Late Pithouse period (Temporal Keyword)
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This dissertation research focuses on the development of new communities in areas outside of the main Mimbres River Valley during the Classic period, ca. 1000-1150. Based on a review of ethnohistoric farming societies living in marginal areas, a model was developed for understanding when and under what conditions landless groups of people form in established communities and the decisions they then make for survival, including moving into empty, but marginal, agricultural zones and establishing...
Mimbres Periphery Study
The Mimbres Periphery Study focuses on Mimbres Mogollon adaptations and settlement in areas outside of the main Mimbres River Valley in Southwestern New Mexico. It was initiated by Robert J. Stokes in 1995 as a Ph.D. graduate student at the University of Oklahoma, and includes survey and excavation projects.
The Mimbres Transitional Phase: Examining Social, Demographic, and Environmental Resilience and Vulnerability from AD 900-1000 in Southwest New Mexico (2015)
This dissertation uses new data from Woodrow Ruin to examine the Late Pithouse (AD 550-1000) to Classic period (AD 1000-1130) transition in the Mimbres region of southwest New Mexico. Prior explorations of the Mimbres Late Pithouse to Classic transition have lacked data from one of the largest sites in the region. Woodrow Ruin is a large, multi-component site that had previously received little professional investigation. Fieldwork at Woodrow Ruin for this dissertation demonstrated that it had a...
Prehistoric Settlement Patterns in the Sapillo Creek Valley, Gila National Forest, New Mexico (1995)
The Sapillo Valley Survey Project was undertaken in 1993 by Robert Stokes as a M.A. thesis project. The valley was 20 percent sample surveyed using 320 m wide transects that crossed the valley from high landform to high landform, thus ensuring that a variety of landforms would be sampled. The survey resulted in recording 62 sites ranging from Late Archaic/Early Pithouse sites to Late Pithouse villages to Classic Mimbres pueblos and fieldhouses. The sites included many large ceremonial structures...
Primary Cremation of the Nan Ranch Ruin, With Comparative Data On Other Cremations in the Mimbres Areas, New Mexico (1989)
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Sapillo Valley Survey Project
The Sapillo Vallley Survey Project was undertaken by Robert J. Stokes in 1993 and the results compiled in the author's M.A. thesis at Eastern New Mexico University in 1995. The Sapillo Valley is a large tributary of the Gila River in the Mimbres area of Southwestern New Mexico. Please note that the thesis .pdf document associated with this project has been reformatted from its original early 1990s Word Perfect file type to a 2010 Word document prior to saving it as a .pdf. As a consequence of...
Southwest Mortuary Database Project: 2011 SAA E-Session: Mortuary Practices in the American Southwest: Meta-Data Issues in the Development of a Regional Database
The study of prehistoric mortuary practices in the American Southwest is undergoing tremendous change in the new millennium. The challenges (and opportunities) of NAGPRA implementation, declines in the number of large samples being excavated, and loss of data from previously excavated samples have altered mortuary archaeology in the region. Given this state of affairs, the development of an integrated regional database of prehistoric mortuary practices is imperative. This session at the 76th...