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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.

Research Institutions

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

Current Researchers

Tom Baker
Mysteries of Chaco: The Aerial Perspective, an article in Aerial Archaeology Newsletter.

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.

Cultural History

The New Mexico Archaic / The Oshara Tradition
From Tony Baker, a time line on the transition from the Paleoindian tradition to the Archaic tradition in the Central Rio Grande Valley of New Mexico.

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