Chacoan Archaeology at the 21st Century: New Questions and Ongoing Revelations,Jeffery J. Clark and Barbara J. Mills The Chaco World at a Glance,Paul F. Reed
IN THE CANYON
The Earliest Pueblo Settlements,Thomas C. Windes New Views from Past Excavations at Pueblo Bonito,Patricia L. Crown and W. H. Wills Chaco Farming in 3-D, W. H. Wills,Wetherbee B. Dorshow, and Jennie Sturm Water Management,Vernon L. Scarborough, R. Gwinn Vivian, Samantha G. Fladd, and Adam S. Watson
BEYOND THE CANYON
Enigma on the Animas,Michelle I. Turner and Ruth M. Van Dyke Delving into Earl Morris’s Aztec Files,Erin Baxter The Northern Chaco Outliers Project,Susan C. Ryan Early Chacoan Communities in the San Juan Basin,Kellam Throgmorton Chacoan Communities at the Southern Edge of the Chaco World,Andrew Duff and Kristin Safi Ancient Population Dynamics in the Chuska Valley,Monica L. Murrell
DATA FROM WITHIN AND BEYOND
The Chaco Social Networks Database,Barbara J. Mills, Jeffery J. Clark, and Matthew A. Peeples How Connected Was the Chaco World? Barbara J. Mills, Matthew A. Peeples, Jeffery J. Clark, Leslie D. Aragon, Benjamin A. Bellorado, Evan Giomi, and Thomas C. Windes The Chaco Research Archive and the Salmon Pueblo Archaeological Research Collection,Carrie C. Heitman, Worthy Martin, Stephen Plog, and Paul F. Reed Climate at the Center Place,Kyle Bocinsky Visibility and Chacoan Architecture,Katherine Dungan, Devin White, and Sylviane Déderix Origins of Great House Construction Timbers at Chaco Canyon,Christopher H. Guiterman and Christopher H. Baisan Recent Research on Chaco-Era Tower Kivas,John Kantner Chacoan Soundscapes,Ruth M. Van Dyke and Timothy de Smet Chaco Facial Designs,Jill E. Neitzel Chacoan Ornaments,Hannah V. Mattson Preliminary Report on the Provenance of Turquoise Recovered from Pueblo Bonito,Alyson Thibodeau, David Killick, and Joaquin Ruiz Ritual Birds,Katelyn J. Bishop, Samantha G. Fladd, and Adam S. Watson A Woven Web of Regional Influence,Edward A. Jolie, Laurie D. Webster, and Benjamin A. Bellorado Dogoszhi Style Pottery and Chacoan Elites,Evan Giomi and Leslie D. Aragon Stone Materials in the Chaco World,Catherine Cameron and Jeffery J. Clark
ROOM FOR DEBATE
What Was Chaco, Really?Stephen H. Lekson, Barbara J. Mills, Jeffery J. Clark, and Carrie C. Heitman
PERSPECTIVES AND PRESERVATION
Hopi and Zuni Histories of the Chaco World,Maren P. Hopkins, Octavius Seowtewa, Stewart B. Koyiyumptewa, and T. J. Ferguson Knowing Chaco,Theresa Pasqual
PRESERVATION SPOTLIGHT
Combating Serious Threats to the Greater Chaco Landscape,Paul F. Reed
Even after more than 100 years of scrutiny and debate, Chaco still captivates archaeologists and the public like few other places in the Southwest. The Chaco World is still being studied at all scales and perspectives, and with new scientific and analytical methods. And in today’s era of expanding oil and gas exploration, the greater Chaco landscape is being defended by coalitions of descendant tribal groups, archaeologists, legislators, and other conservation-minded stakeholders.
INTRODUCTION
Chacoan Archaeology at the 21st Century: New Questions and Ongoing Revelations, Jeffery J. Clark and Barbara J. Mills
Archaeology Southwest Magazine Vol. 26, No. 1, articles begin on page 22, “This Old Trench: The Chaco Stratigraphy Project” and “Hidden in Plain Sight: Finding Cacao in Chacoan Cylinder Jars.” (Opens as a PDF)
Crown, Patricia L., and W. H. Wills
2018 The Complex History of Pueblo Bonito and Its Interpretation. Antiquity 92(364):890–904.
Crown, Patricia L.
2018 Drinking Performance and Politics in Pueblo Bonito, Chaco Canyon. American Antiquity 83(3):387–406.
Crown, Patricia (editor)
2016 The Pueblo Bonito Mounds of Chaco Canyon: Material Culture and Fauna. UNM Press, Albuquerque.
Crown, Patricia L., Kerriann Marden, and Hannah V. Mattson
2017 Foot Notes: The Social Implications of Polydactyly and Foot-Related Imagery at Pueblo Bonito, Chaco Canyon. American Antiquity 81(3):426–448.
Crown, Patricia, Jiyan Gu, W. Jeffrey Hurst, Timothy J. Ward, Ardith D. Bravenec, Syed Ali, Laura Kebert, Marlaina Berch, Erin Redman, Patrick D. Lyons, Jamie Merewether, David A. Phillips, Lori S. Reed, and Kyle Woodson
2015 Ritual Drinks in the Prehispanic US Southwest and Northwest Mexico. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112(37):11436–11442.
