Black Mesa Black on White

1941 ◽  
Vol 7 (2Part1) ◽  
pp. 164-165
Author(s):  
Harold S. Colton
Keyword(s):  
Tree Ring ◽  
Original Description ◽  
American Archaeology ◽  
Northern Arizona ◽  
Black Mesa ◽  
Peabody Museum

A very important southwestern pottery type, well dated by tree ring studies, is called Deadmans Black-on-white by Colton, and Black Mesa Pueblo II Black-on-white by Morss. When the Handbook of Northern Arizona Pottery Wares (Colton and Hargrave, 1937) was being written, and there were two descriptions of the type, the question arose which name to choose. The original description of Deadmans Black-on-white appeared in Bulletin 104 of the Bureau of American Ethnology, which carried a printed authorization date of Feb. 17, 1931, and which appeared in 1932. Morss published his description of the same type in 1931, calling it Black Mesa Pueblo II Black-on-white (Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology).

TREE-RING DATES AND NAVAJO SETTLEMENT PATTERNS IN ARIZONA

2017 ◽  
Vol 82 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chip Colwell ◽  
T. J. Ferguson
Keyword(s):  
Tree Ring ◽  
Settlement Patterns ◽  
Colorado River ◽  
High Confidence ◽  
New Approach ◽  
River Watershed ◽  
Northern Arizona ◽  
Black Mesa ◽  
Tree Ring Data ◽  
The U.S

The historical timing and movement of Navajo communities in the U.S. Southwest continue to be key, but unresolved, issues. This paper analyzes tree-ring data to consider initial Navajo settlement patterns in the Little Colorado River watershed, Black Mesa, and nearby regions in northern Arizona. We are critical of previous studies that deem all tree-ring dates to be equally valid, so we present a new approach to systematically identify potential early Navajo sites. After analyzing hundreds of tree-ring specimens from 774 sites, we conclude that dendrochronological evidence offers moderate-to-high confidence that 18 Navajo sites in the study area were settled prior to 1882. These dendrochronological data support the hypothesis of a westward Navajo migration from the Dinétah, reaching Black Mesa in Arizona about 1840, other areas north and east of the Hopi Mesas in the 1850s, and land west of Hopi in the 1870s after the release of Navajos from Fort Sumner in 1868.

Dendrochronological responses to the 24 October 1992 tornado at Sunset Crater, northern Arizona

2005 ◽  
Vol 35 (12) ◽  
pp. 2911-2919 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul R Sheppard ◽  
Elizabeth M May ◽  
Michael H Ort ◽  
Kirk C Anderson ◽  
Mark D Elson
Keyword(s):  
Tree Ring ◽  
Pinus Ponderosa ◽  
Ring Width ◽  
Reaction Wood ◽  
Release Reaction ◽  
Archaeological Wood ◽  
Northern Arizona ◽  
Growth Changes ◽  
Tornado Damage

This paper documents tree-ring responses to a historic tornado and reevaluates prehistoric tree-ring changes seen in archaeological wood of Wupatki Ruin used to date the 11th-century eruption of Sunset Crater. The historic tornado occurred at Sunset Crater, northern Arizona, on 24 October 1992, and trees within areas damaged by the tornado survived the event and continue living today. The objectives of this research were to document their ring-growth changes and to consider the possibility of tornadoes as a candidate disturbance for the prehistoric ring-growth changes of Wupatki. About half of the trees sampled within areas damaged by the tornado show one or more dendrochronological responses to that event, including ring-width release, reaction wood, ring-width suppression, and (or) reduced latewood. Tornado damage is not a likely candidate for having caused the abrupt ring-width changes at AD 1064–1065 seen at Wupatki. However, five living ponderosa pines (Pinus ponderosa Dougl. ex P. & C. Laws.) at Sunset Crater experienced abrupt and severe suppressions in ring growth beginning decades ago and continuing today. No single disturbance seems obvious for causing these growth suppressions, but further research is merited to find the cause of these modern suppressions to propose a new candidate explanation for the AD 1064 suppression.

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