A5019975725- Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- Archaeology and Rock Art Studies
- Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
- Archaeology and Natural History
- Latin American history and culture
- Archaeological Research and Protection
- Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies
- Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation
- Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies
- Conservation Techniques and Studies
- Public Spaces through Art
- Anthropological Studies and Insights
- Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
- Visual Culture and Art Theory
- Global Maritime and Colonial Histories
- American Environmental and Regional History
- Religious Tourism and Spaces
- Rangeland and Wildlife Management
- Image Processing and 3D Reconstruction
- Geographies of human-animal interactions
- Indigenous Cultures and History
- Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond
- Ancient Egypt and Archaeology
- Crafts, Textile, and Design
- Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research
Northern Arizona University
2008-2020
Appalachian State University
2020
Seminary of the Southwest
2019
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
1999-2018
Museum Of Northern Arizona
2006-2018
Navajo Nation Division of Health
1995-1996
In 1966 the US Congress passed National Historic Preservation Act. Its intent: to ensure that values embedded in historic buildings, archaeological sites, and other important places of past honored all Americans ways would inspire motivate present future generations. intervening 50 years, archaeologists have diligently discovered, documented, analyzed, curated our collective past. Fig. 1. Public support can expand archeological finds help tell stories people places. Here, surveyors work...
This article emerged as the human species collectively have been experiencing worst global pandemic in a century. With long view of ecological, economic, social, and political factors that promote emergence spread infectious disease, archaeologists are well positioned to examine antecedents present crisis. In this article, we bring together variety perspectives on issues surrounding emergence, spread, effects disease both Americas Afro-Eurasian contexts. Recognizing populations most severely...
Uto-Aztecan peoples of Mesoamerica and the U.S. Southwest, together with neighboring Pueblo Mayan groups, share a system verbal imagery evoking flowery spirit world. This study traces Flower World in visual arts prehistoric Southwest explores possible contexts chronology for expressions links to Mesoamerica. appears most coherently twelfth century, Mimbres mortuary ceramics painted wooden ritual regalia from Chaco Canyon areas, thirteenth-century Kayenta Anasazi regalia, fifteenth-century...
ABSTRACT While our fascination with understanding the past is sufficient to warrant an increased focus on synthesis, solutions important problems facing modern society require understandings based data that only archaeology can provide. Yet, even as we use public monies collect ever-greater amounts of data, modes research stimulate emergent human behavior have lagged behind. Consequently, a substantial amount archaeological inference remains at level individual project. We more effectively...
New research on Anasazi origins is augmented with data from sandals, baskets, and textiles collected at the time when Basketmaker culture was first defined by archaeologists. Relationships among decorative style, technology, social processes are examined. We discuss (1) distribution of technological stylistic features baskets to address question origins, (2) ways archaeologists can approach an understanding artistic expression identities contrasting II III textiles, sandals.
Archaeologists have been slow to embrace feminist scholarship. Although most still avoid the term "feminism," an archaeology of gender has emerged and thrived. This article explores history women feminism in archaeology, examines a few central issues addressed by gender-oriented archaeologists, briefly addresses equity for identifies some future directions.
Archaeologists for the most part interpret early Pueblo history without assistance of Pueblos’ own narratives. As a result, they tend to privilege environmental and economic explanations over social ideological ones. When archaeologists do use ethnography, often oversimplify important differences among Pueblos. Here, members two communities share with their insights on archaeology, culture change, mobility, rights land cultural knowledge.
Members of Indigenous communities in Arizona and New Mexico explain that petroglyphs rock paintings serve as animate, tangible, enduring connections among places, ancestors, contemporary ways non-Native public lands managers can only understand with instruction Native peoples' ontologies. Rock art sometimes takes an active role resistance to environmental injustice cultural appropriation. Archaeologists should study this region material evidence for changing varied human-land relationships,...
Hopi pottery sherds dating to the PIV period have been documented at sites throughout southeastern Utah, but an unusual cache of Pueblo IV whole vessels, gourds, shredded bark, and corn cobs, found in alcove a remote location Canyonlands National Park, raises new questions about long-distance interactions protohistoric period. The appears date sometime between AD 1450 1629, come from Mesas. Carbon samples gourds bark returned dates that conformed well with relative pottery. One pots...