North America: Southwest United States (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Fumi Arakawa.

This is an abstract from the "Thinking of Acronyms: a Kohler Obsession? Papers in Honor of Timothy A. Kohler (TAKO)" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As population density increases throughout the Holocene, people tend to expand their mobility strategies to acquire necessary resources (e.g., food, raw materials, mating opportunities, etc.). This is a common perception of human behavior globally; however, archaeological records, particularly lithic...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert Bischoff.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Multilayer networks consist of multiple layers of connections between the same set of nodes. Rarely applied in archaeology, this framework provides an opportunity to analyze different types of material culture in one analysis. This poster describes the results of a multilayer network analysis in the Southwest United States consisting of typed projectile...

DOCUMENT Citation Only R. David Satterwhite.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The human-turkey relationship is an important aspect of Ancestral Pueblo history and has been the focus of recent research in the US Southwest and Northwest Mexico. One of the most important turkey management approaches employed by Ancestral and modern Pueblo peoples involves confinement (i.e., penning or tethering). The central Mesa Verde region, located...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Molly Corr.

This is an abstract from the "Multidisciplinary Investigations of a Transitional Early Classic Period Hohokam Trash Mound at AZ U:9:319(ASM), Mesa, Arizona" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. While various ethnographic and archaeological studies have shed light on different plant use in the Southwest, the breadth of plant use remains more enigmatic within the archaeological record. Like most artifacts studied in the archaeological record, ecofacts...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Steven Rospopo.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Ancestral Puebloan researchers in the US Southwest have considered the Middle San Juan Region transitional to the Chaco-Cibola cultural tradition to the south and the Northern San Juan-Mesa Verde traditions to the north. Analyses of twenty-four years of ceramic artifacts from Middle San Juan River basin sites suggests that the region should be considered...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jon Hageman.

This is an abstract from the "Sessions in Honor of Dr. Fred Valdez Jr. and His Contributions to Archaeology, Part 2" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeobotanical studies in northwestern Belize were facilitated by the acquisition of a Flote-Tech A flotation machine by Dr. Fred Valdez, Jr. for the Programme for Belize Archaeological Project. This machine allowed for the quick and consistent processing of samples and helped create broader...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hannah Haynes.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Across the Southwestern United States and Mesoamerica, agave has been essential as a source of food, textile, and alcoholic/nonalcoholic beverages for millennia. This study examines a sample of 153 archaeological sites with observed presence of agave in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest, Arizona. This plant does not grow naturally on the northern side...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kelsey Reese.

This is an abstract from the "Thinking of Acronyms: a Kohler Obsession? Papers in Honor of Timothy A. Kohler (TAKO)" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The proliferation of artificial intelligence coupled with the accessibility of consumer-level computing equipment that can analyze big data has heralded a new paradigm of research in the hard and social sciences. While archaeology is often reticent to broadly adopt the newest technologies, a suite of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrew Gillreath-Brown.

This is an abstract from the "Thinking of Acronyms: a Kohler Obsession? Papers in Honor of Timothy A. Kohler (TAKO)" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Severe heat waves and droughts are visible manifestations of climate change, and many people associate these events with climate change risks in the US. Drought impacts public health, economies, and quantity and quality of water. Over the past 2,000 years, the southwestern US has experienced several...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brandon Yam.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Architecture made up an important part of the built environment of Albert Porter Pueblo (5MT123), an ancestral village in southwestern Colorado and most intensively occupied during Pueblo II–Pueblo III (950–1300 CE). In my study, I conduct spatial-syntax analyses of collective belongings and individual belongings, or proxies for past activities in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Autumn Myerscough.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Through conducting a microwear analysis, I argue that the use-wear of the bone tools examined will determine their functional use. The collection of bone tools for this study are from Chacoan (AD 850-1250) and various Mimbres (AD 200-1130) sites (located in the North American Southwest). Traditionally many bone artifacts with narrow, pointed distal ends...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mary-Ellen Walsh.

This is an abstract from the "Tribal Engagement Best Practices: Lessons from Arizona and New Mexico" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. “We envision an Arizona where our diverse cultures and collective heritage are embodied in places and celebrated through unique stories, fostering vibrant communities that thrive both economically and socially. Through generational stewardship, education, dynamic partnerships, and a balanced approach to preservation...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kirk Costion.

