Bonita Canyon: A Chronology of Prehistoric Occupation and Predictive Analysis of Archaic Sites

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Partners at Work: Promoting Archaeology and Collaboration in the Chiricahua Mountains" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

One of the goals of the Student Conservation Association (SCA) is to develop the next generation of conservation leaders. While the focus is often on natural resources, cultural resources, as a nonrenewable resource, have, until recently, been neglected. Chiricahua NM has been partnering with the SCA to unravel these archaeological mysteries and develop a cultural resource management program for the park. One of those projects has been to analyze the prehistoric occupation within Bonita Canyon, the largest canyon within the Monument and the center of much archaeological research over the last 35 years. Such overviews of the archaeology in the area are lacking; as such, this synthesis will provide a strong grounding for future land management decisions. This poster focuses on the results of that synthesis, which included building an inductive predictive model with ArcGIS to predict additional high-likelihood areas on the Monument for prehistoric occupation.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Partners at Work: Promoting Archaeology and Collaboration in the Chiricahua Mountains   •
• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

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Abstract Id(s): 26245