Southwest Symposium 2016
The Southwest Symposium promotes new ideas and directions in the archaeology of the United States Southwest and the Mexican Northwest. The 2016 symposium focuses on Engaged Archaeology, showcasing collaborative and participatory work with descendant groups and local communities, public archaeology, and interdisciplinary work, in spoken and poster sessions. Presentations demonstrate how engaged archaeology results in new understandings of the past and broadens the relevance of archaeology.
Site Name Keywords
Pecos Pueblo •
La Villa •
AZ T:12:243(ASM)
Site Type Keywords
Funerary and Burial Structures or Features •
Non-Domestic Structures •
Water-Related
Other Keywords
NAGPRA •
Cultural Affiliation
Culture Keywords
Hohokam •
Ancestral Puebloan •
Mogollon •
Archaic •
Patayan •
Casas Grandes •
Hopi
Investigation Types
Bioarchaeological Research •
Collections Research •
Data Recovery / Excavation •
Methodology, Theory, or Synthesis •
Environment Research •
Heritage Management •
Archaeological Overview •
Records Search / Inventory Checking •
Ethnographic Research •
Site Stewardship Monitoring
Material Types
Human Remains •
Ceramic •
Fauna •
Pollen •
Shell •
Starch Grain •
Dental calculus •
pipes •
Microfossils •
Phytolith
Temporal Keywords
Classic Mimbres •
Late Pithouse
Geographic Keywords
North America (Continent) •
New Mexico (State / Territory) •
United States of America (Country) •
Southwest United States •
New Mexico •
Grant County (County) •
Arizona (State / Territory) •
Chihuahua (State / Territory) •
United Mexican States (Country) •
Mimbres
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Archaeology on the Desert River: Cultural Resource Management on the Gila River Indian Community (2016)
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2016 Southwest Symposium Poster. The Gila River Indian Community (GRIC), home of the Akimel O’odham and Pee Posh tribes, is situated in south-central Arizona. Increasing levels of development on the Community and a desire to oversee Cultural and Heritage Resource planning within the Community prompted the GRIC to establish a Tribal Historic Preservation Office (THPO) as well as a Cultural Resource Management Program (CRMP). For more than twenty years the CRMP staff has been comprised of a...
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AzBAD: Arizona Biological Affiliation Database (2016)
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The Arizona Biological Affiliation Database (AzBAD) is a catalog of comparative cranial morphometric data designed to provide an additional tool for assessing cultural affiliation in compliance with state (ARS §41-844/865) or federal (NAGPRA) legislation and facilitate repatriation of human remains to descendant communities. This information is used to create comparative samples that encompass the variability inherent in ancient ancestral populations. Measurements from crania of individuals...
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Building Community In Southwest Archaeology Through Student Research (2016)
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2016 Southwest Symposium Poster. Archaeology students face many hurdles during the completion of thesis or dissertation projects. Acquiring funding, collecting and analyzing data, conducting fieldwork, and presenting results are just some of the obstacles archaeology students must overcome. Because of the time, energy, and monetary requirements needed to complete these tasks, public engagement often is at the bottom of an archaeology student’s task list. However, it is becoming increasingly...
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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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From the Sea to Ónavas Valley (2016)
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Recent investigations in archaeological sites situated at Onavas valley in southeast Sonora, Mexico, had recovered around 3890 seashell ornaments as associated funerary objects of mainly juvenile individuals. The majority of these material come from the Panamic Province of the northeastern Pacific, from Baja California, Mexico to northern Peru. We have done the taxonomy of the objects and in this point of investigation, it is possible to propose selection patterns that craftsmen could put into...
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The Impact of Collaborative Educational Tourism on Archaeological Research, Management Initiatives, and Curriculum Development (2016)
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2016 Southwest Symposium Poster. As part of their Cultural Exploration program, Crow Canyon Archaeological Center often brings together Native Pueblo and Archaeological scholars for one week-long Exploration trips. The trips are framed as educational tourism seminars around themes such as Hopi migrations, the History of Taos, or the Chaco World. While there is monetary and professional incentives for scholars to participate in these trips, a growing number engage in them to expand their own...
