Ancestral Pueblo (Other Keyword)
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This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Haynie site (5MT1905) contains two of four Chaco-style great houses that make up the Lakeview Community in southwestern Colorado. Recent excavations by Crow Canyon Archaeological Center at the Haynie site have produced a large quantity of projectile points. The proportions of projectile points compared to pottery sherds can help explore the abundance...
Point Pueblo and Surrounding Middle San Juan River Valley Great House or Great Kiva Communities (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Social Interaction and Networks at the Intersection of Central Mesa Verde and Chaco/Cibola Culture Areas in the Middle San Juan River Valley" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Geographically, the Middle San Juan River Valley, a well-watered area of northwestern New Mexico, is situated between the more famous Ancestral Pueblo culture areas of Mesa Verde and Chaco. After a brief review of known Middle San Juan great house...
The Politics of Mud, Masonry and Landscape at the Aztec North Great House (2018)
The Aztec North great house is a monumental Chaco-era building at Aztec Ruins National Monument, in northern New Mexico. Its size, its shape and its dramatic hilltop siting all echo construction norms for other great houses at Chaco Canyon and its outliers, but excavation revealed a surprising set of architectural features. In addition to a fairly typical great house artifact assemblage, we found Chaco-style wall foundations and masonry veneers, but non-Chacoan adobe wall cores. Drawing on ideas...
Polly - Rock Art - And Understanding Chaco (2019)
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. Polly's long and productive anthropological career has been characterized by her use of art as a means to better interpret the social and organizational characteristics of several prehistoric and historic societies in the American Southwest. Her research has ranged geographically from the northern...
A Post-Chacoan Cylindrical Vessel from Northern Black Mesa, Arizona (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A recently identified Tusayan Polychrome (A.D. 1125–1290) jar from northern Black Mesa, Arizona, represents the only known Post-Chacoan cylindrical vessel. Identified within the midden of a small late Pueblo II-early Pueblo III period habitation site, the jar circumstantially connects Ancestral Puebloan groups in the Kayenta area to Chaco Canyon and the...
The Pottery of Beef Basin and Its Cultural Implications (2018)
I present my completed thesis research hypothesizing that the chronology and culture of the prehistoric occupation in Beef Basin is reflected in ceramics and architecture. Beef Basin is located west of Monticello, Utah and south of Canyonlands National Park. Archaeologically it is located within the fluid boundary space between the Ancestral Puebloan and Fremont archaeological cultures. Although there has been a surge of recent research in the north periphery of the Ancestral Puebloan area,...
Precontact Domestic Dogs in the Moapa Valley (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. Since the domestication of the dog (Canis familiaris), they have been granted various roles within human society. Because of the often close relationship with people, domestic dogs were often given similar burial customs as people. Precontact dog burials have been recovered throughout many regions in North America. Although some of these...
Prehispanic Pueblo Use in the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Recent Research in the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument, Northern New Mexico" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Prior research in and around the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument has predominately focused on the Archaic use of the area. Minimal focus has been emphasized to explore the use by Pueblo groups. This paper examines use of the landscape from the Developmental Period (900-1200 A.D.) through the...
Prehistoric Pets: An Examination of the Human-Dog Relationship in the American Southwest (2021)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Dogs have been human companions for at least 15,000 years (Morey 2010), with some of the earliest remains recovered in North America from Danger Cave, Utah (Schwartz 1997). How the relationship has been and is now defined, however, varies culturally and temporally. This research explores the complexity of our relationship with dogs in an intermediate space...
Prehistoric Population Aggregation of the Mt. Trumbull, AZ area (2018)
More than 20 years ago Margaret Lyneis published a thorough review of the Virgin Anasazi, summarizing what was known at the time about chronology, settlement, subsistence, spatial aggregation, exchange, and other topics. Her summary raised a number of key issues needing resolution. Among these was the nature of aggregation in the Plateau area of the Virgin Anasazi. She noted, despite evidence from other places in the Southwest of increasing residential aggregation in PII, there seemed to be...
A Preliminary Zooarchaeological Analysis of the Houck Sites in Northeastern Arizona (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. American Southwest zooarchaeological analyses have established that ancestral communities employed or interacted with a wide-range of species, with dietary focus on rabbits and deer. Working with Museum of Northern Arizona curated collections of previously excavated faunal assemblages from the Houck sites, this poster presents the preliminary data...
Prosaic Biases: Independent Factors Contributing to the Definition of the Classic and Colonial Archaeological Record of New Mexico, USA (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Ann F. Ramenofsky: Papers in Honor of a Non-Normative Career" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological records are knowledge palimpsests of the research agendas responsible for identifying and defining these records. When evaluating the representativeness of these records, biases inherent to the research agendas themselves, ranging from methodological approaches to political considerations, are typically...
Protecting Cultural Landscapes, Famous and Not, as the Threats Increase (2019)
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. Far beyond the "Instagram ready" cliff dwellings of Bears Ears, southeastern Utah holds cultural landscapes of immense value for Native American tribes, scientific study, and heritage tourism. The sheer number of archaeological sites, combined with an incredible degree of preservation,...
