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2. Prehistoric Foraging on the Gran Desierto Coast
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Mabry, Jonathan B., primary, Mitchell, Douglas R., additional, and Martínez-Tagüeña, Natalia, additional
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- 2024
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3. Stop and Frisk
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Mitchell, Douglas R., primary and Connor, Gregory J., additional
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- 2017
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4. Foundational Concepts
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Mitchell, Douglas R., primary and Connor, Gregory J., additional
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- 2017
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5. Terry v. Ohio
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Mitchell, Douglas R., primary and Connor, Gregory J., additional
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- 2017
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6. Model Policy
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Mitchell, Douglas R., primary and Connor, Gregory J., additional
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- 2017
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7. Force and Control
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Mitchell, Douglas R., primary and Connor, Gregory J., additional
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- 2017
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8. Bases for Interaction
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Mitchell, Douglas R., primary and Connor, Gregory J., additional
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- 2017
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9. Reporting/Recording
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Mitchell, Douglas R., primary and Connor, Gregory J., additional
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- 2017
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10. Understanding Terry v. Ohio
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Mitchell, Douglas R., primary and Connor, Gregory J., additional
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- 2017
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11. Evolving Legal Fundamentals
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Mitchell, Douglas R., primary and Connor, Gregory J., additional
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- 2017
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12. Fundamentals of Policing
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Mitchell, Douglas R., primary and Connor, Gregory J., additional
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- 2017
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13. Lessons Learned
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Mitchell, Douglas R., primary and Connor, Gregory J., additional
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- 2017
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14. Prehistoric Adaptation, Identity, and Interaction Along the Northern Gulf of California.
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Mitchell, Douglas R., Mabry, Jonathan B., Tagüeña, Natalia Martínez, Huckleberry, Gary, Brusca, Richard C., and Shackley, M. Steven
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- 2020
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15. Class I Overview for Tier 1 Planning of Interstate 11, Nogales to Wickenburg, Arizona - Archaeological Sites and Historic Structures
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Mitchell, Douglas R., Gregory, Andrea, Jones, Tom, David, Kristin L., and Rothwell, Zachary
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Historic ,Wickenburg ,Pinal (County) ,Yavapai (County) ,Santa Cruz (County) ,Hohokam ,Maricopa (County) ,Nogales ,Archaeological Overview ,Pima (County) - Abstract
In December 2015, the United States (US) Congress approved the Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act, which authorized a 5-year program to improve the Nation's surface transportation infrastructure. The Act formally designated Interstate 11 (1-11) through Arizona. The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) are preparing a Draft Tier 1 Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the I-11 corridor between Nogales and Wickenburg, Arizona, pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and other regulatory requirements. FHWA is the Federal Lead Agency and ADOT is the Local Project Sponsor for the Draft Tier 1 EIS. The study documented in this report was conducted to support that Draft Tier 1 EIS. The report summarizes information about approximately 1,500 prior cultural resource studies and more than 600 archaeological sites and historic structures previously recorded in the three Build Corridor Alternatives for the proposed 1-11 between Nogales and Wickenburg, Arizona. The inventory of cultural resources for each Build Corridor Alternative is incomplete, and additional unrecorded cultural resources are likely to be present.
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- 2018
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16. Results of Phase I Data Recovery and an Addendum Work Plan for Phase II Data Recovery for the Proposed Barrister Building Development in Downtown Phoenix, Arizona
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Mitchell, Douglas R., David, Kristin L., and Keppler, Emily Higgins
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Historic ,Site Evaluation / Testing ,Pit House / Earth Lodge ,Wall ,Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex ,Arizona (State / Territory) ,Domestic Structures ,House ,AZ T:12:42 (ASM) ,Pueblo Patricio ,AZ T:12:70 (ASM) ,Building Materials ,Foundation ,Maricopa (County) ,Archaeological Feature ,Pipe ,Phoenix, AZ ,Metal ,Phoenix Basin ,Stairway ,Hohokam Red-on-Buffware ,Hohokam ,Original Phoenix Townsite ,Ceramic ,Research Design / Data Recovery Plan ,Surface ,Ground Disturbance Monitoring ,Data Recovery / Excavation ,Charcoal ,Pit ,Pollen ,Plainware ,Room ,Brick - Abstract
An Archaeology Assessment conducted by the COP found that the proposed project occurs within the boundaries of the prehistoric site of AZ T:12:70(ASM)/Pueblo Patricio and AZ T:12:42(ASM)/the original Phoenix townsite (OPT). ACS prepared a site-specific work plan addendum that followed the General Historic Properties Treatment Plan for City of Phoenix Projects. This report documents the results of the Phase I data recovery activities. A project specific permit (2017-071ps) and burial agreement (case 17003) were obtained from ASM. A repository agreement was obtained from the Pueblo Grande Museum (PGM). An Addendum Work Plan for Phase II Data Recovery is also included with this report.
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- 2017
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17. Results of Cultural Resource Monitoring for the Westward Ho Hotel and Apartments Rehabilitation Project, City of Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona
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Schilling, Linda M. and Mitchell, Douglas R.
