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Blurred Boundaries: Perspectives on Rock Art of the Greater Southwest KIVA Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Margaret K. Berrier
Published in KIVA: Journal of Southwestern Anthropology and History (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Households on the Mimbres Horizon: Excavations at La Gila Encantada, Southwestern New Mexico KIVA Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Robert J. Stokes
Published in KIVA: Journal of Southwestern Anthropology and History (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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The Chaco Great North Road: Archaeological Survey and Ceramic Analysis by the San Juan Valley Archaeological Project KIVA Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Hayward Franklin, E. Pierre Morenon
Research by Cynthia Irwin-Williams and the San Juan Valley Archaeological Project during the 1970s included investigations at Salmon Pueblo, near modern Bloomfield, NM. Interest focused on the cons...
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Vapaki: Ancestral O’Odham Platform Mounds of the Sonoran Desert KIVA Pub Date : 2023-12-29 Stephen H. Lekson
Published in KIVA: Journal of Southwestern Anthropology and History (Vol. 90, No. 1, 2024)
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Dating Perishables to Refine the Chronology of Shrine Cave Use, the Goggle-eye Motif, and other Jornada and Mimbres Mogollon Iconography KIVA Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Myles R. Miller, Phil R. Geib, Darrell G. Creel
Professional and avocational archaeologists have recovered thousands of perishable artifacts from caves and rockshelters across the southern US Southwest, but few have been radiocarbon dated. This ...
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Holes in Our Moccasins, Holes in Our Stories: Apachean Origins and the Promontory, Franktown, and Dismal River Archaeological Records KIVA Pub Date : 2023-12-24 James R. Allison
Published in KIVA: Journal of Southwestern Anthropology and History (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Fluted Points of the Far West KIVA Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Justin DeMaio
Published in KIVA: Journal of Southwestern Anthropology and History (Vol. 90, No. 1, 2024)
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A New Deal for Navajo Weaving: Reform and Revival of Diné Textiles KIVA Pub Date : 2023-11-24 Peter J. Pilles Jr
Published in KIVA: Journal of Southwestern Anthropology and History (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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The Archaeology of the Bonito Paleochannel Cycle at Chaco Canyon, New Mexico: Implications for Communal and Household Level Investment in Water Management KIVA Pub Date : 2023-11-22 W. H. Wills, Katharine Williams, Wetherbee B. Dorshow
This study examines the archaeological record for water management in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, in relation to the Bonito Paleochannel cycle, ca. AD 1075–1150. We present evidence for a canal syste...
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The Stratigraphy and Chronology of Point of Pines Pueblo: Basic Facts that Underlie Complex Inferences Regarding Interactions Between Locals and Immigrants KIVA Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Patrick D. Lyons, Don L. Burgess, Virginia W. Johns, Marilyn M. Marshall
Point of Pines Pueblo has long been central to discussions about ancient migrations and interactions between locals and immigrants in the U.S. Southwest. However, a lack of systematic analyses of c...
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Linda S. Cordell: Innovating Southwest Archaeology KIVA Pub Date : 2023-11-13 Sandra Arazi-Coambs
Published in KIVA: Journal of Southwestern Anthropology and History (Vol. 89, No. 4, 2023)
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Western Ceramic Traditions: Prehistoric and Historic Native American Ceramics of the Western U.S. KIVA Pub Date : 2023-11-13 Lori Stephens Reed
Published in KIVA: Journal of Southwestern Anthropology and History (Vol. 89, No. 4, 2023)
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Reevaluating Nogales Polychrome: A Pioneering Polychrome Produced by the Trincheras Tradition of Northern Sonora, Mexico KIVA Pub Date : 2023-11-13 Hunter M. Claypatch
Nogales Polychrome was produced by the Trincheras tradition of northern Sonora, Mexico. Although this type was initially defined in the 1930s, few researchers have discussed its temporal placement ...
