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DOCUMENT Citation Only Roger Moore.

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. The Sterling Site is an Ancestral Puebloan structure with related features located in the San Juan River watershed near Farmington, New Mexico. The site was excavated in the early 1970's by the Archaeological Society of New Mexico under the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carole Graham. Jerry Fetterman. Bryan Shanks.

Drawing from survey level data acquired during recent cultural resource inventories in and near Canyons of the Ancients National Monument in southwestern Colorado, this paper investigates social change and continuity during the Basketmaker III to Pueblo III periods, as evident in the stone tool assemblages of distinct communities. Tool type, ubiquity, location, and association are used to explore trends in technological adaptations, providing insights into the social and economic complexity of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eric Heller. Benjamin Bellorado.

This is an abstract from the "Leveling Up: Gaming and Game Design in Archaeological Education and Outreach" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Virtual reality is a valuable tool for public engagement and education, offering an immersive platform for the exploration of archaeological and cultural heritage landscapes. While not a gaming endeavor, cultural heritage VR draws from 3D gaming technologies and techniques to create the platform at the heart of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brenton Willhite.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The sudden emergence of Tabira Black-on-white and Tabira Polychrome pottery during the late 16th to early 17th century in the southern portion of Salinas Province, central New Mexico after hundreds of years of production of Chupadero Black-on-white has been the topic of archaeological inquiry for decades. Competing models for the relationship between the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Susan Smith. Karen Adams.

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. Large archaeobotanical datasets concentrated in a specific region are rare, especially those representing multiple sites excavated over several years. The Basketmaker Communities Project is one such rare research program that resulted in the analysis of hundreds of macrobotanical, flotation, and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Daniel Perez.

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. Archaeological investigations pertaining to the upland zone of the Virgin Branch Puebloan region—namely, the Colorado Plateaus—have historically been limited in both number and scope. Recent expeditions to various sites on the Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument, however, have helped expand the archaeological record of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jacqueline Kocer.

Chipped stone and ground stone from Room 28 backfill included fill from adjacent rooms and lends insight to the technology used during room occupation. I summarize both debitage and formal tool analyses with a special discussion on projectile point types. Most material proportions fall within the range of those in other Chaco Canyon assemblages but with a lower frequency of Narbona Pass and Zuni Spotted Chert. General types of ground stone are discussed in the analysis and jar lid metric data...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kenneth Wintch. Deanne Matheny. Ray Matheny.

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. This paper presents the history of archaeological surveys by Brigham Young University in upper and middle Montezuma Canyon during the latter half of the 20th Century. The sequence, methods, context and goals of those various inventories are briefly presented, followed by a brief discussion of salient results and patterns...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Allison Ham. Haagen Klaus. Daniel Temple. David Hunt.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A consideration of periosteal lesion activity and its effect on the likelihood of survival can communicate a deeper understanding of major cultural-ecological transitions by elucidating the effect of heterogeneous frailty on the formation of a skeletal assemblage. This study tests the effects of Spanish contact on the association between survivorship and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Samantha Fladd. Saul Hedquist. E. Charles Adams. Stewart B. Koyiyumptewa.

Ash provides a ritually meaningful medium through which to alter or close spaces. In the U.S. Southwest, the patterned deposition of ash in archaeological contexts has been linked to practices of purification and the preservation or suppression of social memory. Turquoise also carries important symbolic meanings in the region, with notable links to moisture, sky, and personal and familial vitality. In archaeological contexts of the Pueblo Southwest, turquoise is often associated with ash or...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jenna Battillo. R.G. Matson. William Lipe.

This is an abstract from the ""Re-excavating" Legacy Collections" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 1972 R.G. Matson and a small crew excavated a dry, stratified midden at a Pueblo Cliff Dwelling site in Grand Gulch, as part of the Cedar Mesa Project. Materials from the column (excavated and kept intact) and the matrix surrounding it (bagged separately by layer) are curated at Washington State University’s Museum of Anthropology and have been used...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Steve Wolverton. Jonathan Dombrosky. Lisa Nagaoka. Susan Ryan.

This is an abstract from the "Interdisciplinary Approaches in Zooarchaeology: Addressing Big Questions with Ancient Animals" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Understanding taphonomic patterns across large spatial scales can greatly enhance archaeological interpretation. However, standardized data curation across many sites is a significant challenge. Thus, opportunities for taphonomic analyses that employ big multisite datasets are rare. Data...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mark R Agostini.