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Historic ,Site Evaluation / Testing ,Downtown Phoenix ,Manhole ,Arizona (State / Territory) ,Refuse Pit ,Building Materials ,Maricopa (County) ,Sonoran Desert ,Site Stabilization ,Pipe ,Historic Background Research ,Phoenix, AZ ,Cultural Resource Monitoring ,Westward Ho Hotel ,Phoenix Basin ,Prehistoric ,Concrete Cylinder ,Hohokam ,Ceramic ,Heritage Management ,Lower Colorado River Valley ,20th Century ,Ground Disturbance Monitoring ,Data Recovery / Excavation ,AZ T:12:45(ASM) ,Post Hole / Post Mold ,Pit ,Brick - Abstract
Central and Fillmore Associates, LP oversaw improvements to the Westward Ho building and infrastructure. Rehabilitation required replacement and realignment of sewer pipelines below the property courtyard and the replacement of sidewalks in the courtyard. A total of 170.9 cubic meters were excavated from 32 units associated with rehabilitation activities in the courtyard area of the Westward Ho Hotel and Apartments. All of the units were excavated to locate and expose existing underground pipes, lay new pipe, and to replace sidewalks. Approximately 90 percent of the APE was previously disturbed. Artifacts observed during excavation included one prehistoric ceramic sherd, multiple bricks and other construction debris, and trash of unknown ages. Four features of historic or recent ages were recorded.
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- 2016
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18. A Class I Cultural Resource Literature Review of 11.97 Acres for the Arioso City Lofts Development in Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona
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Davis, Peg and Mitchell, Douglas R.
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Historic ,AZ T:12:256 (ASM) ,Site Evaluation / Testing ,Ground Disturbance Monitoring ,Phoenix, AZ ,Phoenix Basin ,Prehistoric ,Records Search / Inventory Checking ,Hohokam ,Arizona (State / Territory) ,Grand Canal Ruins ,Maricopa (County) ,Research Design / Data Recovery Plan - Abstract
AEI Consultants plans to develop an 11.97-acre parcel of privately owned land for a proposed U.S. Department of Housing and Urban development (HUD). New construction is planned in the northwest portion of the Area of Potential Effect. At the request of AEI Consultants, Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd. (ACS) conducted a Class I literature review of the project area to provide an inventory and assessment of cultural resources that might be affected by the proposed undertaking. The parcel is privately owned and will be financed through Federal Housing Authority (FHS)-insured funding. Since this project would be federally funded, it is subject to Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act. Based on the results of this background research, the parcel is within the boundaries of site AZ T:12:256 (ASM), the prehistoric Hohokam habitation site (Grand Canal Ruins).
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- 2016
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19. Data Recovery at AZ T:12:413(ASM) for the Roeser Haciendas Development Project, Phoenix, Arizona
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Mitchell, Douglas R.
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Field House ,Bone Awl ,Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex ,Gila Redware Salt Variety ,Sacaton Phase ,Bioarchaeological Research ,Bird bone ,Figurine ,Agricultural or Herding ,Pestle ,Sedentary Period ,AZ T:12:413 (ASM) ,water worn pebble ,Funerary and Burial Structures or Features ,Sacaton Red-on-Buffware ,Canal or Canal Feature ,Hohokam ,boulder metate ,Isolated Feature ,Surface ,Charcoal Lens ,Projectile points ,Ground Disturbance Monitoring ,flotation sample ,Fauna ,Hohokam redware ,Ground Stone ,Post Hole / Post Mold ,Charcoal ,Pollen ,Hearth ,Plainware ,Core ,Mammal Bone ,Bead ,Soho Phase ,Site Evaluation / Testing ,Pit House / Earth Lodge ,Fire Cracked Rock ,Roasting Pit / Oven / Horno ,Mano ,Pioneer Period ,Arizona (State / Territory) ,Domestic Structures ,Red Mountain Phase ,House ,Chopper ,Inhumation ,Freshwater Shell ,Shell ,Records Search / Inventory Checking ,Maricopa (County) ,Grinding Slab ,Hammerstone ,pinch pot ,Resource Extraction / Production / Transportation Structure or Features ,metate ,Phoenix, AZ ,Biface ,Chipped Stone ,polishing stone ,Phoenix Basin ,Prehistoric ,Water Control Feature ,Macrobotanical ,miniature ,Ceramic ,Handstone ,Flakes ,Gila Plainware ,Scraper ,Research Design / Data Recovery Plan ,Cremation ,Wingfield Plain ,Data Recovery / Excavation ,Pit ,Jar ,arm band ,Marine Shell ,Spindle Whorl ,Bowl ,Human Remains ,Hohokam Classic period ,rodent bone - Abstract
The site (AZ T:12:413[ASM]) was recommended as eligible for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places. Avoidance to the site was not feasible so data recovery was conducted under an existing City-approved Plan, entitled “General Historic Properties Treatment Plan for Archaeological Projects Within the Boundaries of the City of Phoenix, Arizona” (Montero et al. 2008). A Supplemental Data Recovery Work Plan submitted to the City (see Mitchell 2011) was approved and implemented. As a result of the data recovery project, 63 features were investigated that included field houses, pit houses, pits, extramural surfaces, canals, isolated hearths, and two burials. The prehistoric Hohokam remains represent occupation in the project area during the late Red Mountain phase (A.D. 400-600) of the Pioneer Period, the Sacaton phase (A.D. 900-1100) of the Sedentary period, and the Soho phase (A.D. 1100-1300) of the Classic period.
