Mimbres pottery (Other Keyword)
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The culture of the Mimbres Mogollon region is known for its intricate, black-on-white, geometric and figurative pottery designs. Analysis of ceramic iconography found on Mimbres pottery allows archaeologists to hypothesize about Mimbres life and social structure. Using provenienced, figurative vessel data from the Mimbres Pottery Images Digital Database (MimPIDD), this paper investigates the possible relationship between human facial decoration and the inter- and intra-site provenience of...
Prehistoric Settlement Patterns in the Sapillo Creek Valley, Gila National Forest, New Mexico (1995)
The Sapillo Valley Survey Project was undertaken in 1993 by Robert Stokes as a M.A. thesis project. The valley was 20 percent sample surveyed using 320 m wide transects that crossed the valley from high landform to high landform, thus ensuring that a variety of landforms would be sampled. The survey resulted in recording 62 sites ranging from Late Archaic/Early Pithouse sites to Late Pithouse villages to Classic Mimbres pueblos and fieldhouses. The sites included many large ceremonial structures...
Sapillo Valley Survey Project
The Sapillo Vallley Survey Project was undertaken by Robert J. Stokes in 1993 and the results compiled in the author's M.A. thesis at Eastern New Mexico University in 1995. The Sapillo Valley is a large tributary of the Gila River in the Mimbres area of Southwestern New Mexico. Please note that the thesis .pdf document associated with this project has been reformatted from its original early 1990s Word Perfect file type to a 2010 Word document prior to saving it as a .pdf. As a consequence of...