Black Mountain Phase (Temporal Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michelle Hegmon. Margaret C. Nelson. Roger Anyon. Darrell Creel. Steven A. Leblanc. Harry J. Shafer.

Time-space systematics for the end of the Classic Mimbres period and subsequent developments in southwest New Mexico are outlined, and the variable spatial scale of these processes is emphasized. The regional unity of the Late Pithouse and Classic periods began to break down around A.D. 1130, a time when disparate developments characterize different portions of the region. The Terminal Classic (ca. A.D. 1130 and later) represents the first steps toward significant and rapid changes and is seen...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jennifer A. Brady.

During 1997 and 1998, EMAP excavations also began to include earlier sites dating to the Classic Period (A.D. 1000-1150). Prior to these excavations, the majority of comparative data from the Classic Period came from the Mimbres Valley and Upper Gila regions. Excavation at eastern Mimbres sites was a step toward understanding the Classic Period in the eastern Mimbres area. The excavations revealed many material similarities between Mimbres Valley and eastern Mimbres Classic Period sites (Brady...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Michelle Hegmon. Margaret C. Nelson. Mark J. Ennes.

An understanding of small-scale population movements is essential to recent research on migration. Consideration of the technological style (processes of manufacture) of pottery, in conjunction with petrographic sourcing analyses, provides means of identifying and interpreting population movements at various scales. Diverse styles characterizes Postclassic Mimbres (A.D. 1150-early 1200s) regional reorganization in southwest New Mexico. One new style, indented corrugated pottery, is similar to...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jennifer A. Brady.

The 1999-2000 Seco survey was designed with several goals in mind. Our first objective was to document Classic period settlement on the Seco drainage, in order to expand our settlement data for the eastern Mimbres for this time period. Second, we wished to revisit Classic Period Palomas sites in order to recheck locations, maps, and to take ceramic collections from these sites. Our third overall objective was to identify Postclassic Period sites on the Seco to determine whether the Postclassic...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Michael Diehl.

Eight flotation samples from two Eastern Mimbres Archaeological Project (EMAP) sites were analyzed. Cultigens, primarily maize, were present in most of the samples. A limited array of wild seed taxa were represented as well. The represented wood resources appear to have been drawn from the Great Basin Conifer Woodland biotic province, and augmented by the use of riparian resources. The woods in the assemblages were consistent with a plant resource use pattern that focused on...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Michelle Hegmon. Margaret C. Nelson.

Rituals were essential in the lives of the people of the Mimbres. What symbols had meaning in their ritual? How was ceremony structured? Little is known about these aspects of the past because so many prehistoric villages have been destroyed by looters. But Mimbres villages on the Ladder Ranch, in the eastern Mimbres area, have been protected from looters and we have been fortunate in finding many clues to the rituals and ceremonial practices of the people of the Mimbres.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kristin S. Sullivan.

Site LA 130191, Pague Well Village (Figure 1), is located on the first terrace above the North Seco drainage in the eastern Mimbres area. Pague Well Village consists of at least six roomblocks, occupied during the Classic Mimbres period (A.D. 1 000-1130) and containing anywhere from two to six rooms each. Three units were fully excavated by the Eastern Mimbres Archaeological Project (EMAP) I Arizona State University (ASU) field school during the 2001 field season: Unit 40 (Bild et al....

DOCUMENT Full-Text Michelle Hegmon. Margaret C. Nelson. Karen Schollmeyer.

Funds from grant 6612-99 have enabled us to increase information about the Classic Mimbres period in Southwest prehistory and improve our understanding of the relationship between population, subsistence, and mobility. We thoroughly surveyed two drainages and documented most, if not all, Classic Mimbres villages on those drainages. From these data we are able to estimate population, document resource use, evaluate human impacts, and examine possible mobility strategies. These preliminary...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Michelle Hegmon. Margaret C. Nelson. Stephanie Kulow. Karen Schollmeyer.

