Hooper Ranch Pueblo (Site Name Keyword)
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This report contains statistical and descriptive data that resulted form the excavation of eight villages and the reconnaissance of one hundred and seventy sites in east central Arizona. This information was gathered during 1959 and 1960 by the Southwest Archaeological Expeditions of the Chicago Natural History Museum under the leadership of Dr. Paul S. Martin. The sites investigated during this expedition included the Hooper Ranch Pueblo, the Rim Valley Pueblo, the Thode Site, three small...
Documentation for Some Late Mogollon Sites in the Upper Little Colorado Drainage, Eastern Arizona (1960)
This report includes the documentary materials pertaining to an archaeological reconnaissance and to the excavating of two archaeological sites in east central Arizona. This work was accomplished in 1959 by the Southwest Archaeological Expedition of the Chicago Natural History Museum. Classification, measurements, and proveniences of all stone and bone tools; complete pottery counts by rooms and levels; and a description of all sites observed on the archaeological survey are included...
The Hooper Ranch Pueblo Sun Dagger Shrine Revisited - Revealing Greater Regional Significance (2018)
Located above the Little Colorado River in east-central Arizona, a natural rock formation casts a dynamic shadow-line onto a panel of ancient rock art during the summer solstice. Two hours later a rock chimney allows a narrow beam of sunlight to pass through, forming a Sun Dagger that illuminates the petroglyphs beneath it in a dynamic manner, similar to the solar marker located upon Fajada Butte in Chaco Canyon. Although this solar marker is considerably older than the one on Fajada Butte, here...
James Schoenwetter Pollen Research Papers
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...
An Outline of the Environmental Chronology of the Little Colorado Drainage Basin, Arizona (1961)
Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Society for American Archeology, 1961. Discusses pollen sequence changes and environmental shifts evidenced by samples from ten sites and modern surface controls. Pollen record suggests irrigation in the Little Colorado River Basin 1275-1300 A.D.