Archaeology Southwest Magazine Vol. 35, No. 1 & 2

Issue editors: Katelyn J. Bishop and Christopher W. Schwartz

Fifteen years have passed since Archaeology Southwest Magazine released one of its most popular issues, “Birds in the Southwest.” Since then, much has changed in avian archaeology in the United States Southwest and Mexican Northwest—new theoretical perspectives, methodological advances, and a florescence of diverse voices and views.

What has not changed is our collective captivation with birds. In this issue, we offer readers a state-of-the-field view of bird research in the region.

Revisiting Birds in the Southwest, Christopher W. Schwartz and Katelyn J. Bishop

A Retrospective on Avian Archaeology, Charmion R. McKusick

In Memoriam: Charmion McKusick, Christopher W. Schwartz and Katelyn J. Bishop

Ancient Ornithology in the Bears Ears Region of the Northern Southwest, Laurie D. Webster, Charles LaRue, and Louie Garcia

Cedar Mesa Perishables Project

Languages of the Landscape—The Cedar Mesa Perishables Project, a short film produced by Cloudy Ridge Productions (opens at Vimeo)

Indigenous Collaboration: New Insights in Pueblo Perishables, a panel discussion hosted by the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture for International Archaeology Day 2020 (opens at YouTube)

Laurie Webster presents Latest Findings of the Cedar Mesa Perishables Project for the Verde Valley Archaeological Center (opens at YouTube)

Birds in Chaco Canyon, Katelyn J. Bishop

Archaeology Café: The Importance of Birds in Chaco Canyon with Dr. Katelyn Bishop (opens at YouTube)

Chaco Culture National Historical Park

Birds in Mimbres Society, Darrell Creel, Roger Anyon, Patricia Gilman, and Karen Schollmeyer

Why So Many Birds? Understanding Human-Bird Interactions in the Middle Rio Grande, Emily Lena Jones

Petroglyph National Monument

Kuaua (Coronado Historic Site)

Scarlet Macaws in Mesoamerica and across the US Southwest and Mexican Northwest, Patricia Gilman, Christopher W. Schwartz, and Stephen Plog

Archaeology Café: Birds of the Sun: Macaws, Parrots, and People with Drs. Christopher Schwartz, Patricia Gilman, and Stephen Plog (opens at YouTube)

Schwartz, Christopher W., Stephen Plog, and Patricia A. Gilman (Editors)

2022 Birds of the Sun: Macaws and People in the U.S. Southwest and Mexican Northwest. Amerind Studies in Anthropology. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.

Spotlight: Scarlet Macaws, Christopher W. Schwartz

Living with Scarlet Macaws, Kelley Taylor

Sacred Scarlets

Bonita on a Windy Day (Free-Flight) (opens at YouTube)

Macaws and Other Parrots from Pueblos in the Mountains of East-Central Arizona, Patrick D. Lyons and Patricia L. Crown

The Elusive Macaws of the Hohokam Region, Christine R. Szuter

Scarlet Macaws and Placemaking, Christopher W. Schwartz

Strontium isotope analysis

Crown, Patricia L.

2016  Just Macaws: A Review for the U.S. Southwest/Mexican Northwest. Kiva 82:331–363.

George, Richard J., Stephen Plog, Adam S. Watson, Kari L. Schmidt, Brendan J. Culleton, Thomas K. Harper, Patricia A. Gilman, Steven A. LeBlanc, George Amato, Peter Whiteley, Logan Kistler, and Douglas J. Kennett

2018  Archaeogenomic Evidence from the Southwestern US Points to a Pre-Hispanic Scarlet Macaw Breeding Colony. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115:8740–8745.

Kewanwytewa, Jim

1957  A True Story. Plateau 29:87–88.

Schwartz, Christopher W., Andrew D. Somerville, Ben A. Nelson, and Kelly Knudson

2021  Investigating Pre-Hispanic Scarlet Macaw Origins through Radiogenic Strontium Isotope Analysis at Paquimé in Chihuahua, Mexico. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 61:101256

Schwartz, Christopher W., Stephen Plog, and Patricia A. Gilman (Editors)

2022  Birds of the Sun: Macaws and People in the US Southwest and Mexican Northwest. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.

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 Sciences 112:8238–8243.

The Social Lives of Captive Macaws, Randee Fladeboe

Exploring Raptor Exchange, Miranda LaZar and Jonathan Dombrosky

Between Wild and Domestic, Caitlin S. Ainsworth

Let’s Talk Turkey, the Multipurpose Bird of the Southwest, Kathy Roler Durand and Laura W. Steele

Conrad, Cyler, Emily Lena Jones, Seth D. Newsome, and Douglas W. Schwartz

2016  Bone isotopes, eggshells and turkey husbandry at Arroyo Hondo Pueblo. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 10:566–574.

Jones, Emily Lena, Jonathan Dombrosky, and Caitlin S. Ainsworth

2018  New Directions in Southwestern Zooarchaeology. Kiva 84:46–50.

Lipe, William D., Shannon Tushingham, Eric Blinman, Laurie Webster, Charles T. LaRue, Aimee Oliver-Bozeman, and Jonathan Till

2020  Staying warm in the upland southwest: A “supply-side” view of turkey feather blanket production. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 34:102604.