Ainsworth, Caitlin S., Patricia L. Crown, Emily Lena Jones, and Stephanie E. Franklin
2018 Ritual Deposition of Avifauna in the Northern Burial Cluster at Pueblo Bonito, Chaco Canyon. Kiva 84(1):110–135.
Drake, B. Lee
2018 Source & Sourceability: Towards a probabilistic framework fordendroprovenance based on hypothesis testing and Bayesian inference. Dendrochronologia 47:38–47.
Hamilton, Marian I., B. Lee Drake, W. H. Wills, Emily Lena Jones, Cyler Conrad, and Patricia L. Crown
2017 Stable Oxygen Isotope Sourcing of Archaeological Fauna From Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. American Antiquity 83(1):163–175.
Sturm, Jennie O., and Patricia L. Crown
2015 Micro-scale mapping using Ground Penetrating Radar: an Example from Room 28, Pueblo Bonito, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. Advances in Archaeological Practice 3:124–135(12).
Wills, W. H.
2017 Water Management and the Political Economy of Chaco Canyon During the Bonito Phase (ca. AD 850–1200). Kiva 83(4):369–413.
Wills, W. H., David W. Love, Susan J. Smith, Karen R. Adams, Manuel R. Palacios-Fest, Wetherbee B. Dorshow, Beau Murphy, Jennie O. Sturm, Hannah Mattson and Patricia L. Crown
2016 Water Management at Pueblo Bonito: Evidence from the National Geographic Society Trenches. American Antiquity 81(3):449–470.
Wills, W. H., and Wetherbee B. Dorshow
2012 Agriculture and Community in Chaco Canyon: Revisiting Pueblo Alto. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 31(2):138–155.
Dorshow, Wetherbee Bryan
2012 Modeling Agricultural Potential in Chaco Canyon during the Bonito phase: A Predictive Geospatial Approach. Journal of Archaeological Science 39:2098–2115.
Sturm, Jennie O.
2016 Using Ground-Penetrating Radar to Re-Evaluate the Chetro Ketl Field Area in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 7:238–246.
Scarborough, Vernon L., Samantha G. Fladd, Nicholas P. Dunning, Stephen Plog, Lewis A. Owen, Christopher Carr, Kenneth B. Tankersley, Jon-Paul McCool, Adam S. Watson, Elizabeth A. Haussner, Katelyn J. Bishop, Brooke Crowley, David L. Lentz, and R. Gwinn Vivian
2018 Water Uncertainty, Ritual Predictability and Agricultural Canals at Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. Antiquity (Special Section on Chaco Canyon) 92 (364):870–889.
McCool, Jon-Paul P., Fladd, Samantha G. Fladd, Vernon L. Scarborough, Stephen Plog, Nicholas P. Dunning, Lewis A. Owen, Adam S. Watson, Katelyn J. Bishop, Brooke E. Crowley, Elizabeth A. Haussner, Kenneth B. Tankersley, David Lentz, Christopher Carr, and Jessica L. Thress
2018 Soil Salinity in Discussions of Agricultural Feasbility for Ancient Civilizations: A Critical Review of the Data and Debate at Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. PLoS ONE 13(6):e0198290. http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0198290
BEYOND THE CANYON
White ware pottery sherds dating to the late AD 800s and 900s within the Padilla Well community, with West Mesa in the background. Image: Kellam Throgmorton
Lister, Florence C., and Robert H. Lister
1968 Earl Morris & Southwestern Archaeology. The University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque.
Lister, Robert H., and Florence C. Lister
1969 The Earl H. Morris Memorial Pottery Collection. University of Colorado Studies Series in Anthropology No. 16. University of Colorado Press, Boulder.
Morris, Ann Axtell
1933 Digging in the Southwest. Cadmus Books, E. M. Hale and Co., Chicago.
University of Colorado Museum
1985 Among Ancient Ruins: The Legacy of Earl H. Morris. Introduction by Joe Ben Wheat. Johnson Books, Boulder.
Murrell, Monica L., and David T. Unruh
2016 From Great Kivas to Great Houses: Community Formation and Social Dynamics in the Southern Chuska Valley. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 42:198–215. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2016.05.001
Murrell, Monica L., and Bradley J. Vierra
2014 Bridging the Basin: Land Use and Social History of the Southern Chuska Valley. Vol. 1 – 4, SRI Technical Report Nos. 13-69, 14-03, 14-08, 14-20, Statistical Research, Inc., Albuquerque. NMDOT Cultural Resource Technical Series 2014-2. http://dot.state.nm.us/content/nmdot/en/environmental_development_Publications.html
DATA FROM WITHIN AND BEYOND
Audibility model for a raised voice across the landscape. Elevation is exaggerated by a factor of two in this view to the southwest. Graphic: Catherine Gilman, based on orthoimagery by Google Earth
The Chaco Social Networks Database, Barbara J. Mills, Jeffery J. Clark, and Matthew A. Peeples
Mills, Barbara J., Matthew A. Peeples, Jeffery J. Clark, Leslie D. Aragon, Benjamin A. Bellorado, Evan Giomi, and Thomas C. Windes
2018 Evaluating Chaco migration scenarios using dynamic social network analysis. Antiquity 92(364):922–939. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2018.86
Bocinsky, R. Kyle, Rush, Johnathan, Kintigh, Keith W., and Kohler, Timothy A.
