Welcome to our archive of poster presentations! At professional conferences, archaeologists present research findings in several ways, usually through spoken papers and posters.
2024 Posters
The Society for American Archaeology’s annual meeting took place in New Orleans, Louisiana, in 2024.
The 2022 Society for American Archaeology meetings were back in person in Chicago.
“Re-examining Mogollon Pithouse Chronology—A Bayesian Approach.” By Lori Barkwill Love. Download the PDF here.“Braided together: How different sandal technologies in the Salado Region show migration.” By Beatriz Barraclough-Tan. Download the PDF here.“Distribution of Axe Head Styles at Salado Settlements.” By Lewis Dolmas. Download the PDF here.“A Comparative Analysis of Mimbres and Salado Pottery Cultures.” By Gabby Pfleger. Download the PDF here. “Short-term Sedentism at Gila River Farm Site, NM.” By Sam Rosenbaum. Download the PDF here.“Decolonization: It’s a Little Bit General.” By Kat Taylor. Download the PDF here.“Mobility as a Land Use Strategy in Prehispanic Southwest New Mexico.” By Stephen L. Uzzle. Download the PDF here.
2021 Posters
In April 2021 we organized a Society for American Archaeology virtual poster session.
“Virtue Ethics in Archaeological Study.” By Christopher Fuchs. Download the PDF here.“Exploring Classical Period Mimbres Social Networks through Neutron Activation Analysis: A Pilot Study.” By David Lewandowski. Download the PDF here.“Animal Remains and Archaeological Context in the Reserve and Mimbres Mogollon Areas, AD 200-1450.” By Karen Gust Schollmeyer. Download the PDF here.“Living on the Mimbres Western Edge: Regional Affiliation and Identity in Arizona’s Upper Gila River Valley A.D. 750-1130.” By Mary Whisenhunt, John R. Roney, Robert J. Hard, Lori Barkwill-Love, and Toni Laumbach. Download the PDF here.“The Pithouse to Pueblo Transition, Mealing Facilities, and the Mimbres-Mogollon.” By Sean White. Download the PDF here.
2019 Posters
In April 2019 we organized a Society for American Archaeology poster session bringing together students and professionals working in Southwestern New Mexico and Southeastern Arizona.
“What can we Learn by Digging a Trench through a Hohokam Ballcourt?” By Leslie Aragon and Kate Vaughn. Download the PDF here. “Plain Pots Do Travel: Insights Into Mogollon Early Pithouse Pottery Circulation.” By Lori Barkwell Love, Darrell Creel, and Jeffery Ferguson. Download the PDF here.“The Cultural Importance of Obsidian in the Upper Gila Area.” By Shiloh Craig. Download the PDF here.“The Sanchez Site: An Early Agricultural & Early Pithouse Period Cerro de Trincheras on the Upper Gila River, Arizona.” By Robert Hard, John Roney, A.C. MacWilliams, Mary Whisenhunt and Karen Adams. Download the PDF here.“The Gila River Farm Site and Salado Coalescence during the AD 14th Century in the Upper Gila.” By Christopher La Roche and Jeffery Clark. Download the PDF here.“Ongoing Investigations at the Gila River Farm Site.” By Devlin Lewis and Leslie Aragon. Download the PDF here.“Rock Art and Ontology: Patterns of Hohokam Imagery.” By Deianira Morris. Download the PDF here.“Cache Flow: An Analysis of Vessel Assemblages from the Elk Ridge Site.” By Danielle M. Romero. Download the PDF here.“Classic Period Projectile Point Traditions in Southeastern Arizona.” By Stacy Ryan. Download the PDF here.“Contextualizing the Differences Between Upper Gila and Mimbres River Valley Painted Ceramics.” By Jakob Sedig, Patricia Gilman, and Darrell Creel. Download the PDF here. “Cotton Among The Hohokam: Comparisons Between The Core and The Northern Periphery.” By Matthew Steber. Download the PDF here.“Plant Species and Their Uses in Mimbres and Salado Sites in Southwest New Mexico.” By Kiley Stoj. Download the PDF here.“Archaeological Survey in Arizona’s Upper Gila River Valley: 2014 – 2019.” By Mary Whisenhunt, John Roney, and Robert Hard. Download the PDF here.
