M S Shackley

Biographic Data

ID16194
NAMEM S Shackley
GIVEN NAMESM S
FAMILY NAMEShackley
SIGNATURESHACKLEY M S
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of California, Berkeley
ORCID0000-0002-4122-0427
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS86
TOTAL CITATIONS949
AUTHOR COUNT86
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1986
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX17

  • The La Bajada Site

    Open AccessBradley J Vierra, M S Shackley et al.ARTICLEGeoarchaeology2026

    The Oshara Tradition is the classic culture‐historical framework used for the Archaic period in the American Southwest. It was defined during fieldwork conducted by Cynthia Irwin‐Williams for the Anasazi Origins Project (AOP) in the 1960s and early 1970s. Chapin has provided an overview of many of the excavated sites from the AOP, with the exception of the La Bajada site, which is the Type site for the Bajada phase, though it has never been repor…

  • Obsidian Source Provenance, Paleoindian Procurement Range, Territory, Social Interaction, and Identity in the Middle Rio Grande Valley, New Mexico

    Open AccessM S ShackleyARTICLEPaleoAmerica2025

    Within the last decade, it has become possible to infer procurement range, social networks, and territory during Clovis and Folsom occupations, in this case in sites in the middle Rio Grande Valley of New Mexico, using obsidian source provenance data. During the Folsom period nearly all obsidian tool production, including the production of Folsom points, was accomplished using Valles Rhyolite (Cerro del Medio) obsidian from the Jemez Mountains vo…

  • Radiocarbon dating of Middle Archaic and Early Agricultural Period vegetal remains and artifacts from McEuen Cave, Fishhooks Wilderness, Arizona

    Open AccessJoseph Manuel Birkmann, Lisa W Huckell et al.ARTICLERadiocarbon2025References: 35

    McEuen Cave (AZ W:13:6 (ASM)) is a large bedrock rockshelter located within an andesitic rocky ash flow tuff/ignimbrite within the Bureau of Land Management’s Fishhooks Wilderness Area near Fort Thomas, Arizona. Exceptional preservation at the site has produced an extensive assemblage of perishable artifacts, including a tremendous quantity of cultigen remains radiocarbon dated between 3600 BP and 1250 BP. In this paper, we provide the results of…

  • Obsidian circulation in the Sierra Madre Occidental of northern México

    Open AccessJohn Philip Carpenter, G Sanchez et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science…2024References: 10

  • Obsidian Sources and Source Provenance of Archaeological Obsidian in Northern Sonora

    Open AccessM S ShackleyARTICLEKIVA2024Cited by: 1References: 18

    A recent obsidian provenance study in three sites in the Valle de Altar region of northern Sonora has greatly expanded our understanding of the prehistoric relationship between the southern and northern Sonoran Desert. Based on obsidian source provenance, archaeological sites in the Valle de Altar indicate that contact with the region as far north as west-central and northern Arizona, the northern portion of the Papaquería, the Sierra Pinacate, t…

  • The Paleoindian and Archaic Occupation of Grants, New Mexico

    Joseph Manuel Birkmann, B B Huckell et al.ARTICLEKIVA2023

    In the late 1930s Joseph Toulouse Jr., Kirk Bryan, and Bryan McCann published two articles describing the archaeology and geology of seventeen preceramic sites near Grants, New Mexico. George Agogino, Jim Hester, and William Roosa periodically revisited a subset of these sites during the 50s and 60s, publishing three brief articles and collecting additional artifacts. Despite the importance of these sites to the history of preceramic research in …

  • A Diachronic Analysis of Obsidian Use at Chaco Canyon and the Influence of Social Factors on Obsidian Procurement

    Open AccessJeremy M Mo, Jeremy M Moss et al.ARTICLEKIVA2023Cited by: 2References: 43

    Chaco Canyon in New Mexico was the center of an extensive regional cultural system. The strength of Chaco's regional interactions has been partly defined by the presence of non–local goods including obsidian. We take a diachronic look at Chaco obsidian use from AD 500–1250 using the largest sample of XRF sourced obsidian available to date and combine this with technological analyses to identify significant changes in where and how Chacoans obtain…

