The Exotic Origins of Fishes Depicted on Prehistoric Mimbres Pottery from New Mexico

1986 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 688-720 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen C. Jett ◽  
Peter B. Moyle
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
Gulf Of California ◽  
Marine Origin ◽  
Mimbres Valley

A variety of fishes is depicted on Classic Mimbres figurative pottery of ca. A.D. 950-1150. Bowl paintings show fishing scenes and equipment. We have tentatively identified depictions of 20 fish taxa, 18 of which are of marine origin. The suite of species suggests a provenience in the Gulf of California, near Guaymas, Sonora. Mimbres traders apparently traveled 1,500 km from New Mexico's Mimbres Valley to the Gulf and back, probably to obtain shells and other materials for home use and for commerce.

A Shell Bracelet Manufactory

1936 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur Woodward
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
Gulf Of California ◽  
Small Hole ◽  
Normal Type ◽  
The North ◽  
Ancient Times

Some of the most common artifacts found on all of the ancient Hohokam sites in southern Arizona, and upon many of the Pueblo sites further to the north in both Arizona and New Mexico, are the thin, well-made bracelets, earrings and finger rings, fashioned from the Glycimeris shell. The broken fragments of these specimens are particularly noticeable in the great trash heaps marking the Hohokam villages. The normal type is a plain, smoothly-cut, well-polished circlet of shell, usually perforated with a small hole at the apex of the hinge.Although archaeologists have long been familiar with these, and know that the shells from which they were made are found in the Gulf of California, the origin of the artifacts themselves has not been established. It has been inferred that the Indians of the interior obtained the complete shells in trade, or that in ancient times the inhabitants of the Gila and Salt valleys traveled to the Gulf, a nine days' journey on foot, even as the Pima and Papago have resorted thither for salt in more recent historic times.

North America I: The Southwest and the Southern Plains

Horse Nations ◽  
2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
North America ◽  
Gulf Of California ◽  
Southern Plains ◽  
Sierra Madre ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Mexico Border ◽  
Village Communities ◽  
The American South ◽  
Key Aspects

Ruled from Mexico City for about a century longer than they have thus far been from Washington, New Mexico and Arizona lie in what English speakers generally term ‘the Southwest’. I follow that usage here, even though calling them the ‘Northwest’ (of first colonial New Spain and then an independent Mexico) would, for this chapter’s purposes, be more accurate, as well as emphasizing that the cultural area to which their Indigenous inhabitants belonged extended across modern Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, Sinaloa, and Sonora. Together with the Southern Plains, to which trade links intimately tied it before and after Spanish arrival, the Southwest constituted the cradle within which the first Horse Nations of North America took shape. I start by highlighting key aspects of the two regions’ ecologies and prehistories. Next, I look at the horse’s impact on the Southwest’s settled farming peoples, particularly the Pueblos, many of whom came under Spanish rule after 1598. Its take-up by their Athapaskan-speaking neighbours, the Apache and Navajo, gives us our first view of how more mobile societies understood and used the horse, including—in the Navajo case—the development of a distinctive pastoralist way of life. Attention then turns to the Comanche, another pivotal player in the horse’s expansion across western North America, for whom it altered not just how they secured food, but also their social organization and entire economy. Trade—especially trade in horses—was critical in this, and so I end by examining the horse’s arrival among some of the Comanches’ trade partners, the village communities of the eastern edge of the Southern Plains, an area to which Native farmers-with-horses from the American South moved, and were forced to move, in the early 1800s. The Southwest is one of the driest parts of North America (Plate 4). Its climate is also strongly seasonal, with cold winters and hot summers. Major drainages are few: the Colorado in the west and northwest, southern Arizona’s Gila, the Río Grande, which snakes south through New Mexico and then along the present Texas/Mexico border, and the rivers draining into the Gulf of California from Mexico’s rugged Sierra Madre Occidental.

Changing Settlement and Population in the Mimbres Valley, SW New Mexico

1986 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 439 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Blake ◽  
Steven A. LeBlanc ◽  
Paul E. Minnis
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
Mimbres Valley

scholarly journals Flow, Moisture, and Thermodynamic Variability Associated with Gulf of California Surges within the North American Monsoon

2012 ◽  
Vol 25 (12) ◽  
pp. 4220-4241 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole J. Schiffer ◽  
Stephen W. Nesbitt
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
North American ◽  
Gulf Of California ◽  
Reanalysis Data ◽  
North American Monsoon ◽  
Air Masses ◽  
The North ◽  
Sierra Madre ◽  
North American Regional Reanalysis ◽  
Regional Reanalysis

Abstract This study uses an improved surge identification method to examine composites of 29 yr of surface observations and reanalysis data alongside 10 yr of satellite precipitation data to reveal connections between flow, thermodynamic parameters, and precipitation, both within and outside of the North American monsoon (NAM) region, associated with Gulf of California (GoC) moisture surges. The North American Regional Reanalysis (NARR), examined using composites of flow during all detected moisture surges at Yuma, Arizona, and so-called wet and dry surges (those producing anomalously high and low precipitation, respectively, over Arizona and New Mexico), show markedly different flow and moisture patterns that ultimately lead to the differing observed precipitation distributions in the region. Wet surges tend to be associated with moister precursor air masses over the southwestern United States, have a larger contribution of enhanced easterly cross–Sierra Madre Occidental (SMO) moisture transport, and tend to result from a transient cyclonic disturbance tracking across northern Mexico. Dry surges tend to be associated with a more southerly tracking disturbance, are associated with less convection over the SMO, and tend to be associated with a drier presurge air mass over Arizona and New Mexico.

scholarly journals Chemical compositional analysis of polychrome pottery in the northern Casas Grandes area (a.d. 1200-1450)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Candace A. Sall
Keyword(s):  
Neutron Activation Analysis ◽  
New Mexico ◽  
Activation Analysis ◽  
Compositional Analysis ◽  
Petrographic Analysis ◽  
Casas Grandes ◽  
Production Location ◽  
Far North ◽  
Religious System ◽  
Mimbres Valley

The northern area of the Casas Grandes Medio Period (A.D. 1200-1450) was not well known archaeologically. 76 Draw is on the border of the Casas Grandes and Salado (A.D. 1275-1450) regions and the nature of interaction and integration with both areas at this site was examined through excavation. 76 Draw, an Animas Phase settlement in Luna County, New Mexico, had both Ramos Polychrome vessels, a Casas Grandes polychrome type, and Gila Polychrome vessels, a Salado polychrome type, and neutron activation analysis was conducted to determine if both types were made at 76 Draw. The Ramos Polychrome pottery at the site came from three production locations based on the geochemical groups as well as petrographic analysis of some of the sherds. One of the production locations is at or near Paquimé and one might be at or near 76 Draw. The Gila Polychrome vessels came to 76 Draw from one production location in the Mimbres Valley north of the site. 76 Draw was integrated with Casas Grandes in Chihuahua, Mexico, as it was participating in the religious system that included the production and use of the iconographic Ramos Polychrome pottery. Evidence of roasting ovens, obsidian from southern sources, shell, and bird burial information from 76 Draw, along with Ramos Polychrome data, demonstrates that the Casas Grandes interaction sphere operates as far north as southern New Mexico.

scholarly journals Using residue analysis to explore household activities at the Harris Site, Mimbres Valley, New Mexico

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 270-278
Author(s):  
Barbara Roth ◽  
Aaron Woods ◽  
Danielle Romero ◽  
Malka McNeely ◽  
Mary Malainey
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
Residue Analysis ◽  
Household Activities ◽  
Mimbres Valley
Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document