Pruning the Jornada Branch Mogollon

Pruning the Jornada Branch Mogollon
Author: Regge Wiseman
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 167
Release: 2019-06-16
Genre:
ISBN: 9781098931476

In 1948 Donald J. Lehmer published his synthesis "The Jornada Branch of the Mogollon Culture", the first such attempt regarding the prehistoric archaeology of south central New Mexico, far west Texas, and the northern part of the state of Chihuahua, Mexico. It was based on a few excavations and limited surveys in the El Paso, Las Cruces, and Alamogordo areas. Yet, he then generalized these few data to the mega-region stretching from the town of Carrizozo, NM on the north to Villa Ahumada, Chihuahua, Mexico on the south and from Deming, NM on the west to Carlsbad, NM on the east, largely on the basis of certain pottery types found throughout. In 1965, key members of the Lea County Archaeological Society situated in Hobbs, NM proposed an Eastern Extension of the Jornada Mogollon to include southeastern New Mexico east of the Pecos River, again on the basis of the same pottery types and the supposition that a few excavated remnants of structures throughout this additionally vast region represent southwestern style pithouses and pueblos.Since 1965, considerably more survey and excavation has been accomplished in Lehmer's and LCASs regions and all areas in between. Most of that work has been in connection with cultural resource management activities required by federal and state laws. It is now possible to update our perceptions and talking points about this quarter of New Mexico and adjacent areas in Texas. The present volume updates our information base (through its original completion in 2016) based on the author's nearly 50 years of direct experience with and rumination about southeastern New Mexico archaeology. It is acknowledged that this is only a beginning and that the coming decades will produce more information by which to bring ever increasing focus on the prehistory (and history) of this culturally and physiographically diverse part of the world. REGGE N. WISEMAN was born and raised in southeastern New Mexico. As an undergraduate he studied anthropology at the University of New Mexico under the mentorship of Florence Hawley Ellis, and as a graduate student at Arizona State University under Alfred E. Dittert, Jr. Wiseman was recruited for work at the Laboratory of Anthropology, Museum of New Mexico in 1971 where he worked on CRM projects until his retirement in 2000. He is especially interested in the Jornada Mogollon, the Jemez Mountains region, the Galisteo Basin, and the Reserve Mogollon of west-central New Mexico. At present he continues to conduct analyses of artifact collections and preparing detailed descriptive reports of CRM projects dating back to the 1950s that had not been completed because of lack of funding.

Late Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers and Farmers of the Jornada Mogollon

Late Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers and Farmers of the Jornada Mogollon
Author: Thomas R. Rocek
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2019-02-21
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1607327953

Often seen as geographically marginal and of limited research interest to archaeologists, the Jornada Mogollon region of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico deserves broader attention. Late Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers and Farmers of the Jornada Mogollon presents the major issues being addressed in Jornada research and reveals the complex, dynamic nature of Jornada prehistory. The Jornada branch of the Mogollon culture and its inhabitants played a significant economic, political, and social role at multiple scales. This volume draws together results from recent large-scale CRM work that has amassed among the largest data sets in the Southwest with up-to-date chronological, architectural, faunal, ceramic, obsidian sourcing, and other specialized studies. Chapters by some of the most active researchers in the area address topics that reach beyond the American Southwest, such as mobility, forager adaptations, the transition to farming, responses to environmental challenges, and patterns of social interaction. Late Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers and Farmers of the Jornada Mogollon is an up-to-date summary of the major developments in the region and their implications for Southwest archaeology in particular and anthropological archaeological research more generally. The publication of this book is supported in part by the Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society and the Center for Material Culture Studies at the University of Delaware. Contributors: Rafael Cruz Antillón, Douglas H. M. Boggess, Peter C. Condon, Linda Scott Cummings, Moira Ernst, Tim Graves, David V. Hill, Nancy A. Kenmotsu, Shaun M. Lynch, Arthur C. MacWilliams, Mary Malainey, Timothy D. Maxwell, Myles R. Miller, John Montgomery, Jim A. Railey, Thomas R. Rocek, Matt Swanson, Christopher A. Turnbow, Javier Vasquez, Regge N. Wiseman, Chad L. Yost

More Than a Scenic Mountain Landscape

More Than a Scenic Mountain Landscape
Author: Thomas Merlan
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2015-06-25
Genre:
ISBN: 9781511517393

This study focuses on the cultural-historical environment of the 88,900-acre (35,560-ha) Valles Caldera National Preserve (VCNP) over the past four centuries of Spanish, Mexican, and U.S. governance. It includes a review and synthesis of available published and unpublished historical, ethnohistorical, and ethnographic literature about the human occupation of the area now contained within the VCNP. Documents include historical maps, texts, letters, diaries, business records, photographs, land and mineral patents, and court testimony.

World Prehistory and Archaeology

World Prehistory and Archaeology
Author: Michael Chazan
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Anthropology, Prehistoric
ISBN: 9780205953103

An integrated picture of prehistory as an active process of discovery. World Prehistory and Archaeology: Pathways through Time, third edition, provides an integrated discussion of world prehistory and archaeological methods. This text emphasizes the relevance of how we know and what we know about our human prehistory. A cornerstone of World Prehistory and Archaeology is the discussion of prehistory as an active process of discovery. Methodological issues are addressed throughout the text to engage readers. Archaeological methods are introduced in the first two chapters. Succeeding chapters then address the question of how we know the past to provide an integrated presentation of prehistory. The third edition involves readers in the current state of archaeological research, revealing how archaeologists work and interpret what they find. Through the coverage of various new research, author Michael Chazan shows how archaeology is truly a global discipline. Learning Goals Upon completing this book, readers will be able to: * Gain new perspectives and insights into who we are and how our world came into being. * Think about humanity from the perspective of archaeology. * Appreciate the importance of the archaeological record for understanding contemporary society.

The Hohokam

The Hohokam
Author: Emil W. Haury
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Total Pages: 425
Release: 2016-10-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 0816535264

"For a calculated 1,400 years, Snaketown was a viable village, but unlike so many tells in the Near East, the people remained the same while their culture changed. The smoothly graded typological sequences for most attributes suggest to me that the ethnic identity of the inhabitants was not interrupted, that they were one and the same people experiencing normal internal evolutionary cultural modifications with occasional boosts of features and ideas newly arrived from the outside." —Emil W. Haury

Lithic Debitage

Lithic Debitage
Author: William Andrefsky (Jr.)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2001
Genre: History
ISBN:

Debitage, the by-product flakes and chips from stone tool production, is the most abundant artifact type found on prehistoric sites. Archaeologists now recognise its potential in providing information about the kinds of tools produced, the characteristics of the technology that produced them, human mobility patterns and even site function, applying scientific analyses to its study. This volume brings together some of the most recent research on debitage analysis and intepretation, including replication experiments, and offers methodologies for interpreting variability in assemblages at the micro and macro level.