Classic (Temporal Keyword)
26-50 (50 Records)
This is a presentation from the 2021 Arizona Archaeological Council (AAC) Fall symposium on "The Archaeology of Canals in the Arizona Desert". Archaeological projects conducted by Desert Archaeology northwest of the Park of Four Waters provided opportunity to obtain refined ages for the use of the primary main canals that compose Turney’s Canal System 2. When canal age and destination are considered, as defined by the villages that the canals served, it is seen that System 2 is composed of...
A Report on Four Cultural Resource Surveys Conducted on Tonto National Forest Land Near Globe, Gila County, Central Arizona: The Guzman Project (1995)
From 1991 to 1994, Tonto National Forest (TNF) and SWCA., Inc., Environmental Consultants conducted four cultural resource surveys near Globe, Arizona for Guzman Construction in preparation for a proposed land exchange involving TNF-administered lands. This document summarizes the findings of that series of surveys. Specifically, it compiles data presented in three survey reports prepared by SWCA (Ahlstrom 1993, 1994; Ahlstrom and Euler 1991; SWCA 1992). The surveys described in these reports...
A Review of the 2008 Conference on Canals (2021)
This is a presentation from the 2021 Arizona Archaeological Council (AAC) Fall symposium on "The Archaeology of Canals in the Arizona Desert". This presentation will be a review of the research presented at the last regional conference on canals which was organized by AAC and the Mesa Southwest Museum in 2008.
Settlement Archaeology at Quiriguá, Guatemala
This monograph reports the results of the Quiriguá Project Site Periphery Program, five seasons (1975-1979) of archaeological survey and excavation in the 96 square kilometers immediately adjoining the classic Maya site of Quiriguá. Ashmore identifies and helps us understand where and how the people of Quiriguá lived. She presents detailed material evidence in two data catalogues, for the floodplain settlement adjoining Quiriguá and for sites in the wider periphery. The work situates Quiriguá...
Settlement Archaeology at Quiriguá, Guatemala (2007)
This monograph reports the results of the Quiriguá Project Site Periphery Program, five seasons (1975-1979) of archaeological survey and excavation in the 96 square kilometers immediately adjoining the classic Maya site of Quiriguá. Ashmore identifies and helps us understand where and how the people of Quiriguá lived. She presents detailed material evidence in two data catalogues, for the floodplain settlement adjoining Quiriguá and for sites in the wider periphery. The work situates Quiriguá...
Settlement History Along SR 88/188 From the Globe Highlands to Tonto National Monument, Arizona (2009)
Between April 1998 and April 2005, Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd. (ACS) conducted investigations of prehistoric and historic sites along State Route 188 (SR 188; formerly SR 88) from the junction of US 60 to Wheatfields, and from Hicks Wash to Tonto National Monument (TNM) in Gila County. These excavations were carried out under contract to the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) as part of the agency’s reconstruction and realignment of SR 88/188 between the US 60 junction near...
Shaping Space: Built Space, Landscape, and Cosmology in Four Regions (2010)
In this article, the authors seek to understand cosmological expressions in architecture and the built landscape in Mesoamerica, Northern Mexico, the US Southwest, and the US Southeast.
The Storm God, Feathered Serpents, and Possible Rulers at Teotihuacan (2007)
In this paper, George Cowgill focuses on how Mesoamericans used worldviews and ideologies in sociopolitical ways. More specifically, Cowgill argues that specific sociopolitical ideologies arise when there is a shared worldview.
A Supplemental Class III Cultural Resources Survey and Treatment Plan for the San Xavier Farm Extension Project, San Xavier District, Tohono O’odham Nation, Pima County, Arizona (2016)
In accordance with the provisions of the 2004 Arizona Water Settlement Act, the Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) is assisting the Tohono O’odham Nation’s (Nation) San Xavier District’s (District) Farm Cooperative (CoOp) in developing new farm land along both sides of Interstate 19 located south of the existing CoOp fields. Previous investigations in the area included a survey in the mid-1980s by Cultural and Environmental Systems (Heuett 1987b) and survey and testing completed by...
Sustaining Irrigation Agriculture for the Long-Term: Lessons on Maintaining Soil Quality from Ancient Agricultural Fields in the Phoenix Basin and on the North Coast of Peru (2013)
Irrigation agriculture has been heralded as the solution to feeding the world’s growing population. To this end, irrigation agriculture is both extensifying and intensifying in arid regions across the world in an effort to create highly productive agricultural systems. Over one third of modern irrigated fields, however, show signs of serious soil degradation, including salinization and waterlogging, which threaten the productivity of these fields and the world’s food supply. Surprisingly, little...
