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DOCUMENT Citation Only R. J. Sinensky. Sarah Oas.

This is an abstract from the "Enduring Relationships: People, Plants, and the Contributions of Karen R. Adams" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. For over three decades Dr. Karen R. Adams has been at the forefront of research on the origins and long-term evolution of maize (Zea mays subsp. mays) in the US Southwest and northwestern Mexico. Dr. Adams has approached untangling the complex and oft convoluted histories of maize in a collaborative and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Maxwell Forton.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeological Research in Petrified Forest National Park" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Chaco Phenomenon remains a contentious and ever evolving paradigm of Southwest Archaeology. Key to understanding the nature of Chaco is the extent and purpose of the many outlying great house communities scattered across the northern Southwest. One of the farthest flung of these possible outliers is the Mac-Stod great house...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Donna Glowacki. Kyle Bocinsky.

The Mesa Verde uplift has long been noted for its relative lack of great houses, notwithstanding its geographic position between Aztec and the Great Sage Plain. The notable exception has been Farview House, which has great house attributes, but not all regional archaeologists have agreed that it qualified as one. Yet, the Chaco period (950-1150 CE, also known as the Pueblo II period) was of the densest periods of occupation on the Mesa Verde uplift, which at that time also had a higher...

DATASET Matthew Peeples.

Coding guide and raw data for ceramic design element analysis from the greater Cibola region associated with Chapter 7, pages 161-166 in: Peeples, Matthew A. (2018) Connected Communities: Networks, Identity, and Social Change in the Ancient Cibola World. University of Arizona Press. Tucson, AZ.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Matthew Peeples.

Illustration of repeated exterior design configurations on Zuni Glaze Ware and Late White Mountain Redware (Pinedale Polychrome) bowls from the greater Cibola region. These illustrations accompany the analyses presented by Peeples in Chapter 7 of: Peeples, Matthew A. (2018) Connected Communities: Networks, Identity, and Social Change in the Ancient Cibola World, University of Arizona Press, Tucson, AZ.

DATASET Matthew Peeples.

Design family assignments and vessel information for the whole vessel design study presented on pages 166-171 in: Peeples, Matthew A. (2018) Connected Communities: Networks, Identity, and Social Change in the Ancient Cibola World. University of Arizona Press, Tucson, AZ. See "Ceramic Design Analysis - Repeating Design Configurations, Chapter 7 - CODES" for examples of each design family

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephen Janes. Michael Cloud.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Ongoing large scale archaeological ground surveys are being conducted primarily in the southern San Juan Basin of New Mexico to determine if regional Chacoan Roads connect various great house outliers there. These surveys identified a series of linear sherd scatters following an east to west trend between the Standing Rock Great House Community and the Peach...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Abraham Arnett.

Fifty years ago Paul Martin and John Renaldo of the Field Museum of Natural History directed the excavation of Carter Ranch Pueblo in the Hay Hollow Valley of east central Arizona. Decades later, archaeologists recognized a regional system of settlements in and around the San Juan Basin linked to great houses in Chaco Canyon via roads and highly visible material cultural characteristics. Although Carter Ranch Pueblo displays typical Chacoan attributes, its inclusion within the Chaco regional...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Thomas Windes.

This is an abstract from the "Transcending Modern Boundaries: Recent Investigations of Cultural Landscapes in Southeastern Utah" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Large areas of the western Northern San Juan Region were repopulated in the early AD 1100s and mid AD 1200s, but the overall lack of systematic chronometric dating has complicated our understanding of events during these critical periods of settlement and abandonment. The Wood Project has...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jana Meyer.

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 is a Pueblo IV site in Central New Mexico located on a natural travel route between the Western Great Plains and the Rio Grande Valley, which likely facilitated frequent contact between different cultural groups. This study addresses two interconnected research goals: first, to examine...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jessica Weinmeister.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. While forgotten settlements are a common discovery in the jungles of Central America where dense canopies conceal all traces of prehistory, they are a much less common phenomenon in the American Southwest. However, recent research demonstrates that a poorly known Ancestral Pueblo site on private property in southwest Colorado is one of the most important...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephen Lekson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. "A History of the Ancient Southwest" was published 15 years ago. How would I re-write it today? After a brief review of that aging narrative, I’ll revisit several key points, threads, and themes in light of new information and understandings. I will explore the importance of continental-scale contexts, hinted but not fully developed in the book. And I...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lindsay Johansson.

