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DOCUMENT Citation Only Gordon. Vivian. Paul Reiter.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Jill Neitzel.

More than a century of intensive archaeological investigations in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico has produced a vast literature on all types of remains and alternative theories about the development, organization, and collapse of Chacoan society. But often missing in this overwhelming amount of information is the lived experiences of the prehistoric Chacoans themselves. This paper synthesizes Chacoan archaeology from the perspective of one of the canyon’s residents. Pueblo Bonito’s Burial #14 is best...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carrie Heitman.

This is an abstract from the "Kin, Clan, and House: Social Relatedness in the Archaeology of North American Societies" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In recent years, a growing number of archaeologists have explored the potential of expanding Lévi-Strauss’s concept of "house societies" to better understand local as well as regional development sequences. In this paper, I draw on the work of cultural anthropologists as well as archaeologists to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Adam Watson. Samantha Fladd. Katelyn Bishop. Megan Conger. Sara Morrow.

During the 2014 field season, investigations continued at Roberts Great House, a Late Bonito Subphase (1100-1140 CE) site in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. Severely threatened by erosion, the site was originally explored by Frank H. H. Roberts in 1926. The aims of the 2014 season of fieldwork were to assess the pace of erosional processes and resolve questions concerning the duration of the site’s occupation and the nature of its abandonment. After thoroughly mapping and imaging arroyo down-cutting,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Chaco Canyon Research Project.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only D. P. Brethauer.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Deanna Grimstead. Jay Quade. Mary Stiner.

Previous research on the prehistoric communities of Chaco Canyon, New Mexico (ca. A.D. 800 – 1250) provides evidence of an extensive procurement system of non-local food and economic goods. In this paper we use oxygen, carbon, and strontium isotope analyses to establish whether animal protein followed a similar pattern. We contextualized our analyses of the archaeofaunas from recent excavations at Pueblo Bonito with data on modern faunas across an area of ~100,000 km2 around the site. Our...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Carrie Heitman. Worthy Martin. Stephen Plog.

This is a pdf copy of the PPT slides used for the presentation in the SAA symposium. Over the last 12 years, the authors of this paper have been involved in a range of digital curation activities pertaining to legacy records and the integration and manipulation of those data to create new knowledge about the past. Primarily, we have worked together to create the Chaco Research Archive (CRA) and a variety of complementary projects including a mobile application and, more recently, the Salmon...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Paul Reed. Carolyn Heitman.

The ruins of Salmon Pueblo were excavated by Cynthia Irwin-Williams, her staff, and students in the 1970s. A huge archive of material culture, photographs, excavation records, and analytical data was produced documenting Salmon’s Chacoan and post-Chacoan occupations. With support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Salmon Pueblo Archaeological Research Collection (SPARC) Project was created with the goal of making the enormous Salmon dataset available to scholars through an...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emiliano Melgar. Joan Mathien.

There are thousands of turquoise objects found in different sites of the American Southwest, and Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, is known as one of the principal areas that concentrated most of them. Unfortunately, most of the researches about these stones had been focused on their symbolic meaning, morphology, provenance, trade and use, but very few study their manufacturing traces and the organization of their production. In this paper, we will present a technological/traceological approach to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Randall McGuire. Ruth Van Dyke.

Fernand Braudel said, "History may be divided into three movements: what moves rapidly, what moves slowly and what appears not to move at all." Archaeologists gravitate towards the longue durée–cultural continuities and traditions–but our most important questions have traditionally focused on transformative changes such as the rise of the state, the collapse of empires, or the origins of agriculture. Armed with imprecise dating methods, archaeologists have tended to view transformative changes...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher Guiterman.

The regional integration of Chaco Society includes the procurement of goods and materials from distant landscapes. Wood incorporated as roof beams, door and window lintels, and other building elements is no exception. Hundreds of thousands of trees were felled and hand-carried from mountain ranges over 50 km from Chaco Canyon. Using tree-ring width patterns of beams compared to tree-ring chronologies from potential harvesting areas, we have begun to reconstruct the dynamics of timber procurement...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Megan Conger. Adam Watson.

