Correcting an Error in “Early Irrigation on the Colorado Plateau near Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico”

2004 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-150
Author(s):  
Glenna Dean
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
Correction Factor ◽  
Rio Grande Valley ◽  
Pollen Grains ◽  
Rio Grande ◽  
Old Fields ◽  
Laboratory Methods ◽  
Maize Pollen ◽  
Corn Pollen ◽  
Pollen Concentrations

Damp et al. (2002:667) quote me as stating “Old fields in New Mexico in the fertile Rio Grande Valley produced maize pollen, typically at levels of less than 2.0 grains per cc (Dean 1998)” (emphasis added). In actuality, my statement reads, “It is not uncommon for as few as five corn pollen grains/g of sample to be the only evidence of a prehistoric cornfield” (Dean 1998:55; emphasis added). There is no “standard correction factor” that will allow sediment weights to be transformed to volumes or vice versa. Pollen concentrations for cultigens in pre-Columbian New Mexico fields can be very small numbers and reproducibility of laboratory methods is crucial.

The Earliest People in the Southwest

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jesse Ballenger ◽  
Vance Holliday ◽  
Guadelupe Sanchez
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
Rio Grande Valley ◽  
Rio Grande ◽  
Projectile Point ◽  
Upper Rio Grande ◽  
Point Type

Paleoindian occupations across the Southwest are known largely from surface artifact collections because relatively few in situ sites are known. Clovis is the exception, with one of the world’s highest concentrations of Clovis mammoth kills occurring in southeast Arizona (Murray Springs, Naco, and Lehner). Otherwise Clovis is thinly scattered across New Mexico, Chihuahua, and Sonora. Folsom is the most common Paleoindian projectile point type in the Southwest in terms of numbers, but is largely concentrated in the basins of the Upper Rio Grande valley in New Mexico and Colorado. Unfluted Paleoindian artifact styles are widely scattered throughout the region, but most are concentrated along the Upper Rio Grande valley.

Annual Cycle of Reproduction and Molt in Gambel Quail of the Rio Grande Valley, Southern New Mexico

The Condor ◽  
1966 ◽  
Vol 68 (6) ◽  
pp. 541-561 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ralph J. Raitt ◽  
Robert D. Ohmart
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
Annual Cycle ◽  
Rio Grande Valley ◽  
Rio Grande

ICP-MS Isotopic Signatures of Lead Ceramic Glazes, Rio Grande Valley, New Mexico, 1315–1700

1996 ◽  
Vol 462 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas E. Pingitore ◽  
David Hill ◽  
Joshua Villalobos ◽  
Jeff Leach ◽  
John A. Peterson
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
Rio Grande Valley ◽  
Rio Grande ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Ancestral Pueblo ◽  
Trade Routes ◽  
Isotopic Signatures ◽  
Icp Ms ◽  
Lead Source ◽  
Source Materials

ABSTRACTICP-MS isotopie analysis of lead ceramic glazes suggests at least two sources were exploited by Ancestral Pueblo potters to obtain the lead raw material, presumably galena (PbS). Five Rio Grande lead glazeware sherds from the Sandia area and two found at Socorro share a common isotopie fingerprint. The temper of one of the Socorro sherds confirms an origin in the Sandia area; petrography of the temper of the second sherd does not tie to any known Socorro source rock. Two other glazeware sherds from Socorro have a distinctly different lead isotopie signature. A fifth Socorro glaze may be a mixture of the Sandia and Socorro lead source materials. The differences in lead isotopie signature thus accord well with mineralogical differences in the ceramic pastes. Lead isotopie signatures generated by ICP-MS analysis are a powerful new tool for grouping glazeware sherds, classifying individual samples, defining lead sources, and delineating trade routes.

The Southwest

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Brooks
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
Rocky Mountains ◽  
Rio Grande Valley ◽  
Rio Grande ◽  
Dual Process ◽  
Santa Fe ◽  
Place Making ◽  
Southern Rocky Mountains ◽  
San Juan River ◽  
New Locations

Few traveling between Santa Fe, New Mexico, and the Rio Grande valley realize that they are traversing one of the most significant American Indian migration and settlement corridors in the Southwest, a well-watered and fertile floodplain that served to link peoples of the southern Rocky Mountains and the San Juan River to those of the Jemez range and Sangre de Cristo Mountains, and the Rio Grande, across some 300 miles. This chapter gives an overview of Pueblo (Tiwa, Tewa, Towa, Keres, Hopi, and Zuni), Apache, Navajo, and O’odham histories, and reveals a dual process of migration and place making across a millennium. The Southwest has a high variability in seasonal precipitation, and its peoples have demonstrated creative and adaptable cultures that allowed for movement to new locations and the creation of new homelands as a crucial aspect of their survival.

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