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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 .
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]
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.
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.
He is known as the dean of Southwestern archaeology. Cummings was the founding head of University of Arizona 's Department of Archaeology (1915–1937), the school's ninth president (1927–1928), the Arizona State Museum 's first director (1915–1938), and the founder of the Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society, which was established ...
In 1892, Wetherill met Frederick E. Hyde, a New York physician with an interest in archaeology. Hyde, his sons, and Wetherill founded the Hyde Exploring Expedition, Hyde specified that all artifacts, notes, and records were to be turned over to the American Museum of Natural History. Wetherill led a team that excavated Grand Gulch in Utah in ...
Campbell's first monograph was published by the Southwest Museum in 1931. [12] In 1932, the Campbells were appointed fellows in archaeology of the Southwest Museum and hosted a conference in Twentynine Palms on April 22–23 of that year. [13] In 1933, the Campbells began their investigation of Pinto Basin. The area is associated with an ...