2018 Posters
In April 2018 we organized a Society for American Archaeology poster session bringing together students and professionals working in the Gila River basin.
“The Social History of Mogollon Village: A Bayesian Approach.” By Lori Barkwill Love. Download the PDF here.“Classic Mimbres Archaeology: A Contrastive Study of Two Sites at the Headwaters of the Upper Gila River.” By Andrea Crawley, Fumiyasu Arakawa, Jared Cicchetti, and Garrett Leitermann. Download the pdf here.“Pigment and Clay Variation in Salado Polychrome Ceramics.” By Sophia Draznin-Nagy and Jeffery Clark. Download the PDF here.“Reassessing Agricultural Potential in Chaco Canyon: Exploring the Link Between Soil Salinity and Maize Agriculture.” By Ashley Huntley, Jon-Paul P. McCool, Nicholas P. Dunning, Samantha G. Fladd, and Vernon L. Scarborough. Download the pdf here.“Gaming Pieces in the US Southwest.” By Susannah Johnson and Karen Gust Schollmeyer. Download the pdf here.“Analysis of Settlement Patterns Near the Big Burro Mountains.” By Taylor Picard and Evan Giomi. Download the pdf here.“Regional and Temporal Variation in Mogollon Ground Stone.” By Jonathan Schaefer and Leslie D. Aragon. Download the pdf here.“Strange Birds: Avian Remains in the Upper Gila and Mimbres Drainages.” By Karen Gust Schollmeyer. Download the pdf here.“Similarities and Differences Between Upper Gila and Mimbres River Valley Ceramic Designs.” By Jakob W. Sedig, Patricia A. Gilman, and Darrell Creel. Download the pdf here.“Insights into the Salado Phenomenon from the Cliff Valley.” By Stephen L. Uzzle and Karen Gust Schollmeyer. Download the pdf here.“XSX Ranch Ruin: Excavations of a Late Classic Mimbres to Early Post Classic Pueblo in the Upper Gila Forks, New Mexico.” By Christopher A. Turnbow and Robert E. Forrester. Download the pdf here.“Archaeological survey in Southeastern Arizona: Partnering with Land Owners and Local Informants.” By Mary Whisenhunt, Kristin Corl, John Whisenhunt, Robert J. Hard, John R. Roney, and Toni Laumbach. Download the pdf here.
2017 Posters
In March 2017, we organized a poster session bringing together researchers from the five archaeological field schools currently taking place in the Upper Gila and Mimbres areas.
“Salvage Excavation: NMSU Summer Field Project at the South Diamond Creek Pueblo in the Northern Mimbres Region,” By Fumi Arakawa and Trevor Lea. Click to download as a PDF.
“Just Beneath the Surface: Unexpected Results from a Disturbed Salado Site,” by Conner Awayda and Leslie Aragon. Click to download as a PDF.
“Subconscious Expressions of Identity in Lithic Debitage: Migrant Communities in the American Southwest,” by Peter Babala and Jay S. Reti. Click to download as a PDF.
“Modeling the Introduction of Brown Ware and Red Ware in the Mogollon Early Pithouse Period,” by Lori Barkwill Love. Supplemental dating information is available from Barkwill Love. Click to download as a PDF.
“More or Less Coalesced: Salado Settlements in the Upper Gila,” by Jeffery J. Clark, Katherine A. Dungan, and Leslie D. Aragon. Click to download as a PDF.
“The Value and Availability of Quality Obsidian at Antelope Creek,” by Kaitlyn Cometa and Allen Denoyer. Click to download as a PDF.
“Salado Period Occupation and Settlement Patterns in the Duncan/York Valley of the Upper Gila River Region,” by Kristin Corl, Jon Roney, Mary Wisenhunt, and Robert Hard.
