Assessing the Viability of Limited Collection and in Field Analysis Strategies for Ceramic investigations at S’eḏav Va’aki, Arizona

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Training a New Generation of Heritage Professionals in the Valley of the Sun: The ASU Field School at S’eḏav Va’aki" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

One of the primary goals of the Arizona State University field school at S’eḏav Va’aki was to use minimally disturbing methods to accurately characterize the nature, spatial extent, and chronological placement of features within the project area. This goal was developed in the initial project treatment plan in consultation with the City of Phoenix Archaeology office, the Tribal Historic Preservation Offices of the Gila River Indian Community and the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, and the Arizona State Museum in order to limit unnecessary site disturbance. As a result, the project team focused on recording and photographing artifacts in the field to the extent possible and only collecting a small subsample of objects for additional analyses where necessary. In this poster we provide an overview of the ceramic analyses conducted for this project demonstrating how we were able to rapidly and efficiently obtain substantial information for stylistic analysis, chronological seriation, spatial analysis, and temper/technological analysis while only making limited collections. The tools and methods developed as part of this project provide resources for future projects in the Phoenix area focused on Ancestral O’Odham sites and could be adapted to other settings as well.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)   •
• Training a New Generation of Heritage Professionals in the Valley of the Sun: The ASU Field School at S’eḏav Va’aki

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Abstract Id(s): 39314.0