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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 .
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 .
Harold Sterling Gladwin was an early twentieth century archaeologist that specialized in Southwestern archaeology of the United States. He also was known for his excavations at Snaketown, Arizona, in which he accomplished several publications on this topic; his theories on migration to the New World from Asia also gained attention.
American; quantitative archaeology, Southwestern USA archaeology; Athanasius Kircher (1602–1680) German; Egyptian hieroglyphics ("the father of Egyptology") Ella Kivikoski (1901–1990) Finnish; Finnish Iron Age; Kristian Kristiansen (born 1948) Danish; Bronze Age Europe, heritage studies, archaeological theory
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.
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.
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]
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.