L Eckert
Biographic Data
| ID | 13928 |
|---|---|
| NAME | L Eckert |
| GIVEN NAMES | L |
| FAMILY NAME | Eckert |
| SIGNATURE | ECKERT L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Arizona |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6913-4723 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 65 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Production Sequence of Rio Grande Glaze Ware as Revealed Through Petrographic Analysis
In this paper, we present a systematic method focused on petrographic analysis to identify different steps in the pottery production process and use this method to evaluate Rio Grande Glaze Ware from the Rio Abajo region of New Mexico. Working within the framework of chaîne opératoire , we examine the pottery production sequence by measuring ceramic attributes that reflect choices made at different steps in the process. We argue that our method c…
Production and provenance of Inka pottery in Qullasuyu
Chacoan Great House Communities, Ritual Landscapes, and the H-Spear Site
This paper documents and contextualizes a previously unrecorded Chacoan great house, H-Spear, located in the Cibola region of west-central New Mexico. The Chaco-era H-Spear Site (LA201571) has a great house, great kiva, and earthen berm surrounding the great house/great kiva complex. Full-coverage survey data from the Ojo Bonito Archaeological Project (OBAP) indicates extensive pre-Chacoan, Chacoan, and post-Chacoan occupations of the broader are…
Ancient Communities in the Mimbres Valley
Micaceous Mindsets
Tasks, Knowledge, and Practice
We examine provenance data collected from three types of geological resources recovered at Goat Spring Pueblo in central New Mexico. Our goal is to move beyond simply documenting patterns in compositional data; rather, we develop a narrative that explores how people's knowledge and preferences resulted in culturally and materially determined choices as revealed in those patterns. Our analyses provide evidence that residents of Goat Spring Pueblo …
In-Field Obsidian XRF Analysis of Sites in the Lion Mountain Area and Gallinas Mountains of West-Central New Mexico
The Gallinas Mountains of west-central New Mexico were home to agriculturalists between ca. a.d. 850 and 1450. Ongoing research of the Lion Mountain Archaeology Project (LMAP) has allowed for in-field analysis of surface obsidian artifacts via portable handheld energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence spectrometry (ED-XRF). Influenced by principles of preservation archaeology and the archaeological repository curation crisis, the LMAP has sought to d…
Western Ceramic Traditions
The Production and Distribution of Glaze-Painted Pottery in the Pueblo Southwest
Rio Grande cultural remains on the middle Gila River, Arizona
Community Landscapes, Identity, and Practice
Landscape archaeology has been widely used as a framework for understanding the myriad ways in which people lived in their natural and built environments. In this study, we use systematic survey data in conjunction with ceramic chronology building to explore how residents of the Lion Mountain area in Central New Mexico created and sustained community landscapes over time as memories and stories became linked with specific places. We combine pract…
Coalescence and the Spread of Glaze-Painted Pottery in the Central Rio Grande
The concept of coalescent communities has been widely used by North American archaeologists as a framework for understanding cultural responses to social upheaval. In this article we explore how the concept of coalescence helps us understand the processes that led to the emergence of aggregated settlements in the Albuquerque district of the central Rio Grande Valley around the turn of the fourteenth century. We argue that such communities emerged…
Following the yellow brick road
Communities of identity, communities of practice
A commanding view of the Pacific
We discuss recent findings from Vainu'u (AS‐32‐016), a multi‐component highland site on Tutuila Island, American Samoa. Vainu'u is of interest for at least three reasons. First, as the earliest recorded highland site in the Samoan archipelago, this site changes our understanding of the Samoan cultural chronology. Second, as a ceramic‐bearing site, material culture recovered from Vainu'u complements assemblages recovered from lowland and coastal s…
Investigating the production and distribution of plain ware pottery in the Samoan archipelago with laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS)
The Social Construction of Communities
The Ritual Importance of Birds in 14th-century Central New Mexico
The Pueblo IV period (AD 1300–1450/1500) in the American Southwest witnessed the development of a number of new ritual systems in both the Western and Eastern Pueblo areas. Although associated with a diverse array of material culture, one of the most prominent aspects of these religious ideologies was the adoption of a complex of icons focusing on fertility, weather control, and community well being. Key among these motifs were birds, which appea…