  • Zinapécuaro, Michoacán, Méxican Obsidian Artifacts at Piedras Marcadas Pueblo’s Sixteenth Century Battlefield (LA 290), Middle Rio Grande Valley, New Mexico

    M S ShackleyARTICLEKIVA2023Cited by: 1References: 19

    Direct evidence of the presence of the Mexican indigenous soldiers that accompanied the Coronado entrada into what is now the United States has remained invisible. Dolan and Shackley's recent examination of the presence of four obsidian blades produced from obsidian sources in the Sierra de Pachuca in Hidalgo state of Mexico, was the first intensive examination of artifacts that could directly signal the presence of Mexican indigenous soldiers no…

  • The terminal Pleistocene –ea rly Holocene cultural continuity in the north-central Caucasus

    Open AccessE V Doronicheva, L V Golovanova et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science…2022Cited by: 2References: 6

  • New Dates for Megalithic Stele Monuments of Gedeo, South Ethiopia

    Ashenafi G Zena, Andrew I Duff et al.ARTICLEJournal of African Archaeology2021Cited by: 2

    This paper reports the results of an archaeological survey and test excavation conducted in one of the ancient megalithic stele sites in south Ethiopia, Sakaro Sodo. The Sakaro Sodo stele site is situated in Gedeo zone, which is known to have the largest number and highest concentration of megalithic stele monuments in Africa, with an estimate of more than 10,000 stelae in sixty or more sites. Prior to our work, only one absolute date was availab…

  • Distribution and sources of secondary deposit archaeological obsidian in Rio Grande alluvium New Mexico, USA

    Open AccessM S ShackleyARTICLEGeoarchaeology2021Cited by: 7References: 8

    In 2000, Tim Church published an excellent examination of the secondarily deposited obsidian in Rio Grande Quaternary alluvium for a relatively small section of the Rio Grande in southern New Mexico. Here, the goal is to complement Church's study to include six secondary deposits of a portion of the Rio Grande hydrological basin nearly 400 km in length, coupled with a comparison to 11 archaeological sites on or near the river basin. Additionally,…

  • Long-distance contacts and social networks of the Upper Palaeolithic humans in the North-Western Caucasus (on data from Mezmaiskaya Cave, Russia)

    Open AccessL V Golovanova, Vladimir Borisovich Doronichev et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science…2021Cited by: 3References: 18

  • Pachuca Obsidian Blades from the U.S. Southwest

    Open AccessSean G Dolan, M S ShackleyARTICLEAmerican Antiquity2021Cited by: 3References: 62

    The connection between people in the prehispanic U.S. Southwest / Northwest Mexico (SW/NW) and Mesoamerica is one of the most debated research topics in American archaeology. SW/NW groups used objects from Mesoamerica, but did they also trade for obsidian? Archaeologists have yet to find Mesoamerican obsidian from confirmed prehispanic SW/NW contexts, but here we discuss four green obsidian prismatic blades from New Mexico and Arizona. Using EDXR…

  • Recent Research in the Sahuaripa Region of Sonora, Mexico

    John Philip Carpenter, John Carpenter et al.ARTICLEKIVA2021Cited by: 2References: 14

    This article summarizes research conducted in the Sahuaripa and Bacanora valleys of Sonora, Mexico. Located in the Serrana culture area of the Sierra Madre Occidental, data from this region speaks to several prevalent debates regarding the precolonial era of Northwest Mexico. Radiocarbon dates support demographic reconstructions for sizeable populations post-1000 AD; a time when other regions of the Northwest/Southwest (NW/SW) experienced signifi…

  • X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF)

    Open AccessM S ShackleyCHAPTEREncyclopedia of Global Archaeology2020

  • Psytuaje rockshelter – A new site documenting the final of the Epipalaeolithic in the north-central Caucasus, Russia

    Open AccessE V Doronicheva, L V Golovanova et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science…2020References: 13

  • Prehistoric Adaptation, Identity, and Interaction Along the Northern Gulf of California

    Douglas R Mitchell, Jonathan B Mabry et al.ARTICLECalifornia Archaeology2020Cited by: 1References: 27

