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DOCUMENT Citation Only Larry Nordby.

This is an abstract from the "The Vanishing Treasures Program: Celebrating 20 Years of National Park Service Historic Preservation" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the mid-1990s, the National Park Service sought to upgrade its architectural preservation programs at about 40 arid-lands parks, which were facing the loss of significant numbers of retiring preservation craftsmen who had been working to preserve resources since the 1960s and 1970s....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hannah Mattson. Jacque Kocer.

In the late 1890s, the Hyde Exploring Expedition collected over 650 finished ornaments from Room 28 in Pueblo Bonito. UNM’s recent re-excavation of the room, including material derived from backdirt from adjacent rooms as well as intact floor and subfloor deposits, produced thousands of additional ornaments and pieces of lapidary debris. This paper presents the results of the analysis of this combined assemblage and discusses its significance in relation to ornaments found in other portions of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jennifer Huang.

This is an abstract from the "The Role of Rock Art in Cultural Understanding: A Symposium in Honor of Polly Schaafsma" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Chaco Canyon contains multitudes of petroglyphs and pictographs, yet rock art has not been a prevalent line of evidence in the archaeological study of that pre-contact culture. More than 15,000 Ancestral Puebloan elements attest to the importance of the role of iconography within the canyon. And the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Caitlin Sommer.

This is an abstract from the "Adopting the Pueblo Fettle: The Breadth and Depth of the Basketmaker III Cultural Horizon" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Basketmaker III period (A.D. 500-725) in the northern U.S. Southwest was typified by new technologies, new social and religious practices, and groups of people from distinct cultural backgrounds living in close proximity for the first time. In this sociopolitical milieu, new architectural forms...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Haley Dougherty.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Currently, there is no single, easily accessible source for researchers studying the Virgin Branch ceramic typology. The absence of such a source makes it difficult for researchers to consistently type ceramic artifacts. One solution to this problem is making access to these typological collections more accessible by utilizing the internet. This research...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nicholas Poister. Steve Baumann. Andrew Van Cleve. Richard Greene.

This is an abstract from the "The Subterranean in Mesoamerican Cultural Landscapes" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. During the field seasons of 2020 and 2021, the Cultural Resources Branch at El Malpais National Monument undertook an inventory of archaeological sites located within some of the monument’s more than 400 lava tube caves. While scores of caves containing cultural resources have been identified through an ongoing mapping initiative, few...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Danny Sosa Aguilar.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A partnership with the Merced del Pueblo de Abiquiú in New Mexico includes a co-created archaeology research project that incorporates Abiquiuseños in research design, as well as a community leadership-vetted proposal and memorandum of agreement. This project strives to create ethical and accountable archaeology that is rooted in how archaeology can positively...

DOCUMENT Citation Only R. E. Burrillo.

This is an abstract from the "Recent Archaeological Research by PaleoWest" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Sierra Ancha (Spanish for “wide mountain”) of central Arizona boasts some of the richest human history in the greater Southwest, yet its archaeology remains understudied and poorly understood. The region lies within or between the boundaries of the Hohokam, Salado, Ancestral Pueblo, and Mogollon culture areas, and most of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Laurie Webster. Erin Gearty.

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. Recent research by the Cedar Mesa Perishables Project has documented more than 1500 textiles, baskets, wood, hide, and feather artifacts dating to the Basketmaker II period in southeastern Utah. Using data derived from sandals and other clothing articles, decorated baskets, human hair...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Catherine Mendel. Deanna Grimstead.

Research has demonstrated an independent domestication event of Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) occurred in the Southwestern USA between 200 BC—AD 500, which was separate from the domestication of turkey within the Mesoamerican world. While aDNA analyses revealed this as a separate and distinct event, we still know little about how turkey husbandry was practiced in the prehistoric Southwest, USA, Northwest, Mexico, and Four Corners regions. Our research applies carbon and nitrogen isotopes to a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Catherine Mendel. Deanna Grimstead. Joan Coltrain. Harlan McCaffery. Tiffany Rawlings.

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. aDNA analysis reveals an independent domestication event of Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) occurred in the Southwestern United States between 200 BC—AD 500. While this event was distinct from the domestication of turkey within the Mesoamerican world approximately 2000 years...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert Weiner.

This is an abstract from the "Rethinking Persistent Places: Relationships, Atmospheres, and Affects" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Beginning in the 1980s, researchers noticed that some monumental avenues in the Chaco World (ca. AD 800-1200) of the Four Corners region of the U.S. Southwest were “roads through time” linking non-contemporaneous sites. These so-called “time bridges” are often interpreted as monuments built by later generations to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Suzanne Eckert. Deborah Huntley.

