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DOCUMENT Citation Only Mikaela Razo.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This project is a collaboration between the Texas Heritage Project (THP) and its archive at the American Indians in Texas at the Spanish Colonial Missions (AITSCM) and the Community Engaged Digital Scholarship Hub (CEDISH) at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) in San Antonio, Texas. We are taking a community-based archaeological approach to a...

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 Robert Rowe.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Thirty-five years ago, the turquoise mines of the Xvshuuk Mniish (Blue Scorpion) site in southern Arizona, were recorded for the first time. This Hohokam turquoise mining and processing site was operated for approximately 300 years before being abruptly abandoned. After 35 years we return for a fresh look at the site to reexamine the spatial layout of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Samuel Jensen.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Various studies into the Medio Period (approximately 1200-1450 CE) of the Casas Grandes archaeological culture have emphasized the importance of interpreting iconographic representations on ceramic artifacts to understand the cosmological and social organization of area. These studies have relied on a variety of theoretical approaches to interpret these...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrew Krug.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent archaeological surveys and excavations recorded numerous Medio period (1200-1450 CE) mounds and settlements in the Carretas Valley, Chihuahua, Mexico. This study employed geospatial measures and rank-size analysis to characterize unexcavated mounds and excavated settlements. These results were compared to previously published settlement data from...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mark Chenault.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeologists from WestLand Resources discovered portions of several prehistoric and historical canals while conducting data recovery for a proposed freeway in west Phoenix. Excavations were conducted both within the freeway corridor and in adjacent parcels. Researchers utilized a combination of methods to track the canals through the project areas...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rachel Mueller.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This project presents the comparison of ground stone effigies from Paquimé, Chihuahua, Mexico, to ceramic effigies and rock art of the same region. Paquimé was the center of the Medio period (AD 1200–1450) occupation of the Casas Grandes region. These effigies are small figurines ground to resemble animals. Our analysis, based on Di Peso’s (1974) report...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jaye Smith.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Investigations continue into the Ray Robinson Collection by Archaeology Southwest’s team of volunteer researchers in partnership with the Arizona State Museum. This paper will focus on the extensive perishable assemblage from the renowned Bonita Creek Cave Cache (W:14:1 ASM) north of Safford, Arizona and two sites near Hackberry Ranch southeast of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kim Cox.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The site of Paint Rock, Texas (41CC1) is a 300 m. broken limestone bluff along the Concho River that contains dozens of spectacular solar interactions with rock art that was placed there over the course of two millennia. Through five years of observation, the members of the Paint Rock Project have recorded over fifty solar interactions that mark specific...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Whitney Cox.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Following the talk by Kim Cox, this talk will further detail the importance of the calendar systems preserved in the rock art and its solar interactions at Paint Rock in the Lower Pecos, Texas. By creating rock art panels that intersect with the natural landscape and continue to mark events in time with solar motion, the artists effectively instilled life...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Thatcher Seltzer-Rogers.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological investigations in the International Four Corners area (where the modern states of Arizona, New Mexico, Sonora, and Chihuahua meet) have long identified markers of northwest Chihuahuan influence north of the border, primarily through the presence of Casas Grandes polychrome types on late prehispanic sites which many argue to be in a past...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gabriella Tepley.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Andrecito Pueblo, located within a valley in the San Andres Mountains holds a special significance in the history of Migration in the North American Southwest. Andrecito Pueblo exhibits signs through its architecture and artifacts of the people who live there and their association with groups to the east, suggesting the people of the Andrecito pueblo...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lila Jones.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> Whiskey Flats (41MD50), located in Midland County, Texas, was situated around Mustang Pond in Mustang Draw. Two separate bone concentrations (Area 1 and Area 2) were recovered within a ~40m distance of each other. Area 1, a now dry pond, consisted of a modern bison and modern horse bonebed radiocarbon dated to ~A.D. 1750. Area 2, a terrace north of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Pailes.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This poster presents survey data from recent research in the Sierra Pinacate of far Northwest Sonora, Mexico. This region was occupied by O’odham peoples that followed a predominantly hunter and gatherer way of life. Remoteness, extreme aridity, and legal protection as a Reserva de la Biosfera result in exceptional preservation in this region. These...