    Archaeological investigations have been conducted along the northern coast of Sonora, Mexico where over 60 prehistoric middens have been identified around Bahía Adair and the town of Puerto Peñasco. The middens include low densities of pottery, chipped and ground stone tools, and some shell tools and ornaments, as well as molluscs, fish bones, crab claws, sea turtle bones, terrestrial animal bones, and charred plant remains. Radiocarbon dates ind…

  • Temporal Variation in Obsidian Procurement in the Northern Rio Grande and Its Implications for Obsidian Movement into the San Juan Area

    Open AccessJames L Moore, Eric Blinman et al.ARTICLEAmerican Antiquity2020Cited by: 4References: 10

    Arakawa and colleagues (2011) use temporal changes in obsidian source patterns to link the late thirteenth-century abandonment of the Mesa Verde region to Ortman's (2010, 2012) model of Tewa migration to the northern Rio Grande. They employ Anthony's (1990) concept of reverse migration, inferring that an increase in Mesa Verde–region obsidian from a specific Jemez Mountain source reflects the scouting of an eventual migration path. Weaknesses of …

  • Another Look at Expedient Technologies, Sedentism, and the Bow and Arrow

    Bradley J Vierra, Nicholas Chapin et al.ARTICLEKIVA2020References: 65

    The transition from the dart to the arrow, and the commensurate changes in lithic technology is poorly understood in the American Southwest. This transition has often been linked to shifts in sedentism and the increasing use of expedient flake tools. However, the relationship between the use of bifacial and core reduction strategies are conditioned by a variety of factors, and not primarily in response to the use of the bow-and-arrow, or simply s…

  • Obsidian Provenance Data Reveals New Insights into Archaic Lifeways in Chihuahua, Mexico

    Sean G Dolan, Emiliano Gallaga Murrieta et al.ARTICLELithic Technology2019Cited by: 1References: 48

    Archaeologists know less about how hunter-gatherers and early agriculturists lived during the Archaic period in the Mexican Northwest compared to the U.S. Southwest. To evaluate Archaic period mobility, lithic technology, and regional and temporal patterns in raw material procurement in northwestern Chihuahua, Mexico, we characterized the trace elemental composition of 61 obsidian artifacts from Rancho Santa María I, II, and El Peñón del Diablo u…

  • The first laminar Mousterian obsidian industry in the north-central Caucasus, Russia (preliminary results of a multi-disciplinary research at Saradj-Chuko Grotto)

    Open AccessE V Doronicheva, L V Golovanova et al.ARTICLEArchaeological Research in Asia2019Cited by: 7References: 10

  • Natural and Cultural History of the Obsidian Butte Source, Imperial County, California

    M S ShackleyARTICLECalifornia Archaeology2019Cited by: 4References: 11

    Located in the Salton Basin of Imperial County in southeastern Alta California, Obsidian Butte was the major prehistoric obsidian toolstone source in southern Alta California and northern Baja California and is frequently referenced in the archaeological literature. Reported in detail geoarchaeologically by Richard Hughes in the 1980s, the study herein considerably amplifies his research in that it focuses on the natural (geological) and cultural…

  • Technological Analysis and Source Provenance of Obsidian Artifacts from a Sun Pyramid Substructure Cache, Teotihuacan, Mexico

    Open AccessJoshua J Kwoka, M S ShackleyARTICLELatin American Antiquity2019References: 8

    The following report provides new data on a Sun Pyramid cache excavated by René Millon in 1959, including confirmation that the cache was associated with a substructure. A technological analysis illustrates the anthropomorphic eccentric production sequence, and indicates that the miniature projectile points were produced from debitage from multiple reduction technologies. All obsidian artifacts were attributed to the Otumba source area via energy…

  • X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF)

    Open AccessM S ShackleyCHAPTEREncyclopedia Of Global Archaeology2018

  • Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers of South Central Arizona

    Frank E Bayham, Donald H Morris et al.Cited by: 3

    The Central Arizona Project (CAP) is a federal project being implemented to transport Colorado River water to large segments of central and southern Arizona. The project requires an extensive amount of construction of aqueducts, pumping stations, and canals. This report is the result of archaeological investigations along one portion of the aqueducts, the Tucson Aqueduct. This aqueduct alignment will bring water to the Picacho Reservoir region of…