25 Years in the Casas Grandes Region: Celebrating Mexico–U.S. Collaboration in the Gran Chichimeca

Part of: Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "25 Years in the Casas Grandes Region: Celebrating Mexico–U.S. Collaboration in the Gran Chichimeca," at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Twenty-five years ago, representatives of Mexico’s Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH), the University of New Mexico, and the Museum of New Mexico initiated a joint project investigating the archaeology of the Casas Grandes region of northern Mexico and southern New Mexico. The project continues and has served as the starting point for students who initiated follow-up research under the auspices of INAH and academic institutions around the world. It has included surveys, excavations, and technical analyses on both sides of the international border, resulting in many publications. Further, it has been part of renewed study of the Casas Grandes culture and other cultures of northern Mexico and southern New Mexico conducted by researchers from Mexico, Canada, the United States, and other nations. This symposium summarizes and expands on the 25 years of research conducted as part of the collaborative project and other projects throughout the region. The papers present both synthetic analyses that seek to place the results of the various projects into a coherent framework and cutting-edge analyses using innovative methods to increase our knowledge about specific aspects of the archaeology of northwestern Mexico and the southwestern United States.

Other Keywords
Mogollon • Ceramic Analysis • Bioarchaeology/Skeletal Analysis • Digital Archaeology: GIS • demography • Subsistence • Migration • Zooarchaeology • Growth • Cultural Transmission

Geographic Keywords
North America (Continent) • USA (Country) • New Mexico (State / Territory) • Oklahoma (State / Territory) • Arizona (State / Territory) • Texas (State / Territory) • Sonora (State / Territory) • United States of America (Country) • Chihuahua (State / Territory) • Baja California (State / Territory)

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  • Assemblages and Power in the Casas Grandes Region. (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Jerimy Cunningham.

    This is an abstract from the "25 Years in the Casas Grandes Region: Celebrating Mexico–U.S. Collaboration in the Gran Chichimeca" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeologists working in the Casas Grandes region generally acknowledge that sites such as Paquimé reflect a social system defined by systemic inequality. Yet, to date little work has been done to document exactly what "inequality" likely meant for people living in the region during the...

  • Casas Grandes Culture in the Sierra Madre of Sonora (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Pailes. John Carpenter. Guadalupe Sánchez.

    This is an abstract from the "25 Years in the Casas Grandes Region: Celebrating Mexico–U.S. Collaboration in the Gran Chichimeca" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This presentation will summarize results from ongoing research on the late prehistoric period of the Sonoran Sierra Madre. Thus far, investigations focused on the Sahuaripa and Fronteras valleys. These valleys are approximately equidistant from Paquimé at 185 and 165 km, respectively. In...

  • Casas Grandes Fauna (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Kathy Durand. Jeremy Loven.

    This is an abstract from the "25 Years in the Casas Grandes Region: Celebrating Mexico–U.S. Collaboration in the Gran Chichimeca" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The prehistoric inhabitants of the Casas Grandes region of northwest Chihuahua, Mexico, exploited a wide range of local and non-local fauna. This paper explores the value of different animal species throughout the prehistory of this region and how various animals were utilized for daily...

  • An Evaluation of Type Definitions for Viejo Period Red-on-brown Pottery (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Todd Pitezel. Michael Searcy.

    This is an abstract from the "25 Years in the Casas Grandes Region: Celebrating Mexico–U.S. Collaboration in the Gran Chichimeca" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. We recently began a long-term research program focused on identifying and excavating Viejo Period settlements in the near vicinity of the massive, latter Medio Period settlement known as Paquimé (ca. A.D. 12-1450) in Chihuahua, Mexico. We have located previously unrecorded Viejo sites and...

  • Explorations East of Paquimé (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Timothy Maxwell. Rafael Cruz Antillón.

    This is an abstract from the "25 Years in the Casas Grandes Region: Celebrating Mexico–U.S. Collaboration in the Gran Chichimeca" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Since 1994, the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia has conducted archaeological surveys and excavations in the river valleys and drainages in the Casas Grandes region east of Paquimé in northern Chihuahua. Sites from the Archaic through the terminal Casas Grandes periods were...

  • Medio Period Borderland Dynamics at 76 Draw (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Todd VanPool. Christine VanPool.

    This is an abstract from the "25 Years in the Casas Grandes Region: Celebrating Mexico–U.S. Collaboration in the Gran Chichimeca" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The New Mexico/Chihuahua border was also a borderland between AD 1200 and 1450 where the contemporaneous Casas Grandes, Salado, and El Paso phase cultures overlapped. The excavation of 76 Draw, a Medio period site on the northern periphery of the Casas Grandes region, is designed to...

  • Patterns of Migration at Paquimé: Insights from Isotopic and Demographic Data (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Adrianne Offenbecker. Kyle Waller. Gordon Rakita. M. Anne Katzenberg.

    This is an abstract from the "25 Years in the Casas Grandes Region: Celebrating Mexico–U.S. Collaboration in the Gran Chichimeca" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Interregional interaction has factored prominently in debates about the origin and cultural trajectory of Paquimé since the site was first excavated six decades ago. In this paper, we use a bioarchaeological approach to reconstruct the structure and scale of migration at Paquimé to better...

  • Polychromes and People at 76 Draw, New Mexico (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Candace Sall.

    This is an abstract from the "25 Years in the Casas Grandes Region: Celebrating Mexico–U.S. Collaboration in the Gran Chichimeca" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. People of the Casas Grandes and Salado regions are known for their polychrome pottery. Often pottery from both areas are found at the same sites, but the degree of interaction between the areas is not known. Neutron Activation Analysis (NAA) was conducted on Ramos and Gila Polychrome...

  • Reconstructing Shell Trade Corridors in Northwest Mexico (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrew Krug.

    This is an abstract from the "25 Years in the Casas Grandes Region: Celebrating Mexico–U.S. Collaboration in the Gran Chichimeca" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Questions over the nature of long-distance exchange are central to competing models of socio-political evolution in Northwest Mexico. At Paquimé, the preeminent site in northern Chihuahua, Mexico, from 1250 to 1450 AD, excavations recovered abundant non-local goods, including macaws,...

  • Revisiting the Mesoamerican Materials from Paquimé (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only José Luis Punzo Díaz. Ben Nelson.

    This is an abstract from the "25 Years in the Casas Grandes Region: Celebrating Mexico–U.S. Collaboration in the Gran Chichimeca" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Beginning with the first investigations in Paquimé, one of the most important issues that archaeologists have identified was the site’s apparently intimate relationship with Mesoamerica. This idea is supported by relatively abundant copper objects, as well as ceramic remains from southern...

  • Subadult Growth Velocity at Paquime, Chihuahua, Mexico (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Kyle Waller. Adrianne Offenbecker. Gordon Rakita.

    This is an abstract from the "25 Years in the Casas Grandes Region: Celebrating Mexico–U.S. Collaboration in the Gran Chichimeca" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Patterns of growth attainment are sensitive bioarchaeological indicators of sub-adult health. Growth velocity can be used to identify periods of stunting, and corresponding periods of rapid catch-up growth. In this study, we use femoral length to examine sub-adult growth at the...