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This is a presentation from the 2021 Arizona Archaeological Council (AAC) Fall symposium on "The Archaeology of Canals in the Arizona Desert". EPG conducted Phase I data recovery at ancestral O’odham/Hohokam site AZ T:12:91(ASM) south of the Salt River in Laveen, Arizona. Excavation revealed a prehistoric distribution or branch canal and two laterals. Although Phase II data recovery was not warranted, we did perform stripping of overburden above the junction of the distribution canal and one...
Ancient Recipes Revealed: FTIR Analysis of Central Plains Tradition Pottery (2010)
Our goals in this limited trial were several: 1) to evaluate the feasibility of using FTIR to identify Central Plains tradition food preparation practices 2) to determine if it is possible to differentiate uses of Central Plains tradition jars 3) to make a preliminary determination of what those uses were and what food items might have been combined as recipes for meals 4) to get a preliminary answer to the burning question of how the seed bowls were used Identifying individual ingredients...
Canals of Pueblo Viejo (2021)
This is a presentation from the 2021 Arizona Archaeological Council (AAC) Fall symposium on "The Archaeology of Canals in the Arizona Desert". As early as 1887 Hemenway visited the Salt River Valley and placed Pueblo Viejo on the map for the first time. Other antiquarians and early archaeologists proceeded to map and document the network of prehistoric Hohokam canals south of the Salt River, which connected Pueblo Viejo with other Hohokam villages and settlements. We briefly review these...
A Collaborative Approach Among Agencies, Disciplines and Tribes to Study and Manage Conical Timber Lodges in the Greater Yellowstone Area (2007)
A variety of wooden structures exist in the northern Plains and Rocky Mountains; among these are conical timber lodges popularly referred to as "wickiups". For the purpose of this study, wickiups are defined as conical timber lodges built by Native Americans, though they may have been used by Euroamerican fur trappers and explorers. Few conical timber lodges have been recorded in the Greater Yellowstone Area and there are many unanswered questions pertaining to their function, tribal...
Conceptualizing Landscapes in the San Pedro Valley of Arizona: American Indian Interpretations of Reeve Ruin and Davis Ruin (2003)
At various times in the past, the San Pedro Valley of southeastern Arizona was home to the ancestors of four contemporary American Indian tribes: Tohono O'odham, Hopi, Zuni, and Western Apache. Collaborative ethnohistoric research with these four tribes was conducted to explore multiple tribal histories drawing on concepts of cultural landscapes as memory. Members of each tribe use archaeological sites in the San Pedro Valley as monuments to substantiate their unique community history and...
A Critical Evaluation of Soil Salinization, Waterlogging, and Agricultural Fertility within Hohokam Irrigation of the Phoenix Basin (2021)
This is a presentation from the 2021 Arizona Archaeological Council (AAC) Fall symposium on "The Archaeology of Canals in the Arizona Desert". In arid and semi-arid regions, soil salinization and waterlogging are thought to cause agricultural infertility and social change. Although common in irrigation models and theories, empirical evidence supporting a primary causal link among salinization, waterlogging, and infertility has proved elusive. Proxies and indirect measures (e.g., soil...
Finding and Understanding Ancient Hohokam Irrigated Agricultural Fields in Southern Arizona (2021)
This is a presentation from the 2021 Arizona Archaeological Council (AAC) Fall symposium on "The Archaeology of Canals in the Arizona Desert". For over a century, archaeologists have investigated the vast network of prehistoric Hohokam canal irrigation systems in the lower Salt and middle Gila river valleys, as well as in other areas of southern Arizona. However, documentation of the agricultural fields in which prehistoric farmers irrigated their crops generally was lacking until the last...
The Los Gigantes Community: Post-Chacoan Settlement in the Zuni Region of the American Southwest (1999)
Poster presented at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Chicago, IL.
Micro Analyses of 17th Century Adobe Bricks from the “New” Church at Pecos, New Mexico (2015)
The clash of Pueblo farmers and Spanish missionaries in central New Mexico marks the transition from prehistoric maize farming to the modern era along the Rio Grande River. The interaction between Native Americans and Spanish was not totally either peaceful or confrontational. The first church, built in the 1620s, was later burned during the Pueblo Revolt when Spanish were forced to leave, then rebuilt when relations improved. Four bricks from the new church (Mission de Nuestra Senora de los...
OHara_Sinagua_Slides (2011)
This pdf documents contains images that accompany O'Hara's paper on Sinagua mortuary ritual and the aggregation of Sinagua mortuary data.
The Pima Lateral: Historic-era Native American Irrigation Agriculture on the Lehi Terrace (2021)
This is a presentation from the 2021 Arizona Archaeological Council (AAC) Fall symposium on "The Archaeology of Canals in the Arizona Desert". Recent data recovery operations conducted on the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community by North Wind Resource Consulting (North Wind) resulted in two subsurface exposures of the Pima Lateral, an historic irrigation canal that served as the principal irrigation work for the early northside community prior to the creation of the Salt River Indian...
Poster: U.S. Bureau of Reclamation's Farm Rehabilitation Project Collaborations with the Navajo and Tohono O'odham Tribes in Arizona, as Implemented by Archaeological Consulting Services (2010)
Reclamation projects have involved collaborative efforts with two of Arizona’s largest Native American groups, the Navajo Nation and the Tohono O’odham Nation. Both involved construction of infrastructure to support traditional and cooperative farming. The Navajo Nation project involved the creation of an award-winning DVD of Navajo elders discussing traditional irrigation farming at Ganado, and the Tohono O’odham Nation project involved extensive testing prior to construction of new irrigation...
Refined Canal Ages and Implications for the Organization of Turney’s Canal System 2, Phoenix, Arizona (2021)
This is a presentation from the 2021 Arizona Archaeological Council (AAC) Fall symposium on "The Archaeology of Canals in the Arizona Desert". Archaeological projects conducted by Desert Archaeology northwest of the Park of Four Waters provided opportunity to obtain refined ages for the use of the primary main canals that compose Turney’s Canal System 2. When canal age and destination are considered, as defined by the villages that the canals served, it is seen that System 2 is composed of...
A Review of the 2008 Conference on Canals (2021)
This is a presentation from the 2021 Arizona Archaeological Council (AAC) Fall symposium on "The Archaeology of Canals in the Arizona Desert". This presentation will be a review of the research presented at the last regional conference on canals which was organized by AAC and the Mesa Southwest Museum in 2008.
Thompson_Salt River Valley_Metadata Tables_Variables and Variable States (2011)
This document contains metadata that accompanies the sample mortuary data sets from the Salt River Valley. The sample sets contain mortuary data from burial features at Pueblo Grande and at Pueblo Viejo.
Virtue Ethics and the Practice of History: Native Americans and Archaeologists along the San Pedro Valley of Arizona (2003)
For nearly a century, archaeologists have endeavored to illuminate 12,000 years of Native American history in the San Pedro Valley of southeastern Arizona. Although this scholarship has provided an essential foundation for our understanding of the region, it is limited by the construction of history through the singular interpretive framework of western scientific practice. The Tohono O'odham, Hopi, Zuni, and Western Apache peoples all maintain distinct oral traditions that provide alternative...
Where did the Water Go? (2021)
This is a presentation from the 2021 Arizona Archaeological Council (AAC) Fall symposium on "The Archaeology of Canals in the Arizona Desert". The Huhugam created a vast irrigation canal system that extended for miles feeding agricultural fields and villages along the Salt and Gila Rivers. When the Gila River ran dry the Gila River Indian Community worked hard to return the water to the people. The Pima-Maricopa Irrigation Project, the first tribally built irrigation system would deliver...