Papers in Celebration of Bruce B. Huckell, Part 2

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ashley Smallwood.

This is an abstract from the "Papers in Celebration of Bruce B. Huckell, Part 2" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Bruce Huckell was a pioneer of experimental archaeology. His early work “Of Chipped Stone Tools, Elephants, and the Clovis Hunters” and “The Denver Elephant Project” demonstrated how actualistic experiments offer archaeologists powerful interpretative data for understanding Paleoindian technology and subsistence. This paper builds on a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert Hard.

This is an abstract from the "Papers in Celebration of Bruce B. Huckell, Part 2" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Bruce Huckell’s work identifying the importance of riverine adaptations during the Early Agricultural period in southeastern Arizona has been foundational to the later recognition of broad patterns across multiple streams in the borderlands. Our work the Upper Gila River in southeastern Arizona extends this pattern to yet another major...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Phil Geib.

This is an abstract from the "Papers in Celebration of Bruce B. Huckell, Part 2" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Lethal intergroup conflict, or war, was a facet of life for the Basketmaker II farmers on the Colorado Plateau ca. 500 BCE – 500 CE. Massacre assemblages such as Wetherill’s Cave 7 provide the most conclusive evidence for warfare, but other indications include rock art depictions of violence and war trophies. Attempts at explanation...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Leslie McFadden.

This is an abstract from the "Papers in Celebration of Bruce B. Huckell, Part 2" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. My association with Bruce Huckell began in 1994 after he acquired positions as a Coordinator in the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology and Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico. Coincidentally, we had earned our Ph.D.’s at the University of Arizona, where we had the opportunity to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only James Vint.

This is an abstract from the "Papers in Celebration of Bruce B. Huckell, Part 2" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Early Agricultural period was revived as part of Late Archaic culture-historical systematics during the late 1980s and early 1990s. Work by Bruce Huckell at Milagro, Barb Roth at Cortaro Fan, Paul and Suzy Fish at Tumamoc Hill, and CRM projects in the Tucson Basin fueled this conceptual revision, along with long-term projects at La...

DOCUMENT Citation Only M. Shackley.

This is an abstract from the "Papers in Celebration of Bruce B. Huckell, Part 2" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. For 40 years my laboratory has been providing x-ray fluorescence (XRF) analyses to Bruce Huckell and his graduate students since we first met when we were both in graduate school (UA and ASU). This has included various rock types including hydrothermally altered rhyolite (Socorro “Jasper”), but most especially Paleoindian through...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Thaddeus Liebert.

This is an abstract from the "Papers in Celebration of Bruce B. Huckell, Part 2" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The study of Paleoindian occupation in the Middle Rio Grande Valley has been a focus of research for many decades, yet knowledge of the Cody Complex in this region remains limited due to factors such as low site density and large tracts of reservation and private land. This paper examines the lithic assemblage from the Los Gavilanes...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Joseph Birkmann.

This is an abstract from the "Papers in Celebration of Bruce B. Huckell, Part 2" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Despite the wide variety of environmental settings and sites attributable to the Early Agricultural Period (EAP) in the Southwest, the current narrative regarding the arrival of agricultural production as an economic strategy remains primarily focused on the alluvial corridors of large rivers like the Santa Cruz in Tucson, AZ. In 1997...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Cassandra Keyes.

This is an abstract from the "Papers in Celebration of Bruce B. Huckell, Part 2" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent research into the Archaic period in the North American Southwest (8000 – 1500 BP) has expanded our knowledge of the preceramic period, yet the origins and technological implications of long-tapering stemmed points of the Early Archaic remain enigmatic across the region. Historically, the debate in the Southwest has revolved...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Cheryl Fogle-Hatch.

This is an abstract from the "Papers in Celebration of Bruce B. Huckell, Part 2" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Objects that are exhibited at museums are usually presented visually, behind glass, or roped off. This practice excludes visitors who are Blind, and it deprives sighted visitors of the benefits of learning through touch. Current research demonstrates the advantages of tactile exploration. For example, (Sweetman et al. 2020), found that...