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- 2016
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20. 14C and Marine Reservoir Effect in Archaeological Samples from the Northeast Gulf of California
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Dettman, David L, primary, Mitchell, Douglas R, additional, Huckleberry, Gary, additional, and Foster, Michael S, additional
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- 2015
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21. Coastal Adaptations During the Archaic Period in the Northern Sea of Cortez, Mexico
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Mitchell, Douglas R., primary, Huckleberry, Gary, additional, Rowell, Kirsten, additional, and Dettman, David L., additional
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- 2014
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22. 14C AND MARINE RESERVOIR EFFECT IN ARCHAEOLOGICAL SAMPLES FROM THE NORTHEAST GULF OF CALIFORNIA.
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Dettman, David L., Mitchell, Douglas R., Huckleberry, Gary, and Foster, Michael S.
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SEASHELLS ,CARBON analysis ,ARCHAEOLOGICAL excavations ,RADIOCARBON dating - Abstract
Previous studies of live-collected pre-weapons testing mollusk shells in the northern Gulf of California have demonstrated that the local radiocarbon reservoir effect (ΔR) is large and highly variable. To test the validity of this observation for paired charcoal and shell samples from archaeological contexts, we dated samples from four shell midden locations and six midden layers from the eastern shoreline of the Gulf of California near Puerto Peñasco, Sonora, Mexico. Dated charcoal samples were small twigs or brushy plants used to cook shellfish and the shells dated within each midden showed signs of burning. Ages range from approximately 5700 to 1900 cal BP. The offset between the modeled marine
14 C age for calibrated ages of the middens and measured shell14 C age (ΔR) averaged 425 yr with a standard deviation of 115 yr. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
- 2015
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23. Coastal Adaptations During the Archaic Period in the Northern Sea of Cortez, Mexico.
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Mitchell, Douglas R., Huckleberry, Gary, Rowell, Kirsten, and Dettman, David L.
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COASTAL processes (Physical geology) , *FISHING , *ARCHAIC cultures (Americas) , *ETHNOLOGY , *ARCHAEOLOGICAL research - Abstract
This article integrates geological, biological, ethnographic, and archaeological lines of evidence to reconstruct fishing patterns between approximately 4100 and 500 BC in the northern Gulf of California. In addition to shell collecting along the coast, several species of fish were captured, mainly endemic sciaenids of the upper gulf. Our study focuses on the northern Sonoran coast where recent archaeological studies have discovered scores of otoliths (fish ear bones) in archaeological contexts. We report the species composition (chano, corvina, totoaba) and relative size of the prehistoric catch and discuss the modern biology of these species known to inhabit this area. Our evidence suggests that this area offered an important resource for Archaic hunters and gatherers who were drawn here to exploit fish at certain times of the year. Following sea level stabilization around 6,000 years ago, particular geomorphic settings provided opportunities to easily harvest large quantities of fish by spearing, netting, or hand catching them. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2015
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24. Is "Presence" a Use of Force?
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Connor, Gregory and Mitchell, Douglas R.
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POLICE ,PRESENCE (Philosophy) ,CRIME scenes ,LAW enforcement ,PERFORMANCE - Abstract
The article examines that presence of an officer on a crime scene does not mean the use of force until the officer does something physical with regard to seize or control a subject. Topics include clear definitions of the terms "presence" and "force," situations which define presence different from force and need for proper word selection when proposing a law enforcement and guiding officer operations and positive performance.
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- 2014
25. Agricultural Intensification, Regional Differentiation, and Incipient Village Formation: Early Formative Period Patterning in the San Carlos Safford Area, Southeastern Arizona.
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Seltzer-Rogers, Thatcher A. and Crary, Joseph S.
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AGRICULTURAL intensification ,VILLAGES ,CERAMICS ,AGRICULTURE ,MATERIAL culture ,ARCHAEOLOGISTS - Abstract
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- 2023
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26. Revisiting the Bylas Phase: An Analysis of Trends and Historical Processes Within the San Carlos Safford Area of Southeastern Arizona During the Late Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries.
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Crary, Joseph S. and Seltzer-Rogers, Thatcher A.
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TREND analysis ,HISTORICAL analysis ,ELITE (Social sciences) ,SOCIAL structure ,SOCIAL change ,POTSHERDS ,ZONING - Abstract
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- 2022
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27. Indigenous Disk Beads in the Southern Southwest: Contemporary, Ethnographic, Ethnohistorical, and Archaeological Evidence.
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Medchill, Brian, Loendorf, Chris, and Rodrigues, Teresa
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ETHNOLOGY ,ARCHAEOLOGY ,INDIGENOUS peoples ,CULTURAL values - Abstract
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- 2020
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28. The Allegheny Cultural Divide of Southwestern Pennsylvania.
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FRITZ, BRIAN L.
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Archaeologists have long recognized cultural differences in the archaeological record between sites in the Ohio River basin and the Susquehanna River basin, and the presence of an east-west cultural divide across the Allegheny Mountain region of southwestern Pennsylvania. The cultural distribution of Shriver and Loyalhanna chert was used to test spatial interaction or gravity models across the Allegheny Front and high mountain ridges of the Somerset Plateau. The model predicts the location of a boundary or breaking point that marks a point of equal influence between the two lithic source localities. The western extent of other lithic types and artifact types associated with the Susquehanna River basin also correspond to this lithic source boundary. The evidence supports the presence of an east-west cultural divide or boundary. Contrary to established perspectives, this cultural divide does not correspond to the prominent landscape feature known as the Allegheny Front. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
29. Regional Interactions between California and the Southwest: The Western Edge of the North American Continental System.