Technical Report (2012)
Technical report from 2012 season
Technical report (2014)
Technical report of 2013 field season
Technical report (2015)
Technical report of 2014 field season
Technical report (2016)
Technical report of 2015-2016 laboratory analyses
Technical report (2020)
Technical report of 2019 season of Proyecto Arqueologico Tlajinga Teotihuacan (PATT) in Spanish
Tlajinga, Teotihuacan, Mexico
Investigations of the Proyecto Arqueológico Tlajinga Teotihuacan (PATT) focus on the Tlajinga district, a cluster of neighborhoods in the southern part of Teotihuacan, Mexico. The area was inhabited by a lower socioeconomic stratum, was the locus of intensive utilitarian craft production, and is bisected by the city’s central artery—named the Street of the Dead by the later Aztecs, who viewed Teotihuacan as a mythical place of origins and an archetypal city. Research goals of the PATT scale from...
Torvinen (2018) - EPMA-WDS raw data for clay samples (2018)
These elemental data were collected using the Quantitative Wavelength Dispersive Spectroscopy technique with the JEOL JXA-8530F Electron Probe Microanalyzer (EPMA-WDS) at the John M. Crowley Center for High Resolution Electron Microscopy at Arizona State University supervised by Dr. Axel Wittmann. Based on the methodology developed by Abbott and Lack (2013), a series of five assays were run per sample at 300X magnification in a relatively inclusion free area of clay matrix (spot area = 20 um)...
Torvinen (2018) - EPMA-WDS raw data for sherd samples (2018)
These elemental data were collected using the Quantitative Wavelength Dispersive Spectroscopy technique with the JEOL JXA-8530F Electron Probe Microanalyzer (EPMA-WDS) at the John M. Crowley Center for High Resolution Electron Microscopy at Arizona State University supervised by Dr. Axel Wittmann. Based on the methodology developed by Abbott and Lack (2013), a series of five assays were run per sample at 300X magnification in a relatively inclusion free area of clay matrix (spot area = 20...
Torvinen and Nelson (2020) Supplemental Material - Refinement of the Chronology of La Quemada, Zacatecas, Mexico, Using Ceramic Seriation (2020)
During the Epiclassic period (AD 600–900), the northern frontier of Mesoamerica consisted of a regional network of polities focused on large, hilltop centers, including the site of La Quemada in the Malpaso Valley of Zacatecas, Mexico. Although extensive archaeological research has been conducted at the site, the refinement of its chronology is essential for two reasons: (1) to establish the chronological control necessary to characterize social processes diachronically and (2) to ensure that...
Tracks through Time: Urban Archaeology along the METRO Light Rail Corridor, Volume I: Introduction, Background, and Preliminary Field Studies (2011)
This book presents the results of the archaeological investigations that were conducted along then Light Rail route before and during its construction. As with any project that receives federal funding, METRO was legally required to undertake archaeological investigations along the project corridor; but production of this volume reflects not only METRO's commitment to legal compliance with environmental laws, but also the commitment of the cities of Phoenix, Tempe, and Mesa to preserve and...
Tucson Aqueduct - Phase A, Hohokam Archaeological Sites Cultural Resource Mitigative Data Recovery Studies, Central Arizona Project, 1983/1984 Annual Report (1985)
This report summarizes the first year of archaeological studies for the Tucson Aqueduct-Phase A Hohokam sites. A part of the Central Arizona Project, the work was carried out by Museum of Northern Arizona personnel under Contract to the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. The report summarizes the work accomplished, reviews preliminary research results, suggests modifications to the project research design, and presents a work plan for the second year of the project, September 6, 1984 to September 5,...
Update: The Digital Archive of Huhugam Archaeology (2021)
This is a presentation from the 2021 Arizona Archaeological Council (AAC) Fall symposium on "The Archaeology of Canals in the Arizona Desert". Staff from the Center for Digital Antiquity will provide an update on the Digital Archive of Huhugam Archaeology (DAHA), which contains over 2000 digital datasets, documents, reports and images focused on the ancient Huhugam (1500 B.C. – 1450 A.D.) of the southwestern U.S. These files are primarily “grey literature,” that is, unpublished reports and...
Valley of Mexico Archaeological Survey Project
Here are the Valley of Mexico survey data collected by University of Michigan projects directed by Jeffrey R. Parsons between 1967 and 1973, and by Richard E. Blanton in 1969. These descriptive data were originally published in 1983 as Archaeological Settlement Pattern Data from the Chalco, Xochimilco, Ixtapalapa, Texcoco, and Zumpango Regions, Mexico, University of Michigan Museum of Anthropology, Technical Reports No. 14, by J. R. Parsons, K. W. Kintigh, and S. A. Gregg. Associated resources...
Wavema Archaeological Research Project
PXRF data for 2222 obsidian artifacts from 31 ancestral Jemez pueblo villages occupied between AD 1175-1700
Wavema Archaeological Research Project Obsidian XRF Database (2016)
PXRF data for chipped obsidian collected from surface midden contexts at 31 ancestral Jemez pueblo villages