Lithic Landscapes and Basketmaker Villages: An Update of the 2014 Petrified Forest Boundary Expansion Survey

Summary

In 2004 Congress authorized Petrified Forest National Park to more than double in size, in part to protect unique cultural resources. This poster introduces the preliminary results of the first and second seasons of pedestrian survey in these new lands. So far this research has recorded archaeological sites dating from the Early Archaic through the Late Pueblo periods. Sites range from lithic landscapes covering hundreds of acres to multi-room masonry or jacal structures. Mapping in semi-stabilized dunes has focused on large Basketmaker village sites and detailed ceramic analysis has documented phenomenal diversity of ceramic types and sources. This survey and documentation project is being conducted in order to better understand prehistoric land use and change through time in this prehistorically significant area of the southwest. In addition to cultural resource management goals this project also functions as a teaching laboratory with the Petrified Forest National Park internship program. To date, this program has incorporate nine college student interns for in-depth field training and independent research.

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This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Recent Archaeological Research in Petrified Forest National Park   •
• Society for American Archaeology 80th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2015)

Keywords

Spatial Coverage