This paper seeks to evaluate how successive migrations of ancestral Pueblo people from pre-hispanic villages (AD 1250 – 1400) on the Pajarito Plateau of New Mexico restructured potter communities of practice and community identities as ethnic groups joined their Tewa-speaking relatives at the earliest historic period Rio Grande settlements. Oral histories from descendant communities dating to the 19th and early 20th centuries recount how remaining members of these villages resettled to the south...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mark Agostini.

In the mid-late Classic period (AD 1250 - 1400), Ancestral Pueblo people living on the Pajarito Plateau of New Mexico experienced cultural change due to difficulties in farming during periods of drought. As a result, communities abandoned pre-contact plateau villages to join their Tewa-speaking relatives at the earliest historic period Rio Grande settlements. Oral histories from descendant communities from the 19th and early 20th centuries recount how the remaining members of these communities...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Johnson.

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. Petrified Forest National Park contains one of the most diverse assemblages of prehistoric pottery on the Southern Colorado Plateau. For decades archaeologists have relied on characteristics of ceramics in order to assist in dating many sites throughout the southwest where the availability of absolute dates for prehistoric sites...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Linda Honeycutt.

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. This illustrated talk uses photographs of Basketmaker III painted bowls and sherds to illustrate four characteristics of BMIII pottery motifs. The data for this talk is derived from 10 years of study on ceramic collections from more than 100 Basketmaker III sites in the Four Corners Region.

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jeffrey Ferguson. Timothy de Smet. Jonathan Schaefer. Deborah Huntley. Suzanne Eckert.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The use of lidar as a survey tool has revealed vast areas of past human activity in parts of the world with dense vegetative cover. However, its applications have not been explored to the same degree in areas with less vegetation and good surface visibility, such as that of the American Southwest. Ongoing research for the Lion Mountain Archaeology Project...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Charles Andrews.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Along with many other disciplines, Space and Power are both topics of long-standing interest within archaeology. Space has been heavily theorized by authors such as LeFebvre, de Certeau, Soja, and Adam Smith. While there has not been an equivalent to the “Spatial Turn,” Power has also received much attention, and authors such as Marx, Althusser, Bourdieu,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Daniel Peart. Deanna N. Grimstead. Catherine E. Mendel.

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. The human-domesticate relationship has long been a focus of archaeologists, and advances in archaeological science have revealed the dynamics of husbandry practices. But why domesticate? Evolutionary ecology suggests expanding human populations, depressed habitats, and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Bernard Means.

This is an abstract from the "Female Firsts: Celebrating Archaeology’s Pioneering Women on the 101st Anniversary of the 19th Amendment " session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. One of the lesser known programs that funded archaeological excavations during the Great Depression was the National Youth Administration (NYA). NYA archaeology has been overshadowed by projects funded by its more prominent “cousin,” the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), and its...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily Brown.

This is an abstract from the "Music Archaeology's Paradox: Contextual Dependency and Contextual Expressivity" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The distributions of different types of musical instruments across the American Southwest have been generally defined, but little work has been done to tie these data to studies of ethnogenesis, migration, and language groups. This paper examines archaeological, musicological, ethnographic, and historical...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sean Dolan.

Excavation is often the way to mitigate for the loss of cultural resources to comply with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act. However, excavation is not always the most practical solution. A case study is presented to demonstrate how alternative mitigations advance the research value of cultural resources, and increase flexibility in land-use decisions by agencies while satisfying the mutual interests of stakeholders. In 2012, four prehispanic Ancestral Puebloan fieldhouses...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kristin Kuckelman.

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. The initial 40 years of research conducted by the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center included several excavation projects that focused on a primary stated research goal of the center: discover why Pueblo peoples completely and permanently vacated the northern San Juan region late in the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Edward Jolie.

In North America, some of the largest and most well preserved archaeological collections of perishable artifacts, including objects such as string, nets, baskets, textiles, mats, and sandals, are curated by the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian and National Museum of Natural History. Generally poor preservation of these items has challenged interested researchers to recover as much information as possible from them, meaning that even some of the very early, minimally...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Donald Miller.

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. Three Kiva Pueblo Revisited In 1969, the BYU Field School of Archaeology began intensive excavations at site 42Sa863, Three Kiva Pueblo, in Montezuma Canyon, San Juan County, Utah. Four seasons of field-work, including analysis of architecture, ceramics, lithics, and various artifact materials were reported in a 1974...