2016 Exploration and exploitation in the macrohistory of the pre-Hispanic Pueblo Southwest. Science Advances 2:e1501532.
Schwindt, Dylan M., Bocinsky, R. Kyle, Ortman, Scott G., Glowacki, Donna M., Varien, Mark D., and Kohler, Timothy A.
2016 The social consequences of climate change in the Central Mesa Verde region. American Antiquity 81(1):74–96.
McCool, J.-P. P., Fladd, S. G., Scarborough, V. L., Plog, S., Dunning, N. P., Owen, L. A., Watson, A. S., Bishop, K. J., Crowley, B. E., Haussner, E. A., et al.
2018 Soil analysis in discussions of agricultural feasibility for ancient civilizations: A critical review and reanalysis of the data and debate from Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. PLoS ONE 13(6):e0198290. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0198290
Visibility and Chacoan Architecture, Katherine Dungan, Devin White, and Sylviane Déderix
Dungan, K., White, D., Déderix, S., Mills, B., & Safi, K.
2018 A total viewshed approach to local visibility in the Chaco World. Antiquity 92(364):905–921.
Guiterman, C. H., T. W. Swetnam, and J. S. Dean
2016 Eleventh-century shift in timber procurement areas for the great houses of Chaco Canyon. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113:1186–1190, doi:10.1073/pnas.1514272112. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1514272112
Watson, A. S.
2016 Long-distance wood procurement and the Chaco florescence. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113(5), 1118–1120.
Recent Research on Chaco-Era Tower Kivas, John Kantner
Kantner, J., & Hobgood, R.
2016 A GIS-based viewshed analysis of Chacoan tower kivas in the US Southwest: Were they for seeing or to be seen? Antiquity 90(353):1302–1317.
Van Dyke, R., Bocinsky, R., Windes, T., & Robinson, T.
2016 Great Houses, Shrines, and High Places: Intervisibility in the Chacoan World. American Antiquity 81(2):205–230.
Dungan, K., White, D., Déderix, S., Mills, B., & Safi, K.
2018 A total viewshed approach to local visibility in the Chaco World. Antiquity 92(364):905–921.
Pepper, George H.
1906 Human Effigy Vases from Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. Anthropological Papers Written in Honor of Franz Boas, pp. 320–344. G. E Steckert and Co. [American Museum of Natural History], New York.
Thibodeau, A.M., López-Luján, Leonardo, Killick, D.J., Berdan, F., Ruiz, J.
2018 Was Aztec and Mixtec turquoise mined in the American Southwest? Science Advances: aas9370. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aas9370.
Thibodeau, A.M., Killick, D.J., Ruiz, J., Chesley, J.T.
2015 Isotopic evidence for the provenance of turquoise in the southwestern United States. GSA Bulletin 27: 1617–1631. doi: 10.1130/B31135.1
Thibodeau, A.M., Chesley, J.T., Ruiz, J., Killick, D.J., Vokes, A.
2012 An Alternative Approach to the Prehispanic Turquoise Trade. In Turquoise in Mexico and North America: Science, Conservation, Culture, and Collections, King, J.C.H., C.R. Cartwright, R. Stacey, C. McEwan and M. Carocci (eds.) Archetype, London. pp. 65–74.
Ritual Birds, Katelyn J. Bishop, Samantha G. Fladd, and Adam S. Watson
Watson, Adam S., Stephen Plog, Brendan J. Culleton, Patricia A. Gilman, Steven A. LeBlanc, Peter M. Whiteley, Santiago Claramunt, and Douglas J. Kennett
2015 Early Procurement of Scarlet Macaws and the Emergence of Social Complexity in Chaco Canyon, NM. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 112(27):8238–8243.
Akins, Nancy J.
1987 Faunal Remains from Pueblo Alto. In Investigations at the Pueblo Alto Complex, Chaco Canyon, Volume III, Part 2, edited by Frances Joan Mathien and Thomas C. Windes, pp.445–649. Publications in Archaeology 18F, Chaco Canyon Studies, National Park Service, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Stone Materials in the Chaco World,Catherine Cameron and Jeffery J. Clark
Duff, Andrew I., Jeremy M. Moss, Thomas C. Windes, John Kantner, and Steven M. Shackley
2012 Patterning of procurement of obsidian in Chaco Canyon and in Chaco-era communities in New Mexico as revealed by X-ray fluorescence. Journal of Archaeological Science 39(9):2995–3007.
Cameron, Catherine M.
2001 Pink Chert, Projectile Points, and the Chacoan Regional System. American Antiquity 66(1):79–102.
