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Relation of “Bonito” Paleo-channels and Base-level Variations to Anasazi Occupation, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico [No. 194]Late Holocene deposits of Chaco Canyon, rather well known from studies beginning in the 1800s, include a filled prehistoric arroyo that we call the Bonito channel. Extensive dating via detrital ceramics, confirmed by in situ archaeological sites, shows the channel filled from about A.D. 1025 to 1090, earlier than some previous authors thought. Channel cutting may have begun as early as A.D. 900. The development of both the Bonito and modern arroyos is due to the anomalous position of the valley floor in Chaco Canyon, which is perched 4-5 m above and separated from the rest of its drainage network by an eolian dune. This dune apparently formed an effective dam at some times (when valley-floor units formed) but was breached at others (when channels formed). Thus base-level change drove stratigraphic evolution. The Bonito channel system is dendritic, cut in the older Chaco and Gallo units that define the valley floor surface, and is filled to the valley-floor level with little indurated sand and lesser gravel. A single soil-flood plain unit, not as strongly developed as the multiple soils on older units, is present on Bonito channel fill. The timing of base-level change, governed by eolian vs. fluvial energy, is uncertain but seems consistent with dendroclimatic, cultural, and stratigraphic chronologies of Chaco Canyon (new local dendroclimatic data are presented herein). Probably because of the unusual, rather mechanical nature of controls there, the alluvial chronology of Chaco Canyon does not correlate well with others of the region. Anasazi activity seems to have been tuned to changes in the Bonito channel with regard to construction of pueblos, roads, and water control features. Relations between fluvial and cultural features were especially intricate during channel filling, about A.D. 1025-1090, a period of great Chacoan influence and complexity. The extraordinary Chacoan water-control features may have been initiated in response to the Bonito channel system, and at least three Chacoan great houses were built entirely or in part on filled Bonito channels.
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Holocene Depositional History and Anasazi Occupation in McElmo Canyon, Southwestern Colorado [No. 188]McElmo Canyon in southwestern Colorado, which drains the Montezuma basin into the San Juan River, contains excellent exposures of Holocene sequences that underlie a broad valley-bottom terrace system. These exposures are the vehicle for this study of the stratigraphy and geometry of fluvial deposits and their contained archaeological remains. Anasazi sites in alluvium range from Basketmaker III to Pueblo III in age, thus providing age guides for the period AD. 500-1300. Fluvial deposits include channel, floodplain, and tributary alluvial fan facies. During times when (and at locales where) the system aggraded, these facies are interbedded and gradational in a way that suggests a braided channel, in contrast to degrading episodes that suggest a meandering channel. Local deposition rate was as great as about three meters in 100 years where distal fan deposits on the northern side of the valley are interbedded with main-channel floodplain deposits. Two main depositional packages are present, separated by an unconformity that mostly formed during the Pueblo I period. The age of this high relief unconformity is apparently diachronous, and the overlying package is certainly diachronous, both suggesting upstream migration of about five kilometers in 200 years. Our stratigraphic record of migrating loci of entrenchment and aggradation corresponds to studies of modern drainages, in which such changes are internal drainage adjustments. However, the broader time intervals of dominant erosion versus deposition are similar to alluvial chronologies elsewhere in the region and are thought to be controlled by climate change. An intricate feedback system apparently operated between sedimentary and geomorphic events on one hand, and Anasazi agriculture and habitation on the other. Agricultural water-control features show the importance of actively aggrading toes of northside fans in Anasazi agriculture. Habitation, situated on adjacent quasi-stable landforms, closely tracked loci of aggradation as these loci migrated. No habitation adjacent to valley segments suffering coeval entrenchment was found. The relation of migrating entrenchment loci and observed Anasazi habitation patterns suggest that the deleterious effects of entrenchment on Anasazi floodland agriculture probably resulted only in migration to nearby loci of deposition. The floodland component of Anasazi agriculture in this region may explain some Anasazi migration patterns that are otherwise anomalous. Adjacent floodlands and uplands, both in zones favorable for agriculture, may be required for successful habitation at certain times. The locations of the zones favorable for each agricultural strategy may vary through time somewhat independently of one another.
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The Hardy Site at Fort Lowell Park, Tucson, Arizona [No. 175 Revised Edition]A small portion of the Hardy site, a large, pre-Classic Hohokam village, was excavated by University of Arizona students and other volunteers between 1976 and 1978. The portion of the site that was excavated revealed houses and associated features dating from the Sweetwater or Snaketown phase through the Late Rincon subphase. Information retrieved from the site was used to examine occupation space use and reuse through time, to better define the Canada del Oro phase, and to propose the inclusion of the Cortaro phase (now subsumed within the Late Rincon subphase) in the Tucson Basin Hohokam cultural sequence.
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The 1982-1984 Excavations at Las Colinas: Syntheses and Conclusions [No. 162 Vol. 6]This is the sixth in a series of seven volumes reporting results of archaeological investigations at Las Colinas, a predominantly Sedentary and Classic period settlement on the Salt River within the boundaries of what is today urban Phoenix. Excavations at Las Colinas were funded by the Arizona Department of Transportation and the Federal Highway administration, with the additional support of the University of Arizona during report preparation and publication phases of the project. Work was conducted under Arizona State Permit S-82-16. Earlier volumes in this series presented data summaries and interepretation by project analysts, and a final volume (7) provides basic data and results of some specialized studies. The present volume synthesizes results of the various studies within the larger context of the project research design (Volume 1 in this series), in order to interpret the relevance of this site for better understanding the prehistoric Hohokam of central Arizona. Specific topics addressed include the implications of archaeomagnetic dating for regional chronology, the development and structure of Las Colinas itself, implications of project data for problems of social organization and economy, relationships within central and southern Arizona during the occupation of the site, and the inferences that may be drawn from Las Colinas data, in conjunction with other information, regarding the end of a recognizably Hohokam presence in central Arizona after about A.D. 1450.