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Smith, Erin M. and Fauvelle, Mikael
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SOCIAL systems ,ECONOMIC development ,POLITICAL development - Abstract
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- 2015
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30. Bioarchaeology of Care: A Hohokam Example.
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Dongoske, Kurt E., Cox, Eric S., and Rogge, A. E. (Gene)
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ARCHAEOLOGICAL human remains ,CREMATION ,SCOLIOSIS ,HOHOKAM culture ,ARCHAEOLOGICAL assemblages ,ARCHAEOLOGICAL research ,HISTORY - Abstract
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- 2015
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31. Hunter-gatherer Igneous Toolstone Procurement in Northern Arizona: A Geochemical Study of Projectile Points and Raw Material Sources.
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Roberts, Theodore M., Skinner, Craig E., and Bryce, William D.
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HUNTER-gatherer societies ,ARCHAEOLOGICAL assemblages ,OBSIDIAN implements ,ARCHAEOLOGICAL excavations - Abstract
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- 2014
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32. Centuries of Decline during the Hohokam Classic Period at Pueblo Grande
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Abbott, David R., Edited by and Abbott, David R.
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- 2016
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33. Coastal Foragers of the Gran Desierto : Investigations of Prehistoric Shell Middens Along the Northern Sonoran Coast
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Douglas R. Mitchell, Jonathan B. Mabry, Gary Huckleberry, Natalia Martínez Tagüeña, Douglas R. Mitchell, Jonathan B. Mabry, Gary Huckleberry, and Natalia Martínez Tagüeña
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- Antiquities, Prehistoric--Mexico--Puerto Pen~asco Region, Kitchen-middens--Mexico--Puerto Pen~asco Region, Excavations (Archaeology)--Mexico--Puerto Pen~asco Region, Paleo-Indians--Mexico--Puerto Pen~asco Region
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The result of nearly twenty years of interdisciplinary research, this volume contributes to the archaeological and paleoenvironmental knowledge of an important but lightly investigated hyperarid coastline at the heart of the Sonoran Desert. Focused on the coast near Puerto Peñasco, Sonora, Mexico, Coastal Foragers of the Gran Desierto examines the diverse groups occupying the coast for salt, abundant food sources, and shells for ornament manufacturing. The archaeological patterns demonstrated by the data gathered lead to the conclusion that, since ancient times, this coastal landscape was not a marginal zone but rather an important source of food and trade goods, and a pilgrimage destination that influenced broad and diverse communities across the Sonoran Desert and beyond. Contributors Jenny L. Adams Karen R. Adams Thomas Bowen Tessa L. Branyan Bill Broyles Richard C. Brusca David L. Dettman Michael S. Foster Gary Huckleberry Jonathan B. Mabry Natalia Martínez-Tagüeña Richard J. Martynec Douglas R. Mitchell Kirsten Rowell Melissa R. Schwan M. Steven Shackley R. J. Sliva Kayla B. Worthey
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- 2024
34. Jamming the Classroom : Musical Improvisation and Pedagogical Practice
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Ajay Heble, Jesse Stewart, Ajay Heble, and Jesse Stewart
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- Music--Instruction and study, Improvisation (Music), Music--Social aspects
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Drawing on a mix of collaborative autoethnography, secondary literature, interviews with leading improvisers, and personal anecdotal material, Jamming the Classroom discusses the pedagogy of musical improvisation as a vehicle for teaching, learning, and enacting social justice. Heble and Stewart write that to “jam the classroom” is to argue for a renewed understanding of improvisation as both a musical and a social practice; to activate the knowledge and resources associated with improvisational practices in an expression of noncompliance with dominant orders of knowledge production; and to recognize in the musical practices of aggrieved communities something far from the reaches of conventional forms of institutionalized power, yet something equally powerful, urgent, and expansive. With this definition of jamming the classroom in mind, Heble and Stewart argue that even as improvisation gains recognition within mainstream institutions (including classrooms in universities), it needs to be understood as a critique of dominant institutionalized assumptions and epistemic orders. Suggesting a closer consideration of why musical improvisation has been largely expunged from dominant models of pedagogical inquiry in both classrooms and communities, this book asks what it means to theorize the pedagogy of improvised music in relation to public programs of action, debate, and critical practice.