Inaa of pre-contact basalt quarries on the Samoan Island of Tutuila
Rudd Creek Pueblo
Rudd Creek Pueblo is a late Tularosa phase (A.D. 1225-1300) village located in the Upper Little Colorado region south of Springerville, Arizona. In 1996, Arizona State University, in cooperation with the Arizona Game and Fish Department, conducted archaeological fieldwork at Rudd Creek. This paper summarizes the results of that field season, which included the clearing of disturbed fill from a number of looted rooms, as well as limited test excav…
Zuni Demographic Structure, A.D. 1300-1680
Massive depopulation due to epidemic disease had important consequences for Native American groups in terms of cultural continuity. To understand the history and prehistory of a specific people, as well as to help refine our models and methods for studying demographic change throughout the New World, we must investigate the timing and scale of changes in population dynamics among different groups. This paper investigates changes in Zuni demograph…
Pueblo IV Community Formation in the Central Rio Grande Valley
Communities of identity, communities of practice
Investigating the production and distribution of plain ware pottery in the Samoan archipelago with laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS)
Inaa of pre-contact basalt quarries on the Samoan Island of Tutuila
Coalescence and the Spread of Glaze-Painted Pottery in the Central Rio Grande
The concept of coalescent communities has been widely used by North American archaeologists as a framework for understanding cultural responses to social upheaval. In this article we explore how the concept of coalescence helps us understand the processes that led to the emergence of aggregated settlements in the Albuquerque district of the central Rio Grande Valley around the turn of the fourteenth century. We argue that such communities emerged…
A commanding view of the Pacific
We discuss recent findings from Vainu'u (AS‐32‐016), a multi‐component highland site on Tutuila Island, American Samoa. Vainu'u is of interest for at least three reasons. First, as the earliest recorded highland site in the Samoan archipelago, this site changes our understanding of the Samoan cultural chronology. Second, as a ceramic‐bearing site, material culture recovered from Vainu'u complements assemblages recovered from lowland and coastal s…
Community Landscapes, Identity, and Practice
Landscape archaeology has been widely used as a framework for understanding the myriad ways in which people lived in their natural and built environments. In this study, we use systematic survey data in conjunction with ceramic chronology building to explore how residents of the Lion Mountain area in Central New Mexico created and sustained community landscapes over time as memories and stories became linked with specific places. We combine pract…
Following the yellow brick road
Rudd Creek Pueblo
Rudd Creek Pueblo is a late Tularosa phase (A.D. 1225-1300) village located in the Upper Little Colorado region south of Springerville, Arizona. In 1996, Arizona State University, in cooperation with the Arizona Game and Fish Department, conducted archaeological fieldwork at Rudd Creek. This paper summarizes the results of that field season, which included the clearing of disturbed fill from a number of looted rooms, as well as limited test excav…
Pueblo IV Community Formation in the Central Rio Grande Valley
Zuni Demographic Structure, A.D. 1300-1680
Massive depopulation due to epidemic disease had important consequences for Native American groups in terms of cultural continuity. To understand the history and prehistory of a specific people, as well as to help refine our models and methods for studying demographic change throughout the New World, we must investigate the timing and scale of changes in population dynamics among different groups. This paper investigates changes in Zuni demograph…
Inaa of pre-contact basalt quarries on the Samoan Island of Tutuila
Rudd Creek Pueblo
Rudd Creek Pueblo is a late Tularosa phase (A.D. 1225-1300) village located in the Upper Little Colorado region south of Springerville, Arizona. In 1996, Arizona State University, in cooperation with the Arizona Game and Fish Department, conducted archaeological fieldwork at Rudd Creek. This paper summarizes the results of that field season, which included the clearing of disturbed fill from a number of looted rooms, as well as limited test excav…
The Ritual Importance of Birds in 14th-century Central New Mexico
