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v Southeastern Arizona is an understudied area of the American Southwest once broadly occupied by prehistoric groups. Historically, many Native American sites in the Duncan-York Valley were extensively looted or systematically destroyed... more
Subsistence data from Far Western Pueblos in riverine settings demonstrate the importance of maize farming, although variability in recovery techniques and sampling choices have resulted in ambiguity regarding the use of wild foods. The... more
Van Dyke, Ruth M. (2019)  Chaco Gathers:  Experience and Assemblage in the Ancient Southwest.  In New Materialisms, Ancient Urbanisms, edited by Susan M. Alt and Timothy R. Pauketat, pp. 40-64.  Routledge, New York and London.
In light of global trends in human population growth and urbanization, burgeoning cultural heritage tourism industries, and climate change, cultural heritage places in nearly every corner of the world are significantly threatened, and... more
In the Gallina district, it is still unclear whether the violence originated with domestic (i.e. local) or foreign agents. This analysis will begin with a brief review of the relevant archaeology of the Gallina area. Following this, I set... more
This chapter by John M. D. Pohl and Michael D. Mathiowetz appears in a Dumbarton Oaks volume edited by Christopher S. Beekman and Colin McEwan. Please cite the chapter and volume as follows: Pohl, John M.D. and Michael D. Mathiowetz 2022... more
Photographs and documentary accounts relating to Geronimo’s 1886 attempted surrender at the Cañon de los Embudos site are used to explore the archaeological nature of structure or hut imprints. These primary written and visual sources... more
Towards the end of the thirteenth century, the Albuquerque Basin of New Mexico saw a significant increase in population from Puebloan peoples migrating into the valley. By the time of the Coronado expedition in 1541–1542, this area... more
Prehistoric water management in the northern US Southwest was integral to successful subsistence. On the Mesa Verde cuesta in southwestern Colorado, several types of water management features have been identified in the archaeological... more
Locality X is a diffuse scatter which consists primarily of more than 1,000 tiny lithic artifacts distributed throughout a massive stratum of eolian sand adjacent to a lunette southeast of Blackwater Draw Locality 1. The discovery of a... more
The paper will not address: “A basic question in Southwestern (Northern Mesoamerica) archaeology concerns the cultural connectivity of its pre-Hispanic populations with their neighbors in Mexico. Were Southwestern populations culturally... more
Although obsidian was only rarely employed during the Archaic period in the Hohokam region of southern Arizona, use of this natural glass became widespread during the pre-Classic period around AD 600 and continued unabated through the... more
Three Circle phase great kivas in the Mimbres area of southwest New Mexico have been the subject of new field investigations and reanalysis of data from earlier excavations. The findings have led to an enhanced and more detailed... more
Anderson, Andrea L., and Thomas R. Rocek 2018 GIS Modeling of Agricultural Suitability in the Highlands of the Jornada Branch of the Mogollon Culture of Southcentral New Mexico. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 22:142-153.... more
Evidence from five Late Archaic/Early Agricultural period sites located in the middle and lower Santa Cruz River valley indicates that the local development of a ceramic container technology occurred over a relatively long period that... more
Poor chronology has long plagued the Patayan archaeological tradition of the far-western reaches of the North American Southwest. Archaeologists typically rely upon ceramics to assign associated materials to the broadly defined Patayan I,... more
Drawing upon multiple lines of archaeological evidence, including mortuary ritual, faunal bone, ceramic effigy vessels, and rock art, I argue that birds were an important component of Fremont ideology. This " bird cult " was situated... more
The Arizona State Museum has more than 30,000 archaeological perishable artifacts. A large scale inventory of this collection led to an analytical survey to identify the indigenous adhesives that are present in these objects. Adhesive... more
This study employs stratigraphic, sedimentological, chemical, and microartifact analyses to reconstruct the depositional histories of 10 pit structures interpreted as kivas from the United States Southwest. The structures are located in... more
Review of Reframing the Northern Rio Grande Pueblo Economy, edited by Scott G. Ortman (2019). Review for the Albuquerque Archaeological Society, excerpt is from the October 2019 Newsletter.
This paper highlights the elaborate mortuary projectile points from Hohokam sites collected near Gila Bend, Arizona, by Norton Allen. Allen was a well-regarded and meticulous avocationalist who preserved thousands of artifacts that would... more
The Perry Mesa region of north-central Arizona was largely unoccupied prior to the middle 13th century. Between 1250 and 1300 CE, however, thousands of people moved into the area. We believe this was a highly diverse population, with... more
COLORADO: A History of the Centennial State, Fifth Edition, by Carl Abbott, Stephen J. Leonard, and Thomas J. Noel (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2013).
Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting Albuquerque, New Mexico Saturday, April 13, 2019 [340] Forum · #METOO IN ARCHAEOLOGY (SPONSORED BY SAA ETHICS COMMITTEE) 110 Galisteo 1:00–3:00 PM Moderators: Heather Thakar,... more
In 2006 an interdisciplinary team, coordinated by the Solstice Project, produced an interactive computer graphics model that precisely replicates the astronomical functioning of an ancient calendrical site, the Sun Dagger, of Chaco... more
Utilizing examples from fieldwork in the museum, this essay engages Pueblo Grande as a site where colonial identities are re/enacted through symbolic, material, and social encounters. At the same time, I seek to also address decolonizing... more
In The Atlatl 20(1):1-3, Jan 2007. VanPool (2006) and others have suggested that atlatls survived alongside bows in the late prehistoric Southwest, but the evidence is largely unacceptable. Projectile point size is not good enough, and in... more
Archaeologists working in the far western Southwest distinguish the Lowland Patayan tradition by virtue of a distinctive, typically undecorated, light-colored pottery found along the lower Gila and lower Colorado rivers and in surrounding... more
The Tijeras Pueblo Ceramic Project has analyzed over 12,000 fragments of utility ware pottery from the fourteenth century village site of Tijeras Pueblo (LA 581) in the Central Rio Grande region of New Mexico (Figure 1). These analyses... more
In the past decade more than 700 archaeomagnetic samples have been collected from the Hohokam area of southern Arizona. Four hundred twenty of the dated archaeomagnetic samples could be assigned to specific phases and phase transitions... more
Collaborative, open, participatory, community-based, public, and Indigenous archaeologies are frequently discussed collectively as a paradigm shift for the discipline. As these approaches mature, we begin to understand some of their... more