Grasshopper Pueblo: A Story of Archaeology and Ancient Life. Jefferson Reid and Stephanie Whittlesey. 1999. The University of Arizona Press, Tucson. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-8165-1913-7. xiv + 186 pp. $15.05 (paper), ISBN 0-8165-1914-5.

2002 ◽  
Vol 67 (1) ◽  
pp. 180-181
Author(s):  
Harry J. Shafer
Keyword(s):  
University Of Arizona ◽  
Grasshopper Pueblo ◽  
The University

Population Dynamics at Grasshopper Pueblo, Arizona

1975 ◽  
Vol 30 ◽  
pp. 71-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
William A. Longacre
Keyword(s):  
Population Dynamics ◽  
East Central ◽  
University Of Arizona ◽  
State Museum ◽  
Dynamics Of Population ◽  
History Of ◽  
Regional Population ◽  
Grasshopper Pueblo ◽  
The University ◽  
Central Arizona

There is a long history of interest in the study of extinct populations, sometimes called “prehistoric demography” or “archaeological demography.” Most studies have focused on regional population size and trends through time and their explanation. Analyses of a single population at one community are rare.This paper discusses one effort at assessing the dynamics of population at one prehistoric community, the Grasshopper Pueblo, located in east-central Arizona. A long range program of archaeological research is being conducted at the site by the University of Arizona through the Archaeological Field School. This program is sponsored jointly by the Department of Anthropology and the Arizona State Museum and has been supported by the National Science Foundation since 1965.The Grasshopper Ruin, a fourteenth century pueblo, is an example of what some have called “Late Mogollon” or “Prehistoric Western Pueblo” culture. It consists of several main room clusters separated by a presently intermittent stream and surrounded by smaller groupings of rooms. There are approximately 500 rooms at the site. Space does not permit a discussion of the range of problems that we are attempting to solve in our research nor the sampling design. But one aspect of our work, the “Cornering-Growth Project,” has provided us with the relative construction sequences for all the rooms at the community. These data provide a basis for a study of population dynamics.

RADIOCARBON IN MEXICO: FROM PROPORTIONAL COUNTERS TO AMS

Radiocarbon ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Corina Solís ◽  
Efraín Chávez ◽  
Arcadio Huerta ◽  
María Esther Ortiz ◽  
Alberto Alcántara ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mass Spectrometry ◽  
Sample Preparation ◽  
High Voltage ◽  
Accelerator Mass Spectrometry ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
National Council ◽  
University Of Arizona ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
High Voltage Engineering ◽  
The University

ABSTRACT Augusto Moreno is credited with establishing the first radiocarbon (14C) laboratory in Mexico in the 1950s, however, 14C measurement with the accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) technique was not achieved in our country until 2003. Douglas Donahue from the University of Arizona, a pioneer in using AMS for 14C dating, participated in that experiment; then, the idea of establishing a 14C AMS laboratory evolved into a feasible project. This was finally reached in 2013, thanks to the technological developments in AMS and sample preparation with automated equipment, and the backing and support of the National Autonomous University of Mexico and the National Council for Science and Technology. The Mexican AMS Laboratory, LEMA, with a compact 1 MV system from High Voltage Engineering Europa, and its sample preparation laboratories with IonPlus automated graphitization equipment, is now a reality.

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