This is an abstract from the "Multidisciplinary Investigations of a Transitional Early Classic Period Hohokam Trash Mound at AZ U:9:319(ASM), Mesa, Arizona" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This presentation will report the results of an analysis of artifact distribution and density patterns in a well preserved transitional early Classic Period Hohokam trash mound. The aforementioned trash mound is located at the small site of AZ U:9:319(ASM) in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kimberly Spurr.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Cold War Era (1945-1991) uranium prospecting and mining profoundly affected the Colorado Plateau of North America, where uranium deposits are naturally concentrated. Recent archaeological inventory in Canyonlands National Park and Glen Canyon National Recreation Area focused on 21 historic uranium mines along with associated prospecting roads and camps....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kristin Corl.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Harris Site (LA 1867) is a Late Pithouse-period (A.D. 550-1000) agricultural village located along the upper Mimbres River Valley in New Mexico. Faunal remains recovered from the Harris site indicate that inhabitants continued to depend on a wide variety of wild resources even as they transitioned into a more sedentary agricultural subsistence...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kenneth Vernon.

This is an abstract from the "Multiscale Data and the History of Human Development in the US Southwest" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> The two most powerful forces driving long-term development in human societies are climate change and demography, so it should come as no surprise that archaeologists have devoted considerable time and energy to estimating key climate and demographic quantities in the past. To aid in these efforts,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Benjamin Bellorado.

This is an abstract from the "Reemerging from the Ancient and Current Pasts: Recent Archaeological and Ethnographic Research in Southeastern Utah" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Bears Ears Digital Cultural Heritage Initiative (BEDCHI) is a collaborative project that brings together tribal representatives, federal land managers, museum professionals, archaeologists, ethnographers, and students to document important cultural sites in the Bears...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robin Cordero.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The establishment of the City of Santa Fe as a premier destination for tourism and New Mexico as a territory rich in resources and prime for investment is often traced to one singular historical event, the peculiarly named Santa Fe Tertio-Millennial Celebration and Exposition, held for 45 days in the summer of 1883. Devised by wealthy Santa Fe businessmen...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jose Vivero Miranda.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Guasave region in Northwest Mexico embodies a contested zone between Mesoamerica and the US Southwest. By AD 1100, the presence of the Aztatlan tradition —interpreted as the expansion of Mesoamerica into the NW, undeniably marks a period of social transformation and a dynamic phase of pan-regional reorganization. Models explaining the Aztatlan...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katherine Hughes.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. It has been noted that the western exteriors of Chaco Great Houses in the Northern San Juan Region exhibit evidence of substantial prehistoric activities. Recent excavations at the West Great House at 5MT1905 indicate complex stratigraphic deposition at the exterior of the westernmost extent of the structure. Initial findings indicate that the location...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ashley Smallwood.

This is an abstract from the "Papers in Celebration of Bruce B. Huckell, Part 2" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Bruce Huckell was a pioneer of experimental archaeology. His early work “Of Chipped Stone Tools, Elephants, and the Clovis Hunters” and “The Denver Elephant Project” demonstrated how actualistic experiments offer archaeologists powerful interpretative data for understanding Paleoindian technology and subsistence. This paper builds on a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gregory Wilson.

This is an abstract from the "Method, Theory, and History in the Mississippian World: Papers in Honor of Timothy R. Pauketat" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Over the course of his career, Timothy R. Pauketat has made many groundbreaking contributions to precolonial North American archaeology. In this paper, we explore the implications of three of his most prominent contributions for understanding the Mississippian occupation of the Illinois River...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jenny Ni.

This is an abstract from the "What’s Going on in Texas? Current Topics in Texas Archaeology" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> Plains Biographic Tradition rock art, through recording the military exploits of Plains warriors and associated historical events, was an important method of earning prestige and political influence in Plains cultures. As it developed alongside the increasing integration of equine pastoralism, the Plains Biographic...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nadine Navarro.

This is an abstract from the "Papers in Celebration of Bruce B. Huckell, Part 1" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Opportunities to learn more about Clovis technological behavior at lithic material procurement and workshop sites are rare, particularly in the Southwest. The Blue Canyon site is a rare example of such a site—an artifact scatter covering some 16,000 m2 and consisting of Clovis projectile points and preforms, end scrapers, bifaces, and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Kilby.

This is an abstract from the "Papers in Celebration of Bruce B. Huckell, Part 1" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The West Mesa is an expansive eolian plain atop a basalt-capped terrace of the Rio Grande in central New Mexico. Seminal work carried out in the 1960s-1970s led to the identification of an abundant Paleoindian record, and the Rio Rancho site became the first Folsom camp to be excavated in the Middle Rio Grande Valley. The West Mesa...