Public Architecture in the Greater Cibola Region (2018)
Table of sites in the greater Cibola region (ca. AD 1000-1400) with public architectural features. This table also provides information on the specific form of those public architectural features. The data are confidential as they include site locations. These data accompany Chapter 8 of: Peeples, Matthew A. (2018) Connected Communities: Networks, Identity, and Social Change in the Ancient Cibola World. University of Arizona Press. Tucson, AZ.
The Pueblo Farming Project: Research, Education, and Native American Collaboration (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. Maize farming represents a fundamental aspect of Pueblo people’s identity. This paper focuses on an experimental farming program conducted as part of the Pueblo Farming Project (PFP). The PFP represents one of Crow Canyon’s longest-running projects and one of the center’s most important...
Puebloan Occupation of the Shivwits Plateau, North Rim of the Grand Canyon (2019)
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. In this paper we examine the archaeology of the southwestern portion of the Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument. Drawing on an extensive survey database of more than 600 site records, we trace the Puebloan occupation of the area from the initial settlement at around A.D. 900/1000 to abandonment at about A.D. 1250. In...
Puebloan Subsistence Patterns on the Shivwits Plateau, North Rim of the Grand Canyon (2019)
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. Based on fieldwork from the South Rim, Alan Sullivan has argued that ancient Puebloans in the Grand Canyon region practiced little or no corn agriculture. Instead, he proposes they relied on the gathering and processing of wild plants such as pinyon nuts, amaranth, and goosefoot. Here, we evaluate the applicability of this...
Pueblos, Hogans, and LiDAR on the Fireline (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Fire archaeologists in the U.S. Southwest are at a challenging intersection of increased wildfire severity with dense fuels, high site densities, and often limited cultural resource inventory. The archaeological sites most vulnerable to wildfire effects are those that are unknown and undocumented. This presentation details the applicability of lidar data...
Pyric Herbivory in Ancient North America (2019)
This is an abstract from the "HumAnE Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Fire is a powerful tool for hunting because fire effects have important consequences on habitat and forage for prey species. Using case studies from the northern Great Plains and the Southwest US, I explore how fire-use positively impacted prey abundances or location, resulting in higher encounter rates for particular hunting strategies. Specifically, these case...
Quantifying Inequality among Ancestral Pueblo Households (2018)
Recent studies of household inequality in the central Mesa Verde region (CMV) and Chaco Canyon indicate that the degree of wealth inequality among ancestral Pueblo households remained relatively low in the CMV even as it increased dramatically in Chaco from the mid-800s through the early 1000s, based on Gini coefficients calculated on household floor area as a proxy for wealth. Beginning in the late A.D. 1000s, however, Gini coefficients increased among CMV households as well, reaching values as...
R Code for Corrugated Ceramic Technological Analysis (2018)
This document contains the R code (checked in version 3.0) for conducting statistical analyses, clustering, and network visualization of corrugated ceramic technological data from the greater Cibola region as described in Chapter 5 of: Peeples, Matthew A. (2018) Connected Communities: Networks, Identity, and Social Change in the Ancient Cibola World. University of Arizona Press. Tucson, AZ.
Raising a Rafter: A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Ancestral Pueblo Intensification of Turkey Husbandry in the Northern Rio Grande Region, New Mexico (2018)
Zooarchaeological research in the Northern Rio Grande shows that turkey husbandry became increasingly important to the Ancestral Pueblo during the Classic Period (AD 1350-1600). During this time, immigrant and local communities coalesced into increasingly larger villages and towns, with abundant evidence for turkey husbandry. Turkeys served as a critical resource for both subsistence and ritual uses. Yet, it remains uncertain at what scale (household, sub-community, or community) turkey...
Raising a Rafter: Networks and Ancestral Pueblo Intensification of Turkey Husbandry in the Northern Rio Grande Region, New Mexico (2019)
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. Zooarchaeological research in the Northern Rio Grande shows that turkey husbandry became increasingly important to the Ancestral Pueblo during the Classic Period (AD 1350-1600). During this time, immigrant and local communities coalesced into increasingly larger villages...
(Re)Connections Through Time: Developing a model for multi-modal storytelling about Zuni Cultural Connections (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Native communities have long been excluded from the process of knowledge construction about their ancestral places. This exclusion has taken many forms: lack of voice or authority in museum excavations, curation, and exhibits; inaccessibility of collections that were removed from Native lands to geographically distant institutions or sold to collectors;...
Re-examination of the 1975 – 1977 Excavations of the Pueblo I-II Components of Cave Canyon Village, Montezuma Canyon, 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. Brigham Young University’s Archaeology Field School conducted three seasons of fieldwork from 1975 - 1977 on the Basketmaker III and Pueblo 1 – Pueblo II Ancestral Puebloan components of Cave Canyon Village in Montezuma Canyon, southeastern Utah. The excavations provided data, including radiocarbon, archaeomagnetic and...