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The Colorado Delta, 1771–1776: Rereading Francisco Garcés KIVA Pub Date : 2023-10-24 Peter M. Whiteley
The ethnohistory of the Colorado River delta has been substantively misunderstood, owing to the widespread neglect and/or misinterpretations of the writings of Francisco Garcés. In 1771, 1774, and ...
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No Place for a Lady: The Life Story of Archaeologist Marjorie F. Lambert KIVA Pub Date : 2023-10-11 Michelle M. Ensey
Published in KIVA: Journal of Southwestern Anthropology and History (Vol. 90, No. 1, 2024)
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The Bonito Paleochannel in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico: Recent Research and Implications for Causality and Effects KIVA Pub Date : 2023-10-04 W. H. Wills, Katharine Williams, Patricia L. Crown, Wetherbee Dorshow
During the late eleventh century AD, a episode of erosion in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, threatened to destroy portions of the Pueblo Bonito great house and possibly other large buildings. Known as t...
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The Colorado Delta, 1771–1776: Rereading Francisco Garcés KIVA Pub Date : 2023-10-04 Peter M. Whiteley
The ethnohistory of the Colorado River delta has been substantively misunderstood, owing to the widespread neglect and/or misinterpretations of the writings of Francisco Garcés. In 1771, 1774, and ...
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Fuelwood Collection and Women’s Work in Ancestral Puebloan Societies on the Colorado Plateau KIVA Pub Date : 2023-09-27 Alan J. Osborn
Anthropologists have recently paid greater attention to gender and the division of labor in subsistence societies around the world. These studies have included Ancestral Puebloan societies in the U...
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Sonora: The Elusive Site, the Debated Name, and Various Designations KIVA Pub Date : 2023-09-27 William E. Doolittle, William Steen, José Omar Montoya Ballesteros
A place named Sonora appears in seventeenth and eighteenth century documents and on later maps. Two sources place this site north of the present-day town of Huépac. Other sources place the site sou...
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Cremated Animal Bone Piles in the Western Papaguería KIVA Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Richard Martynec, Sandra Martynec
In 1985 Julian Hayden reported 95 heaps of cremated animal bones in the Sierra Pinacate. For a variety of reasons, he concluded that the practice was long-lived and unique to that area. He attribut...
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Children in Mimbres Pithouse Society KIVA Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Barbara J. Roth, Danielle Romero
Children were active participants in past village life and reconstructing their activities and social roles can provide important insights into domestic and economic dynamics at archaeological site...
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The Paleoindian and Archaic Occupation of Grants, New Mexico: A Review and Reanalysis of the Grants San Jose Sites and Projectile Point Collections KIVA Pub Date : 2023-09-16 Joseph M. Birkmann, Bruce B. Huckell, M. Steven Shackley, C. Vance Haynes Jr.
In the late 1930s Joseph Toulouse Jr., Kirk Bryan, and Bryan McCann published two articles describing the archaeology and geology of seventeen preceramic sites near Grants, New Mexico. George Agogi...
