Mimbres Archaeology of the Upper Gila, New Mexico

This reappraisal of archaeology conducted at the Saige-McFarland site presents for the first time a substantial body of comparative data from a Mimbres period site in the Gila drainage. Lekson offers a new and controversial interpretation of the Mimbres sequence, reintroducing the concept of the Mangas phase first proposed by the Gila Pueblo investigations of the 1930s and demonstrating a more gradual shift from pithouse to pueblo occupance than has been suggested previously.Acknowledgments / The Saige-McFarland Site / Geology / Archaeology / Documentation / Room Block A / Room 2 (A and B) / Room 4 (A and B) / Room 5 / Room 6 / Room Block B / Room 8 / Room 11 / Room 12 / Room 14 / Room 15 / Pit Structures Beneath Room Block B / Room Block C / Pit House 1 / Pit House 3 / Trenches N775 and N790 / Ceramics / Ceramic Densities / Analysis of Decorated Sherds / Typological Stratigraphy / Rim Sherds and Vessel Forms / Vessel Assemblages / Chipped-Stone Artifacts / Ground-Stone Artifacts / Stone Slabs / Minerals and Odd Rocks / Ornaments / Pit Structures / Room Blocks / Artifact Deposition / Vertical Distribution / Carbon-14 Dates / Mimbres Series Pottery Types / Chronological Synthesis / Mimbres Archaeology of the Upper Gila / Site Size / Surface Archaeology / Regional Chronology / Epilogue: Mimbres Taxonomy / Appendix A: Burials / Appendix B: Ceramic Sorting Categories and Sherd Counts / Appendix C: Lithic Definitions and Artifacts Counts / References / Index / AbstractThis title from the Anthropological Papers of the University of Arizona collection is made available by the University of Arizona Press and University of Arizona Libraries. If you have questions about this title, please contact the UA Press at http://www.uapress.arizona.edu/

Bridging Histories: The Archaeology of Chaco and Los Millares

History is critical for the comparison of Iberia and the Southwest on at least two distinct levels: the history of research in the present, and the history of events in the distant past. Archaeologists study the latter: we want to understand and interpret events in the distant past, for example, Chaco Canyon at ad 1000 or Los Millares at 3000 bc. But archaeological understandings and interpretations of these events refl ect the history of our disciplines. Th e axes of comparison we discuss in our chapters refl ect these two levels of history