It's obvious to anyone who has spent time in southwest New Mexico, the west-flowing weather is stopped by the mountains. The Upper Gila and Mimbres River Valley get more rain than the Ladder Ranch and other parts of the eastern Mimbres area. The Mimbres River created a fertile and manageable floodplain, perfect for farming with prehistoric technologies. Using nothing more elaborate than stone tools and digging sticks, people in the Mimbres Valley grew fields of corn, beans, and squash, created...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Karen Schollmeyer.

The Eastern Mimbres Archaeological Project (EMAP), co-directed by Drs. Margaret Nelson and Michelle Hegmon began in 1990, building upon earlier work by Nelson. EMAP focuses on the later (post-AD 1000) prehistory of the eastern Mimbres area, a portion of the Mimbres region in southwest New Mexico. In 1982 Nelson was at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque and in the early 1990s at the State University of New York, Buffalo, and Hegmon was at New Mexico State University, Las Cruces. In 1995...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Michelle Elliott.

This study concerns the use of wood for primary posts in Mimbres room blocks from the Eastern Mimbres area that date to the Classic and Postclassic periods. Sixty-seven flotation samples were analyzed from floor features and post hole features believed to have served as the primary load-bearing supports in rooms excavated by the Eastern Mimbres Archaeological Project (EMAP). The probable wood type of the post for each floor feature was assigned and both synchronic and diachronic comparisons in...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Michael Diehl.

Archaeological excavations at LA 37767 and LA 130191 resulted in the collection of numerous flotation samples during the 2002 field season. Of these, ten were submitted to the author for priority descriptive analysis. This report describes the procedures by which the samples were handled and the contents of the samples.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Michelle Hegmon. Margaret C. Nelson. Karen Schollmeyer. Stephanie Kulow.

Funds from grant 6980-01 enabled us to gather information about the Classic Mimbres period in Southwest prehistory and improve our understanding of the relationship between population, subsistence, and mobility. Eleven separate analyses (of subsistence remains, demography, resource use, and site use life and intensity), enabled or directly supported as part of this research, facilitate comparisons between the Classic Mimbres period settlement in villages and the Reorganization...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Michelle Hegmon. Margaret C. Nelson. Karen Schollmeyer.

This is a compilation of the research and reports from the Eastern Mimbres Archaeological Project 2001-2002. Articles include: Abandonment is Not as it Seems: An Approach to the relationship Between Site-Level and Regional Abandonment; The Changing Socioeconomic Contexts of Mimbres Households; Game Resources, Social Interaction, and the Ecological Footprint in Southwest New Mexico; Recent Issues in the Archaeology of the Mimbres Region of the North American Southwest; eastern Mimbres...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Karen Schollmeyer.

The Eastern Mimbres Archaeological Project conducted non-disturbing, non-collecting surface archaeological survey in the Gila National Forest from June 5 through June 15, 2003, in order to identify prehistoric agricultural features in the eastern Mimbres area. This research was conducted as part of the larger Eastern Mimbres Archaeological Project (EMAP), directed by Drs. Michelle Hegmon and Margaret Nelson at Arizona State University. Previous EMAP research has focused on the Ladder Ranch (near...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Michelle Hegmon. Margaret C. Nelson. Karen Schollmeyer. Michelle Elliott. Michael Diehl.

The relationships among land use, population, and environment are not simple. Larger populations impact the environment more than do smaller populations, and environmental marginality promotes greater impacts from human action. While these two statements may be correct at a broad scale, the relationships are not linear. We examine the relationships among these variables using data from eleventh- through thirteenth-century villages and hamlets of prehistoric subsistence agriculturalists from the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Michelle Hegmon. Matthew Peeples. Ann P. Kinzig. Stephanie Kulow. Cathryn Meegan. Margaret Nelson.

Change is inevitable, but some changes and transformations are more dramatic and fraught with suffering than others. Resilience theory suggests the concept of a “rigidity trap” as an explanation for these differences. In rigidity traps, a high degree of connectivity and the suppression of innovation prolong an increasingly rigid state, with the result that the eventual transformation is harsh. Three archaeological cases from the U.S. Southwest (Mimbres, Mesa Verde, and Hohokam) and new methods...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jeffrey R. Ferguson.

