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11	The significance of the dated prehistory of Chetro Ketl, Chaco Cañon, New Mexico Ellis, Florence Hawley. January 1900 (has links) Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, 1934. / "Private edition, distributed by the University of Chicago Libraries, Chicago, Illinois." "July 1934." Published also as the University of New Mexico bulletin, Monograph series, vol. 1, no. 1. Includes bibliographical references (p. ix-x).
12	Comparative Analysis of Ceramics from Three Great Houses and One Small House Site in Southeast Utah Harris, Rachel Marie 01 December 2014 (has links) (PDF) Ceramics from three Utah great houses, Bluff, Cottonwood Falls, and Edge of the Cedars, were analyzed and compared with ceramics from Three Kiva Pueblo, which is not a great house site but was occupied contemporarily. Data on jar and bowl rim diameters were considered to understand great house feasting dynamics. Cooking jars with large rim diameters were more common at Three Kiva than they were at the great houses. This suggests that Three Kiva residents prepared large batches of food more frequently than great house residents. Distributions of Mancos Black-on-white bowl diameters were very similar at great houses and Three Kiva, but Three Kiva had bowls with larger diameters than those found at the great houses. Jar sizes suggest it is possible that feasting at great houses took place with a potluck model; however, bowl sizes suggest that Three Kiva also hosted feasts. Data on ceramic origins were considered to look for direction and strength of relationships with outside regions. All of the great houses had higher proportions of imported ceramics than Three Kiva, suggesting that great house residents interacted with people from other regions more frequently. All sites had large proportions of imported ceramics from the Kayenta region. All great house sites had Chuskan and Cibolan sherds, suggesting interaction with Chaco Canyon. Proportions of imported ceramics and the regions from which they came varied for each site, indicating that site residents maintained independent connections to people living in other regions. Ceramics Rim Arc Utah Chaco Canyon Great House Anthropology
13	Salinity Rates and Agricultural Productivity at Robert's Great House, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico Thress, Jessica 28 June 2016 (has links) No description available. Archaeology Salinity Chaco Canyon sustainability water management maize maize production
14	Wooden Ritual Artifacts from Chaco Canyon, New Mexico: The Chetro Ketl Collection Vivian, R. Gwinn January 1978 (has links) No description available. Chaco culture. Pueblo wood-carving. Chaco Canyon (N.M.) -- Antiquities. New Mexico -- Antiquities.
15	Tree-ring dating of archaeological sites in the Chaco Canyon region, New Mexico Bannister, Bryant January 1959 (has links) No description available. Archaeological dating -- New Mexico. Dendrochronology -- New Mexico. New Mexico -- Antiquities. Chaco Canyon (N.M.)
16	Paleoenvironmental Approaches in Arid Geoarchaeology: Assessment of Former Habitation Zones and Landscapes McCool, Jon-Paul 07 June 2018 (has links) No description available. Geography Geoarchaeology African Humid Period Chaco Canyon Khartoum Mesolithic Groundwater Soil Salinity
17	A Revised Middle to Late Holocene Alluvial Chronology of Chaco Canyon, New Mexico Haussner, Elizabeth A. 21 October 2016 (has links) No description available. Geology Chaco Canyon Chaco Culture National Historical Park American southwest OSL arid landscape geomorphology
18	Great House Communities across the Chacoan Landscape January 2000 (has links) Beginning in the tenth century, Chaco Canyon emerged as an important center whose influence shaped subsequent cultural developments throughout the Four Corners area of the American Southwest. Archaeologists investigating the prehistory of Chaco Canyon have long been impressed by its massive architecture, evidence of widespread trading activities, and ancient roadways that extended across the region. Research on Chaco Canyon today is focused on what the remains indicate about the social, political, and ideological organization of the Chacoan people. Communities with great houses located some distance away are of particular interest, because determining how and why peripheral areas became associated with the central canyon provides insight into the evolution of the Chacoan tradition. This volume brings together twelve chapters by archaeologists who suggest that the relationship between Chaco Canyon and outlying communities was not only complex but highly variable. Their new research reveals that the most distant groups may have simply appropriated Chacoan symbolism for influencing local social and political relationships, whereas many of the nearest communities appear to have interacted closely with the central canyon--perhaps even living there on a seasonal basis. The multifaceted approach taken by these authors provides different and refreshing perspectives on Chaco. Their contributions offer new insight into what a Chacoan community is and shed light on the nature of interactions among prehistoric communities. "The multifaceted approach . . . provides different and sometimes refreshing perspectives on Chaco. Their contributions offer new insight into what a Chacoan community is, and they shed new light on the nature of interactions among prehistoric communities." —Traditional Dwellings & Settlements Review Pueblo Indians -- Antiquities. Chaco Canyon (N.M.) -- Antiquities. Pueblo architecture. Southwest, New -- Antiquities.
19	Late Quaternary Plant Zonation and Climate in Southeastern Utah Betancourt, Julio L. January 1983 (has links) Plant macrofossils from packrat middens in two southeastern Utah caves outline development of modern plant zonation from the late Wisconsin. Allen Canyon Cave (2195 m) and Fishmouth Cave (1585 m) are located along a continuous gradient of outcropping Navajo Sandstone that extends from the Abajo Mountains south to the San Juan River. By holding the site constant, changes in the floral composition for a plot of less than one hectare can be observed, even if sporadically, over tens of millennia. At Allen Canyon Cave, engelmann spruce-alpine fir forest was replaced by the present vegetation consisting of pinyon-juniper woodland on exposed ridgetops and cliffside stands of Douglas fir, ponderosa pine, and aspen. Xerophytic woodland plants such as pinyon, Plains prickly pear, and narrowleaf yucca arrived sometime in the middle Holocene between 7200 and 3400 B.P. At Fishmouth Cave, Utah juniper in Holocene middens replaced blue spruce, limber pine, Douglas fir, and dwarf and Rocky Mountain junipers in late Wisconsin samples. Disharmonious associations for the late Wisconsin occur only at the lower site with the xerophytes Mormon tea, Plains prickly pear, and narrowleaf yucca growing alongside subalpine conifers. One possible explanation involves the late Wisconsin absence of ponderosa and pinyon pines from the Colorado Plateaus. Released from competition at their lower limits, subalpine conifers were able to expand into lower elevations and mix with xerophytic plants found today in understories of pinyon-juniper and ponderosa pine woodlands. Quantitative climatic estimates are derived for the late Wisconsin by applying vertical lapse rates for temperature and precipitation to the amount of vegetation depression. The Fishmouth Cave sequence indicates a minimum lowering of 850 m for blue spruce, limber pine, and dwarf juniper. A depression of at least 700 m for engelmann spruce and alpine fir is suggested for the Allen Canyon locality. Use of conservatively low lapse rates for stations below 2080 m yields a 3-4°C cooling from present mean annual temperature and 35 to 60 percent more rainfall than today. Steeper lapse rates associated with more mountainous terrain suggest a 5°C lowering in temperature and up to 120 percent increase over modern precipitation. Abajo Mountains Allen Caynon Cave altitude atmospheric precipitation biogeography Cenozoic Chaco Canyon Comb Ridge Monocline Coniferales Cupressacids Fishmouth Cave Gymnospermae Holocene juniperus lower Holocene New Mexico paleoclimatology paleoecology Pinaceae Pinacids Pinus Pinus ponderosa Plantae Pseudotsuga Quaternary rainfall seasonal variations southeastern Utah Spermatophyta stratigraphy topography United States upper Quaternary Utah

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