Transcending Boundaries and Exploring Pasts: Current Archaeological Investigations of the Arizona-Sonora Borderlands

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 "Transcending Boundaries and Exploring Pasts: Current Archaeological Investigations of the Arizona-Sonora Borderlands," at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The International Border between the United States and Mexico is a region fraught with political, economic, and social tensions—perhaps never more so than at our present point in history. In an effort to momentarily transcend those tensions (the byproduct of comparatively recent geopolitical boundaries), this symposium showcases recent explorations of the deep culture history of a portion of that border region, specifically that encompassing southwest Arizona and northern Sonora. For millennia this magnificent, yet austere, part of the Sonoran Desert has been a crossroads of numerous groups and cultural traditions—Hohokam, Patayan, Trincheras, O’odham, Apache, and others. Today, archaeologists and cultural preservationists on both sides of the Arizona-Sonora border continue to uncover and decipher facets of this deep and complex culture history, as this symposium demonstrates.

Other Keywords
Hohokam • Cultural Resources and Heritage Management • Survey • Cultural Resource Management • Intermediate Area • Frontiers and Borderlands • Mortuary Analysis • Landscape Archaeology • Archaic • Agricultural strategies

Geographic Keywords
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) • North America (Continent) • USA (Country)

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  1. American Periphery, Sonoran Heartland: Recent Archaeological Explorations of Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument (2019)
  2. The Cocospera Valley in the Prehistoric, Protohistoric and Missión Period: A Corridor of Cultural Exchange? (2019)
  3. Developing a Condition Monitoring Plan for Archeological Sites at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument (2019)
  4. Early Mortuary Traditions in the Arizona-Sonora Borderlands (2019)
  5. Los que viven donde sopla el verdadero viento: Bahía Tepoca, Sonora, Archaeology of the Coast in the Gulf of California (2019)
  6. O’odham Travel in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands: Identifying Travel Routes on Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument (2019)
  7. Prehistoric and Historical Period Agricultural Strategies in the Western Papagueria: Archaeological and O'odham Perspectives (2019)
  8. Resilience in an Arid Environment: Long-Term Climate Change and Human Adaptations in Sonora (2019)
  9. Transcending Boundaries and Exploring Pasts: Conservation Efforts on Public Lands near the Borderlands (2019)