Mogollon, Mimbres, and Salado Archaeology in Southwest New Mexico and Beyond

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 "Mogollon, Mimbres, and Salado Archaeology in Southwest New Mexico and Beyond" at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Southwest New Mexico from AD 600 to 1450 encompasses multiple archaeological culture areas differentiated by patterns in ceramics, architecture, and other material culture. The highly diverse archaeological record of this region makes it well suited to exploring change over time, including migration, responses to environmental change, and internal sociopolitical reorganization. This variability also offers opportunities for comparisons with other areas of the US Southwest at larger spatial scales. This session brings together diverse approaches to understanding this temporal and spatial variability, including GIS, chipped stone, ground stone, ceramic, and paleoethnobotanical analyses, as well as experimental archaeology.

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  • Analysis of Shell Trade Patterns at Salado Sites in the Southwest (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Charles Hemphill.

    This is an abstract from the "Mogollon, Mimbres, and Salado Archaeology in Southwest New Mexico and Beyond" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The purpose of this poster is to examine the shell assemblages found at the Dinwiddie, Gila River Farm, and 3-Up sites that were excavated by previous Archaeology Southwest field schools. The poster will focus on shell trade and exchange to determine if there are differences in shell trade between the three...

  • Ceramic Distribution within the Upper Gila Region (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Totsoni DeLuna.

    This is an abstract from the "Mogollon, Mimbres, and Salado Archaeology in Southwest New Mexico and Beyond" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Ceramic creation and distribution within the Upper Gila region allows us to better understand trade and migration of early southwestern Indigenous peoples. Collections of various ceramic types leave us with more questions than answers, such as who made them? Where did they come from? And what led many of the...

  • Comparative Distribution of Kayenta Ground Stone in Hohokam and Mogollon Salado Sites (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily Barrick.

    This is an abstract from the "Mogollon, Mimbres, and Salado Archaeology in Southwest New Mexico and Beyond" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Ground stone is a ubiquitous artifact type throughout the Southwest after the advent of agriculture, and a useful indicator of technology, cultural variation, and individual preference. During the Salado phenomenon in southwest New Mexico and southeast Arizona (~AD 1300–1450), it became a distinguishing...

  • A Comparative Paleoethnobotanical Analysis of Geographically Disparate Salado Sites (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Jonah Bullen.

    This is an abstract from the "Mogollon, Mimbres, and Salado Archaeology in Southwest New Mexico and Beyond" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the thirteenth century, the southwestern United States underwent extensive demographic shifts, including migration and drastic social upheaval. From this context what archaeologists call the Salado ideology emerged in southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico in the fourteenth century from the...

  • Comparison of Hafting Adhesive Strengths in Lithic Tools (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Jorge Barcelo. Allen Denoyer.

    This is an abstract from the "Mogollon, Mimbres, and Salado Archaeology in Southwest New Mexico and Beyond" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Pine pitch is a form of glue whose main ingredients are pine resin and some sort of fibrous binder. There are various recipes that involve using different binders such as herbivore dung, ash, and organic fibers. Some formulas also call for beeswax or a form of fat to keep the pitch pliable and resist...

  • The Powers Ranch Site: Identity and Affiliation West of the Mimbres Heartland (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Mary Whisenhunt. Patricia Gilman.

    This is an abstract from the "Mogollon, Mimbres, and Salado Archaeology in Southwest New Mexico and Beyond" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. What does it mean to be Mimbres at the far edge of the Mimbres heartland? Here, we consider questions of Mimbres identity and affiliation by examining ceramics and architecture from the Powers Ranch site. We also analyze Powers Ranch in relation to other Mimbres Classic components along the Gila River to the...

  • Quantitatively Modeling the Relationship between Watershed Size and Site Size in Sixth–Tenth-Century Gila and Mimbres Regions, Southwestern New Mexico (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Ian Youth. Karen Schollmeyer.

    This is an abstract from the "Mogollon, Mimbres, and Salado Archaeology in Southwest New Mexico and Beyond" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This project quantitatively investigates the relationship between watershed size and site size within the Gila and Mimbres regions of southwestern New Mexico. Throughout the later first millennium CE, larger sites in these regions tended to occupy areas where smaller tributaries flowed into primary drainage...

  • Reassembling Salado: Salado Polychrome Ceramics in the Phoenix Basin (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Caitlin Wichlacz.

    This is an abstract from the "Mogollon, Mimbres, and Salado Archaeology in Southwest New Mexico and Beyond" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This poster presents the results of dissertation research examining manifestations of the Salado phenomenon at Hohokam sites in the Phoenix basin of Arizona, investigating how Salado polychrome (Roosevelt Red ware) ceramics were incorporated into contemporaneous Hohokam ceramic assemblages and practices during...

  • Reassessing Mimbres Mogollon Red-Slipped Pottery (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Lori Barkwill Love.

    This is an abstract from the "Mogollon, Mimbres, and Salado Archaeology in Southwest New Mexico and Beyond" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The red-slipped pottery associated with Mimbres Mogollon pithouses seldom gets much attention, and the typology and chronology of these red-slipped ceramics are not well understood. This poster presents the results of an attribute analysis on the red-slipped pottery from seven Mimbres Mogollon sites as well as...

  • Salado Projectile Point Technology at the Gila River Farm Site, Southwestern New Mexico (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Aleesha Clevenger. Allen Denoyer.

    This is an abstract from the "Mogollon, Mimbres, and Salado Archaeology in Southwest New Mexico and Beyond" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This research examines the projectile point assemblage from the Gila River Farm site, a Cliff phase (AD 1300–1450) Salado site excavated by the Archaeology Southwest and University of Arizona Upper Gila Preservation Archaeology (UGPA) field school from 2016 to 2022. The projectile point assemblage was recovered...

  • Zooarchaeological Evidence of Human Niche Construction at the Harris Site (LA 1867) (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Kristin Corl.

    This is an abstract from the "Mogollon, Mimbres, and Salado Archaeology in Southwest New Mexico and Beyond" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Harris Site (LA 1867) is a Late Pithouse period (AD 550–1000) agricultural village located along the upper Mimbres River Valley in New Mexico. This period is seen as a time of great demographic and social change linked to changes in the environment. This site provides an excellent case study looking at...