Growth and Aggregation at Canyon Creek Ruin: Implications for Evolutionary Change in East-Central Arizona

1983 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 290-315 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael W. Graves
Keyword(s):  
Resource Constraints ◽  
Natural Increase ◽  
Population Increase ◽  
Logistic Growth ◽  
East Central ◽  
Tree Ring Data ◽  
Region I ◽  
Construction Activity ◽  
Regional Population ◽  
Central Arizona

Tree-ring data from the Canyon Creek Ruin, east-central Arizona, are analyzed to evaluate two competing interpretations of pueblo growth at this well-preserved cliff dwelling. Despite an anomalous dating pattern, a logistic model best describes pueblo growth. Room construction activity is linked to population increase, which, in turn, may be divided into two varieties: natural increase, and immigration of households into the settlement. Logistic growth also accounts for population increase within the larger area of the Grasshopper region. I review the processes promoting both local and regional population increase, as well as subsequent abandonment of the mountains of Arizona. I suggest that rapid depopulation may have occurred after A.D. 1375 because late prehistoric communities lost access to nonlocal goods that had previously allowed populations to increase beyond local resource constraints.

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.

Analytical Perspectives on Prehistoric Migration: A Case Study From East-Central Arizona

1997 ◽  
Vol 24 (5) ◽  
pp. 447-466 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph A. Ezzo ◽  
Clark M. Johnson ◽  
T.Douglas Price
Keyword(s):  
East Central ◽  
Prehistoric Migration ◽  
Central Arizona

Evidence of Late Preceramic Agriculture at Cibecue, East-Central Arizona

KIVA ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 59 (4) ◽  
pp. 433-454 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phil R. Geib ◽  
Bruce B. Huckell
Keyword(s):  
East Central ◽  
Central Arizona

Habitat Selection by Apache Trout in Six East-Central Arizona Streams

2005 ◽  
Vol 134 (5) ◽  
pp. 1382-1388 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher J. Cantrell ◽  
Anthony T. Robinson ◽  
Lorraine D. Avenetti
Keyword(s):  
Habitat Selection ◽  
East Central ◽  
Central Arizona

Archeological Investigations in East Central Arizona

Science ◽  
1962 ◽  
Vol 138 (3542) ◽  
pp. 826-827 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. S. Martin
Keyword(s):  
East Central ◽  
Central Arizona

Fertility and the Development of Agriculture in the Prehistoric Midwest

1986 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 528-546 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane E. Buikstra ◽  
Lyle W. Konigsberg ◽  
Jill Bullington
Keyword(s):  
Population Increase ◽  
Fertility Rates ◽  
Juvenile Mortality ◽  
Regional Population ◽  
Key Variables ◽  
Standard Life ◽  
Central Illinois ◽  
Preparation Techniques ◽  
Relative Fertility ◽  
Significant Increment

In this article we develop and apply a method for estimating fertility in paleodemographic study. The proportion D30+/D5+, generated from standard life table calculations, is used to estimate relative fertility rates for eight Woodland and Mississippian populations represented by skeletal series from west-central Illinois. The inferred pattern of fertility increase through time is then considered in the context of key variables that define diet, technology, and sedentism. We conclude that changes in diet or food preparation techniques are implicated in this demographic change. The absence of a significant increment in juvenile mortality in association with the elevated fertility rates suggests that these changes in fertility explain the regional population increase previously inferred from mortuary and habitation site densities.

Prehistoric Water Sources of the Point of Pines Area

1952 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 185-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joe Ben Wheat
Keyword(s):  
Surface Water ◽  
Water Supply ◽  
Archaeological Survey ◽  
East Central ◽  
Field School ◽  
University Of Arizona ◽  
The University ◽  
San Carlos ◽  
Central Arizona ◽  
Considerable Period

In the course of an archaeological survey of the Point of Pines area, San Carlos Apache Reservation in east-central Arizona, E. W. Haury and E. B. Sayles, of the University of Arizona, noted the presence of a number of depressions which held surface water for a considerable period of time beyond the normal time for runoff. Furthermore, these depressions, or basins, appeared to be associated to some extent with specific archaeological ruins. The possibility that these depressions were made by the aboriginal inhabitants for the purpose of establishing and maintaining a water supply, led the writer in 1948 to excavate several of the depressions to determine their nature and date of construction, length of usage, time of abandonment, and other cultural information. The work was carried on during the 1948 season of the University of Arizona archaeological field school.

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