(April 8, 2019)—It’s early April, and for many of us here at Archaeology Southwest, that means the Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting is right around the corner (April 10–14). Our staff members have been busy polishing up their presentations on a dizzying array of archaeological topics, including Hohokam ballcourts, obsidian XRF analysis, grant-writing strategies, and many different approaches to archaeological site protection.
Some of our 2017 and 2018 Preservation Archaeology Field School students are also finalizing their posters and papers this week. For most of them, this will be their first time presenting their own original research at a professional conference. This is a fairly unusual accomplishment for undergraduate students, and it has been great to watch them successfully meet this challenge! We’re also grateful to the National Science Foundation (NSF REU-1560465) for supporting their attendance and helping the next generation of archaeologists gain a strong foundation in scientific research.
Here’s a brief listing of Archaeology Southwest staff and students’ upcoming meeting presentations. If you are attending the meeting, we look forward to discussing our work with you in person. Everyone else, watch for word on our Facebook and Twitter later this month that our posters have gone up on our website.
Leslie Aragon and Kate Vaughn, “What Can We Learn by Digging a Trench through a Hohokam Ballcourt?” in Southwest Archaeology, Friday, 4/12, 2:00–4:00 p.m.
Lewis Borck and Jeffery Clark, “Building Collapse: Hierarchy and an Anarchic Social Movement in the Hohokam Classic Period” in Why Platform Mounds? Regional Comparisons and Tribal Histories, Friday, 4/12, 1:00–4:30 p.m.
Jeffery Clark, Brett Hill, and Steven Shackley, “Looking through the Glass: How Large-Scale XRF Obsidian Sourcing Has Expanded Our View of Late Pre-Hispanic Regional Networks in the U.S. Southwest”, in 2019 Fryxell Award Symposium: Papers in Honor of M. Steven Shackley, Saturday 4/13, 8:00 a.m. to noon
Shiloh Craig, “The Cultural Importance of Obsidian in the Upper Gila Area” in Local Development and Cross-Cultural Interaction in Pre-Hispanic Southwestern New Mexico and Southeastern Arizona, Friday, 4/12, 2:00–4:00 p.m.
William Doelle and Josh Ewing, “Protecting Cultural Landscapes, Famous and Not, as the Threats Increase” in Transcending Modern Boundaries: Recent Investigations of Cultural Landscapes in Southeastern Utah, Saturday, 4/13, 11:30 a.m.
Phillip Leckman and Karen Schollmeyer, “From the Andes to the Gila: Space, Society and Zooarchaeology in the US Southwest” in An Archaeological Example: Celebrating John Rick’s Research and Teaching Career, Saturday, 4/13, 8:00 a.m. to noon
Christopher La Roche and Jeffery Clark, “Coalescence within the Gila River Farm Site and other Salado Settlements of the Upper Gila” in Local Development and Cross-Cultural Interaction in Pre-Hispanic Southwestern New Mexico and Southeastern Arizona, Friday, 4/12, 2:00–4:00 p.m.
Devlin Lewis and Leslie Aragon, “Ongoing Investigations at the Gila River Farm Site” in Local Development and Cross-Cultural Interaction in Pre-Hispanic Southwestern New Mexico and Southeastern Arizona, Friday, 4/12, 2:00–4:00 p.m.
Barbara Mills, Sudha Ram, Jeffery Clark, Scott Ortman and Matthew Peeples, “cyberSW: A Data Synthesis and Knowledge Discovery System for Long-Term Interdisciplinary Research on Southwest Social Change” in Settlement and Society in the American Southwest, Friday, 4/12, 2:00–4:00 p.m.
Deianira Morris, “Rock Art, Cognition, and Embodied Ontologies” in Southwest Archaeology, Friday, 4/12, 2:00–4:00 p.m.
Paul Reed and Ruth Van Dyke, organized session Protecting the Greater Chaco Landscape: Native Voices, Saturday, 4/13, 1:00–3:00 p.m.
Paul Reed, “Pueblo of Acoma Ethnographic Study of the Greater Chaco Landscape” in Applying Ethnography and Ethnohistory to Improve Archaeological Understanding, Thursday, 4/11, 10:15 a.m.
Stacy Ryan, “Classic Period Projectile Point Traditions in Southeastern Arizona” in Local Development and Cross-Cultural Interaction in Pre-Hispanic Southwestern New Mexico and Southeastern Arizona, Friday, 4/12, 2:00–4:00 p.m.
Stacy Ryan, forum speaker, Eliminating Cultural Resource Crime from Indian Country through Integrated Prevention, Investigation, and Prosecution, Saturday, 4/13, 1:00–3:00 p.m.
Karen Schollmeyer, forum speaker, Women and Grant-Getting: Strategies for Writing NSF Grants, Thursday, 4/11, 10:00 a.m. to noon
Karen Schollmeyer and Jeffery Clark, organized poster session, Local Development and Cross-Cultural Interaction in Pre-Hispanic Southwestern New Mexico and Southeastern Arizona, Friday, 4/12, 2:00–4:00 p.m.
Matthew Steber, “Textile Production in the Emerging Hohokam Ballcourt World” in Local Development and Cross-Cultural Interaction in Pre-Hispanic Southwestern New Mexico and Southeastern Arizona, FFriday, 4/12, 2:00–4:00 p.m.
Kiley Stoj, “Plant Species and their Uses in Mimbres and Salado Sites in Southwest New Mexico” in Contributions to New Mexico Archaeology Friday, 4/12, 10:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
John Welch, organized forum, Eliminating Cultural Resource Crime from Indian Country through Integrated Prevention, Investigation, and Prosecution, Saturday, 4/13, 1:00–3:00 p.m.
Amanda Werlein, Joan Coltrain, Jeffrey R. Ferguson, Virginie Renson, and Karen Schollmeyer, “Looking through the Glass: How Large-Scale XRF Obsidian Sourcing Has Expanded Our View of Late Pre- Hispanic Regional Networks in the U.S. Southwest” in Current Research on Turkey Domestication, Husbandry and Management in North American and Beyond, Sunday, 4/14, 8:00–10:00 a.m.
Aaron Wright, organized session, Sacred Southwestern Landscapes: Archaeologies of Religious Ecology, Thursday, 4/11, 1:00–4:45 p.m.
Aaron Wright and N. Brusgaard, “An Ecology of the Patayan-Yuman Dreamland” in Sacred Southwestern Landscapes: Archaeologies of Religious Ecology, Thursday, 4/11, 1:00–4:45 p.m.
Henry Wallace and Aaron Wright, “Horizon Events: Hohokam Ritual Relations with the Distant and Phenomenal” in Sacred Southwestern Landscapes: Archaeologies of Religious Ecology, Thursday, 4/11, 1:00–4:45 p.m.
Stephen Uzzle, “Revaluating Mobility and Sedentism in Classic Mimbres and Salado Villages in Southwest New Mexico,” in Hohokam, Mogollon, and in Between, Saturday, 4/13, 1:30 p.m.