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25 Years of the Julian D. Hayden Paper Competition KIVA Pub Date : 2023-08-16
Published in KIVA: Journal of Southwestern Anthropology and History (Vol. 89, No. 3, 2023)
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Investigating Material Culture Through Multilayer Network Analysis in Tonto Basin KIVA Pub Date : 2023-08-16 Robert J. Bischoff
Network analysis has a strong foundation in Southwest archaeology, yet the analysis of multiple network layers in a single analysis– (multilayer network analysis)– has not been formally applied except within a single artifact type. Many studies consider material culture holistically, yet network analysis has the advantage of focusing specifically on the relationships between entities. This study uses
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Borderlands Histories: Ethnographic Observations and Archaeological Interpretations KIVA Pub Date : 2023-08-09 Scott Nicolay
Published in KIVA: Journal of Southwestern Anthropology and History (Vol. 89, No. 4, 2023)
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Habitability Studies of a Replica Fremont-style Pithouse KIVA Pub Date : 2023-07-21 Kenneth Carpenter
A full-sized Fremont-style pithouse was reconstructed to explore habitability. The results are: (1) the pithouse dampens daily and seasonal temperature fluctuations; (2) a wood and leather access closure was thermally more effective than a stone slab; (3) computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modeling shows the superstructure affects interior ventilation; (4) a floor-level vent is necessary for adequate
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Rethinking the Huatabampo Archaeological Tradition of Northwest Mexico KIVA Pub Date : 2023-07-11 John Carpenter, Guadalupe Sánchez, Alejandra Abrego-Rivas, Daniela Rodríguez-Obregón, Hugo García Ferrusca
The Huatabampo tradition was first defined by Gordon Ekholm, in 1938, and refers to those sites in the coastal plain in northern Sinaloa and southern Sonora lacking architecture but containing well-manufactured plain ceramics with complex shapes. Recent investigations in the region are helping to refine the chronology, geographical extension, cultural attributes, and ethnicity. With 20 radiocarbon
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Persistent Places and Socialized Landscapes in the Pine Lawn/Reserve Region during the Pithouse Period KIVA Pub Date : 2023-07-10 Tammy Stone
Regional culture histories of the Pithouse Period in the Pine Lawn/Reserve region of the Mogollon in west-central New Mexico note considerable variability in site location, site layout, and ritual structures, with some increase in variability through time. Additionally, most Pithouse Period sites are occupied during only one phase, with few having evidence of occupation in two phases. Only three sites
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The Archaeology of Place and Space in the West KIVA Pub Date : 2023-06-30 Shannon Cowell
Published in KIVA: Journal of Southwestern Anthropology and History (Vol. 89, No. 3, 2023)
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Revisiting Harold S. Colton’s 1970 Analysis of Dogs in the Southwest KIVA Pub Date : 2023-06-21 Martin H. Welker, Amanda Semanko
We provide an updated reanalysis of the morphological data underlying Harold S. Colton’s seminal study of prehistoric dogs in the U.S. Southwest, supplemented with subsequently published data. This analysis confirms Colton’s identification of two dog types in the Southwest and suggests that the larger dog type identified by Colton is primarily correlated with the Pueblo III (ca. 1150–1300 CE) and IV
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Far Western Basketmaker Beginnings: The Jackson Flat Project KIVA Pub Date : 2023-06-16 Tammy Stone
Published in KIVA: Journal of Southwestern Anthropology and History (Vol. 89, No. 3, 2023)
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Living & Dying on the Periphery: The Archaeology and Human Remains from Two 13th–15th Century AD Villages in Southeastern New Mexico KIVA Pub Date : 2023-06-16 Thatcher A. Seltzer-Rogers
Published in KIVA: Journal of Southwestern Anthropology and History (Vol. 89, No. 3, 2023)
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A Diachronic Analysis of Obsidian Use at Chaco Canyon and the Influence of Social Factors on Obsidian Procurement KIVA Pub Date : 2023-06-05 Jeremy M. Moss, Thomas C. Windes, Andrew I. Duff, William Doleman, M. Steven Shackley
Chaco Canyon in New Mexico was the center of an extensive regional cultural system. The strength of Chaco's regional interactions has been partly defined by the presence of non–local goods including obsidian. We take a diachronic look at Chaco obsidian use from AD 500–1250 using the largest sample of XRF sourced obsidian available to date and combine this with technological analyses to identify significant
