Volume 35 / Number 1

1993

Special Edition: Prehistory of the Southwest

On The Cover: Decorated pottery from a Bureau of American Ethnology (BAE) excavation report. Drawings by Jesse Walter Fewkes.

Vol. 35 / No. 1

By: Christian E. Downum

Southwestern Archaeology: Past, Present, and Future

When the U.S. ended its war with Mexico, it gained a vast new western territory that included most of the […]

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Vol. 35 / No. 1

By: Eric Blinman

Anasazi Pottery: Evolution of a Technology

Pottery is ubiquitous on Anasazi archaeological sites (Figs. 1 and 2), and it is both one of the aesthetic joys […]

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Vol. 35 / No. 1

By: Glen Rice and Charles Redman

Platform Mounds of the Arizona Desert: An Experiment in Organizational Complexity

In the fall of 1989 we began an eight-year project to investigate platform mound communities in the Tonto Basin of […]

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Vol. 35 / No. 1

By: Catherine M. Cameron

Photographic Analysis: A Study of Architectural Change at Oraibi Pueblo

The multistoried pueblos of the Southwest appear ancient, time-less, and unchanging. Most of these villages have been occupied for over […]

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Vol. 35 / No. 1

By: Paul Minnis and Michael Whalen

Casas Grandes: Archaeology in Northern Mexico

“the great difficulty being in determining where the remains of these people [of Cases Grander] ceased, and those of ruder […]

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Vol. 35 / No. 1

By: Stephen H. Lekson

Chaco, Hohokam and Mimbres: The Southwest in the 11th and 12th Centuries

Caesar’s Gaul, the Southwest of the 11th and 12th centuries was divided into three parts (Fig. 2): Anasazi (on the […]

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Vol. 35 / No. 1

By: Catherine M. Cameron

Recent Research in the Prehistoric Southwest: Introduction

The Southwest has been long been renowned for its spectacular archaeological sites and for the contemporary Native American groups whose […]

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