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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 .
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.
That year the conference joined Southwestern Archaeology Inc. and became a 501.c.3 nonprofit. Until then, professional archaeologists still found ways to organize themselves to meet at a new conference location each summer, mostly because they understand the problems of working in isolation in the field and the importance of face time with ...
Map of major prehistoric archaeological cultures in the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico. Mogollon culture (/ ˌ m oʊ ɡ ə ˈ j oʊ n /) [1] is an archaeological culture of Native American peoples from Southern New Mexico and Arizona, Northern Sonora and Chihuahua, and Western Texas.
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]
When he traveled to the Southwest United States with the Hemenway expedition, he used a phonograph to record music of the Zuni (1890) and Hopi (1891). Benjamin Ives Gilman used these recordings to show that the people used musical intervals unlike those in the Western tempered scale. In addition to making the recordings, Fewkes wrote ...
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.
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 .