Previous investigations of craft industries at Chacoan great houses have focused largely on finished objects (e.g., ceramics, turquoise, and shell). This study explores an often overlooked but ubiquitous and highly diverse class of artifacts – ground stone abraders – in an effort to better understand the organization of production at Pueblo Bonito great house. Analysis of variation in form of these versatile implements provides insight into the range of craft items manufactured. Drawing on the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert Weiner.

Chaco Canyon is generally understood to have derived its regional influence by virtue of ceremonial power. But what exactly - experientially, sensorially, affectively – was so compelling about the experience of Chacoan ritual, and how might we approach these immaterial dimensions of the archaeological record? In this paper, I suggest that ceremonial gambling/gaming was an important practice during Chacoan gatherings that allowed participants to interact directly with supernatural forces. After...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Isabel Teixeira Dos Santos. Carolyn Heitman. Karl Reinhard. Samantha Hayek.

Chaco Canyon is an important archaeological region for providing information about the ancestral Puebloan cultures.By analyzing 12 coprolites from Prehispanic sites within Chaco Canyon, we found large concentrations of Zea mays pollen grains. The differences in size-frequency of these creates the hypothesis that there were different species of Maize being consumed. The size distributions of the earliest Zea grain populations are not normal, suggesting the possibility that more than one variety...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael L. Terlep. Joel Nicholas. Kelley Hays-Gilpin. Timothy Ward.

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...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alan H. Simmons.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Paul Reed.

The Greater Chaco Landscape of northwest New Mexico is threatened by increasing drilling activity associated with development of the Mancos Shale via fracking. Many groups and individuals have spoken up and banded together to fight this threat. Archaeology Southwest has been actively engaged in this process for a couple years. In this presentation, I summarize our work and detail the steps taken to help ensure greater protection for the irreplaceable landscape associated with Chacoan Society.

DOCUMENT Citation Only Evan Giomi. Matthew Peeples.

While formal network analyses (and traditional statistical analyses) can be used to understand the network relationships between archaeological sites they can also be geared towards understanding relationships within sites, both between architectural units and between different classes of artifacts. Using these techniques on a network of general material categories (like turquoise or shell) from different room contexts within Pueblo Bonito potentially reveals different "sets" of material classes...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Paul Reed.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Over the last 4 years, Archaeology Southwest has been working to protect the Greater Chaco Landscape from the damaging effects of oil-gas development. We have partnered with a number of environmental and preservation organizations, engaged the NM Congressional delegation on numerous occasions, and attended many, many meetings with the New Mexico Bureau of Land...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jennie Sturm.

Remote sensing has been an integral part of Chacoan archaeology for several decades, helping to identify and map the broader landscape in and around the canyon. Early remote sensing studies, while pioneering, were often experimental and limited by the available technology. As the technical aspects of remote sensing continue to improve with advancements in computer power and data processing, it is now possible to move beyond experimental studies and broad characterizations of the Chacoan...

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This entire volume is devoted to research undertaken on the Chaco Phenomenon. Most of the papers herein were presented at two symposia sponsored by the National Park Service's Chaco Center at the Society for American Archaeology Annual Meetings in San Diego in May 1981. The symposia were titled "Past Environment and Subsistence at Chaco Canyon, New Mexico," chaired by William Gillespie, and "Chacoan Prehistory: The Implications of a Regional Perspective, chaired by myself. The purpose of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stanley A. Morain. T. K. Budge. A. Komarek. C. Nelson. M. E. White.

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DOCUMENT Full-Text John A. Ware. George J. Gumerman.

The purpose of this remote sensing project focusing on Chaco Canyon National Monument in northwestern New Mexico was two-fold. The first objective was to determine the capabilities of various types of remotely sensed data and interpretive instruments in delineating cultural features such as prehistoric roads. The second objective was to explore the extent and character on the ruin of Pueblo Alto, one of the major ruins in the monument. In addition, we offer suggestions for future research on...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anonymous.

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