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The 1982-1984 Excavations at Las Colinas: Special Studies and Data Tables [No. 162 Vol. 7]Excerpt from Preface: This is last of the seven volumes collectively designated Archaeological Series 162. In Part I of this volume. the provenience system used during the 1982-1984 excavatjons at Las Colinas and the computer procedures used in processing the enormous volume of data that resulted from those excavations are explained, and the results of some special analyses are presented. Artifact data are provided in tabular form jn Part II.
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The 1982-1984 Excavations at Las Colinas: The Mound 8 Precinct [No. 162 Vol. 3]The principal focus of this volume is a reconsideration of the construction history and organization of the Mound 8 precinct at Las Colinas. Seven stages of mound construction were identified, with some changes in construction methods and mound configuration over time. As a consequence, Mound 8 provides a record of the transition from an earlier mound form, similar to some stages of the pre-Classic mound at the Gatlin Site, to a later form similar to patterns evident in other Classic period sites. The organization of the Mound 8 precinct as a whole changes with these modifications of the central feature. From these physical changes, shifts in the function and use of Mound 8 have been inferred. Among these is an apparent transition from a predominantly ritual function to one of residence, probably by an elite group within the general population. A comparison of these aspects of the Mound 8 precinct with characteristics of other known platform mounds is made. Although no precise parallel to Stage VI at Las Colinas is identified, strong similarities of the remaining construction stages to those at other sites indicate that there was a shared concept of the appropriate formal organization of the mounds, which might be presumed to reflect similarities in their function within the society.
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Building Transnational Archaeologies / Construyendo Arqueologías Transnacionales: the 11th Southwest Symposium / El XI Simposio del Suroeste, Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico [No. 209]Excerpt from Preface: The Centro INAH Sonora hosted the 11th biennial Southwest Symposium in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico, January 8th and 9th, 2010. In the tradition of past meetings, the 21st Southwest Symposium provided a forum for archaeologists and other scholars to discuss innovative ideas and to develop networks for anthropological research in the U.S. Southwest and Mexican Northwest. We built the symposium around the theme of building transnational archaeologies. The Hermosillo meeting was the most diverse of the Southwest Symposiums held so far. The participants included U.S., Mexican, and indigenous researchers who worked in museums, universities, governmental agencies and contract archaeology. The 11th Southwest Symposium had four presented sessions and a series of themed poster sessions on transnational topics. Two of the presented sessions, West and North Mexico, and The Lost Century: A.D. 1450-1540 focused on substantive issues that expand our understanding of the Southwest/Northwest in space and time. The other two presented sessions Collaborating Across Cultures, and Archaeology and Society, discussed methods and goals in transnational archaeologies. The poster sessions included Violence in the Southwest/Northwest, Coastal Archaeology, Relations between the Southwest/Northwest and Mesoamerica, Cliff Dwellings, and Contract Archaeology. This volume includes 14 chapters from three of the presented sessions.
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New Perspectives on the Rock Art and Prehistoric Settlement Organization of Tumamoc Hill, Tucson, Arizona [No. 208]Excerpt from Preface: Tumamoc Hill, the prominent, flat-topped, black volcanic hill just west of the Santa Cruz River near downtown Tucson, Arizona, has been revealing its secrets for decades. This hill, the most prominent of the cerro de trincheras in the Tucson Basin, continues to teach us about the long temporal range and complexity of prehistoric life in the Tucson area. A cerro de trincheras is generally defined as a hill with linear stone walls, usually near the summit, as well as other stone features such as bedrock mortars, stone-ringed structures, trails, and frequently rock art. The three papers published here present new data on Cienega-phase and Tortolita-phase village organization in a hilltop community, the universe of rock art found on the hill, and petroglyphs that seem likely to be functioning as solar markers. The research on which the first paper is based began in the 1980s and continued through the excavation of the community structure in 2008. The rock art recording effort was conducted between 2006 and 2009. The solar marker research grew out of the rock art recording project.
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Power and Economy in Early Classic Period Hohokam Society: An Archaeological Perspective from the Marana Mound Site [No. 207]Foreword: This volume introduces the research design for investigations undertaken at the Marana Mound site (AZ AA:12:251 [ASM]) following the conclusion of the Northern Tucson Basin Survey (NTBS) in 1990, a brief summary of major fi ndings at this Early Classic center, and selected studies on more focused topics. Results of the previous NTBS survey have been published in a variety of venues, including journal articles, book chapters, monographs, and graduate student theses and dissertations. Comprehensive summary publications are The Marana Community in the Hohokam World edited by Suzanne K. Fish, Paul R. Fish, and John H. Madsen (1992a), The Northern Tucson Basin Survey: Research Directions and Background Studies edited by John H. Madsen, Paul R. Fish, and Suzanne K. Fish (1993), and Between Desert and River: Hohokam Settlement and Land Use in the Los Robles Community by Christian E. Downum (1993). The selected studies in this volume are an outgrowth of archaeological field classes and field schools that were held at the Marana Mound site during spring semesters between 1990 and 2003. The contributions were initially presented at a symposium at the 69th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology (SAA) in Montreal, Canada, in 2004, and have been modified over the intervening years. As of this writing, studies of Marana collections continue and some of the findings reported here undoubtedly will be refined by this ongoing research as well as future analyses. In the meantime, these studies offer valuable insights on the organization of Hohokam society during the Early Classic Period (ca. AD 1150-1300) from the perspective of one uniquely well-preserved locale—the Marana Mound site.
