Emerging Voices in Mogollon Archaeology

Part of: Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Emerging Voices in Mogollon Archaeology" at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The Mogollon subregion of the US Southwest / Mexican Northwest is situated in Southwest archaeological history as the least understood of the “Big Three” regional cultural traditions that were established while culture history was the dominant paradigm in American archaeology. This is partially credited to the Mogollon exhibiting less grandeur than its sister region to the north (Ancestral Puebloan) and less cultural resource management work conducted there compared to its sister region in the west (Hohokam), resulting in the Mogollon being further situated from the public and archaeological eye. The Mogollon region is arguably one of the most diverse of the three subregions, spanning from the southern edge of the Colorado Plateau to north-central Mexico, encompassing a broad range of environments and site types. Further research into the Mogollon across time would contribute to a better overall understanding of Southwest archaeology. This session seeks to expand on well-established scholarship in the Mogollon area by adding work from rising scholars using diverse methodologies to that of the established (and changing) narratives of the region. We hope that this symposium will encourage the further renewal of research and collaboration within the Mogollon area.

Other Keywords
Mogollon • Collections • Museums • Ceramic Analysis • and Repatriation • Migration • History Of Archaeology • Communities of Practice • digital archaeology • geometric morphometrics

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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  • Embedded Identity: Preliminary Analyses of Mogollon Corrugated Vessels (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Rebecca Harkness.

    This is an abstract from the "Emerging Voices in Mogollon Archaeology" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Between 1250 and 1450 CE, the cultural landscape of the US Southwest transformed as diverse communities migrated from their homelands into areas with long-established local populations. The processes behind this new shared multicultural identity were complex and required individuals from both migrant and local Mogollon communities to negotiate...

  • The Gila River Farm Site and Salado Coalescence during the Fourteenth Century in the Upper Gila, New Mexico (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher La Roche.

    This is an abstract from the "Emerging Voices in Mogollon Archaeology" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeology Southwest and the University of Arizona’s Upper Gila Preservation Archaeology (UGPA) Field School has conducted excavations for six field seasons (2016–2019; 2021–2022) at the Gila River Farm Site. This paper evaluates intrasite coalescence between a small migrant community with ancestry linked to the Kayenta-Tusayan area and local...

  • Mogollon Murk: Ideas for Some New Ways Forward through Collections and Collaboration (and a Little Fieldwork) (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Erin Baxter. Steve Nash. Michele Koons. Deborah Huntley.

    This is an abstract from the "Emerging Voices in Mogollon Archaeology" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Emily Haury wrote, “[Mogollon studies are] . . . a currently confused state of affairs. Perhaps in another half century [it] will have reached a state of broad acceptability and equilibrium” (1983:xix). Forty years into the prognostication, have we made inroads? This paper will explore the Denver Museum of Nature & Science’s efforts toward that...

  • On the Shoulders of Giants: A History of Archaeological Research in the Mogollon (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Jared Renaud. Rebecca Harkness.

    This is an abstract from the "Emerging Voices in Mogollon Archaeology" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Since its inception by Emil Haury during the height of the cultural-historical period of American archaeology, the idea of a Mogollon cultural tradition has exhibited considerable dynamism through time. The concept has since developed as a means to delineate a mountain highlands–based cultural tradition from that of the identified Hohokam and...

  • Using Extant Photographs of Ceramic Collections for Geometric Morphometric Archaeological Research (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Kathleen Barvick.

    This is an abstract from the "Emerging Voices in Mogollon Archaeology" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Modern archaeology is constantly seeking innovative, nondestructive ways to learn new things about the past from existing collections. One powerful tool in the modern arsenal is Geometric Morphometrics (GMM), a method of quantitative shape analysis that can be applied to study technological style and communities of practice through material...