McCaffery, Harlan, Robert H. Tykot, Kathy Durand Gore, and Beau R. DeBoer

2014  Stable Isotope Analysis of Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) Diet from Pueblo II and Pueblo III Sites, Middle San Juan Region, Northwest New Mexico. American Antiquity 79:337–352.

Spotlight: Turkey Genetics, William D. Lipe

Archaeology Café: Turkey Feather Blankets in Ancestral Pueblo History with Dr. Bill Lipe and Mary Weahkee (opens at YouTube)

Lipe, William, Kyle Bocinsky, Brian Chisholm, Robin Lyle, David Dove, R.G. Matson, Elizabeth Jarvis, Kathleen Judd, and Brian Kemp

2016  Cultural and Genetic Contexts for Early Turkey Domestication in the Northern Southwest. American Antiquity 81(1):97–113.

Matson, R.G.

2018 Turkey Pen Excavation (revised version). http://hdl.handle.net/2376/5302 (accessed at the WSU Library’s Research Exchange site, 07-30-2021)

Speller, Camilla, Brian Kemp, Scott Wyatt, Ursula Arndt, and Dongya Yang

2010  Complex History for Turkey Domestication in Pre-contact North America.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107(7):2807–2812

Ancestral Pueblo Turkey Penning and Management, Cyler Conrad

Archaeology Café: Ancestral Pueblo Turkey Penning in Perspective with Dr. Cyler Conrad (opens at YouTube)

Conrad, C.

2022  Contextualizing Ancestral Pueblo Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo spp.) Management. J Archaeol Method Theory 29, 624–665

Turkeys through the Eyes of Mimbres Potters, Sean G. Dolan

Archaeology Café: Turkeys in the Mimbres Valley with Dr. Sean Dolan (opens at YouTube)

A Rafter of Burials: Sapa’owingeh Turkey Interments, Rachel M. Burger

Archaeology Café: A Rafter of Burials: Sapa’owingeh Turkey Interments with Dr. Rachel Burger (opens at YouTube)

How Turkeys Gave Warm Blankets to Ancestral Pueblo Peoples, William D. Lipe

Archaeology Café: Turkey Feather Blankets in Ancestral Pueblo History with Dr. Bill Lipe and Mary Weahkee (opens at YouTube)

Edge of the Cedars State Park Museum

Lipe, William, Shannon Tushingham, Eric Blinman, Laurie Webster, Charles LaRue, Aimee Oliver-Bozeman, and Jonathan Till

2020  Staying Warm in the Upland Southwest: A “Supply-Side” View of Turkey Feather Blanket Production.  Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 34(2020)

Creating a Turkey Feather Blanket, Mary Motah Weahkee

Archaeology Café: Turkey Feather Blankets in Ancestral Pueblo History with Dr. Bill Lipe and Mary Weahkee (opens at YouTube)

Feathers on Sikyatki Polychrome Pottery, Kelley Hays-Gilpin and Charles LaRue

Archaeology Café: Birds, Feathers, and Ancient Pueblo Pottery with Dr. Kelley Hays-Gilpin (opens at YouTube)

Fewkes, Jesse Walter

1898  Sikyatki and its Pottery, in Archaeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895, pp. 631–728. Seventeenth Annual Report to the Bureau of American Ethnology. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C.

Fewkes, Jesse Walter

1919  Designs on Prehistoric Hopi Pottery. Thirty-third Annual Report to the Bureau of American Ethnology. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C.

Hays-Gilpin, K. A., & S. LeBlanc

2007  Sikyatki Style in Regional Context. In New Perspectives on Pottery Mound Pueblo (ed. Polly Schaafsma, pp. 109–135). Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press.

Hays-Gilpin, K. A.

2014  Sikyatki Polychrome: Style, Iconography, Cross-media Comparisons, and Organization of Production. Kiva 79 (2) 2, pp. 175–204.

Patterson, Alex

1994  Hopi Pottery Designs. Johnson Books. (based on Alexander Stephen’s unpublished 1890 manuscript on the Keam Collection of Hopi Pottery at the Harvard Peabody Museum).

Birds and the Pueblo of San Ildefonso, Joseph “Woody” Aguilar, Bruce Bernstein, and J. Michael Bremer

Macaw Images on Ancestral Pueblo Pottery, Kelley Hays-Gilpin

Archaeology Café: Birds, Feathers, and Ancient Pueblo Pottery with Dr. Kelley Hays-Gilpin (opens at YouTube)

Ducks and Basketmakers on the Colorado Plateau, Polly Schaafsma

Archaeology Café: Ducks, Power, and the San Juan Basketmakers with Polly Schaafsma

Birds in Chaco Canyon Rock Art, Jane Kolber

Birds of Dinétah: Diné Decolonization through Wildlife Conservation, Caitlynn Mayhew

Ostriches in the Phoenix Basin—A Correction, Alan Ferg

Back Sight, William H. Doelle