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DOCUMENT Full-Text Robert Bischoff.

This paper evaluates the role that San Juan Red Ware played in social interaction. San Juan Red Ware was widely distributed throughout the Four Corners region between ca. A.D. 750 and 1100. Prior research has identified this ware as a marker of identity and established an association with communal feasting. A study of the distribution of this ware indicates that it was traded through specific social networks, which changed through time. While ceramics may profitably be used as stand-ins for...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Samuel Hemsley. Caitlin Stewart.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Virgin Anasazi Region of the Southwestern United States of America is a relatively unrepresented region in archaeological literature. In the past, the undeveloped nature of the region combined with the regions remoteness have resulted in a dearth of unconsolidated literature on the archaeology of the region. Recent archaeological investigations by...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sara Anderson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Chaco Canyon, located in present-day New Mexico, was a political and economic center for the Ancestral Puebloan culture between AD 800-1200 and remains an important cultural area in the American Southwest. Large-scale road networks facilitated the import of raw materials and craft goods and enabled the exchange of prestige items. Utilizing the Chaco Research...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Benjamin Van Alstyne.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeology of the Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. One component of the archaeological record that can shed light on human behavior is architectural remains. Architectural studies in archaeology have mostly focused on evaluating the mechanical properties of construction materials, the amount of labor, time, and materials needed for construction, and room function to make...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Blythe Morrison.

This is an abstract from the "Current Research on Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) Domestication, Husbandry and Management in North America and Beyond" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In this paper, I examine some of the details of turkey husbandry by analyzing avian remains and associated material culture, including feathers and cordage. The North American turkey (Meleagris gallopavo spp.) has had a significant and enduring presence in many of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Heather Seltzer-Rogers.

This is an abstract from the "Recent Archaeological Work by Chronicle Heritage" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Chronicle Heritage recently excavated part of a moderately sized, multicomponent site, LA135004, in advance of development near Taos in northern New Mexico. The prehispanic component, dating AD 1050–1300, consists of at least one room block with features, extramural cooking pits, and thousands of ceramics, flaked and ground stone, and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Spencer Lodge.

This is an abstract from the "Experimental Pedagogies: Teaching through Experimental Archaeology Part II" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Beginning in 2018, I have been working with the Southern Paiute to host annual agave bakes using experimental earth ovens at the Desert National Wildlife Refuge in southern Nevada. Our events have gradually grown as we experiment with various aspects of earth oven cooking, including the use and quantity of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Julie Solometo. Stewart B. Koyiyumptewa. Gregson Schachner. Wesley Bernardini.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent collaborative fieldwork on Hopi tribal lands is yielding a new archaeological perspective on settlement during this key time period when migration to the Hopi Mesas accelerated. Newly recorded and re-documented sites include citadel-like structures built up the sides of rocky outcrops, defensible sites atop discrete, steep-sided landforms, and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ruth Van Dyke.

This is an abstract from the "Developments and Challenges in Landscape Archaeology" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The UNESCO World Heritage Site of Chaco Canyon, in the North American Southwest, is well-known for its monumental architecture and carefully choreographed landscape. Chaco Canyon lies at the heart of a 60,000 square mile area that contains some 200 additional major great house communities, as well as features such as roads,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Schlanger.

This is an abstract from the "Refining Archaeological Data Collection and Management to Achieve Greater Scientific, Traditional, and Educational Values" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. There may be no more vexing heritage resource issue facing public land agencies today than the management of culturally significant landscapes. The challenges begin with identification. They continue through the definition of critical values and appropriate...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stewart Koyiyumptewa. Joel Nicholas. Trent Tu’tsi. Hawthorn Dukepoo.

This is an abstract from the "The Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project: A Multivocal Analysis of the San Juan Basin as a Cultural Landscape" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Since 1989, the Hopi Cultural Preservation Office (HCPO) has conducted numerous archaeological and ethnographic studies. All of the past projects involved the input of the Hopi Cultural Resource Advisor Task Team, representing twelve villages, clan groups and religious societies...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Benjamin Bellorado.

The introduction of cotton tapestry weaving traditions transformed Ancestral Pueblo ritual costuming traditions in the San Juan Basin ever after. After its introduction, documenting developments and changes of cotton-weaving technologies and ceremonial garment fashions is difficult because most of the associated materials are perishable. Arid conditions at the numerous cliff dwellings occupied in the Pueblo III period (A.D. 1150-1300) have fostered the preservation of abundant evidence of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sean Field. Donna Glowacki. Timothy Hovezak.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Over the history of Mesa Verde National Park (MVNP), the Far View community has been the focus of multiple, yet discrete, archaeological projects, from Fewkes’ excavations in the 1920s to more recent architectural documentation and stabilization in 2012. However, there are gaps in survey coverage, site forms require updating, and the community lacks an overall...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Benjamin Bellorado. Kelley Hays-Gilpin. Laurie Webster.

