scholarly journals Taphonomic considerations on pinworm prevalence in three Ancestral Puebloan latrines

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 791-798 ◽  
Author(s):  
Morgana Camacho ◽  
Alena Mayo Iñiguez ◽  
Karl Jan Reinhard
Keyword(s):  
Ancestral Puebloan

scholarly journals Late Holocene droughts and cave ice harvesting by Ancestral Puebloans

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bogdan P. Onac ◽  
Steven M. Baumann ◽  
Dylan S. Parmenter ◽  
Eric Weaver ◽  
Tiberiu B. Sava
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
New Mexico ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
Water Availability ◽  
Late Holocene ◽  
Human Environment ◽  
Climate Conditions ◽  
Ancestral Puebloan ◽  
Ancestral Puebloans ◽  
Marginal Environment

AbstractWater availability for Native Americans in the southwestern United States during periods of prolonged droughts is poorly understood as regional hydroclimate records are scant or contradicting. Here, we show that radiocarbon-dated charcoal recovered from an ice deposit accumulated in Cave 29, western New Mexico, provide unambiguous evidence for five drought events that impacted the Ancestral Puebloan society between ~ AD 150 and 950. The presence of abundant charred material in this cave indicates that they periodically obtained drinking water by using fire to melt cave ice, and sheds light on one of many human–environment interactions in the Southwest in a context when climate change forced growing Ancestral Puebloan populations to exploit water resources in unexpected locations. The melting of cave ice under current climate conditions is both uncovering and threatening a fragile source of paleoenvironmental and archaeological evidence of human adaptations to a seemingly marginal environment.

Seismic Refraction at Ancestral Puebloan Sites on the Pajarito Plateau, New Mexico

2008 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer E. Nisengard ◽  
John S. Isaacson ◽  
John F. Ferguson ◽  
Emily Hinz ◽  
Rory Gauthier
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
Seismic Refraction ◽  
Pajarito Plateau ◽  
Ancestral Puebloan

scholarly journals Reconstructing sexual divisions of labor from fingerprints on Ancestral Puebloan pottery

2019 ◽  
Vol 116 (25) ◽  
pp. 12220-12225 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Kantner ◽  
David McKinney ◽  
Michele Pierson ◽  
Shaza Wester
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Chaco Canyon ◽  
Economic Systems ◽  
Sex And Gender ◽  
Pottery Production ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Ancestral Puebloan ◽  
The Us ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
And Gender

An understanding of the division of labor in different societies, and especially how it evolved in the human species, is fundamental to most analyses of social, political, and economic systems. The ability to reconstruct how labor was organized, however, especially in ancient societies that left behind few material remains, is challenged by the paucity of direct evidence demonstrating who was involved in production. This is particularly true for identifying divisions of labor along lines of age, sex, and gender, for which archaeological interpretations mostly rely upon inferences derived from modern examples with uncertain applicability to ancient societies. Drawing upon biometric studies of human fingerprints showing statistically distinct ridge breadth measurements for juveniles, males, and females, this study reports a method for collecting fingerprint impressions left on ancient material culture and using them to distinguish the sex of the artifacts’ producers. The method is applied to a sample of 985 ceramic sherds from a 1,000-y-old Ancestral Puebloan community in the US Southwest, a period characterized by the rapid emergence of a highly influential religious and political center at Chaco Canyon. The fingerprint evidence demonstrates that both males and females were significantly involved in pottery production and further suggests that the contributions of each sex varied over time and even among different social groups in the same community. The results indicate that despite long-standing assumptions that pottery production in Ancient Puebloan societies was primarily a female activity, labor was not strictly divided and instead was likely quite dynamic.

Tracing Pigment Patterns of Iron-based Paint on Ancestral Puebloan Pottery by SEM-EDS Without the Use of Carbon Coating

2012 ◽  
Vol 18 (S2) ◽  
pp. 1056-1057
Author(s):  
M.W. Pendleton ◽  
E.A. Ellis ◽  
D.K. Washburn ◽  
B.B. Pendleton
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Coating ◽  
Ancestral Puebloan ◽  
Iron Based ◽  
Pigment Patterns

Extended abstract of a paper presented at Microscopy and Microanalysis 2012 in Phoenix, Arizona, USA, July 29 – August 2, 2012.

Population Aggregation in the Prehistoric North American Southwest

1996 ◽  
Vol 61 (3) ◽  
pp. 597-602 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy A. Kohler ◽  
Lynne Sebastian
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
North American ◽  
Demographic Factors ◽  
American Southwest ◽  
Chaco Canyon ◽  
Mesa Verde ◽  
Ancestral Puebloan ◽  
Population Aggregation ◽  
North American Southwest

We attempt to clarify the role of demographic factors (size, density, history, and trajectory) in aggregation in the ancestral Puebloan Southwest, which we found obscure in Leonard and Reed (1993). In addition, we question one of the case studies from Chaco Canyon that they used to support their model, and we suggest that data from the Mesa Verde region between A.D. 700 and 1300 argue against the generality of their explanation for aggregation.

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