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. Like many museum collections, the fauna recovered from LA38 was not systematically collected, yet it can still provide interesting and important information regarding life, diet, and practices of the individuals who occupied the area in the past. This paper focuses on both the expected and unexpected results of faunal analysis of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Daniel Perez. Karen Harry.

Considerations of chronology, chronometry, and systemic contexts of archaeological sites in the American Southwest have primarily focused among the larger prehistoric cultural centers (e.g., Hohokam) throughout the history of archaeological research in this region. Research pursuits beyond the southern and eastern regions of the American Southwest—particularly within the Virgin Branch Puebloan cultural region—have not been pursued accordingly for various reasons. Seminal work by Margaret Lyneis...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Maxwell Forton.

This study examines the spatial patterning of shield iconography at late Pueblo III sites (A.D. 1250-1300) in the Tsegi Canyon system, as an indicator of shared group identity. In the mid-13th century, the Tsegi Canyon region of northeastern Arizona followed a greater regional trend of communities coalescing into defensive high canyon alcoves, accompanied by the adoption of shield iconography, likely influenced by Freemont traditions to the north. These images are variously interpreted to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carrie Heitman.

This is an abstract from the "Kin, Clan, and House: Social Relatedness in the Archaeology of North American Societies" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In recent years, a growing number of archaeologists have explored the potential of expanding Lévi-Strauss’s concept of "house societies" to better understand local as well as regional development sequences. In this paper, I draw on the work of cultural anthropologists as well as archaeologists to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lara Lloyd.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. After the closure of Spruce Tree House at Mesa Verde National Park in 2015, instances of vandalism and similar problems increased. The correlation between observed site etiquette violations and the closure of the most-visited site cannot be ignored, and suggests the need for improved site etiquette education. Methods for mitigating damage to archaeological...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brittany Bankston.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent scholarship has recognized that the foundational elements of the Ancestral Puebloan culture observed during the height of the Chacoan Phenomenon first began to appear during the Basketmaker III time period (AD 450-750), with the construction of kivas, the emergence of vast trade networks, and population aggregation. However, one interesting aspect of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only William Lipe. Shannon Tushingham. Eric Blinman. Chuck LaRue. Laurie Webster.

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. For a thousand years, turkey feather blankets were a standard part of Ancestral Pueblo material culture in the Central Mesa Verde (CMV) area. Investigating the "supply side" of blanket-making includes comparing the number of feathers needed for a blanket with the number...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Susan Ryan.

This is an abstract from the "Enduring Relationships: People, Plants, and the Contributions of Karen R. Adams" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Initiated by Dr. William Lipe and Ian (Sandy) Thompson in the late 1980s, the goals of the Environmental Archaeology Program at the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center are to study the effects of human occupations on the natural environment, how people socially mediate environmental change, and to contribute...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Cyler Conrad. Jonathan Dombrosky. Abigail Judkins. Jacqueline Kocer. Emily Lena Jones.

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. Previous studies have established consistency, but also substantial anomalies, in how turkeys (Meleagris gallopavo) were managed across the US Southwest/Mexican Northwest. In this paper, we present bone collagen derived stable hydrogen (δ2H) and bone apatite derived stable oxygen (δ18O) isotopes in turkeys from Tijeras Pueblo...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Holtkamp. Karla Sartor. Maria Musgrave.

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 impacts of wildfire on cultural and natural resources have been discussed and analyzed for many years. Impacts include loss of irreplaceable artifacts, features, habitats, and landscapes due to increased wildfire regimes, as well as climate...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anna Osterholtz. D. Shane Miller.

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 Site of Sacred Ridge has the earliest identified Extreme Processing assemblage in the four corners region, with over 14,000 fragments of human bone (representing at least 33 individuals) deposited in two pit structures around AD 810. During excavation, over 9,000 point locations were taken with a total station. During...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ali Livesay.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Despite its remoteness and the restricted access, there are very few standing structures on the Pajarito Plateau where Los Alamos National Laboratory now resides. One notable exception is Nake’muu Pueblo which was first built during the Coalition Period (A.D. 1225-1300). Pueblo de San Ildefonso oral history describes that Nake’muu was reoccupied following...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrew Gillreath-Brown. Kyle Bocinsky. Tim Kohler.

This is an abstract from the "Global Perspectives on Climate-Human Population Dynamics During the Late Holocene" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. While the Neolithic Demographic Transition (NDT) spread rapidly across most of Europe (~600 years) after the first introduction of domesticated plants, the NDT is much more gradual in the southwestern United States (1600–2600 years) following the first appearance of maize (ca. 2260–1990 BC). Climate had a...