Browsing Cedar Mesa Research Materials by Issue Date
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The Cedar Mesa Project: 1967-2007
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Cultural transformations in southwestern prehistory: new insights from old collections
(1/1/2008 0)Summary: Several major transformations shaped U.S. Pueblo Indian culture history between 1500 BC and AD 1300. These included 1) shift to dependence on maize; 2) emergence of the "full Formative" cultural complex; 3) collapse ... -
Two Presentations Regarding Cultural Resource Management Issues on Public Lands in Southeastern Utah
(1/1/2010 0)These two presentations were made at meetings organized by Senator Robert Bennett of Utah to obtain input from interested parties regarding public lands management issues in southeastern Utah. The first presentation, made ... -
Towering enigma: an examination of late Pueblo II and Pueblo III towers in the northern San Juan region
(1/1/2010 0)One of the most impressive structural elements of ancestral Puebloan cultureis the masonry tower, a structure most commonly found during the Pueblo III (A.D.1150-1300) period of northern San Juan region occupation. This ... -
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 ... -
Geospatial Analysis of Cedar Mesa (Utah) Settlement Patterns
(1/1/2015 0)Settlement pattern analyses published by Matson, Lipe, and Haase (1988) contributed basic understandings of the distribution of the many small dispersed sites in the Cedar Mesa area of SE Utah, and of the environmental ... -
Our Changing Understanding of the Basketmaker II Culture: Subsistence and Warfare
(11/10/12)Presented at the "Celebrate Cedar Mesa" Symposium in Blanding, Utah, November 10, 2012. Sponsored by the Friends of Cedar Mesa. -
Our Changing Understanding of the Basketmaker II Culture: Demography and Ethnicity
(11/10/12)Presented at the "Celebrate Cedar Mesa" Symposium in Blanding, Utah, November 10, 2012. Sponsored by the Friends of Cedar Mesa. -
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 ... -
A 2,500-Year Neolithic Revolution in the American Southwest
(11/3/2015 )This presentation briefly reviews diverse early agricultural site complexes in both the southern and northern parts of the American Southwest and questions the usefulness of a single concept of how the elements of a ... -
Basketmaker II stone-boiling technology at Cedar Mesa, Utah: an experimental study
(12/1/2010 )The presence of limestone has been noted by archaeologists among midden scatters associated with Grand Gulch phase (A.D. 200 to 400) Basketmaker II habitation sites (Matson et al. 1988), and it has been suspected that the ... -
The salvage of archaeological data from Turkey Pen Ruin, Grand Gulch Primitive Area, San Juan County, Utah
(Division of Conservation Archaeology, San Juan County Archaeological Research Center and Library, 12/20/1984)Following episodes of vandalism at Turkey Pen Ruin, an archaeological site within the Grand Gulch Primitive Area in southeastern Utah, the Bureau of Land Management contracted with the Division of Conservation Archaeology ... -
Archaeological Systematics and Basketmaker Cultural Ecology: Some Cedar Mesa Project Experiments
(1974-05)This report describes some methods employed and a few results obtained in an ongoing study of Basketmaker ecological adaptation and cultural evolution. Observation and collection of cultural and environmental data was done ... -
Farming and Foraging on the Southwestern Frontier: an overview of previous research of the archaeological and historical resources of the Great Cedar Mesa Area
([Salt Lake City] : Antiquities Section, Division of State History, 2/1/2010 0) -
Esquila en la Casa de los Gansos
(2012)This video illustrates the practice of gathering downy feathers from geese that have become accustomed to being held by humans. The video was created in Puerto Varas and was originally made accessible on YouTube at ...