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A recently completed NAGPRA documentation project for the Chavez Pass Burial Collections at Arizona State University facilitated a multi-faceted reassessment of the expansive collections of the site, originally recovered from 1976 through 1982 by ASU archaeologists. In the reassessment, teams of physical anthropologists and archaeologist used original site records, maps, specimen logs, museum catalogs, photographs and reports to reexamine contextual identification of burials and associated...
The Sinagua and the Western Pueblo Tradition: Perspectives from Bioarchaeology (2015)
Genetic and cultural relationships among ancient and historic populations in the American Southwest have long been of interest to archaeologists, and more recently to descendant communities. Documentation of more than 1500 human remains and 4000 associated funerary objects from US Forest Service land in anticipation of repatriation under NAGPRA provides abundant new information to address this topic. This poster discusses research using metric and nonmetric skeletal data and discrete skeletal...
The Sinagua and the Western Pueblo Tradition: Perspectives from Material Culture and Burial Practices (2015)
The highland country of central Arizona has historically been interpreted as a region peripheral to the more dominant Hohokam, Kayenta, and Mogollon traditions that surrounded it. However, peripheries are defined by ones perception of where the center is located. Our case in point is the prehistoric Sinagua, which has been the subject of a five-year long study and documentation of more than1500 human remains and 4000 funerary objects that have been repatriated to the Hopi Tribe by the...
Sources of Sinagua Obsidian Points and Debitage: XRF Analysis (2017)
Projectile points and debitage from three Sinagua sites in northern Arizona, were analyzed using the XRF instruments at Missouri University Research Reactor. The rooms at Lizard Man Village, Fortress Hills, and New Caves were occupied between 1050 and 1250 AD. Over 300 obsidian points and debitage were analyzed using an ARL Quant’x EDXRF Spectrometer. The primary source of obsidian is the well-known Government Mt source,with a few samples from RS Hill and other sources. The nearest sources of...
A Zooarchaeological Analysis of Subsistence Stress at Elden Pueblo: A Final Report (2016)
This paper discusses zooarchaeological analysis conducted at Elden Pueblo in Northern Arizona. As one of the last remaining Sinagua occupation sites in the San Francisco Peaks region, the site’s abandonment during a cool and dry period suggests that the occupants may have left the area because of resource shortages. I hypothesize that populations must change acquisition and processing strategies in order to adapt to these shortages. Evidence of subsistence stress over time appears in...