This is an abstract from the "Scaling Potting Networks: Recent Contributions from Ceramic Petrography " session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Rio Grande region of New Mexico, USA, has a long tradition of understanding ceramic technology and provenance through petrographic analyses. Despite this, the Rio Abajo subregion continues to lag somewhat behind the more detailed analyses from the central and northern Rio Grande. This study presents an...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Suzanne Eckert. Deborah Huntley. Judith Habicht-Mauche.

This is an abstract from the "Ceramic Petrographers in the Americas: Recent Research and Methodological Advances" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Research at Goat Spring Pueblo, a village located in the Rio Abajo region of south-central New Mexico, examines cultural continuity and transformation in the late Ancestral Pueblo period (AD 1300–1680). This poster reports data concerning local versus nonlocal pottery production and vessel exchange at...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christine Markussen. Ian Hough. Blayne Brown.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the fall of 2017, EnviroSystems Management, Inc. conducted architectural mapping of three sites at Wupatki National Monument, part of Flagstaff Area National Monuments, Coconino County, Arizona. The Monument required scaled planimetric drawings and cross-sections of standing architecture at WS323/Small Tower, WS1027/Cloud House, and WS1762/Coyote Water....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eric Heller. Benjamin Bellorado.

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. Recent technological advances, including photogrammetric capture and virtual reality visualization, offer exciting new means to document, analyze, and reconceptualize archaeological landscapes. Minimally invasive, cost effective, and extremely precise, these methods and technologies provide...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sully Howard. Richard Mermejo.

This is an abstract from the "Collaborative Archaeology at Picuris Pueblo: The New History" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper explores the deep history of Picuris Pueblo’s commitment to its surrounding landscape through traditional knowledge of the meanings inscribed therein. We focus on both natural places (springs, mountain peaks, clay deposits) and cultural constructions (rock art, medicine boulders, race tracks, and other “shrine”...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard Mermejo.

This is an abstract from the "Collaborative Archaeology at Picuris Pueblo: The New History" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The new research reported in this session builds on collaborations between Picuris Pueblo and non-tribal archaeologists that began in 1960s. In this opening presentation, former Picuris governor Richard Mermejo reflects on the long history of his tribe’s engagement with archaeology, his own vision of how future research might...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marit Munson.

This is an abstract from the "Coloring the World: People and Colors in Southwestern Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeologists working in the Southwest have consistently recovered examples of prepared paints, and the pigments used to make them, during excavation. These materials are usually present in relatively small quantities, though, so they tend to get noted in field reports and then lost within the archaeological literature....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Wesley Bernardini. Leigh Kuwanwisiwma.

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. Hopi connections to the Mesa Verde region have been noted by anthropologists and archaeologists for more than a century. Mesa Verde is not explicitly mentioned by name in some of the older, commonly cited collections of Hopi clan migration traditions, but contemporary Hopi people are...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael Aiuvalasit.

Across cultures, the ritual use of water is nearly ubiquitous, yet most archaeological studies of water focus primarily on its socio-economic importance. The large (~200-1500 person) mesa-top Ancestral Pueblo (AD 1100-1700) villages of the Jemez Mountains, New Mexico are particularly good contexts for the archaeological study of water because small water storage features, often referred to as reservoirs, are found at many villages across the region. Alternative hypotheses for feature function,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kiley Stoj. Karen Schollmeyer.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Examining climate patterns, archaeobotanical evidence, artistic depictions on pottery, and historic and modern uses of plants provides information on how Mimbres and Salado period farmers used local plant resources and influenced their distribution and availability. This presentation examines differences in archaeological plant remains found in Classic Mimbres...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Susan Smith. Karen Adams.

The plant record of Room 28 is filtered through a complex stratigraphy composed of early excavation backfill from adjacent rooms, Room 28 features and floor, and below to an older surface. Plant specimens from 11 macrobotanical, 7 flotation, 10 maize cob samples, and 13 pollen samples reveal an exceptionally rich record of the resources valued and used by Pueblo Bonito people. Their reliance on maize registers strongly, supplemented by a mix of native foods including pinyon nuts, cacti, cattail,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Casey Riggs. Suzanne Eckert.

The way in which groups interact with their surrounding environment can provide insight into the importance of natural resources for a social group, despite having a large reliance upon cultivation for subsistence. For this study the landscape around Goat Springs Pueblo (LA 285) was analyzed to identify accessible botanical resources for the pueblo’s inhabitants. Current research has indicated that abiotic natural resources were not frequently accessed, therefore site use may have been related...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lisa Leap. Gwenn Gallenstein. Stewart Koyiyumptewa.

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. Due to recent erosion from intensified downpours related to global warming, Wupatki National Monument archaeologists recovered artifacts from an exposed cyst that were about to fall into a newly formed wash. Working with traditionally associated tribes, the monument created an emergency excavation plan and a...