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

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.