Browsing Cedar Mesa Research Materials by Title
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Late Pueblo II and Pueblo III Cliff Dwellings and Community Patterns in the Grand Gulch, Southeastern Utah
(1/1/2001 0)The study area, a 6.5 km segment of Grand Gulch, includes 24 well-preserved late Pueblo II-Pueblo III period (ca. A.D. 1060-1270) cliff dwellings. I use a spatial and functional analysis of the cliff dwellings and their ... -
Leaving Mesa Verde: The Great Pueblo Migrations of the 13th Century
(11/3/2015 )This presentation was given November 3, 2015, at Southern Methodist University. The presentation deals with questions about where the former inhabitants of the Cedar Mesa region in the American Southwest migrated to in the ... -
Leaving Mesa Verde: The Great Pueblo Migrations of the 13th Century
(9/10/2015 )This presentation was given in May 2014 at the Spokane chapter meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA). The presentation deals with questions about where the former inhabitants of the Cedar Mesa region in ... -
Modeling Archaeological Sites and Forest History on Cedar Mesa, SE Utah
(9/12/2017)Producing a model that successfully predicts archaeological site densities over a large area of more than 1,000,00 acres which had diverse prehistoric adaptations and diverse environments is an extremely difficult task. ... -
Modern Environmental Datasets and the Reanalysis of Cedar Mesa (Utah) Settlement Patterns
(1/1/2014 0)Modern geographic information systems and web-accessible environmental datasets have created an opportunity to supplement earlier settlement models and provide additional insight into Ancestral Pueblo occupation of the ... -
Moon House: a Pueblo III Period Cliff Dwelling Complex in Southeastern Utah
(1/1/1989 0)The Moon House Complex is composed of 3 exceptionally well preserved 13th century cliff dwellings. An analysis of construction methods, room function, and construction sequence indicates recurrent reconstruction, remodeling, ... -
Northern Kayenta ceramic chronology
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Origins of southwestern domestic turkey
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Pits Without Pots: Basketmaker II Houses and Lithics of Southeastern Utah
(1/1/2001 0)The first goal of this thesis was to provide descriptive site reports of three late Basketmaker II habitation sites on Cedar Mesa, Southeastern Utah. There was great homogeneity among late Basketmaker II habitation sites ... -
Pottery Pueblo: a Tsegi phase village on Paiute Mesa, Utah
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Prehistoric lithic materials on Cedar Mesa, Southeastern Utah: source identification and aspects of regional distribution.
(4/1/1979 0)During the course of the archeological survey project conducted between 1972 and 1973 on Cedar Mesa, southeastern Utah, the problem of the sources of prehistoric Anasazi stone tool material and the implications of material ... -
Pueblo II and Pueblo III settlement patterns on Cedar Mesa, southeastern Utah
(1/1/1983 0)This thesis identifies several environmental and cultural factors that affected prehistoric Pueblo settlement on portions of Cedar Mesa, southeastern Utah. The settlements were established by farmers of the Mesa Verde and ... -
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 ... -
Setting the Stage: The Landscape Archaeology of the Cedar Mesa Basketmaker II
(4/13/2019)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 ...