Browsing Cedar Mesa Research Materials by Title
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Recent palynology of the Cedar Mesa area, Utah
(1/1/1979 0)A major problem in attempts to reconstruct vegetation and sequences of climatic change from pollen samples derived from archaeological deposits is the effect of human activity in the vicinity of the site on vegetation, and ... -
Replication of an A.D. 800 Anasazi Pithouse in Southwestern Colorado
(1/1/1983 0)This study reports on the replication of a prehistoric (ca. AD 800) Anasazi (ancestral Pueblo Indian) pithouse dwelling in southwestern Colorado. The primary objectives of the project were to obtain quantitative estimates ... -
Report on survey conducted in 2009 in San Juan County, Utah Under BLM Permit no. 085025
(6/5/2012 0)The attached comprise two versions of a report on a survey conducted in San Juan County, Utah, in 2009. The initial version of the report was completed and submitted to the Bureau of Land Management in December 2011. An ... -
SAA's Archiving the Archaeologists: Bill Lipe
(2020)SAA's "Archiving the Archaeologists" series is an oral history project designed to capture personal insights and recollections of archaeologists near retirement or already retired. Archaeologists interviewed in the series ... -
Setting the Stage: The Landscape Archaeology of the Cedar Mesa Basketmaker II
This paper was presented at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in Albuquerque, New Mexico. -
Similarities in Spatial Characteristics of Several Basketmaker II Sites on Cedar Mesa, Utah
(1/1/1981 0)Basketmaker II open sites on Cedar Mesa, Utah are differentiated through patterning in the spatial distributions of artifacts and features. The sites are known from surficial evidence only. Source data includes maps and ... -
Site Occupational History and Lithic Assemblage Structure: An Example from Southeast Utah
(1/1/1983 0)Recurrent patterns in the regional positioning of settlement systems over extended periods of time are the processes by which archaeological remains accumulate. These processes result in the differential use of portions ... -
Six easy steps to dating Pueblo III ceramic assemblages; working draft
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Supplementing Maize Agriculture in Basketmaker II Subsistence Dietary Analysis of Human Paleofeces from Turkey Pen Ruin
(2017-05)This research explores the factors that motivated increasing reliance on maize during the Basketmaker II period in the North American Southwest. Through the analysis of 44 human paleofeces from Turkey Pen Ruin, Utah, I ... -
Tale of a Test Pit: The research history of a midden column from the Turkey Pen site, Utah
(2019)Presented at the Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting. In 1972 R.G. Matson and a small crew excavated a dry, stratified midden at a Pueblo Cliff Dwelling site in Grand Gulch, as part of the Cedar Mesa Project. ... -
The Archaeology of Bears Ears
(SAA Archaeological Record, 2017-11)This report recounts the history of archaeology in the Bears Ears region of Utah (USA), including the Cedar Mesa Project. -
The Cedar Mesa Project: 1967-2007
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The Household in Transition: Spatial Organization of Early Anasazi Residential-Domestic Units, Southeastern Utah.
(1/1/1988 0)This study examines the spatial organization of residential-domestic units in two early periods (covering ca. A.D. 200-275) of the Anasazi tradition in the American Southwest. It asks whether or not there is evidence that ... -
The interpretation of archaeological tree-ring dates
(1/1/1985 0)A comparative approach to analysis of the body of tree-ring data from prehistoric sites in the American Southwest provides information on patterns of wood use, the effectiveness of interpretive methods, and culture history. ... -
The Kiln Conference at Crow Canyon: A Summary Report, 1991 to 1996
(7/16/2015 )This report describes the Kiln Conference, whose purpose it is to examine Ancestral Puebloan pottery firing technology from a wide range of interests including potters, archaeologists, ethnobotanists and Native Americans. ...