Mogollon (Other Keyword)
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The traditional view of the Mogollon Early Pithouse period (AD 200–700) in southwestern New Mexico and southeastern Arizona is that the introduction of ceramics, an increase in maize use, and pithouses equaled sedentary village formation. More recent research, however, has argued that mobility and foraging remained important strategies throughout the Early Pithouse period. Thus, there are many questions and debates regarding cultural changes that occurred during the Mogollon Early Pithouse...
Classic Mimbres Period Aviculture at Elk Ridge, New Mexico (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. People in the ancient Southwest domesticated, tamed, or managed several species of birds. The Late Pithouse and Classic Mimbres (AD 750-1000) archaeological site of Elk Ridge provides a rare example of ancient aviculture in the Mimbres area of southwestern New Mexico. Excavations by Human Systems Research, Inc. at Elk Ridge in the upper Mimbres Valley...
Classic Mimbres Phase Archaeology: A Contrastive Study of Two Sites at the Headwaters of the Upper Gila River (2018)
Classic Mimbres sites can be seen across the Mimbres Valley and Upper Gila areas. For one tributary of the Gila River, Diamond Creek, there are several of these sites that lay alongside it. As a part of the "Northern Mimbres Project," two sites–Twin Pines Village (a large Classic Mimbres village) and South Diamond Creek Pueblo (a small four room site)–have been excavated by New Mexico State University field schools over the course of three years. Our excavations and research of these sites have...
Cold Cases and Forgotten Caves: Reconstructing the Provenience of Unique Artifacts from the Greater Southwest (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Museum collections contain many unique objects from the Greater Southwest that lack complete provenience, especially items from caves and other shrines. These sites often served the region’s inhabitants as both offertory locations and the terminal repositories for ceremonial objects, resulting in enormous and well-preserved assemblages, many composed primarily...
Community Identity in the Jornada: Untangling Patterns of Aggregation and Abandonment at Cottonwood Spring Pueblo (LA 175), an El Paso Phase Village (2019)
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. Ongoing excavations at Cottonwood Spring Pueblo (LA 175) suggest population aggregation within the El Paso Phase (A.D. 1300-1450) Jornada Cultural Region may have consisted of distinct self-identified groups integrated into one multi-ethnic community. Comparing the excavations at Area A, a large plaza orientated...
A Comparison of Miniature Pottery Vessels from the Reserve and Mimbres Branches of the Mogollon of Southwestern New Mexico (2017)
This study will compare the attributes of Miniature Pottery Vessels in the Mimbres and Reserve Branches of the Mogollon Cultural Area. I will focus on their types, forms, decorative elements, traces of use, and depositional context. The vessels will be no more than 10 cm (4") or less in any dimension. This long-term comparison compares the similarities and differences of the vessel’s characteristics in the two regions in the years between A.D. 450 and 1450. This study may yield important data...
Complexity, Rituality, and the Origins of Paquimé (Casas Grandes), Chihuahua (2021)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological investigations in the prehispanic American Southwest/Northwest Mexico region have provided rich insight into the development of sociopolitically complex polities in the Phoenix Basin, Chaco Canyon, Rio Grande valley, and northwestern Chihuahua. In all of these places, sociopolitical complexity is linked to the development of and elite control...
The Context and Meaning of Medio Period Casas Grandes Stone Effigies (2024)
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...
Contexts of Ash Deposits in Jornada Mogollon Pithouse and Pueblo Settlements and Reflections on Their Meanings (2018)
The archaeological identification of intentionally deposited layers of ash at Jornada pueblo and pithouse settlements is complicated by several factors and intentional ash deposits are seldom identified unless preserved in a sealed context or buried by a layer of impermeable natural sediment or cultural deposits. When clear evidence of intentional ash deposition is observed, it may be assumed that there was a significant meaning underlying the inclusion of ash in a special context or deposit. ...
Contextualizing the Differences Between Upper Gila and Mimbres River Valley Ceramic Design Elements (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Local Development and Cross-Cultural Interaction in Pre-Hispanic Southwestern New Mexico and Southeastern Arizona" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This poster updates our previous research that examined similarities and differences between upper Gila Valley and Mimbres Valley painted ceramic designs. That work focused on the identification and quantification of stylistic elements and demonstrated that there are some...
Cottonwood Spring Pueblo (LA 175): A Multi Ethnic Community, Movement of People through time and place (2024)
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...
Creating 3D Models of Artifacts and Features using Photogrammetry (2018)
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...
Cultural Landscapes of the SunZia Transmission Line Project (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The SunZia transmission line traverses 550 miles in Southeast Arizona and Southwest New Mexico, crossing through the Hohokam and Mogollon archaeological culture areas. Recently completed survey of more than 50,000 acres provides unique information on landscape-scale interactions and facilitates interregional comparisons of artifact, feature, and site...