The Pueblo IV period (AD 1300–1450/1500) in the American Southwest witnessed the development of a number of new ritual systems in both the Western and Eastern Pueblo areas. Although associated with a diverse array of material culture, one of the most prominent aspects of these religious ideologies was the adoption of a complex of icons focusing on fertility, weather control, and community well being. Key among these motifs were birds, which appea…
The Social Construction of Communities
Investigating the production and distribution of plain ware pottery in the Samoan archipelago with laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS)
A commanding view of the Pacific
We discuss recent findings from Vainu'u (AS‐32‐016), a multi‐component highland site on Tutuila Island, American Samoa. Vainu'u is of interest for at least three reasons. First, as the earliest recorded highland site in the Samoan archipelago, this site changes our understanding of the Samoan cultural chronology. Second, as a ceramic‐bearing site, material culture recovered from Vainu'u complements assemblages recovered from lowland and coastal s…
Communities of identity, communities of practice
Following the yellow brick road
Coalescence and the Spread of Glaze-Painted Pottery in the Central Rio Grande
The concept of coalescent communities has been widely used by North American archaeologists as a framework for understanding cultural responses to social upheaval. In this article we explore how the concept of coalescence helps us understand the processes that led to the emergence of aggregated settlements in the Albuquerque district of the central Rio Grande Valley around the turn of the fourteenth century. We argue that such communities emerged…
The Production and Distribution of Glaze-Painted Pottery in the Pueblo Southwest
Rio Grande cultural remains on the middle Gila River, Arizona
Community Landscapes, Identity, and Practice
Landscape archaeology has been widely used as a framework for understanding the myriad ways in which people lived in their natural and built environments. In this study, we use systematic survey data in conjunction with ceramic chronology building to explore how residents of the Lion Mountain area in Central New Mexico created and sustained community landscapes over time as memories and stories became linked with specific places. We combine pract…
In-Field Obsidian XRF Analysis of Sites in the Lion Mountain Area and Gallinas Mountains of West-Central New Mexico
The Gallinas Mountains of west-central New Mexico were home to agriculturalists between ca. a.d. 850 and 1450. Ongoing research of the Lion Mountain Archaeology Project (LMAP) has allowed for in-field analysis of surface obsidian artifacts via portable handheld energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence spectrometry (ED-XRF). Influenced by principles of preservation archaeology and the archaeological repository curation crisis, the LMAP has sought to d…
Western Ceramic Traditions
Micaceous Mindsets
Tasks, Knowledge, and Practice
We examine provenance data collected from three types of geological resources recovered at Goat Spring Pueblo in central New Mexico. Our goal is to move beyond simply documenting patterns in compositional data; rather, we develop a narrative that explores how people's knowledge and preferences resulted in culturally and materially determined choices as revealed in those patterns. Our analyses provide evidence that residents of Goat Spring Pueblo …
Chacoan Great House Communities, Ritual Landscapes, and the H-Spear Site
This paper documents and contextualizes a previously unrecorded Chacoan great house, H-Spear, located in the Cibola region of west-central New Mexico. The Chaco-era H-Spear Site (LA201571) has a great house, great kiva, and earthen berm surrounding the great house/great kiva complex. Full-coverage survey data from the Ojo Bonito Archaeological Project (OBAP) indicates extensive pre-Chacoan, Chacoan, and post-Chacoan occupations of the broader are…
Ancient Communities in the Mimbres Valley
Production Sequence of Rio Grande Glaze Ware as Revealed Through Petrographic Analysis
In this paper, we present a systematic method focused on petrographic analysis to identify different steps in the pottery production process and use this method to evaluate Rio Grande Glaze Ware from the Rio Abajo region of New Mexico. Working within the framework of chaîne opératoire , we examine the pottery production sequence by measuring ceramic attributes that reflect choices made at different steps in the process. We argue that our method c…
Production and provenance of Inka pottery in Qullasuyu
Archaeology (18 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (18 works) · Geography (16 works) · History (10 works) · Pottery (8 works) · Geology (7 works) · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies (7 works) · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies (6 works) · Art (6 works) · Archaeology and Natural History (5 works)