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The New Mexico Bioarchaeology Consortium: Building the Metadata and Creating the Gateways for Future Research (2016)
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Human remains from archaeological sites in New Mexico have been studied since the 1870s, but much of the information is hidden in report appendices and filing cabinets – unsynthesized, underutilized. This inaccessibility impedes research on the biological histories of people in a region with one of the most abundant and detailed archaeological records in the world. The purpose of the Consortium is to create, grow, and maintain a virtual gateway to repositories of bioarchaeological resources...
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Old Collections, New Questions: Information on Plains-Pueblo Interaction and Variations in Style from Pecos Pueblo Pipes (2016)
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2016 Southwest Symposium Poster. This poster presentation centers on what can be learned about Plains-Pueblo interaction and changes in community life through time from the examination of variations in style of a particular artifact class, the smoking pipe. This presentation specifically will outline the preliminary results of analysis of the pipes from the A.V. Kidder and National Park Service collections housed at Pecos Pueblo in New Mexico. 855 pipe fragments were analyzed, noting form,...
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An Overview of the Human Remains from La Villa: Mortuary Programs, Paleopathology, and Possible Ritualized Use (2016)
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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.).
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Public Archaeology at Cerro De Trincheras (2016)
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Since the first project, directors agreed that participants should be from both countries, legislation applied should be Mexico´s, and publications should be in English and Spanish. Two decades of research funded by National Science Foundation, National Geographic and the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) allowed, at the end of 2011, the opening of Cerro de Trincheras - the regional center for the Trincheras Tradition for public visitation.
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The Pueblo Farming Project: A Hopi-Crow Canyon Collaboration on Research and Education (2016)
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2016 Southwest Symposium Poster. Description of the Pueblo Farming Project through 2016.
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Round Mountain and Other Cerros de Trincheras of the Upper Gila River, Arizona (2016)
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2016 Southwest Symposium Poster. Recent work in the Upper Gila River Valley of Arizona documents two Early Agricultural period cerros de trincheras and a riverine residential site. This presentation summarizes recent field work and addresses issues related to chronology, the role of agriculture, and warfare. Early Agricultural period cerros de trincheras have been previously documented in the Río Casas Grandes and in the Tucson Basin. The Upper Gila River Valley sites expand this phenomenon to a...
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Terminal Pleistocene Volcanic Eruptions at Zuni Salt Lake, West-Central New Mexico, USA (2016)
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2016 Southwest Symposium Poster. Abstract: Zuni Salt Lake, a maar in the Red Hill–Quemado volcanic field in New Mexico, holds great significance in the oral traditions of a handful of tribes including the Zuni and Hopi. We redefined the age of volcanic eruptions at Zuni Salt Lake using radiocarbon and optically stimulated luminescence dating. Four radiocarbon ages on wood charcoal indicate two main eruptive phases: a violent strombolian eruption at ~13.3 ka and a later, predominantly...
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Using Non-Invasive Technologies to Identify Multiple Paint Recipes on Hohokam Pottery (2016)
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As the emphasis on preservation archaeology increases, the application of non-destructive technologies to artifact analysis is becoming more relevant and commonplace. We employ three such techniques, decorrelation stretch (DStretch), x-ray fluorescence (XRF), and Fourier-transform Raman spectroscopy (FT-Raman), to investigate multiple paint hues found on a single pre-Classic Hohokam Red-on-buff sherd. We apply DStretch to visually enhance the paint and confirm the presence of two red hues. The...
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Walnuts as a Potential Paint Source for Roosevelt Redware in the Cliff Valley of New Mexico (2016)
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Ceramic analysis is an invaluable tool for archaeology, and one that has been particularly useful in the U.S. Southwest. Roosevelt Redware, also called Salado Polychrome, dates from about 1280 to 1450 C.E. and is found throughout much of Arizona and New Mexico. The pottery tradition is a hallmark of the Salado Phenomenon, and its analysis has been applied to many questions, including those concerned with technology, exchange, identity, religion, and migration. The black paint on Roosevelt...