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- 2023
35. Earth Ovens and Desert Lifeways : 10,000 Years of Indigenous Cooking in the Arid Landscapes of North America
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Charles W Koenig, Myles R Miller, Charles W Koenig, and Myles R Miller
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- Indians of North America--Social life and custom, Food habits--Mountain States--History, Indians of North America--Antiquities, Indians of North America--Food
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For over 10,000 years, earth ovens (semi-subterranean, layered arrangements of heated rocks, packing material, and food stuffs capped by earth) have played important economic and social roles for Indigenous peoples living across the arid landscapes of western North America. From hunter-gatherers to formative horticulturalists, sedentary farmers, and contemporary Indigenous groups, earth ovens have been used to convert inedible plants into digestible food, fiber, and beverages. The remains of earth ovens range from tight, circular clusters of burned rocks, generally labeled “hearths” by archaeologists, to the massive accumulations of fire-cracked rock referred to as earth oven facilities, roasting pits, or burned rock middens. Remnants of these oven forms are common across the arid and semi-arid landscapes that stretch from Texas to California and south into Mexico. Despite the ubiquity of earth ovens from late Paleoindian times until today, and their broad spatial and cultural distribution, these features remain an under-studied aspect of Indigenous lifeways. This edited volume explores the longevity and diversity of earth oven baking and examines the subsistence strategies, technological paradigms, and social contexts within which earth ovens functioned. It is the first study to cover such a broad geographic area, reflecting an array of promising research that highlights ongoing efforts to understand the archaeological record of earth ovens.
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- 2023
36. Western Ceramic Traditions : Prehistoric and Historic Native American Ceramics of the Western U.S.
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Suzanne Griset and Suzanne Griset
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- Indian pottery--West (U.S.), Indians of North America--Antiquities.--West (
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University of Utah Anthropological Papers No. 135 This volume is dedicated to studies of plainwares—the undecorated ceramics that make up the majority of prehistoric ceramic assemblages worldwide. Early analyses of ceramics focused on changes in decorative design elements to establish chronologies and cultural associations. With the development of archaeometric techniques that allow direct dating of potsherds and identification of their elemental composition and residues, plainwares now provide a new source of information about the timing, manufacture, distribution, and use of ceramics. This book investigates plainwares from the far west, stretching into the Great Basin and the northwestern and southwestern edges of Arizona. Contributors use and explain recent analytical methods, including neutron activation, electron microprobe analysis, and thin-section optical mineralogy. They examine native ceramic traditions and how they were influenced by the Spanish mission system, and they consider the pros and cons of past approaches to ware typology, presenting a vision of how plainware analysis can be improved by ignoring the traditional “typological” approach of early ceramicists working with decorated wares. This work provides a much-needed update to plainware studies, with new hypotheses and data that will help set the stage for future research.
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- 2022
37. Art in the Pre-Hispanic Southwest : An Archaeology of Native American Cultures
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Radoslaw Palonka and Radoslaw Palonka
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- Indians of North America--Material culture--Southwest, New, Indian art--Southwest, New, Electronic books, Indigenous peoples--Material culture--Southwest, New
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In Art in the Pre-Hispanic Southwest: An Archaeology of Native American Cultures, Radosław Palonka reconstructs the development of pre-Hispanic Native American cultures and tribes in the American Southwest and Mexican Northwest. Palonka also examines the wider context through the lenses of settlement studies and social transformation, while paying close attention to the material manifestations of pre-Hispanic beliefs, including intricately decorated ceramics and rock art iconography in paintings and petroglyphs.
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- 2022
38. Hinterlands to Cities : The Archaeology of Northwest Mexico and Its Vecinos
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Matthew C. Pailes, Michael T. Searcy, Matthew C. Pailes, and Michael T. Searcy
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- Mexico, North--Antiquities, Mexico, North--History
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This approachable book in the SAA Press Current Perspectives Series is a comprehensive synthesis of Northwest Mexico from the US border to the Mesoamerican frontier. Filling a vital gap in the regional literature, it serves as an essential reference not only for those interested in the specific history of this area of Mexico but western North America writ large. A period-by-period review of approximately 14,000 years reveals the dynamic connections that knitted together societies inhabiting the Sea of Cortez coast, the Sonoran and Chihuahuan Deserts, and the Sierra Madre Occidental. Networks of interaction spanned these diverse ecological, topographical, and cultural terrains in the millennia following the demise of the megafauna. The authors provide a fresh perspective that refutes depictions of the Northwest as a simple filter or conduit of happenings to the north or south, and they highlight the role local motivations and dynamics played in facilitating continental-scale processes.
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- 2022
39. Living and Dying on the Periphery : The Archaeology and Human Remains From Two 13th-15th Century AD Villages in Southeastern New Mexico
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Jamie L. Clark, John D. Speth, Jamie L. Clark, and John D. Speth
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- Human remains (Archaeology)--Pecos River Valley, Burial--New Mexico--Henderson Site, Burial--New Mexico--Bloom Mound, Excavations (Archaeology)--New Mexico--Henders, Excavations (Archaeology)--New Mexico--Bloom M
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The phrase'southwestern US/northwestern Mexico archaeology'tends to evoke images of multistoried villages and cliff dwellings. But on the eastern periphery of the Southwest, where mesas and mountains give way to vast grasslands, other types of villages once thrived. In this volume, archaeologists Jamie Clark and John Speth document the lives and lifeways of the people who inhabited two of these villages: Henderson and Bloom Mound. The villagers hunted bison on the plains and exchanged meat and hides with Puebloan peoples for pottery, turquoise, marine shells, and other goods. The origins of these close social and economic ties between bison hunters and village farmers, often referred to as “Plains-Pueblo interaction,” have intrigued anthropologists for generations. The excavations at Henderson and Bloom Mound provide fascinating new insights into when, how, and why these relationships came about. Summarizing results from eight seasons of research, Clark and Speth document human burials and associated grave offerings from the two sites. They discuss evidence for pathologies and trauma, raising questions about the nature and causes of violence that led to the demise of Henderson and Bloom Mound, and the abandonment of many other farming-hunting communities in the surrounding region.
