Ancestral Pueblo (Other Keyword)
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This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Three Chacoan great houses (Aztec North, West, and East) comprise the focal point of the Ancestral Pueblo community at Aztec Ruins National Monument in the Animas Valley of northwestern New Mexico. The well-known occupational histories of Aztec West and East, established through decades of tree-ring dating, includes over 4000 tree ring dates taken from...
Coal Bed Village: Test excavations of a major Ancestral Pueblo site in Southeast Utah (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Archaeological Research in Montezuma Canyon, San Juan County, Utah" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Coal Bed Village (42SA920), located at the confluence of Coal Bed and Montezuma Canyons, is one of the largest Ancestral Pueblo sites in the state of Utah. The site was first documented by William Henry Jackson in 1875, but has never been systematically investigated. Rubble mounds covering the top, slope, and alluvial...
Coalescence within the Gila River Farm Site and other Salado Settlements of the Upper Gila (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. Archaeology Southwest and the University of Arizona's Upper Gila Preservation Archaeology Field School (UGPA) have conducted excavations for three field seasons (2016-2018) at the Gila River Farm Site. This poster evaluates the extent of coalescence between Kayenta immigrant...
The Community at the Crossroads: Insights into Connectivity from the Tijeras Pueblo Fauna (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Archaeology, Cultural Heritage, and Public Education at Tijeras Pueblo, New Mexico" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Tijeras Pueblo lies at a crossroads. It sits at the junction of two canyons, one north-south and one east-west, and occupies a boundary between two distinct culture areas—the Pueblos to the west and the Plains to the east. This position on the landscape may have created both challenges and opportunities...
Community Organization on the Edge of the Mesa Verde Region: Recent Investigations at Cowboy Wash Pueblo, Moqui Springs Pueblo, and Yucca House (2023)
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. This paper examines the formation of three community centers on the piedmont of Ute Mountain: Yucca House, Moqui Springs Pueblo, and Cowboy Wash Pueblo. Two villages, Moqui Springs and Cowboy Wash, occupy the southernmost edge of central Mesa Verde region and Yucca House sits on the eastern...
Community Structure in Times of Stress and Change: Communal Dining in the Northern Southwest (2021)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The study of community connections becomes ever more important as our current society faces challenges brought on by advancements in technology, unprecedented health crises, and a changing global climate. By studying community events in the past, we can begin to examine the impact of community structure during times of stress and change. This paper presents...
Comparative Histories of Community Depopulation in the Mesa Verde and Northern Rio Grande Regions of the American Southwest (2023)
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. Architecture, artifact deposition patterning, and oral traditional information are brought to bear on questions of settlement depopulation, migration and relocation, and social conditions surrounding the depopulation of two large Ancestral Pueblo settlements. One large village, Sand Canyon...
Comparing plane-based and drone-based LiDAR to pedestrian surveys in the American Southwest (2024)
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...
Comparison of Hafting Adhesive Strengths in Lithic Tools (2023)
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...
Competing Cultures: A New Age in Chaco Canyon (2019)
This is an abstract from the "To Curate or Not to Curate: Surprises, Remorse, and Archaeological Grey Area" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Chaco Culture National Historical Park was founded to protect and preserve the cultural remains of an indigenous society whose high point was between 850 and 1150 CE. For the first 80 years of its existence, the park’s museum collection policy was straightforward because the artifacts recovered represented the...
Complex Closure Practices Involving Ash at a Small Pueblo in Northeastern Arizona (2018)
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...
Complicating the Religious/Secular Dichotomy Through Object Biographies: An Investigation of Mesa Verde Style Mugs (2018)
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...
Conceptualizing the Past: The Thoughtful Engagement of Hearts and Minds (2023)
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...
Conjoined Twins or Alternative Personas: An Analysis of Polycephaly within Southwest Rock Imagery (2024)
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...
Connected Communities: Networks, Identity, and Social Change in the Ancient Cibola World
Appendices, raw data, and analytical documents associated with: Peeples, Matthew A. (2018) Connected Communities: Networks, Identity, and Social Change in the Ancient Cibola World. University of Arizona Press. Tucson, AZ.
The Contested Mosaic: Landscape and Livelihood in the Lacandon Rainforest (2021)
This is an abstract from the "Landscapes: Archaeological, Historic, and Ethnographic Perspectives from the New World / Paisajes: Perspectivas arqueológicas, históricas y etnográficas desde el Nuevo Mundo" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In this paper I explore the complex regional agroecological history of interaction of global and local social and biophysical forces that shape the landscape of an important tropical forest region of Mexico. This...
Context for Petroglyphs: Recent Results from the Valley of Fire Archaeological Project (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Archaeology of the Virgin Branch Puebloan Region" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Famous for its striking natural landscapes, abundant petroglyphs and important prehistory, Nevada’s Valley of Fire State Park is well known to the public, but our picture of the archaeological remains from here is piecemeal rather than comprehensive. A new joint project by College of Southern Nevada, Nevada State Parks, the State Historic...
A Contextual Analysis of the Homol'ovi I Fauna (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the Pueblo Southwest, ethnographies documenting Indigenous-animal interactions have been used to derive sets of expectations about how Ancestral Pueblo-animals relationships may have appeared in the past. This literature has primarily been used to predict the roles (e.g., subsistence, ritual) and depositional contexts (e.g., structure type) of animals...
Continued Work on the Ray Robinson Collection – Preliminary Investigations into the Clont’s Farm site, John’s Farm site and other nearby sites in the Safford Basin of Southeastern Arizona (2024)
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...
Continuing Collaborations at Homol’ovi: A View from the Corn Roasting Pit (2018)
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.
Correlations between Structural Sites and Topographic Features Dating from the Late Developmental to Early Coalition (2019)
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...
Corrugated Ceramic Technological Data from the Greater Cibola Region (2018)
Ceramic technological codes and measurements associated with Peeples (2018) Connected Communities books [Chapter 5]. See Coding guides for additional details. File ceramic.csv contains the data formatted for analysis in R using the code in the associated document: "R Code for Corrugated Ceramic Technological Analysis, Chapter 5" These data pertain to Chapter 5 in: Peeples, Matthew A. (2018) Connected Communities: Networks, Identity, and Social Change in the Ancient Cibola World....
Corrugated Ceramic Technology Coding Guide (2018)
Ceramic Technology Coding Guide associated with Corrugated Ceramic Technology Data from Greater Cibola Region dataset in same "Connected Communities" tDAR project.
Cotton as Commodity in the Prehispanic Southwest (2018)
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,...
Covering Ground: Spatial Relationships of Prehistoric Sites on Black Mesa, Arizona (2017)
Modern applications in spatial analysis are reinventing the way archaeologists view spatial relationships in the prehistoric Southwest. Building on the extensive research conducted by the Black Mesa Archaeological Project (BMAP), this poster presentation presents new insights into spatial relationships and social dynamics on northern Black Mesa, Arizona using ArcGIS applications, such as viewshed analysis, as well as predictive modeling. Recently conducted pedestrian survey on Peabody Western...