“Religion, Violence, and Ethnogenesis in Colonial New Mexico, 1539-1696,” by Patric Depret-Guillaume.
“Tool-Stone Procurement Patterns in the Northern Mimbres Region: Analysis of Flaked Stone Debitage and Stone Tools from Twin Pines Village (LA 75947), Catron County, New Mexico,” by Paul A. Duran. Click to download as a PDF.
“Chasing Tlaloc and Dragonflies in the Mimbres Valley: An Analysis of Ceramic Motif Distributions,” by Danielle M. Romero, Barbara Roth, and Darrell Creel. Click to download as a PDF.
“A Natural and Unnatural History of Faunal Change in Southwestern New Mexico since AD 500,” by Karen Gust Schollmeyer and S.O. MacDonald. View image credits here. Click to download as a PDF here.
“Archaeological Site Prospecting in the Upper Gila River Valley, Arizona,” By Mary Whisenhunt. Click to download as a PDF.
2016 Posters
In January 2016, several of our 2015 Preservation Archaeology Field School alumni presented research posters at the 15th Biennial Southwest Symposium. Click on each to expand.
“Cultural Coalescence and the Archaeological Record as Seen Through the Salado Phenomenon,” by Alexander Ballesteros (Northern Arizona University), Dushyant Naresh (Vassar College), and Jeffery Clark (Archaeology Southwest). Click to download this poster as a PDF.
“Black Walnuts as a Potential Source of Paint on Roosevelt Redware,” by Alexandra Norwood, Will G. Russell, and Allen Denoyer. Click to download this poster as a PDF.
“Developing Public Outreach Programs for Urban, Rural, and Descendant Communities,” by Marcy Pablo, Allen Denoyer, and Karen Schollmeyer. Click to download this poster as a PDF.
“Using Non-Invasive Technologies to Identify Multiple Paint Recipes on Hohokam Pottery,” by Lindsay Shepard and Aaron Wright. Click to download this poster as a PDF.
“True Facts About the Dinwiddie Site: Surprising Results from Limited Testing in a Disturbed Site” by Alexandra Covert and Leslie D. Aragon. Click to download this poster as a PDF.
“Projectile Point and Biface Production at the Dinwiddie Site, Southwestern New Mexico,” by Riley Duke and Stacy Ryan. Click to download this poster as a PDF.
“Ground Stone as a Migration Marker: Using Finger-Grooved Manos and Fully Grooved Axe-Heads to Trace Kayenta Influence at Salado Sites,” by Maxwell Forton. Click to download this poster as a PDF.
“A Local Expression of ‘Salado’ in the Tonto Basin, Arizona,” by David Jacobs, Arleyn W. Simon, Owen Lindauer, Glen E. Rice. Click to download this poster as a PDF.
“The Salado Preservation Initiative: Combining Research and Regional Preservation Planning,” by Andy Laurenzi, Matt Peeples, and William Doelle. Click to download this poster as a PDF.
“Temporal and Spatial Variability in Roosevelt Red Ware Painted Decoration,” by Patrick D. Lyons and Deborah L. Huntley. Click to download this poster as a PDF.
“Technology and Typology in the Upper Gila Flaked Stone Artifacts from 3-Up and Fornholt Sites, Mule Creek, New Mexico,” by Stacy L. Ryan. Click to download this poster as a PDF.
“Experimental Archaeology: Research Oriented Construction of a Southwestern Adobe Pueblo Room,” by Aaron Trumbo and Allen Denoyer. Click to download this poster as a PDF.
“Salado Polychrome and (In)organic Paint Variability,” by Hannah Zanotto, Will Russell, Jeffery J. Clark, and Jeffrey R. Ferguson. Click to download this poster as a PDF.
2011 Posters
“Chuk Son to Tucson: Exploring 4000 Years of Human Experience in the Tucson Basin through the Digital Humanities,” by Douglas W. Gann. Click to download this poster as a PDF.
