Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Southwestern archaeology is a branch of archaeology concerned with the Southwestern United States and Northwestern Mexico. This region was first occupied by hunter-gatherers , and thousands of years later by advanced civilizations, such as the Ancestral Puebloans , the Hohokam , and the Mogollon .
Linda Sue Cordell (October 11, 1943 - March 29, 2013) [1] [2] was an American archaeologist and anthropologist.She was a leading researcher of the archaeology of the Southwest United States and Ancestral Pueblo communities.
Introduction to the Study of Southwestern Archaeology (Online book). Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-08345-3. – regarded as the first comprehensive archaeological study of a New World area; Kidder, A. V. & Amsden, Charles Avery (1931). 5 The Pottery of Pecos. Papers of the Southwestern expedition. Vol. I The dull-paint wares.
The Hemenway Southwestern Archaeological Expedition occurred between 1886 and 1894 in the American Southwest. Sponsored by Mary Tileston Hemenway , a wealthy widow and philanthropist, the expedition was initially led by Frank Hamilton Cushing , who was replaced in 1889 by Jesse Walter Fewkes .
Earl Halstead Morris, known as Earl Morris or Earl H. Morris, was an American archeologist known for his contributions to Southwest archaeology. He is also believed to have partially inspired the fictional Indiana Jones of George Lucas' popular Indiana Jones film series. [1]
Steven A. LeBlanc (born 1943) is an American archaeologist and former director of collections at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University's Peabody Museum. [1] He is the author a number of books about Southwest archeology and prehistoric warfare. [1]
First organized as the Southwestern Archaeology Conference in 1927, it was renamed the Pecos Conference in 1950. [ 2 ] Each August, archaeologists set up a large tent for shade, and then spend three or more days together discussing recent research and the problems of the field and challenges of the profession.
Hibben in 1964. Frank Cumming Hibben (December 5, 1910 – June 11, 2002) was a well-known archaeologist whose research focused on the U.S. Southwest. As a professor at the University of New Mexico (UNM) and writer of popular books and articles, he inspired many people to study archaeology.