Posters: Engaged Archaeology Through Transnational, Interdisciplinary, and Indigenous Collaborations
Part of: Southwest Symposium 2016
Posters: Engaged Archaeology Through Transnational, Interdisciplinary, and Indigenous Collaborations
Culture Keywords
Ancestral Puebloan •
Casas Grandes
Investigation Types
Environment Research •
Data Recovery / Excavation •
Methodology, Theory, or Synthesis •
Ethnographic Research •
Bioarchaeological Research
Material Types
Human Remains •
Pollen •
Starch Grain •
Dental calculus •
Microfossils •
Phytolith
Geographic Keywords
Chihuahua (State / Territory) •
United Mexican States (Country) •
North America (Continent) •
Chihuahua (Mexico : State) •
Casa Grande Ruins
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Can Hopi Corn Save Ethiopian Farms? Employing 1,400 Years of Pueblo Agronomic Knowledge Towards Global Sustainability (2016)
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2016 Southwest Symposium Poster. Traditional crops and farming practices are not only nutritionally, economically, and spiritually important to human communities—they are reservoirs of resilience encapsulating generations of traditional agronomic and environmental knowledge. Can that knowledge be used to improve global food security? Using data from the MAÍS project and a state-of-the-art maize growth model, we simulate the potential productivity of several non-irrigated Pueblo maize varieties...
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Plant Microfossils Recovered from Dental Calculus at Casas Grandes, Mexico (2016)
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Microfossil analysis is a technique used to better understand prehistoric diets. As part of a larger multinational project, we gathered and analyzed 112 samples of dental calculus (fossilized plaque) from human remains discovered at Paquimé and other sites in the Casas Grandes river valley to identify various microfossils still present in the silica matrix. With this information, we are able to better understand the flora present during ancient times and how it was used (food, processing, etc.).