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The Risks and Rewards of Network Position in the Chaco World (2018)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matt Peeples. Barbara Mills. Jeffery Clark.

In a previous study Peeples and Haas (2013) compared brokerage (intermediate) positions in networks of ceramic similarity to measures of settlement growth and longevity for the late pre-Hispanic western U.S. Southwest (A.D. 1200-1500). Counter to expectations from many contemporary network studies where brokerage positions are associated with long-term advantage, this work instead suggested that broker settlements tended to be small, short-lived, and that brokerage was temporary. This example...

Ritual Movement on Chacoan Roads: Insights from Recent Fieldwork, Ethnography, and Cross-Cultural Comparison (2023)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert Weiner.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper highlights some results of my four year fieldwork project to document monumental roads throughout the Greater Chaco Landscape and on Navajo Nation in particular. I place particular emphasis on the question of why and how people moved along Chacoan roads as a dimension of ritual practice. Using a combination of LiDAR, drone-based SfM...

Second Annual Report: Chemical Stabilization of Prehistoric Structures at Chaco Canyon National Monument (1977)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dennis B. Fenn.

This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the National Archaeological Database Reports Module (NADB-R) and updated. Most NADB-R records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us at comments@tdar.org.

Shabik'eshchee Village: a Late Basket Maker Site in the Chaco Canyon New Mexico (1929)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Frank H. H. Roberts, Jr..

Site 29Sj427 Chaco Canyon New Mexico: Review & Re-Evaluation (1988)

DOCUMENT Citation Only J. E. Reyman.

Site BC 236, Chaco Canyon National Monument, New Mexico (1971)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Zorro A. Bradley.

The Social Value of Ornaments from Pueblo Bonito and Aztec Ruin (2015)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hannah Mattson.

Ornaments are generally considered to be items of wealth, luxury, and value, and are often used as one of several indicators of social inequality. However, the value and meaning of ornaments is often assumed rather than demonstrated. Aside from power and wealth, jewelry may also relate to various aspects of social identity. It has been proposed that ornaments, turquoise, and shell may have been important symbols of status and ritual (or socially valuable goods) in Chacoan society, as they form...

Social-Ceremonial Organization, Ritual Practice, and Ritual Use of Fauna in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katelyn Bishop. Samantha Fladd. Adam Watson.

Chaco Canyon, located in northwestern New Mexico, is widely believed to have formed the religious, economic, and political core of a large regional network that thrived during the Pueblo II period. However, debate continues to surround Chacoan ceremonial and sociopolitical organization. One approach to understanding the social-ceremonial organization of Chacoan great houses is through an understanding of the nature of ritual practice and the scales at which it was organized. Pueblo peoples, past...

Stable Isotope Ratios from Modern and Archeological Fauna from Chaco Canyon, New Mexico (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marian Hamilton. Lee Drake. Wirt Wills. Emily Jones.

Stable isotope analysis of archaeological material can reveal aspects of diet, mobility, resource exchange, and social structure in ancient civilizations. Chaco Canyon, New Mexico is a World Heritage site in northwestern New Mexico with peak activity and habitation around 1000AD. The nature of resource management by those inhabiting the Canyon has been long debated. Here, we present carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, and strontium isotope data from archaeological faunal remains collected from from...

Still High on Pueblo Alto: Tom Windes’ Mounds of Accomplishment (2015)

DOCUMENT Citation Only H. Toll.

Among Tom Windes’ huge list of accomplishments in archaeology, his work at Chaco Canyon and Pueblo Alto is especially noteworthy. The lasting nature of this contribution is clear in that Pueblo Alto and mounds at Greathouses continue to be discussed and interpreted. This paper further considers the Pueblo Alto mound stratigraphy and the use and occupation of the pueblo in the context of recent discussions of these data. The discussion ranges from the very specific to more general implications....

Third Annual Report: Chemical Stabilization of Prehistoric Structures at Chaco Canyon National Monument (1978)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dennis B. Fenn. John R. Deck.

A Three Dimensional Reconstruction of the Pueblo Bonito Mounds (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Chip Wills. Beau Murphy. Heather Richards-Rissetto.

There are two large mounds on the south side of Pueblo Bonito that were extensively trenched in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Data from the re-excavation of three trenches are combined with new geospatial and remote sensing information to create a three dimensional reconstruction of mound history. Although low walls were built around parts of each mound at some point, there is no evidence that the mounds were ever enclosed by architecture. The mounds consist mostly of household...

Tree-Ring Dating of the Archeological Sites in the Chaco Canyon Region, New Mexico (1965)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Bryant Bannister.

Tseh So, a Small House Ruin Chaco Canyon New Mexico (1937)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Donald D. Brand.

Two Chaco Canyon Pit Houses (1924)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Neil M. Judd.

Two Houses, Both Alike in Dignity: Visibility, Material Culture, and Contrasting Histories at Two Chaco Halo Communities (2016)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katherine Dungan. Leslie Aragon.

The communities that surround the neighboring great houses of Kin Bineola and Kin Klizhin contain broadly similar kinds of sites—including the great houses themselves, small habitation sites, and shrines—and are both located in the "Chaco Halo," the region immediately surrounding Chaco Canyon itself. Nevertheless, the two communities differ in their composition, spatial structure, and histories. Intervisibility between habitations and public or religious architecture provides one possible...

Using Ground-Penetrating Radar to Re-evaluate the Chetro Ketl Field Complex in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico (2016)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jennie Sturm.

Recent geophysical remote sensing investigations conducted in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico have included studies at the "Chetro Ketl field" complex. This area is widely interpreted as gridded agricultural fields, though a lack of other gridded fields in the canyon have led some to question whether the Chetro Ketl "field" served an agricultural function. Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) surveys conducted here resulted in the unexpected identification of a complicated series of buried features at...

Using Remote Sensing to Re-evaluate Prehistoric Land Use in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico (2019)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jennie Sturm. Wetherbee Dorshow. W.H. Wills.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Remote sensing has been used extensively the past several years to study prehistoric land use in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. Previous land use models for Chaco predict economic activities such as agriculture and water management near some of the major sites within the canyon, and these models have been critical to understanding how land use contributed to the...

Vibroseis Route Between Huerfanito Peak & Chaco Canyon For Conoco Inc (1986)

DOCUMENT Citation Only L. J. Hooton.

The Wetherill Homestead and Trading Post, Chaco Culture National Historical Park, New Mexico. (2015)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Leigh A. R. Cominiello.

The University of New Mexico, in partnership with the National Park Service, is currently conducting research on the first trading post in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. Documentary research and test excavations indicate the Wetherill Homestead and Trading Post operated from the mid-1890s to the early 1900s. The site functioned as a center for archaeological research, residence, ranching, and trade. These findings have archaeological and historical implications related to late nineteenth and early...

Windes Was Here (2015)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Wendy Bustard. Dabney Ford.

Documenting field work has been standard archaeological practice for over a century. Long-term preservation and continuing use of those records has been less standard. Tom Windes’ documentary record of his work in Chaco Canyon is an example of what best practices can achieve. In particular, Windes developed a style of mapping archaeological sites that has proved invaluable in relocating, monitoring, and maintaining Chaco’s World Heritage resources. Standards for archaeological site documentation...