Andrews Community
A Chacoan outlier in the Red Mesa Valley, New Mexico, abstract from an article by Ruth M.
Van Dyke in the Journal of Field Archaeology.
Arroyo Hondo
From the School of American Research, a 13th-14th century pueblo in the Rio Grande Valley.
Boca
Negra Wash
A Folsom site in the Rio Grande valley found by Bruce B. Huckell, who was out walking his
dog; an article in Archaeology Southwest.
Chaco Canyon
Take a tour of the best known archaeological site in the American southwest.
Butchered Human Bones
Point to Cannibal in Chaco Canyon an article in Discovering Archaeology by
Christy Turner II.
The Center of the
Universe an article in Discovering Archaeology by Stephen Lekson
Ancient
Chaco's New History A little text and some fabulous pictures from Stephen Lekson, in Archaeology
Southwest.
Chetro Ketl
From John Kanter of the University of California at Santa Barbara, a three-dimensional
computer generated image of the Great Kiva in New Mexico.
Chupadera
Mesa
William Doleman and Janette Elyea briefly describe Clovis, Folsom, Cody and Archaic sites
on the Mesa; an article in Archaeology Southwest. .
Guadelupe
Ruin
A Chacoan outlier, article discussing the space syntax of the site by Ruth M. Van Dyke in American
Antiquity.
Old Town
From Jason Lucas at University of Texas at Austin, a Mimbres site in New Mexico, with
special emphasis on the Late Pithouse period.
Pendejo Cave
Human modification of animal bones in pre-Clovis zones of Pendejo Cave, Orogrande, New
Mexico. An on-line version of the 1998 poster paper by r. S. MacNeish, D. Chrisman, and G.
Cunnar on this important, if controversial site.
Unnamed
Mogollon Site
Thomas Rocek is currently conducting excavations at this Mogollon site in the Capitans of
New Mexico.
La Vega
Folsom Collections from the La Vega Site in West-Central New Mexico, an article by Daniel
S. Amick in Current Research in the Pleistocene.
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.
Navajo Nation
Archaeological Department
Two areal surveys have identified sites in New Mexico dating to Archaic, Navajo, Historic,
and indeterminate cultural affiliation
New Mexico
Historic Preservation Division
State agency; to ensure that the tangible remains of the past are available for the
enjoyment and education of our citizens, current and future, and for the delight of our
many visitors from around the world.
School of
American Research
A research unit in Santa Fe, New Mexico, dedicated "to maintain permanent archaeology
collections for researchers, and support archaeology through the advanced seminar,
publication, and resident scholar programs."
Eastern New Mexico State
Portales
MA
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque
MA, PhD
Timothy
G. Baugh and Fred W. Nelson, Jr.
New Mexico Obsidian Sources and Exchange on the Southern Plains, a comparison of obsidian
sources in New Mexico to sites in New Mexico, Texas and Oklahoma, an article abstract in Journal
of Field Archaeology.
Michael
Blake, Steven A. LeBlanc, and Paul E. Minnis
Changing Settlement and Population in the Mimbres Valley, SW New Mexico, from the Journal
of Field Archaeology.
Nathan
W. Bower and others
A Preliminary Analysis of Rio Grande Glazes of the Classic Period Using Scanning Electron
Microscopy with X-Ray Fluorescence, evidence for glaze mining at the Cerrillos Mining
District of New Mexico, an article abstract from the Journal of Field Archaeology.
Winifred
Creamer
Northern Illinois University, culture contact and the period of transition from prehistory
to history in the New World, current research: impact of European expansion on the
Pueblo people of New Mexico
Darrell
Creel
A Primary Cremation at the NAN Ranch Ruin, with Comparative Data on Other Cremations in
the Mimbres Area, New Mexico, an abstract from the Journal of Field Archaeology.
Michelle
Hegmon
Arizona State University, social organization and interaction, currently the eastern
Mimbres region of southwest New Mexico.
J.
Brett Hill
Ecological Variability and Agricultural Specialization among the Protohistoric Pueblos of
Central New Mexico, article abstract in the Journal of Field Archaeology.
Susan
C. Kenzle
Enclosing Walls in the Northern San Juan: Sociophysical Boundaries and Defensive
Fortifications in the American Southwest, Pueblo III (A.C. 1150-1300) Anasazi sites;
article abstract in 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.
Philippe D.
LeTourneau and others
Analysis of Obsidian Folsom Artifacts from New Mexico, article in Current Research in
the Pleistocene.
Margaret
C. Nelson
Changing Occupational Pattern Among Prehistoric Horticulturalists in SW New Mexico,
Mimbres and Tularosa Mogollon site; an abstract from the Journal of Field Archaeology.
Jay
R. Newman
The Effects of Distance on Lithic Material Reduction Technology, Pot Creek Pueblo and the
Cerrita pithouse site of the Taos area of the northern Rio Grande Valley in New Mexico; an
abstract from the Journal of Field Archaeology.
James
M. Potter
Communal Ritual and Faunal Remains: An Example from the Dolores Anasazi, McPhee Village, a
Pueblo I village in New Mexico, an abstract from the Journal of Field Archaeology.
Rosanna
Ridings
Obsidian Hydration Dating: The Effects of Mean Exponential Ground Temperature and Depth of
Artifact Recovery, northern New Mexico, abstract from the Journal of Field
Archaeology.
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.
Nan A. Rothschild
Barnard College at Columbia, prehistoric, historic, and ethno-archaeology; in and around
New York City and on the Zuni Reservation in New Mexico.
Vernon
L. Scarborough
Site Structure of a Village of the Late Pithouse-Early Pueblo Period in New Mexico, late
Mogollon pithouse village (A.C. 1150-1200), 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.
Harry
J. Shafer
Architecture and Symbolism in Transitional Pueblo Development in the Mimbres Valley, SW
New Mexico, the NAN Ruin, an abstract from the Journal of Field Archaeology.
Harry
J. Shafer, Marianne Marek, and Karl J. Reinhard
A Mimbres Burial with Associated Colon Remains from the NAN Ranch Ruin, New Mexico, an
abstract from the Journal of Field Archaeology.
Katherine Spielmann
Arizona State University, faculty card, diet, economic specialization and political
organization in non-hierarchical societies; central New Mexico, most recently at Quarai
Pueblo.