Research, Education, and American Indian Partnerships at the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Part of: Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Research, Education, and American Indian Partnerships at the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center" at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The Crow Canyon Archaeological Center (Crow Canyon), founded in 1983, is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to empower present and future generations by making the human past accessible and relevant through archaeological research, experiential education, and American Indian knowledge. As a core value, we believe the study of the past is an intrinsically worthwhile endeavor that creates more informed and sustainable societies. Through a better understanding of human history, we shed light on how the past can teach us about the challenges societies face throughout the world and strive to create change for the betterment of humanity. This symposium celebrates Crow Canyon’s past, present, and future by providing a backdrop to its humble beginnings and highlighting key mission accomplishments since 1983. Future directions presented here will guide southwestern research, collaborative partnerships, and public archaeology beyond current practices and provide meaningful strategic directions.

Other Keywords
Ancestral Pueblo • Migration • Survey • Pueblo • Ethnohistory/History • Education/Pedagogy • demography • Architecture • Chronology • Zooarchaeology

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

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  • Bridging the Long Tenth Century: From Villages to Great Houses in the Central Mesa Verde Region (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard Wilshusen. Kellam Throgmorton. Grant Coffey.

    This is an abstract from the "Research, Education, and American Indian Partnerships at the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Research by the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center and affiliates has illuminated many periods of history in the central Mesa Verde region; it has also highlighted several lacunae. The Long Tenth Century (AD 890–1030) is one of these lacunae. There is a conspicuous gap in the...

  • Community Organization on the Edge of the Mesa Verde Region: Recent Investigations at Cowboy Wash Pueblo, Moqui Springs Pueblo, and Yucca House (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only James Potter. Grant Coffey. Mark Varien.

    This is an abstract from the "Research, Education, and American Indian Partnerships at the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper examines the formation of three community centers on the piedmont of Ute Mountain: Yucca House, Moqui Springs Pueblo, and Cowboy Wash Pueblo. Two villages, Moqui Springs and Cowboy Wash, occupy the southernmost edge of central Mesa Verde region and Yucca House sits on the eastern...

  • Comparative Histories of Community Depopulation in the Mesa Verde and Northern Rio Grande Regions of the American Southwest (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael Adler. Michelle Hegmon.

    This is an abstract from the "Research, Education, and American Indian Partnerships at the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Architecture, artifact deposition patterning, and oral traditional information are brought to bear on questions of settlement depopulation, migration and relocation, and social conditions surrounding the depopulation of two large Ancestral Pueblo settlements. One large village, Sand Canyon...

  • Conceptualizing the Past: The Thoughtful Engagement of Hearts and Minds (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Elaine Franklin.

    This is an abstract from the "Research, Education, and American Indian Partnerships at the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Since its founding in 1983, public engagement has been a fundamental aspect of the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center’s mission. This presentation provides a synthesis of the center’s education work and contextualizes it within the constructs of cognitive theory and social semiotics. Included...

  • Educational Programming and the Perceived Benefits of Participation at Crow Canyon Archaeological Center (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Jeffrey Jones. Tyson Hughes.

    This is an abstract from the "Research, Education, and American Indian Partnerships at the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Crow Canyon Archaeological Center (CCAC) has a strong and lasting tradition of enjoining participants in the study of cultural continuity, change, and environmental adaptation in the desert Southwest, and serves as an innovative model for experiential learning through public archaeology. This...

  • Fine-Grained Chronology Reveals Human Impacts on Animal Populations in the Mesa Verde Region of the American Southwest (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Jonathan Driver. Karen Schollmeyer.

    This is an abstract from the "Research, Education, and American Indian Partnerships at the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the central Mesa Verde region a combination of numerous excavations and precise chronological control allows us to group selected faunal assemblages into time periods that represent only a few human generations. We examine fauna from eight time periods spanning approximately 700 years in a...

  • Forty Years of Integrating American Indian Knowledge, Public Education, and Archaeological Research in the Central Mesa Verde Region (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Susan Ryan.

    This is an abstract from the "Research, Education, and American Indian Partnerships at the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The mission of the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center is to empower present and future generations by making the human past accessible and relevant through archaeological research, experiential education, and American Indian knowledge. The primary purpose of this symposium is to celebrate the...

  • Forty Years of Sustained Community Center Research in the Central Mesa Verde Region (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Donna Glowacki. Grant Coffey. Mark Varien.

    This is an abstract from the "Research, Education, and American Indian Partnerships at the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. When he co-founded Crow Canyon Archaeological Center in 1982, Stuart Struever’s vision included an understanding that American archaeology needed an institution that could conduct long-term research. Perhaps nothing illustrates the value of long-term research more than Crow Canyon’s sustained...

  • The Knowledge Keepers: Protecting Pueblo Culture from the Western World (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Joseph Suina.

    This is an abstract from the "Research, Education, and American Indian Partnerships at the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The clash that occurs when certain Pueblo information falls into the hands of outsiders is partly due to differing conceptualizations of knowledge between the Pueblos and the Western world. Except for highly classified government and personal information protected by law, just about anything...

  • Place of the Songs: Hopi Connections to the Mesa Verde Region (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Wesley Bernardini. Leigh Kuwanwisiwma.

    This is an abstract from the "Research, Education, and American Indian Partnerships at the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Hopi connections to the Mesa Verde region have been noted by anthropologists and archaeologists for more than a century. Mesa Verde is not explicitly mentioned by name in some of the older, commonly cited collections of Hopi clan migration traditions, but contemporary Hopi people are...

  • The Pueblo Farming Project: Research, Education, and Native American Collaboration (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Paul Ermigiotti. Mark Varien. Grant Coffey. Stewart Koyiyumptewa. Leigh Kuwaswisiwma.

    This is an abstract from the "Research, Education, and American Indian Partnerships at the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Maize farming represents a fundamental aspect of Pueblo people’s identity. This paper focuses on an experimental farming program conducted as part of the Pueblo Farming Project (PFP). The PFP represents one of Crow Canyon’s longest-running projects and one of the center’s most important...

  • Revisiting the Depopulation of the Northern Southwest with Dendrochronology: A Changing Perspective with New Dates from Cedar Mesa (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Thomas Windes. Benjamin Bellorado.

    This is an abstract from the "Research, Education, and American Indian Partnerships at the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The depopulation of ancestral Pueblo people from the northern Southwest has been a fascination of archaeologists for decades. Using a suite of social and environmental models, scholars have attempted to explain the processes that led tens of thousands of people to vacate hundreds of...

  • Thirteenth-Century Villages and the Depopulation of the Northern San Juan Region by Pueblo Peoples (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Kristin Kuckelman.

    This is an abstract from the "Research, Education, and American Indian Partnerships at the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The initial 40 years of research conducted by the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center included several excavation projects that focused on a primary stated research goal of the center: discover why Pueblo peoples completely and permanently vacated the northern San Juan region late in the...

  • What the Old Ones Have to Teach Us (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Scott Ortman.

    This is an abstract from the "Research, Education, and American Indian Partnerships at the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper discusses two important directions in archaeology today. The first is the urge to better-incorporate Native views and interests into archaeological practice; and the second is the urge to make the results of archaeology more useful for the present and future. I suggest that a...