Bruce Huckell, the Early Agricultural Period and Recent Work in the Upper Gila River, Southeastern Arizona

Summary

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 river. The Early Agricultural period cerros de trincheras of Round Mountain and DotMon suggest that substantial settlements are a feature of the beginnings of farming in Northwest Mexico and the American Southwest (NW/SW) on multiple major streams. The goal of this paper is to summarize our field work on Early Agricultural period locations on the Upper Gila River and extend the patterns that Bruce Huckell originally recognized.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 90th Annual Meeting, Denver, CO (2025)   •
• Papers in Celebration of Bruce B. Huckell, Part 2

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Abstract Id(s): 52379