. Growth velocity can be used to identify periods of stunting, and corresponding periods of rapid catch-up growth. In this study, we use femoral length to examine sub-adult growth at the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Will Russell. Sarah Klassen.

This is an abstract from the "Journeying to the South, from Mimbres (New Mexico) to Malpaso (Zacatecas) and Beyond: Papers in Honor of Ben A. Nelson" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Social inequality exists simultaneously in a number of domains, and can often be traced - or allegedly traced - to founding lineages. Antecedence is the demonstration of longevity in place and, therefore, claims to moral authority. In this paper, we explore the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Scott Nicolay. Margaret Berrier.

This is an abstract from the "The Subterranean in Mesoamerican Indigenous Culture and Beyond" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Claims for contact between Mesoamerica and the U.S. Southwest predate by centuries the inception of archaeology as a scientific discipline. However, despite such long-standing assumptions and the accumulation of evidence from the archaeological record, including ball courts, copper crotals, cacao, and macaws, as well as...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sean Dolan.

This is an abstract from the "Birds in Archaeology: New Approaches to Understanding the Diverse Roles of Birds in the Past" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Understanding the cultural and environmental context of turkey (*Meleagris gallopavo) domestication and husbandry contribute to key issues in anthropological archaeology and social zooarchaeology. Despite recent advances in turkey studies in recent years, the extent of domestication and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Margaret Fye. Wolfgang Whitney-Hul.

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 Pima Community College archaeology program has conducted field work at AZ BB: 5:127 (ASM), the Twentynine Wash site, intermittently since 1997. The Twentynine Wash site is a large Hohokam habitation site that lies in the western foothills of the Santa Catalina Mountains...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hunter Claypatch.

This is an abstract from the "13,000 Years of Adaptation in the Sonoran Desert at La Playa, Sonora" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Ceramics blanket La Playa’s vast landscape and include some of the earliest pottery produced in the Southwest/Northwest. Despite its high frequency and value for reconstructing occupational histories, there has been no synthetic discussion of La Playa’s ceramics. This presentation chronologically frames the site’s...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Abraham Arnett. Joey LaValley. Travis Cureton.

Between November 2016 and September 2017 archaeological surveys performed by Logan Simpson on behalf of the Tonto National Forest in the Hell's Hole region of central Arizona revealed an abundance of previously undocumented Anchan and early Salado Tradition Settlements. Numerous single room habitations or field houses and large masonry structures with fully enclosing plaza or compound walls indicate a substantial population in an area traditionally considered a hinterland between the Sonoran...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily R. Edmonds. J. Cristina Freiberger. Kathleen Stansbury.

This is an abstract from the "Continued Advances in Method and Theory for Commingled Remains" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The cave site EDR 9-7 is located in the Rio Zape Valley of Durango, Mexico, within a transitional region between Mesoamerica and the American Southwest. EDR 9-7 can answer questions about environmental variation and cultural resiliency due to its initial use as a mortuary feature during a period of environmental stress, as...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mikaela Razo. Cindy Muñoz.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Center for Archaeological Research (CAR) at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) offers semester long internships to undergraduate students from UTSA’s Anthropology Department. The internship program offers students an opportunity to gain hands-on experience in laboratory methods, independent research, curation standards, and collection...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tanner Guskey. Kelly Jenks.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The acquisition of metal tools on the Spanish Colonial frontier of New Mexico was a rare occurrence, but it is an activity we may be able to better understand through analysis of their production, modification, and utilization as well as sourcing their elemental makeup through XRF. Metals of various types were utilized by settlers for agriculture, cooking,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jeremy Freeman.

As budgets grow slimmer and curricula become more rigid, teachers are often faced with the necessity to either eliminate or limit the number of school fieldtrips. With tightened budgets teachers are compelled to choose which fieldtrips to retain and which ones to eliminate. These choices are often based on cost, availability of transportation, or are based on what the teacher hopes students will gain from the experience. The goals of the fieldtrip generally align with the educational...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Evan Sternberg. Alexander Kurota. Virgil Lueth.

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. Over the past several years, the Office of Contract Archeology has conducted fieldwork in the southern Tularosa Basin on White Sands Missile Range. This project has resulted in the documentation and testing of more than 36 sites ranging from the Paleoindian through Jornada Mogollon periods. Lithic raw materials...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mark Howe. Nancy Gonzalez.

This is an abstract from the "The Big Bend Complex: Landscapes of History" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Millington letters from 1910 to 1913 described military actions along the Rio Grande in Presidio, Texas, at the start of the Mexican Revolution (1910–1920). These letters are handwritten accounts of the Mexican Revolution and what was occurring across the U.S.–Mexico international border and how this unfolded in the Big Bend region. This...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rachel Burger. Jonathon Curry. J. Andrew Darling. Thomas Jones. Andrea Gregory.

This is an abstract from the "Collaborative Archaeology: How Native American Knowledge Enhances Our Collective Understanding of the Past" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Akimel O’Odham are river people. During testing investigations for a roadway improvement project in Scottsdale, Arizona, sponsored by the Federal Highways Administration (FHWA) and Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community (SRP-MIC), a historical water feature was identified....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brandon McIntosh. Kristin Corl.

This is an abstract from the "People, Climate, and Proxies in Holocene Western North America" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This poster documents the environmental conditions of the Tularosa Basin/Hueco Bolson during the Doña Ana and El Paso phases (AD 1000–1450) in the Jornada Mogollon Region of the US Southwest by comparing stable carbon isotope values of black-tailed jackrabbits (*Lepus californicus) from archaeological sites to modern...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Abbott.

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. In January 1888, Frank Hamilton Cushing rode his horse atop the Hohokam platform mound at Los Hornos in the lower Salt River valley, and took note of numerous other mounds that dotted the valley’s landscape. The monuments’ spacing led Cushing to conceive of the valley-wide settlement as an integrated network for...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Owen Lindauer. Arleyn Simon.

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. We present a consideration of Roosevelt Black-on-white, recovered from archaeological sites in Arizona's Tonto Basin, as a correlate for Tonto Basin populations’ changing exchange relations as well as emulation through production of locally-produced copies of non-local wares. Implications of broad-scale ceramic exchange,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Evelyn Billo. Robert Mark. Kelley Hays-Gilpin.

This is an abstract from the "The Art and Archaeology of the West: Papers in Honor of Lawrence L. Loendorf" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A Navajo prayer ends: "with beauty all around, may I walk." Canyon de Chelly National Monument in the heart of Navajo country presented Larry Loendorf, then Professor at New Mexico State University, and his rock art recording crew with beauty in the alcoves, on the cliffs, and with every landscape view. Canyons...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher Turnbow. Robert Forrester.

The XSX Ranch site (LA 50702) is a multicomponent occupation located on the East Fork of the Gila River in Grant County, New Mexico. Between 1980 and 1992, Robert E. Forrester, a chemist from Texas, excavated 10 pithouses, 32 pueblo rooms in five roomblocks, and 91 burials at the site. In his little-known excavation reports, Forrester suggested the site was a Classic Mimbres occupation reoccupied by a Reserve/Tularosa population; however, in a review of his data, the site may best be...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kristin Corl.

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. The Harris Site (LA 1867) is a Late Pithouse period (AD 550–1000) agricultural village located along the upper Mimbres River Valley in New Mexico. This period is seen as a time of great demographic and social change linked to changes in the environment. This site provides an excellent case study looking at...