Recent Archaeological Research by PaleoWest
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 "Recent Archaeological Research by PaleoWest" at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
With over 1,500 projects conducted in 2021 and 2022, PaleoWest archaeologists have contributed to critical research advancements nationwide. Coast to coast, they have documented a wide diversity of cultural and environmental contexts and tackled various logistics challenges. In this poster symposium, PaleoWest archaeologists from the Phoenix, Los Angeles, Denver, and Tallahassee offices team up to present the scope and results of some of their recent archaeological investigations.
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Survey •
Cultural Resource Management •
Ancestral Pueblo •
Cultural Resources and Heritage Management •
Hohokam •
Subsistence and Foodways •
Architecture •
Zooarchaeology •
Missionization •
Settlement patterns
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Archaeological Reconnaissance Survey of the Bluffs of St. Teresa, Franklin County, Florida (2023)
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This is an abstract from the "Recent Archaeological Research by PaleoWest" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. PaleoWest conducted an archaeological reconnaissance survey in the fall of 2021 through spring of 2022 on a 7,234-acre parcel located on St. James Island in Franklin County, Florida. The project area focused on the newly acquired Bluffs of St. Teresa hiking tract within Bald Point State Park along the Ochlockonee River and Ochlockonee Bay....
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A Class III Cultural Resource Inventory of Travel Routes on Island Mesa in Montrose and San Miguel Counties, Colorado (2023)
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This is an abstract from the "Recent Archaeological Research by PaleoWest" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In this poster, we present the findings of PaleoWest’s Class III survey of Island Mesa in Montrose and San Miguel Counties of Colorado at the end of the 2021 field season. This project posed challenges in access and interpretation because the survey area was located on a steep, rugged mesa and the project area was considered a lithic landscape...
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Hohokam Settlement and Agriculture along the New River (2023)
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This is an abstract from the "Recent Archaeological Research by PaleoWest" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This poster presents the results of three recent PaleoWest data recovery projects at small habitation sites and agricultural areas surrounding AZ T:7:68(ASM)/Palo Verde Ruin, one of the primary northern-periphery Hohokam sites along the New River. Previous work at the Palo Verde site had demonstrated a pattern of multiple small sites during...
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Patterns of Faunal Procurement and Consumption at the Mission Santa Clara de Asís Ranchería (CA-SCL-30H) (2023)
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This is an abstract from the "Recent Archaeological Research by PaleoWest" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Excavations at the ranchería at Mission Santa Clara de Asís (CA-SCL-30H) yielded a large and well-preserved faunal assemblage. Using data from the analysis of these remains, this poster explores the domestic subsistence behaviors of the Native Americans who occupied the adobe structures at the mission. Although the predominance of cattle...
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Peoples of the Tall Pines: Precontact Architecture and Settlement Patterns in the Sierra Ancha, Central Arizona (2023)
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This is an abstract from the "Recent Archaeological Research by PaleoWest" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Sierra Ancha (Spanish for “wide mountain”) of central Arizona boasts some of the richest human history in the greater Southwest, yet its archaeology remains understudied and poorly understood. The region lies within or between the boundaries of the Hohokam, Salado, Ancestral Pueblo, and Mogollon culture areas, and most of the...
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Recent Investigations at AZ U:9:173(ASM)/Crismon Ruin, Arizona (2023)
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This is an abstract from the "Recent Archaeological Research by PaleoWest" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. AZ U:9:173(ASM)/Crismon ruin is a Hohokam village occupied from the Preclassic to the Classic periods and located near the headwaters of Lehi prehistoric canal system and on a fertile terrace above the Salt River Basin, today in the City of Mesa, Maricopa County, Arizona. The site is known since the 1920s and has been investigated on several...
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Settlement and Subsistence at the Headwaters of Silver Creek, Western Arizona (2023)
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This is an abstract from the "Recent Archaeological Research by PaleoWest" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Silver Creek drainage in north-central Arizona was a focal point of Ancestral Pueblo population aggregation in the late thirteenth century during a time in which the nearby Colorado Plateau was all but depopulated. With a few notable exceptions, most of the masonry pueblos and villages in the greater Silver Creek area were subsequently...