The Site That Nobody Really Knows
Archaeology Southwest Magazine, Vol. 30, No. 1
Issue editor: John R. Welch, Simon Fraser University
Kinishba, the site that nobody really knows—even though it is among the most extensively excavated, rebuilt, and visited sites in the American Southwest. In 2003, a box of previously unexamined documents came to light, reawakening research on the pueblo and its inhabitants.
For further reading (opens as a PDF)
The Site That Nobody Really Knows: Kinishba Reawakened — John R. Welch
Website of the White Mountain Apache Tribe
Information on visiting Kinishba from the White Mountain Apache Tribe
Website of the Hopi Tribe
Chuck Abbott and Esther Henderson (and here!)
Episodes in Kinishba History — John R. Welch
Archaeology Southwest Magazine Vol. 27, No. 4 — A
New Way of Living
A Dream Deferred: Cummings and the Shaeffers at Kinishba — John R. Welch
Kinishba (1940) by Byron Cummings (opens as a PDF)
Arizona State Museum
History of the University of Arizona School of Anthropology
Cummings’s tenure as acting president of the University of Arizona
Tad Nichols
The Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties
The Fateful Box: Excavations at Kinishba after 1939 — John R. Welch
Arizona State Museum Archaeological Collections
Painted deer jaws from Kinishba in the collections of the Arizona State Museum. Catalog numbers identified by curator Arthur W. Vokes. Click on the image to enlarge.
Before Kinishba: Two Mogollon Pithouse Villages — Richard Ciolek-Torello and Carl D. Halbirt
Museum of Northern Arizona
Archaeology Southwest Fact Sheet: Who or What Is Mogollon? (opens as a PDF)
What Grasshopper Pueblo Tells Us about Kinishba: An Architectural Perspective — Charles R. Riggs
The Movement of People and Pots — Daniela Triadan
Arizona State Museum Archaeological Collections
Kinishba’s Pottery Revisited — Patrick D. Lyons
Arizona State Museum Archaeological Collections
Archaeology Southwest Magazine Vol. 27, No. 3 — Before the Great Departure
Archaeology Southwest Fact Sheet Series: Who or What Is Salado? (opens as a PDF)
The Kinishba Boundary Survey — John R. Welch, Nicholas C. Laluk, and Mark T. Altaha
Website of the White Mountain Apache Tribe
Information on visiting Kinishba from the White Mountain Apache Tribe
Preservation Spotlight: Apache, Hopi, and Zuni Perspectives on Kinishba History and Stewardship — John R. Welch and T. J. Ferguson
Website of the Hopi Tribe
Website of the White Mountain Apache Tribe
Website of the Zuni Tribe
NAGPRA, the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (1990)
Fort Apache Heritage Foundation
Back Sight — William H. Doelle
Archaeology Southwest Magazine Vol. 26, No. 1 — What Is Preservation Archaeology?
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