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- 2022
40. Being Scioto Hopewell: Ritual Drama and Personhood in Cross-Cultural Perspective
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Christopher Carr and Christopher Carr
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- Hopewell culture--Ohio--Scioto River Valley, Indians of North America--Ohio--Scioto River Valley--Rites and ceremonies, Indians of North America--Ohio--Scioto River Valley--Antiquities, Indians of North America--Material culture--Ohio--Scioto River Valley
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This book, in two volumes, breathes fresh air empirically, methodologically, and theoretically into understanding the rich ceremonial lives, the philosophical-religious knowledge, and the impressive material feats and labor organization that distinguish Hopewell Indians of central Ohio and neighboring regions during the first centuries CE. The first volume defines cross-culturally, for the first time, the “ritual drama” as a genre of social performance. It reconstructs and compares parts of 14 such dramas that Hopewellian and other Woodland-period peoples performed in their ceremonial centers to help the soul-like essences of their deceased make the journey to an afterlife. The second volume builds and critiques ten formal cross-cultural models of “personhood” and the “self” and infers the nature of Scioto Hopewell people's ontology. Two facets of their ontology are found to have been instrumental in their creating the intercommunity alliances and cooperation and gathering the labor required to construct their huge, multicommunity ceremonial centers: a relational, collective concept of the self defined by the ethical quality of the relationships one has with other beings, and a concept of multiple soul-like essences that compose a human being and can be harnessed strategically to create familial-like ethical bonds of cooperation among individuals and communities. The archaeological reconstructions of Hopewellian ritual dramas and concepts of personhood and the self, and of Hopewell people's strategic uses of these, are informed by three large surveys of historic Woodland and Plains Indians'narratives, ideas, and rites about journeys to afterlives, the creatures who inhabit the cosmos, and the nature and functions of soul-like essences, coupled with rich contextual archaeological and bioarchaeological-taphonomic analyses. The bioarchaeological-taphonomic method of l'anthropologie de terrain, new to North American archaeology,is introduced and applied. In all, the research in this book vitalizes a vision of an anthropology committed to native logic and motivation and skeptical of the imposition of Western world views and categories onto native peoples.
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- 2021
41. Where the Red-Winged Blackbirds Sing : The Akimel O'odham and Cycles of Agricultural Transformation in the Phoenix Basin
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Jennifer Bess and Jennifer Bess
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- Pima Indians--Agriculture--Gila River (N.M. and Ariz.), Pima Indians--Gila River (N.M. and Ariz.)--Economic conditions
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Where the Red-Winged Blackbirds Sing examines the ways in which the Akimel O'odham (“River People”) and their ancestors, the Huhugam, adapted to economic, political, and environmental constraints imposed by federal Indian policy, the Indian Bureau, and an encroaching settler population in Arizona's Gila River Valley. Fundamental to O'odham resilience was their connection to their sense of peoplehood and their himdag (“lifeway”), which culminated in the restoration of their water rights and a revitalization of their Indigenous culture. Author Jennifer Bess examines the Akimel O'odham's worldview, which links their origins with a responsibility to farm the Gila River Valley and to honor their history of adaptation and obligations as “world-builders”—co-creators of an evermore life-sustaining environment and participants in flexible networks of economic exchange. Bess considers this worldview in context of the Huhugam–Akimel O'odham agricultural economy over more than a thousand years. Drawing directly on Akimel O'odham traditional ecological knowledge, innovations, and interpretive strategies in archives and interviews, Bess shows how the Akimel O'odham engaged in agricultural economy for the sake of their lifeways, collective identity, enduring future, and actualization of the values modeled in their sacred stories. Where the Red-Winged Blackbirds Sing highlights the values of adaptation, innovation, and co-creation fundamental to Akimel O'odham lifeways and chronicles the contributions the Akimel O'odham have made to American history and to the history of agriculture. The book will be of interest to scholars of Indigenous, American Southwestern, and agricultural history.
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- 2021
42. Gale Encyclopedia of American Law, 4th Ed
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Gale and Gale
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Provides diverse content covering the gamut of law subjects, including current information on nearly 5,000 legal topics.
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- 2021
43. Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology
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- Archaeology, Archaeology--Encyclopedias, History
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This second edition of the multi-volume work goes beyond the comprehensive and systematic coverage of archaeology that appears in the first edition. The field of archaeology continues to grow and the collaborations between archaeologists and researchers in other areas - environmental studies, landscape studies, art history, demography, biomedicine, chemistry, museum specialists, etc. - continues to grow. This second edition builds on the massive collection of information and research from the first edition by adding new entries as well as updating the existing entries.The entries in this encyclopedia range from succinct summaries of specific sites and the scientific aspects of archaeological enquiry to detailed discussions of archaeological concepts, theories and methods, and from investigations into the social, ethical and political dimensions of archaeological practice to biographies of leading archaeologists from throughout the world. The different forms of archaeology are explored, along with the techniques used for each and the challenges, concerns and issues that face archaeologists today.This compendium is both a print reference and an online reference work. One of the encyclopedia's major innovations is that it harnesses the capabilities of an online environment, enhancing both the presentation and dissemination of information. Most particularly, the continuous updating allowed by an online environment should ensure that the Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology is a definitive reference work for archaeology and archaeologists.