This is an abstract from the "Approaches to Archaeological Footwear" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Twined sandals were the most long-lived yucca-cordage sandals used by Ancestral Pueblo people in the US Southwest, bridging the Basketmaker II (100 BC–AD 550) through Pueblo III (AD 1150–1300) periods. They were among the most technologically complex, ornate, and resource-intensive textiles ever produced in the region and also a key feature of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kali Long.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In this poster, I report on the faunal remains recovered from eighteenth- and nineteenth-century midden deposits in San Antonio del Embudo, a small settler village in northern New Mexico. I analyze species choices, skeletal element distribution, age profiles, and processing marks (cut, burn, fragment) along with disposal patterns. These remains unveil the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Laura Benedict. Virginia L. Lucas.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The archaeology of the California Wash in southern Nevada, north of Las Vegas, is not yet well understood, particularly when compared to contemporaneous occupations. Previous excavations at three sites located in the Dry Lake Range along the Wash resulted in the recovery of a number of artifacts, including lithics, ceramics, and faunal remains that enhance our...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Susan Ryan. Shaw Badenhorst. Jonathan Driver.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Albert Porter Pueblo great house, located in the central Mesa Verde region was surrounded by numerous residential structures during the Pueblo II and Pueblo III periods. Using a variety of ratios to measure the exploitation of wild game and domestic turkeys, we examine evidence of social organization by evaluating similarities and differences in faunal...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Oas. Christopher Schwartz.

This is an abstract from the "Zooarchaeology and Technology: Case Studies and Applications" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent genetic and isotopic studies highlight important variations in the nature, timing, and intensity of domesticated turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) management practices across the northern U.S. Southwest. While a degree of intensification in turkey production has been associated with widespread settlement aggregation in the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Dove.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Although most archaeologists agree that large-scale feasting occurred in the prehistoric Southwest, excavations have produced little direct evidence for it. Villages where feasting has been asserted had large populations, public architecture (monumental buildings, shrines, plazas, etc.), and often deep antiquity. Recent excavations at two such sites in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Oas.

To examine relationships between social transformations and household and communal foodways, this paper draws on detailed vessel form, surface treatment, size, and deposition data from multiple settlements over a period of rapid aggregation, migration, and social change in the Cibola/Zuni region in the 13-14th centuries A.D. Foodways-the ways we produce, prepare, and consume foods-are an important part of human society and culture, and play a vital role in making and maintaining social...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Zachary Cooper.

This is an abstract from the "From Collaboration to Partnership in Pojoaque, New Mexico" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Over the past five years, collaborative work between the Pueblo of Pojoaque and the University of Colorado, Boulder at the ancestral Tewa site of Cuyamunge has revealed a network of agricultural fields, shrines, and paths. Studies suggest that shrines have been used as a centerpiece of Puebloan ritual observances for at least...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jonathan Driver. Karen Schollmeyer.

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. In the central Mesa Verde region a combination of numerous excavations and precise chronological control allows us to group selected faunal assemblages into time periods that represent only a few human generations. We examine fauna from eight time periods spanning approximately 700 years in a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sachiko Sakai.

This is an abstract from the "Ceramics and Archaeological Sciences" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This study is a part of an investigation into the adaptation patterns among the small-scale farmers who lived in a very marginal environment in the American Southwest. The examination of the changes in the ceramic production and distribution in the Mt. Trumbull and adjacent areas was conducted using LA-ICP-MS and optically stimulated luminescence...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rebecca Baisden.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeologies of the Eastern Jemez Mountain Range and the Pajarito Plateau: Interagency Collaboration for Management of Cultural Landscapes" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Southwest Jemez Mountain Landscape Restoration project located in the Jemez Ranger District of the Santa Fe National Forest in New Mexico encompasses approximately 116,000 acres. To increase resilience against undesirable, large-scale fires, a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael Adler.

Ash deposits are commonly associated with site disuse and termination deposits across the Ancestral Pueblo region of the American Southwest. This paper contextualizes the use of fire, and fire-related products, as part of a larger suite of practices employed to protect past, present and future occupants of villages from malevolent "others" across the pre-colonial northern Rio Grande region.