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The Production and Distribution of Mimbres Pottery KIVA Pub Date : 2023-06-04 Jakob W. Sedig
Published in KIVA: Journal of Southwestern Anthropology and History (Vol. 89, No. 2, 2023)
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Color and Chaco Performance: Spatial Histories of Blue–Green Paint Production at Pueblo Bonito KIVA Pub Date : 2023-05-08 Kelsey E. Hanson
ABSTRACT Vibrant and colorful plaza-based performances are one of the key hallmarks of the Pueblo ceremonial calendar, providing goodwill and communicating community histories, traditions, and knowledge. While the archaeological record may be silent on many details of these performances, a focus on the materiality of performance preparations is possible. In this paper, I rely upon the reanalysis of
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Paraje del Malpais (AZ FF:12:69, ASM): A Vázquez de Coronado Expedition Encampment in the San Bernardino Valley, Arizona KIVA Pub Date : 2023-03-29 Deni J. Seymour
A Vázquez de Coronado expedition site in the San Bernardino Valley, represents one of five of the first verifiable Coronado expedition sites found in the state. Paraje del Malpais (AZ FF:12:69, ASM) is adjacent to a spring and catchment pool that likely once provided reliable surface water. Earlier and later petroglyphs include water-related symbols suggesting this trail was used since time immemorial
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Agricultural Intensification, Regional Differentiation, and Incipient Village Formation: Early Formative Period Patterning in the San Carlos Safford Area, Southeastern Arizona KIVA Pub Date : 2023-03-27 Thatcher A. Seltzer-Rogers, Joseph S. Crary
Archaeologists commonly interpret the Early Formative period through the lens of ceramic technology and as a significant break from Late Archaic or Early Agricultural period lifeways; however, the local changes underlying this pattern often remain obscure. In this paper, we evaluate the existing literature for the Early Formative period the San Carlos Safford Area of southeastern Arizona and discern
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‘Our Work Will Continue’: Geochemical Sourcing by XRF of Obsidian in the Collections of Helen Greene Blumenschein KIVA Pub Date : 2023-02-26 Matthew T. Boulanger, Michael Adler, Jeffrey L. Boyer, Mark Henderson
Analysis of artifacts collected by the late Helen G. Blumenschein (HGB) provides a region-wide database for obsidian use between the Middle – Late Archaic and the Talpa phase in the Taos area of northern New Mexico, approximately 3000 B.C.E. to 1300 C.E. Using GIS to associate these artifacts with site locations from HGB’s records and the current site files maintained by the State of New Mexico allows
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Reevaluating Mobility and Sedentism in Classic Mimbres and Salado Villages, Southwest New Mexico KIVA Pub Date : 2023-02-20 Stephen L. Uzzle
Fourteenth-century Cliff phase Salado (AD 1300–1450) villages in southwest New Mexico show interesting contrasts with earlier villages in the same region from the Classic Mimbres period (AD 1000–1130). One of the most intriguing differences is that although people in both time periods relied heavily on maize agriculture, Salado period villagers may have employed a more mobile land-use strategy in comparison
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Foragers in Transition: The Middle Archaic in the Northern Rio Grande Valley KIVA Pub Date : 2023-02-08 Bradley J. Vierra, Stephen S. Post
Current research on the Southwest Archaic has focused on understanding the origins of agriculture and the transition from foraging to farming economies. This transition varied widely across the region depending on the local setting. However, significantly fewer studies have given their attention to understanding the process leading up to the initial use of cultigens. We present the results of our research
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Potter Gestures and Work Direction in Southwest Ceramics with Exposed Coiling and Corrugation KIVA Pub Date : 2023-01-20 Genevieve Woodhead
Corrugated vessels are ubiquitous throughout the US Southwest, and yet their research potential is often overlooked. This paper quantifies how much uniformity or variability goes into the process of manufacturing these objects. The paper focuses on the fundamental, early-stage technological choice of coiling direction. Does coiling direction determine other attributes visible on ceramic vessel bodies
