Wetherill Mesa (Site Name Keyword)
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James Schoenwetter (Ph.D. Southern Illinois 1967) was a Professor Emeritus at Arizona State University. His research interests included prehistoric cultural ecology, applications of pollen analysis in archaeology and research methodology. Before his retirement in 2000 he directed the ASU Anthropology Department’s palynology lab. Pollen research by Schoenwetter and his students involved a variety of sites in Mesoamerica, North America and Europe. He directed archaeological and botanical...
Pollen Analysis in the Wetherill Mesa Region (1960)
Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Society for American Archeology, 1960. Illustration of five types of archaeologically relevant information from pollen study of site-context sediment samples: which sites do and do not yield pollen data; intra-site cross-dating of sample proveniences; information on cultivated plants; and relationships of cultural activities to environmental conditions.
Pollen Stratigraphy of the Wetherill Mesa Region (1960)
Unpublished report, 1960 Describes pollen study of 115 samples from Wetherill Mesa (Mesa Verde National Park) undertaken at the Geochronology Laboratories, University of Arizona. Stratified pollen records from site 1205 provide information on past environmental events; records from site 1200 (Long House) contain horizon markers and a record of cultural activities. The majority of samples analyzed in an attempt to determine a palynological identifier of cornfields were unproductive.
Wetherill Mesa, M.V.N.P Bioarchaeological Data (2021)
Analysis of bioarchaeological indicators of stress and skeletal fractures from selected Wetherill Mesa sites in Mesa Verde National Park. Data was collected in 1995 in compliance with NAGPRA.