In 2016, after accepting a Lecturer position in the Anthropology Department at Northern Arizona University, I was asked to teach our junior-level Southwestern Archaeology course. I quickly reviewed Stephen Plog’s (2008) foundational Ancient Peoples of the American Southwest to brush up on all things prehistoric. As a historical archaeologist, I also added a few weeks at the end of the semester to tackle the Southwest’s historic period. I assigned Plog’s two brief chapters on historic eras (2008:181–198) and set out to find archaeology articles to incorporate into the class. It was then, though, that I hit a wall. While I was able to find plenty of articles on the Spanish colonial period, articles on the more recent Southwestern centuries were few and far between. I scoured American Antiquity, Historical Archaeology, and, of course, Kiva, yet work exploring the 1800s and 1900s eluded me. I chalked it up to being a recent import to Arizona and the Southwest, and perhaps I simply did not know the proper search terms to find such articles. Over the next three years, however, in numerous conversations with professors, graduate students, historic preservationists, CRM archaeologists, and federal and state government archaeologists from throughout Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Utah, and Colorado, I discovered that this struggle to find publications on historical archaeology was a recurrent theme in the archaeology of the Southwest; such articles rarely existed. While there are historical archaeologists and projects in the Southwest, they are most commonly found in government reports or site forms filed away at SHPOs, inaccessible to most archaeologists, the public, or stakeholders like indigenous peoples or descendant populations (Ayres 1991). Since I come from the University of Nevada-Reno, one-time home to Don Hardesty and host to a long-standing program dedicated to the historical period of the Great Basin, I became determined to address the apparent dearth of published historical archaeology in the Southwest. An obvious place to begin is to examine what constitutes the historic Southwest, as the geographic boundaries are vaguely defined. The prehistoric Southwest has kiva, Vol. 86 No. 2, June, 2020, 131–136

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美国西南部的新观点：1800年代和1900年代的历史考古学

2016年，在北亚利桑那大学人类学系担任讲师职位后，我被要求教授我们的初级西南考古学课程。我迅速回顾了斯蒂芬·普洛（Stephen Plog）（2008）的《美国西南部古代民族》一书，回顾了史前所有事物。作为一名历史考古学家，我在学期末还增加了几个星期来应对西南地区的历史时期。我分配了Plog关于历史时期的两个简短章节（2008：181–198），并着手寻找考古学文章以纳入课堂。不过，那时我撞墙了。虽然我能找到许多有关西班牙殖民时期的文章，但有关近代西南世纪的文章却很少而且相差甚远。我搜寻了美国古代，历史考古学，当然还有基瓦，然而，探索1800和1900年代的工作却使我望而却步。我认为这是最近到亚利桑那州和西南地区的进口商品，也许我只是不知道找到此类文章的合适搜索词。然而，在接下来的三年中，与来自亚利桑那州，新墨西哥州，德克萨斯州，犹他州和科罗拉多州的教授，研究生，历史保护主义者，CRM考古学家以及联邦和州政府的考古学家进行了无数次对话，我发现这一发现难以找到历史考古学出版物是西南考古学中经常出现的主题。这样的文章很少存在。尽管西南部有历史悠久的考古学家和项目，但最常见的是在政府报告或SHPO备案的站点表格中，大多数考古学家，公众，或诸如土著人民或后裔人口之类的利益相关者（Ayres 1991）。由于我来自内华达州里诺大学，曾是Don Hardesty的故乡，并主持了一项致力于大盆地历史时期的长期计划，因此我决心解决该地区已出版的历史考古学显然缺乏的问题。西南。一个明显的起点是检查历史悠久的西南地区的构成因素，因为地理边界已经模糊地定义了。史前西南地区有kiva，Vol。86 No.2，2020年6月，编号：131-136 我决心解决西南地区已出版的历史考古学显然缺乏的问题。一个明显的起点是检查历史悠久的西南地区的构成因素，因为地理边界已经模糊地定义了。史前西南地区有kiva，Vol。86 No.2，2020年6月，编号：131-136 我决心解决西南地区已出版的历史考古学显然缺乏的问题。一个明显的起点是检查历史悠久的西南地区的构成因素，因为地理边界已经模糊地定义了。史前西南地区有kiva，Vol。86 No.2，2020年6月，编号：131-136