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Pueblo Resistance and Inter-Ethnic Conflict: The 1540–1542 Vázquez de Coronado Expedition to the Middle Río Grande Valley, New Mexico KIVA Pub Date : 2023-01-04 Matthew F. Schmader
The expedition led by Francisco Vázquez de Coronado from west-central Mexico into the American Southwest from 1540 to 1542 had a profound and lasting impact on everybody involved. The exploration sought an overland route to Asia and to establish trade relations. The enterprise was also the first major contact between foreigners/others and Indigenous peoples of northern Mexico and the American Southwest
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Zinapécuaro, Michoacán, Méxican Obsidian Artifacts at Piedras Marcadas Pueblo’s Sixteenth Century Battlefield (LA 290), Middle Rio Grande Valley, New Mexico KIVA Pub Date : 2023-01-03 M. Steven Shackley
Direct evidence of the presence of the Mexican indigenous soldiers that accompanied the Coronado entrada into what is now the United States has remained invisible. Dolan and Shackley's recent examination of the presence of four obsidian blades produced from obsidian sources in the Sierra de Pachuca in Hidalgo state of Mexico, was the first intensive examination of artifacts that could directly signal
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Correction Notice KIVA Pub Date : 2022-12-03
Published in KIVA: Journal of Southwestern Anthropology and History (Vol. 88, No. 4, 2022)
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To the Corner of the Province: The 1780 Ugarte-Rocha Sonoran Reconnaissance and Implications for Environmental & Cultural Change KIVA Pub Date : 2022-11-08 David Hill Reynolds
Published in KIVA: Journal of Southwestern Anthropology and History (Vol. 88, No. 4, 2022)
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The Bonito Factor: How Unique Was Pueblo Bonito? KIVA Pub Date : 2022-10-12 Wesley Bernardini, Gregson Schachner
Pueblo Bonito is the largest and most centrally located great house in Chaco Canyon. One of its most striking attributes is its abundance of “exceptional deposits” of rare and unusual objects. It is unclear, however, whether Pueblo Bonito's assemblage reflects its unique status in the Chaco world or whether it is a product of sampling bias. To answer this question, we use binomial probabilities to
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A Basketmaker II S-shaped Grooved Stick from Central Eastern Utah KIVA Pub Date : 2022-10-05 Phil R. Geib
A recent archaeological survey disclosed a whole, S-shaped “grooved club” similar to examples from Basketmaker II contexts of the Four-Corners. It represents the farthest north example of this artifact type in the Southwest, occurring outside the traditional area of western Basketmaker II occupation. Artifacts like this were once thought to be a characteristic Basketmaker II trait of the Four Corners
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With Grit and Determination: A Century of Change for Women in Great Basin and American Archaeology KIVA Pub Date : 2022-09-29 Barbara J. Roth
Published in KIVA: Journal of Southwestern Anthropology and History (Vol. 88, No. 4, 2022)
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Antecedents, Continuities, and Experimental Stages in a Design System: A Symmetry Analysis of Geometric Designs of the Mimbres Tradition KIVA Pub Date : 2022-09-05 Dorothy Washburn, Leon Vance, Stella Gregovich, Zane Badawi
Symmetry analysis characterizes ∼1300 geometric designs on bowl interiors from five sites of the Mimbres culture tradition, AD 1000–1150, of southwestern New Mexico. The analysis reveals a distinct homogeneity in pattern structure and color on three layouts (pendant, centered and band) that, classified by plane pattern symmetries, shows a preference for four finite structures (C2, C4, D2, D4) and two
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Transporting Timbers to Chaco Canyon: How Heavy, How Many Carriers and How Far/Fast? KIVA Pub Date : 2022-08-18 James A. Wilson, Robert S. Weiner, Jeffrey S. Dean, Julio L. Betancourt, Rodger Kram
A total of 200,000+ large timbers were transported >75 km to Chaco Canyon, a political and religious center in the precontact U.S. Southwest, using only human power. Previous researchers reported that typical primary roof beams (vigas) of Chacoan Great Houses averaged 0.22 m in diameter and 5 m in length with a mass of 275 kg. However, the 275 kg mass appears to be a miscalculation. Here, we calculate
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Lead and Zinc Pigmented Mural Paint: Discovering Ancient Technologies at Lowry Pueblo Great House in Southwest Colorado KIVA Pub Date : 2022-08-16 Marvin W. Rowe, Marie D. Desrochers, Karen L. Steelman