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- 2020
44. Ancient Southwestern Mortuary Practices
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James T. Watson, Gordon F. M. Rakita, James T. Watson, and Gordon F. M. Rakita
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- Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient--Southwest, New, Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient--Mexico, North
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Ancient Southwestern Mortuary Practices chronicles the modal patterns, diversity, and change of ancient mortuary practices from across the US Southwest and northwest Mexico over four thousand years of Prehispanic occupation. The volume summarizes new methodological approaches and theoretical issues concerning the meaning and importance of burial practices to different peoples at different times throughout the ancient Greater Southwest. Chapters focus on normative mortuary patterns, the range of variability of mortuary patterns, how the contexts of burials reflect temporal shifts in ideology, and the ways in which mortuary rituals, behaviors, and funerary treatments fulfill specific societal needs and reflect societal beliefs. Contributors analyze extensive datasets—archived and accessible on the Digital Archaeological Record (tDAR)—from various subregions, structurally standardized and integrated with respect to biological and cultural data. Ancient Southwestern Mortuary Practices, together with the full datasets preserved in tDAR, is a rich resource for comparative research on mortuary ritual for indigenous descendant groups, cultural resource managers, and archaeologists and bioarchaeologists in the Greater Southwest and other regions. Contributors: Nancy J. Akins, Jessica I. Cerezo-Román, Mona C. Charles, Patricia A. Gilman, Lynne Goldstein, Alison K. Livesay, Dawn Mulhern, Ann Stodder, M. Scott Thompson, Sharon Wester, Catrina Banks Whitley
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- 2020
45. The Odd, the Unusual, and the Strange : Bioarchaeological Explorations of Atypical Burials
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Tracy K. Betsinger, Amy B. Scott, Anastasia Tsaliki, Tracy K. Betsinger, Amy B. Scott, and Anastasia Tsaliki
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- Burial--Social aspects--History, Death--Social aspects--History, Burial--History, Excavations (Archaeology), Culture
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Abnormal burial practices have long been a source of fascination and debate within the fields of mortuary archaeology and bioarchaeology. The Odd, the Unusual, and the Strange investigates an unparalleled geographic and temporal range of burials that differ from the usual customs of their broader societies, emphasizing the importance of a holistic, context-driven approach to these intriguing cases. From an Andean burial dating to 3500 BC to mummified bodies interred in the Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo, Sicily, during the twentieth century, the studies in this volume cross the globe and span millennia. The unusual cases explored here include Native American cemeteries in Illinois, “vampire” burials in medieval Poland, and a mass grave of decapitated soldiers in ancient China. Moving away from the simplistic assumption that these burials represent people who were considered deviant in society, contributors demonstrate the importance of an integrated biocultural approach in determining why an individual was buried in an unusual way. Drawing on historical, sociocultural, archaeological, and biological data, this volume critically evaluates the binary of “typical” versus “atypical” burials. It expands our understanding of the continuum of variation within mortuary practices, helping researchers better interpret burial evidence to learn about the people and cultures of the past. A volume in the series Bioarchaeological Interpretations of the Human Past: Local, Regional, and Global Perspectives, edited by Clark Spencer Larsen
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- 2020
46. Color in the Ancestral Pueblo Southwest
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Marit K. Munson, Kelley Hays-Gilpin, Marit K. Munson, and Kelley Hays-Gilpin
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- Pueblo Indians--Material culture--Southwest, New, Pueblo art--Southwest, New, Color in visual communication, Ancestral Pueblo culture, Symbolism of colors--Southwest, New--History, Color--Social aspects--Southwest, New--History, Pueblo Indians--Antiquities, Electronic books
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Color attracts attention, evokes emotions, conveys information, carries complex meanings, and makes things beautiful. Color is so meaningful, in fact, that research on the color choices of Ancestral Pueblo people has the potential to deepen our understanding of religious, social, and economic change in the ancient Southwest. This volume explores museum collections and more than a century of archaeological research to create the first systematic understanding of the many ways Ancestral Pueblo people chose specific colors through time and space to add meaning and visual appeal to their lives. Beginning with the technical and practical concerns of acquiring pigments and using them to create paints, the authors explore how connections to landscapes and sacred places are embodied by many colorful materials. Contributors examine the development of polychromes and their juxtaposition with black-on-white vessels; document how color was used in rock paintings and architecture; and consider the inherent properties of materials, arguing that shell, minerals, and stone were valued not only for color but for other visual properties as well. The book concludes by considering the technological, economic, social, and ideological factors at play and demonstrates the significant role color played in aesthetic choices.