The Distribution and Provenance of Turquoise from Southern New Mexico, USA and Northern Chihuahua, Mexico (2019)
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. Compared to other regions of the Southwest, little is known about prehispanic turquoise acquisition and exchange in southern New Mexico and adjacent parts of Texas or in Chihuahua, Mexico. Here, we explore the distribution of sites with turquoise in the Tularosa and Hueco Basins as well as in northern Chihuahua. In...
Dynamic and Diverse Roles and Identities of Women in Ancient Southwest Systems of Violence (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The definition of violence is unique to all societies. Violent behavior is thus recognized in myriad ways and observing it in past societies demands consideration of many forms of evidence. Interpreting individual roles in systems of violence requires that we look beyond weaponry, site destruction, male warrior burials, and lethal injuries. Our perception...
The Effects of Inundation on an Early Fourteenth-Century Adobe Pueblo at Caballo Reservoir, New Mexico (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In late 2016, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation significantly lowered Caballo Reservoir on the Rio Grande in New Mexico to clean out debris behind the outflow gate. As a result, several submerged prehistoric sites were temporarily exposed on the lakeshore. One of those sites was an early fourteenth-century Jornada Mogollon adobe-walled pueblo. Because Caballo Dam...
Eleventh-Century Aviculture in the Mimbres Valley: An Archaeology of the Human Experience Approach (2023)
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. For the past 2,000 years, people throughout the US Southwest and Northwest Mexico have woven scarlet macaws and turkeys into their economic, social, and ceremonial fabric. Pueblo groups in the past did not view all birds as being equal, and neither do archaeologists today, as we study macaws and turkeys more so than any other...
Embedded Identity: Preliminary Analyses of Mogollon Corrugated Vessels (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Emerging Voices in Mogollon Archaeology" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Between 1250 and 1450 CE, the cultural landscape of the US Southwest transformed as diverse communities migrated from their homelands into areas with long-established local populations. The processes behind this new shared multicultural identity were complex and required individuals from both migrant and local Mogollon communities to negotiate...
Evidence of Painted Mimbres Ceramic Production Patterns in the Sapillo Valley from the Analysis of Lake Roberts Vista Site Painted Sherd Collection (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Ceramics and Archaeological Sciences 2024" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This presentation discusses the findings of a project investigating ceramic production in a hinterland of the Mimbres region, from a diachronic view across painted ware types. The Sapillo Creek Valley is a volcanic upland in southwestern New Mexico between the Mimbres and Gila River Valley culture-centers. The painted pottery recovered in 1995...
Examining Multiple Groups of Chronometric Data Using Multiple Methods: An Example from the Prehispanic U.S. Southwest (2021)
This is an abstract from the "Constructing Chronologies II: The Big Picture with Bayes and Beyond" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Over 4,000 radiocarbon age estimates are used to examine temporal trends in the Jornada region of the American Southwest between 4500 and 400 BP. Chronometric analysis reveals changing frequencies in architectural forms, technologies, and subsistence, a series of punctuated demographic trajectories and regional...
Exploring Classic Period Mimbres Social Networks through Neutron Activation Analysis: A Pilot Study (2021)
This is an abstract from the "Research Hot Off the Trowel in the Upper Gila and Mimbres Areas" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This poster presents the results of a study that uses the neutron activation analysis (NAA) dataset that has been compiled for the Mimbres region in order to conduct social network analysis (SNA) for the Classic period (AD 1000–1130). The NAA dataset for the Mimbres region identifies compositional groups and probable...
Fauna at the HO Bar Site: A Mogollon Early Pithouse Period Site (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. At the HO-Bar Site, identifiable faunal bones are very low given the almost 30 cubic meters excavated in 1979. Indeed, most of the faunal remains are fragments (ratio of 3.0 grams of fragments to 1.0 gram NISP). The species and NISP will be presented, and there will be discussion of why there are so many fragments.
Faunal Evidence for Subsistence Strategies at Cottonwood Spring Pueblo (2015)
The zooarchaeological assemblage from Cottonwood Spring Pueblo (LA 175), an El Paso Phase (A.D. 1275-1450) horticultural village in southern New Mexico is dominated by small game. What explains this pattern? The high relative percentage of rabbit to deer follows a general trend associated with aggregated populations, growing agriculture dependence, and less seasonal mobility. Additional variables possibly contributing to this trend include shifts to small game in response to droughts, over...
Favorite Things: An Overview of Ornaments Used by the Jornada Mogollon in the Tularosa Basin, New Mexico (2019)
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. Recent UNM Office of Contract Archeology evaluations and surveys at numerous sites on White Sands Missile Range (WSMR) and White Sands National Monument (WSNM) offer new insight into the use, manufacture and trading of diverse objects of adornment by the Jornada Mogollon during the Doña Ana and El Paso phases. A wide...
Fired Fingerprints: A Point of Pines Pueblo Corrugated Ceramic Analysis (2021)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Point of Pines Pueblo is a key site for understanding the Kayenta migration to the Mogollon and how communities adapt or maintain practices while experiencing changing demographics. This study analyzes practices in corrugated jar production before, during, and after the migration in the Point of Pines area. Exposed coils on corrugated jars allows us to...