This project involves the analysis of 150 obsidian artifacts from 2 sites in southwestern New Mexico. Compositional analysis was conducted using X-ray fluorescence (XRF) and the resulting chemical compositions were compared to known obsidian sources in the American Southwest, Northern Mexico, and surrounding regions. The majority of the samples (74%) are from Mule Creek, but Mount Taylor and Jemez Mountains sources are also present. Twenty of the samples all belong to the same group of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Karen Schollmeyer. Jonathan C. Driver.

The southwestern United States has a spectacular arid landscape of broad desert basins, wooded plateaux and canyons, and forested mountains. When Spanish explorers first entered the region they met Native American populations who had lived for a thousand years in small agricultural settlements called pueblos, as well as mobile hunting and gathering groups that had moved into the area more recently. Despite subsequent centuries of colonization these people have maintained their cultural...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Laura Popova.

Ten samples were selected form LA 3949 in New Mexico for pollen. All of the samples, based on the provenience notes, come from floors. Pollen deposited in the course of processing, cooking, craft manufacture, and storage is mixed on floors by walking, sweeping, and other activities. Over time, some of this pollen becomes compacted into floor sediments incorporating a “time-averaged” record of resource use mixed with the regional pollen rain. It is not possible to talk about change over time...

PROJECT Michelle Hegmon. Margaret C. Nelson.

The Eastern Mimbres Archaeological Project (EMAP), co-directed by Drs. Margaret Nelson and Michelle Hegmon began in 1990, building upon earlier work by Nelson. EMAP focuses on the later (post-AD 1000) prehistory of the eastern Mimbres area, a portion of the Mimbres region in southwest New Mexico. In 1982 Nelson was at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque and in the early 1990s at the State University of New York, Buffalo, and Hegmon was at New Mexico State University, Las Cruces. In 1995...

PROJECT Michelle Hegmon. Margaret Nelson.

The Eastern Mimbres Archaeological Project (EMAP), co-directed by Drs. Margaret Nelson and Michelle Hegmon began in 1990, building upon earlier work by Nelson. EMAP focuses on the later (post-AD 1000) prehistory of the eastern Mimbres area, a portion of the Mimbres region in southwest New Mexico. In 1982 Nelson was at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque and in the early 1990s at the State University of New York, Buffalo, and Hegmon was at New Mexico State University, Las Cruces. In 1995...

DATASET Sarah Klassen.

Archeomagnetic Dating Dataset for EMAP. The Eastern Mimbres Archaeological Project (EMAP), co-directed by Drs. Margaret Nelson and Michelle Hegmon began in 1990, building upon earlier work by Nelson. EMAP focuses on the later (post-AD 1000) prehistory of the eastern Mimbres area, a portion of the Mimbres region in southwest New Mexico. In 1982 Nelson was at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque and in the early 1990s at the State University of New York, Buffalo, and Hegmon was at New...

DATASET Melissa Kruse-Peeples.

EMAP - AUD The Eastern Mimbres Archaeological Project (EMAP), co-directed by Drs. Margaret Nelson and Michelle Hegmon began in 1990, building upon earlier work by Nelson. EMAP focuses on the later (post-AD 1000) prehistory of the eastern Mimbres area, a portion of the Mimbres region in southwest New Mexico. In 1982 Nelson was at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque and in the early 1990s at the State University of New York, Buffalo, and Hegmon was at New Mexico State University, Las...

DATASET Sarah Klassen. Arizona State University (ASU).

The Eastern Mimbres Archaeological Project (EMAP), co-directed by Drs. Margaret Nelson and Michelle Hegmon began in 1990, building upon earlier work by Nelson. EMAP focuses on the later (post-AD 1000) prehistory of the eastern Mimbres area, a portion of the Mimbres region in southwest New Mexico. In 1982 Nelson was at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque and in the early 1990s at the State University of New York, Buffalo, and Hegmon was at New Mexico State University, Las Cruces. In 1995...