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- 2020
47. Megadrought in the Carolinas : The Archaeology of Mississippian Collapse, Abandonment, and Coalescence
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John S. Cable and John S. Cable
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- Indians of North America--South Carolina--Atlantic Coast--Antiquities, Droughts--South Carolina--History, Mississippian culture--South Carolina--Atlantic Coast, Human beings--Effect of climate on--South Carolina--Atlantic Coast, Environmental archaeology--South Carolina--Atlantic Coast, Ethnoecology--South Carolina--Atlantic Coast
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Considers the Native American abandonment of the South Carolina coast A prevailing enigma in American archaeology is why vast swaths of land in the Southeast and Southwest were abandoned between AD 1200 and 1500. The most well-known abandonments occurred in the Four Corners and Mimbres areas of the Southwest and the central Mississippi valley in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries and in southern Arizona and the Ohio Valley during the fifteenth century. In Megadrought in the Carolinas: The Archaeology of Mississippian Collapse, Abandonment, and Coalescence, John S. Cable demonstrates through the application of innovative ceramic analysis that yet another fifteenth-century abandonment event took place across an area of some 34.5 million acres centered on the South Carolina coast. Most would agree that these sweeping changes were at least in part the consequence of prolonged droughts associated with a period of global warming known as the Medieval Climatic Anomaly. Cable strengthens this inference by showing that these events correspond exactly with the timing of two different geographic patterns of megadrought as defined by modern climate models. Cable extends his study by testing the proposition that the former residents of the coastal zone migrated to surrounding interior regions where the effects of drought were less severe. Abundant support for this expectation is found in the archaeology of these regions, including evidence of accelerated population growth, crowding, and increased regional hostilities. Another important implication of immigration is the eventual coalescence of ethnic and/or culturally different social groups and the ultimate transformation of societies into new cultural syntheses. Evidence for this process is not yet well documented in the Southeast, but Cable draws on his familiarity with the drought-related Puebloan intrusions into the Hohokam Core Area of southern Arizona during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries to suggest strategies for examining coalescence in the Southeast. The narrative concludes by addressing the broad implications of late prehistoric societal collapse for today's human-propelled global warming era that portends similar but much more long-lasting consequences.
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- 2019
48. Death, Society, And Ideology In A Hohokam Community
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Randall H Mcguire and Randall H Mcguire
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- Social archaeology, Indians of North America--Funeral customs and rites--Arizona, Hohokam culture
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Based on a study of more than 200 burials at the US site of La Ciudad (725 AD to 1100 AD), this is an exploration of the meaning of burials as statements on the nature of power relations and social structure. Focusing on the inequalities between the distribution of grave goods and other aspects of material culture, the author argues against trying
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- 2018
49. The Oxford Handbook of Southwest Archaeology
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Barbara Mills, Severin Fowles, Barbara Mills, and Severin Fowles
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- Indians of North America--Antiquities.--Southw, Archaeology--Southwest, New, Antiquities, Archaeology, Indians of North America--Antiquities
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The American Southwest is one of the most important archaeological regions in the world, with many of the best-studied examples of hunter-gatherer and village-based societies. Research has been carried out in the region for well over a century, and during this time the Southwest has repeatedly stood at the forefront of the development of new archaeological methods and theories. Moreover, research in the Southwest has long been a key site of collaboration between archaeologists, ethnographers, historians, linguists, biological anthropologists, and indigenous intellectuals. This volume marks the most ambitious effort to take stock of the empirical evidence, theoretical orientations, and historical reconstructions of the American Southwest. Over seventy top scholars have joined forces to produce an unparalleled survey of state of archaeological knowledge in the region. Themed chapters on particular methods and theories are accompanied by comprehensive overviews of the culture histories of particular archaeological sequences, from the initial Paleoindian occupation, to the rise of a major ritual center in Chaco Canyon, to the onset of the Spanish and American imperial projects. The result is an essential volume for any researcher working in the region as well as any archaeologist looking to take the pulse of contemporary trends in this key research tradition.
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- 2017
50. Life Beyond the Boundaries : Constructing Identity in Edge Regions of the North American Southwest
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Karen Harry, Sarah A. Herr, Karen Harry, and Sarah A. Herr
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- Social archaeology--Southwest, Old, Borderlands--Social aspects--History--To 1500, Social archaeology--Mexico, Indians of North America--Mexico--Social conditions, Indians of North America--Southwest, Old--Social conditions, Group identity--Mexico--History--To 1500, Group identity--Southwest, Old--History--To 1500
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Life beyond the Boundaries explores identity formation on the edges of the ancient Southwest. Focusing on some of the more poorly understood regions, including the Jornada Mogollon, the Gallina, and the Pimería Alta, the authors use methods drawn from material culture science, anthropology, and history to investigate themes related to the construction of social identity along the perimeters of the American Southwest. Through an archaeological lens, the volume examines the social experiences of people who lived in edge regions. Through mobility and the development of extensive social networks, people living in these areas were introduced to the ideas and practices of other cultural groups. As their spatial distances from core areas increased, the degree to which they participated in the economic, social, political, and ritual practices of ancestral core areas increasingly varied. As a result, the social identities of people living in edge zones were often—though not always—fluid and situational. Drawing on an increase of available information and bringing new attention to understudied areas, the book will be of interest to scholars of Southwestern archaeology and other researchers interested in the archaeology of low-populated and decentralized regions and identity formation. Life beyond the Boundaries considers the various roles that edge regions played in local and regional trajectories of the prehistoric and protohistoric Southwest and how place influenced the development of social identity. Contributors: Lewis Borck, Dale S. Brenneman, Jeffery J. Clark, Severin Fowles, Patricia A. Gilman, Lauren E. Jelinek, Myles R. Miller, Barbara J. Mills, Matthew A. Peeples, Kellam Throgmorton, James T. Watson
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- 2017
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