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Archaeological
Sites
Badger
Springs
Early Holocene Paleoindian site on the Colorado plateau; an article in Archaeology
Southwest by India S. Hesse and others.
Black Mesa
Basketmaker II (AD 1 - 500) occupation (also Paleoindian and later Anasazi) on the
Colorado Plateau; this page is a description of the site and the archaeological work that
has been done there. From Canyons, Cultures, and Environmental Change.
Casa Grande
Rewriting Prehistory in the Hohokam Heartland, an
article by Douglas B. Craig in Archaeology Southwest.
Cowboy
Wash
Cannibalism, warfare, and drought in the Mesa Verde region during the 12th century AD; an
article by Brian Billman et al. in American Antiquity, about this site, with
pretty clear evidence (but, of course, controversial) for cannibalism in the prehistoric
American southwest.
Critique
of the claim of cannibalism A response to the first article by Kurt E. Dongoske et
al., also in American Antiquity.
Response
to critique An article abstract by Patricia M. Lambert et al. in American
Antiquity.
Keyhole Sink
A virtual stroll through a snowy trail to a petroglyph site in Arizona, from Neil
Weintraub.
Lower Pescado
Village
A 19th century farming village and sheep camp that was built on a 14th century pueblo, on
the Zuni Reservation, and excavated by Hunter College and Barnard College.
Meddler Point
Labor Investment and Organization in Platform Mound Construction: A Case Study from the
Tonto Basin of Central Arizona, an article abstract by Douglas B. Craig in the Journal
of Field Archaeology.
McEuen Cave
Article in Discovering Archaeology magazine about the finding of a corn kernel
tentatively dated to 3500 BP.
Murray Springs
Classic Paleoindian site in Arizona; this article is an experimental replication of one of
the bone tools found at the site, from the Mammoth Trumpet.
Phoenix
Indian School
Excavations at the Track site, the location of the 19th century Phoenix Indian School,
provides evidence of the attempts to assimilate the children who attended; an article in Archaeology
magazine.
Shaw Butte Hilltop
A virtual visit to a tiny rockshelter in the Shaw Butte, decorated with Hohokam
petroglyphs and thought to be an astronomical calendar, from Todd Bostwick and Stan Plum.
Snaketown
Hohokam roads at Snaketown, Arizona, an article abstract by Thomas N. Motsinger in the Journal
of Field Archaeology.
University
Programs
Archaeological
Research Institute
At Arizona State University, research primarily of American southwest.
Center for Desert Archaeology
A private nonprofit organization, to promote stewardship of archaeological and historical
resources in the Greater Southwest through active research, preservation, and public
education. Contains Archaeology Southwest.
Crow Canyon Archaeological
Center
Nonprofit organization, promoting the study of archaeology and Native American cultures in
the Southwest United States.
Roosevelt
Platform Mound Study
Arizona State University, over 1,000 sites were identified in this 8 year survey of the
Tonto Basin in Arizona.
Arizona State
University Tempe, Arizona
MA, PhD. Southwestern, Mesoamerican, quantitative methods, Old World, hunter-gatherers,
material culture
University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona
MA, PhD. Human Ecology and Environment
Northern Arizona University
Flagstaff, Arizona
MA
Current
Researchers
James
M. Bayman
Shell Ornament Consumption in a Classic Hohokam Platform Mound Community
Center, at Marana in the Tucson Basin of Arizona, an article abstract in Journal of
Field Archaeology.
University of Hawaii
faculty biography, early post-contact Hawaiian adze manufacture, and the economies and
sociopolitical organization of ancient communities in the Sonoran Desert of North America.
G.
Lennis Berlin, David E. Salas, and Phil R. Geib
A Prehistoric Sinagua Agricultural Site in the Ashfall Zone of Sunset Crater, Arizona,
from the Journal of Field Archaeology.
Ronald
L. Bishop and others
The Formation of Ceramic Analytical Groups: Hopi Pottery Production and Exchange, A.C.
1300-1600, vessel exchange between neighboring mesas in Arizona, from the Journal of
Field Archaeology.
Keith
Kintigh
Arizona State University, currently investigating social and economic organization in the
Zuni area of west-central New Mexico and east-central Arizona.
Richard
C. Lange, Craig P. Howe, and Barbara A. Murphy
A Study of Prehistoric Roofing Systems in Arizona Cliff Dwellings, in the Sierra Ancha of
central Arizona, an abstract from the Journal of Field Archaeology.
Julia
C. Lowell
Moieties in Prehistory: A Case Study from the Pueblo Southwest; Turkey Creek
Pueblo, a large 13th-century site in Arizona, an abstract from the Journal of Field
Archaeology.
Douglas
R. Mitchell and M. Steven Shackley
Classic Period Hohokam Obsidian Studies in Southern Arizona, an abstract from the Journal
of Field Archaeology.
Charles
Redman
Arizona State University, development of complex societies, human impacts on the
environment, Near East/Mediterranean; currently focused his field investigations in
Central Arizona.
Barbara
Roth
Oregon State University, settlement patterns, hunter-gatherer adaptations to arid
environments, agriculture, European Paleolithic archaeology, lithics; recently. Mimbres
and Hohokam sites in Arizona and New Mexico.
Joan
S. Schneider
Quarrying and Production of Milling Implements at Antelope Hill, Arizona, Lower
Colorado-Lower Gila rivers, an abstract from the Journal of Field Archaeology.
James
Schoenwetter
Arizona State University, prehistoric cultural ecology, applications of pollen analysis in
archaeology, and research methodology; currently pollen analyses of historical sites in
the American Southwest and the French pre-Alps, Mesolithic sites in the English midlands
and Pennines, and Salado and Pueblo sites in Arizona and New Mexico.
Pamela
Sands Showalter
A Thematic Mapper Analysis of the Prehistoric Hohokam Canal System, Phoenix, Arizona, an
abstract from the Journal of Field Archaeology.
Arleyn
Simon
Arizona State University, ceramic technology and analysis, quantitative methods, U.S.
southwest; Roosevelt Platform Mound Study.
James M. Vint
Beyond Naturalism in Prehistoric Tonto Basin Artistic Traditions, an article in Archaeology
Southwest.
Cultural History
Arizona
Archaeological Council
A non profit voluntary association, promoting the goals of professional archaeology in Arizona; avocationals and other interested people welcome.
Arizona Archaeological
Society
Professional and amateur society for investigation, study, and interpretation of historic
and prehistoric cultures, particularly of Arizona and neighboring regions
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