This dissertation analyzes archaeological features and materials related to metal production excavated from the early colonial component (1598-1680 AD) of the Pueblo of Paa-ko (LA 162), Bernalillo County, New Mexico. The dissertation characterizes the metallurgical technology employed at Paa-ko through the integration of archaeological, technological and ethnohistorical data in order to develop a comprehensive understanding of the technology in terms of its material and social aspects. By integrating many scales of analysis, from site specific behavioral observations, to regional and global economic networks, the project investigates how economic, technical and social knowledge is communicated, contested, and transformed across the social and cultural boundaries present in early colonial communities. The dissertation addresses how the situated agency of indigenous practitioners incorporated within colonial industries, shapes such industries. It also explores the effects of such agency in the resulting technology at LA 162, and early Spanish colonial constructions of 'value' (of both an economic and social nature), more broadly.

This study qualitatively and quantitatively analyzes the geomorphology of alluvial fans in the Guadalupe Mountains Region (GMR) of west Texas and south-central New Mexico. Morphometric data for 31 alluvial fans and drainage basins ha ve been derived. The data set was subdivided into Guadalupe and Brokeoff Mountain fans and was further subdivided on the basis of their location along the two mountain ranges. A conventional morphometric analysis was conducted relating alluvial fan area and slope to drainage basin area in order to understand if and to what extent the alluvial fans of the GMR are dependent on the physical environment, including characteristics and processes of the drainage basin and depositional site. The results of the morphometric analysis indicate that the morphometric relationships that exist between the alluvial fans of the GMR and their contributory drainage basins are comparably to those of alluvial fans of the western United States. Morphologic and morphometric differences between the various groups primarily reflect geographic differences in the physiography and lithology of the contributory drainage basin, tectonics, and the various physical constraints imposed by the GMR.

A study of Santa Fe de Nuevo Mexico (1821-1832) during the Mexican period through the transcription and translation of selected manuscripts in Spanish made available on microfilm by the State of New Mexico Records Center is the primary intent of this research. The dissertation contains photocopies of the microfilm frames, transcriptions and translations of the frames, and annotations to the translations of the eight documents selected. It also contains suggestions about transcribing and translating these manuscripts to help other researchers to unlock the door to the wealth of information contained in these archives.Chapter I provides historical information about Mexico on the eve. of her independence from Spain and relates the structure of the political system to New Mexico, a territory of Mexico.Chapters II-VI contain photocopies of eight documents, the Spanish transcriptions of the documents, and annotated English translations. In these five chapters new or more precise information is gained about persons prominent in Santa Fe, the territory of New Mexico, and the Mexican republic. New light is shed on the activities of Anglo-American traders and trappers involved in affairs in northern Mexico. Especially clarified is the operation of the system of justice and the politics of the municipality and the territory. The functional level of municipal political structure is revealed. The work of the municipal, territorial, and national governments with respect to international trade on the far frontier is shown.Chapter VII sums up the findings revealed in the documents and concludes that the need for more transcriptions and translations of these archives to add to the limited information_ available for the history of New Mexico, 1821-1846, is evident from the richness of this limited selection of the documents.

My dissertation research addressed woodland dynamics and dendroclimatology on the volcanic badlands of western New Mexico. The research was intended to complement previous studies by: (1) assessing vegetation structure and composition dynamics at El Malpais National Monument between 1948–2010 using repeat photography; (2) improving knowledge of the influence of climate and land use on vegetation dynamics at El Malpais National Monument; (3) providing a unique tree-ring data set from Rocky Mountain juniper growing on the malpais; (4) elucidating relationships between Pacific teleconnections and radial growth in Rocky Mountain juniper; and (5) improving understanding of the dynamic nature of climate in the Southwest. I used tree-ring data from the interior of the Bandera Lava Flow and repeat-photography sequences from a nearby location at the edge of the flow to assess vegetation changes at two ecologically different locations on the malpais. I concluded that noticeable vegetation changes occurred during the 20th and early 21st centuries at the periphery of the Bandera Lava Flow. Vegetation changes at the lava-substrate interface could be linked to human activity, resource management, and drought. I also sampled Rocky Mountain junipers on a lava flow in Cibola National Forest to produce a multi-century tree-ring chronology. The data set is the first Rocky Mountain juniper chronology produced in New Mexico and is one of few conifer chronologies from the Southwest with a significant temperature-growth relationship. Dendroclimatic analyses identified growth relationships with monthly mean temperature, monthly total precipitation, monthly PDSI, and local water year precipitation. Trees appeared most sensitive to climate factors that influence and indicate moisture availability during dry periods of the growing season. Tree-ring data indicated positive relationships between SSTs in the El Niño 3.4 region of the central Pacific Ocean and Rocky Mountain junipers on the malpais. Positive PDO-growth relationships during the cool months prior to current growing season further suggest a link between SSTs in the Pacific Ocean and trees on the badlands. Positive relationships between monthly PNA index values and annual radial growth may result from the large distances between the malpais and PNA centers of activity.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Arizona. / Bibliography: p. 71-73.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Washington State University, December 2008. / Title from PDF title page (viewed on Apr. 15, 2009). "Department of Anthropology." Includes bibliographical references (p. 534-572).

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).

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).

Thesis (# p) Columbia University, 1912. / Published also without thesis note. "The present report deals with excavations in north central New Mexico carried on in the year 1941, by an expedition from Columbia university and the Laboratory of anthropology at Santa Fe."--Foreword. Vita. Bibliography: p. [91] 94.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of California, May 1921. / Typewritten (carbon copy). Bibliography: p. 185-187.