2012
15
Mar
Have Pottery, Will Travel: Trade Ware at Gamalstad
By Katherine A. Dungan, Research Assistant
If you’ve been following the blog, you already know a little bit about the Gamalstad site, where we worked in 2009 (you can find my earlier posts here and here). Before we set Gamalstad aside to focus on the upcoming field season, I’...
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2012
09
Mar
Finishing Our Student Updates
By Katherine A. Dungan, Research Assistant
Our last update for the time being comes from Ahren Wardwell, who was one of our students in 2008, at the first Mule Creek field school.
Ahren writes: "I finished my BA in anthropology at Hendrix in 2009 and immediately started seeking ...
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2012
05
Mar
Catching Up, continued
By Deborah L. Huntley, Preservation Archaeologist
Here are a few more updates from our field school students and staff.
From Meaghan Trowbridge (2010 Volunteer and 2011 Field Supervisor): "Since last August, I have worked for Statistical Research, Inc,. doing cultural resource ...
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2012
23
Feb
Updates from Our Students and Staff
By Deborah L. Huntley, Preservation Archaeologist
I thought I’d share a series of updates about what some of our former Mule Creek field school students and staff members have been doing lately. Here is the first installment:
From Jake Mitchell (2011 Field School, Hendrix Coll...
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2012
03
Feb
The Sherds of Gamalstad: Ceramic Chronology in Mule Creek
By Katherine A. Dungan, Research Assistant
In a post back in October, I discussed the Late Pithouse period at Gamalstad, one of the sites we investigated during the 2009 field season. As I wrote then, we have evidence of a substantial pithouse occupation (c. A.D. 550–1000), underneath s...
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2011
18
Nov
Learning from Pottery, Part 1: Dating
By Deborah L. Huntley, Preservation Archaeologist
When an archaeologist says that a site was inhabited, say, during the late 1200s A.D., how does he or she know that? There are many methods used to date archaeological sites. Some, like radiocarbon dating of materials like burned wood or ...
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2011
19
Oct
Even Farther Underground: The Pithouses of Mule Creek
By Katherine A. Dungan, Research Assistant
As you know from previous posts, our work in the Upper Gila focuses on the Kayenta and Salado migrations of the late 13th through mid-15th centuries and on the 13th century occupation at the Fornholt site, where we worked this past summer. Mule Cr...
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2011
05
Oct
A Day’s Excavation in 2 Minutes
By Rob Jones, Preservation Fellow
This summer, during our work at Fornholt, we were lucky enough to be joined by Josh Gilbrech, a photographer from Tucson. He took a time-lapse video of excavations in progress at the deep test unit on the two-story section of the site.
Josh’s video gives...
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2011
08
Sep
Mapping the Past
By Katherine A. Dungan, Research Assistant
In our posts during the field season, we mentioned various aspects of Fornholt’s site layout—that it has northern and southern room blocks, two-story sections, a large depression in the southern room block—but we never posted a map of the ...
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2011
31
Aug
Mule Creek, Writ Large
By Rob Jones, Preservation Fellow
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2011
26
Aug
Student Post: Chaco Canyon Field Trip
Early on a Friday morning, the students of the Mule Creek Field School dragged themselves from their tents and piled into the Suburban and the fifteen-passenger van. After an eventful drive in very close quarters—a trip that was supposed to take seven hours, but ended up taking ten due to a tire...
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2011
17
Jul
Besh-Ba-Gowah and the Salado Phenomenon
Besh-Ba-Gowah and the Salado Phenomenon
Ancient ruins can be the most personal of artifacts, whispering with the voices of those they once sheltered. But such whispers often spark more questions than answers. Consider Globe's Besh-Ba-Gowah Archaeological Park, where rustic stone ramparts and reconst...
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