At Lowry Pueblo, small fragments of painted plaster are all that remain of a bold white step pattern mural that once decorated Kivas A and B. We used the following analytical techniques to study these fragments: visual microscopic analysis, portable X-ray fluorescence, scanning electron microscopy with an energy dispersive X-ray spectrometer, powder X-ray diffraction, and radiocarbon dating. We identified
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Fremont Smoke Mixtures: Botanical Analyses of Pipes from Wolf Village, Goshen, Utah KIVA Pub Date : 2022-07-23 Michael T. Searcy, Hannah Steffensen, Scott Ure
Over several field seasons, ceramic and stone pipes were recovered from the Fremont site of Wolf Village (AD 1000-1100). Nine of the more complete pipes included residue and burned dottle that were analyzed for macrobotanical and microbotanical remains. Three were subjected to FTIR. These analyses represent the first Fremont pipes ever analyzed for botanical remains, and the results reported in this
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Life at Mesa Verde: An Analysis of Health and Trauma from Wetherill Mesa, Mesa Verde National Park KIVA Pub Date : 2022-06-28 Emily R. Edmonds, Debra L. Martin
Many Mesa Verde cliff dwellings were occupied during the thirteenth century in the final decades before the Four Corners region was depopulated. Deposits in such cliff dwellings offer unique opportunities to research motivations for migration and to understand living conditions in these unusual locations. In compliance with NAGPRA, bioarchaeological data were collected from Wetherill Mesa burials in
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Basketry Shields of the Prehispanic Southwest KIVA Pub Date : 2022-06-28 Edward A. Jolie
Indigenous American shield-making traditions are best known among the peoples of the Plains and Southwest cultural provinces, where shields were used in martial and ceremonial contexts. In these regions, shields are frequently represented in images cross-cutting a range of visual media including rock and mural paintings, and pictographs and petroglyphs, some of which exhibit considerable antiquity
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Birds of the Sun: Macaws and People in the U.S. Southwest and Mexican Northwest KIVA Pub Date : 2022-06-19 Sean G. Dolan
Published in KIVA: Journal of Southwestern Anthropology and History (Vol. 88, No. 3, 2022)
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An Investigation of Diachronic Trends in El Paso Polychrome Painted Designs of the Jornada Mogollon KIVA Pub Date : 2022-06-12 Alexander Kurota, Thatcher A. Seltzer-Rogers, Lora Jackson Legare
For more than one hundred years, archaeologists in southern New Mexico and the neighboring west Texas and northern Chihuahua have studied the prehispanic lifeways of the Jornada Mogollon culture. Identifying when occupations at Jornada sites occurred largely relies on chronometric dates and on cross dating of previously defined local pottery types – El Paso Brown, El Paso Bichrome, and El Paso Polychrome
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History of the Ownership and Management of Tijeras Pueblo KIVA Pub Date : 2022-05-30 Jeremy Kulisheck, Cynthia Buttery Benedict
Across seventy years of research, the site of Tijeras Pueblo has become an important place for understanding the transformations that impacted Rio Grande Pueblo society during the fourteenth century A.D. During that time, the course of research at the pueblo has been guided in part by its changing ownership and management of the site. While the first investigations were conducted while the site was
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Tijeras Pueblo at the Crossroads: A Review of Previous Research and Site Significance KIVA Pub Date : 2022-05-27 Sandra Arazi-Coambs
This paper provides an overview of the Tijeras Pueblo archaeological site. Highlighting Tijeras Pueblo as a community located at a cultural, geographical, and temporal crossroad, the paper attempts to place Tijeras Pueblo within a broader academic and social context. The excavation history of the site will be discussed, along with previous research, and past and modern significance. In its current
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Fremont Dent Maize on the Northern Colorado Plateau KIVA Pub Date : 2022-05-22 Alan R. Schroedl
Since prehistoric dent maize was reported in the extreme northern portion of the Colorado Plateau in the 1940s, multiple researchers have suggested that this dent maize, labeled Fremont Dent, represents a prehistoric maize landrace that originated on the northern Colorado Plateau and is a distinct cultural marker of the Fremont tradition. These hypotheses are rejected in light of a clearer understanding
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Becoming Hopi: A History KIVA Pub Date : 2022-05-22 Roger Anyon
Published in KIVA: Journal of Southwestern Anthropology and History (Vol. 88, No. 2, 2022)