B B Huckell
Biographic Data
| ID | 45168 |
|---|---|
| NAME | B B Huckell |
| GIVEN NAMES | B B |
| FAMILY NAME | Huckell |
| SIGNATURE | HUCKELL B B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of New Mexico |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6327-2578 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 188 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Radiocarbon dating of Middle Archaic and Early Agricultural Period vegetal remains and artifacts from McEuen Cave, Fishhooks Wilderness, Arizona
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…
The Paleoindian and Archaic Occupation of Grants, New Mexico
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 …
The Naco Clovis Site
Archival research demonstrates that a previously unpublished second season of excavations took place at the Naco Clovis site in 1953, more than doubling the extent of the excavated area and revealing additional bones pertaining to a second mammoth. In 2020 small pieces of charcoal were found in sediment adhering to the distal fragment of a mammoth ulna from the Naco site. The bone was part of a 2011 donation to the Arizona State Museum by David N…
Evidence supports the efficacy of Clovis points for hunting proboscideans
Folsom Point Production at the Rio Rancho Site, New Mexico
This chapter discusses the finished points and then present the evidence for Folsom point manufacture, as reflected by the preforms and channel flakes. It also discusses the artifact assemblages from the Rio Rancho site in relation to current models of Folsom organization. Although it was excavated more than 30 years ago, the Rio Rancho Folsom site remains poorly known among archaeologists interested in Paleoindian prehistory. Dawson recovered ap…
A Buried Middle Archaic Site in the Tucson Basin
Despite great gains in knowledge about the Late Archaic/Early Agricultural period in the Tucson Basin, understanding of the Middle Archaic period remains slim. This paper reports on volunteer investigations at three buried Archaic sites within the Santa Cruz River floodplain: the Joe Ben Site (AZ BB:13:11), AZ BB:13:70, and an unnumbered locus north of the latter. The AZ BB:13:70 artifact assemblage and the Joe Ben site records suggest small-scal…
The Manis Mastodon
Over the past several decades, there have been occasional discoveries of possible sites of human predation on, or possibly scavenging of, proboscideans. Some 15 sites have produced diagnostic Clovi
Stones, Bones, and Profiles
Clovis Paleoecology and Lithic Technology in the Central Rio Grande Rift Region, New Mexico
Clovis sites occur throughout the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, but are poorly documented in the central Rio Grande rift region. Here, we present data from two relatively unknown Clovis projectile point assemblages from this region: the first is from the Mockingbird Gap Clovis site and the second is from a survey of the surrounding region. Our goals are to reconstruct general features of the paleoecological adaptation of Clo…
Folsom Technology and Toolstone Use at the Martin Site, North Central New Mexico
The Martin site is a Folsom camp in the Estancia Basin, Santa Fe County, New Mexico, investigated in 1955 and only briefly described in a 1967 dissertation. Reanalysis of the implement collection was conducted during 2002, and the debitage was described in detail in 2005. The principal goal of the research was to integrate this important assemblage into current models of Folsom lithic technological organization through study of artifact assemblag…
Sentinel Butte
First Peoples in a New World
Geoarchaeology of the Mockingbird Gap (Clovis) site, Jornada del Muerto, New Mexico
The Mockingbird Gap site is one of the largest Clovis sites in the western United States, yet it remains poorly known after it was tested in 1966–1968. Surface collecting and mapping of the site revealed a dense accumulation of Clovis lithic debris stretching along Chupadera Draw, which drains into the Jornada del Muerto basin. We conducted archaeological testing and geoarchaeological coring to assess the stratigraphic integrity of the site and g…
The Allen Site
Rarámuri Rijibara
Rarámuri men of northern Mexico continue to manufacture stone gaming pieces called rijibara for use in a game called cuatro or rijibara. In 1978, eight of these gaming pieces were manufactured by two Rarámuri men during a visit to the Arizona State Museum. The implements and the resulting debitage were analyzed by the first author as a means of identifying variation resulting from individual differences in knapping technique, skill, or motor habi…
"Comment on "Redefining the Age of Clovis
Waters and Stafford (Reports, 23 February 2007, p. 1122) provided useful information about the age of some Clovis sites but have not definitively established the temporal span of this cultural complex in the Americas. Only a continuing program of radiometric dating and careful stratigraphic correlations can address the lingering ambiguity about the emergence and spread of Clovis culture.
Geoarchaeology of the Boca Negra Wash Area, Albuquerque Basin, New Mexico, USA
Dozens of Paleoindian sites, including the Boca Negra Wash (BNW) Folsom site (LA 124474), are scattered across a basalt plateau (the West Mesa) on the western side of the Albuquerque Basin, and adjacent uplands. The BNW site, like many others in the area, is located near a small ( ̃60 × 90 m) playa basin that formed in a depression on the basalt surface and was subsequently covered by an eolian sand sheet (Unit 1) dated by OSL to ̃23,000 yr B.P. …
Journey to the Ice Age
The Ventana Complex
Radiocarbon dating of charcoal samples and a re-examination of the artifacts from the Volcanic Debris layer in Ventana Cave were conducted in 1992-1994. The goal of this research was to better understand the chronological position and cultural affinities of the Ventana Complex, the name applied to the assemblage recovered from the Volcanic Debris. Ten new Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS)14C ages suggest that the Volcanic Debris accumulated bet…
Folsom Lithic Technology
Clovis Revisited
Wandering Villagers
A San Dieguito Site on the Lower Gila River, Southwestern Arizona
The 1977 investigation of a small San Dieguito site on the Lower Gila River is described. A review of the San Dieguito complex is presented, followed by a description of three possible cultural features and the flaked lithic artifact assemblage from the site. Attributes of the artifacts suggest that the primary function of the site was raw material procurement and initial reduction. Variation in the degree of development of desert varnish indicat…
U New Mexico for the Record
Investigations at Milagro, A Late Preceramic Site in the Eastern Tucson Basin
This report presents the results of archaeological excavations undertaken as part of a land exchange between Pima County and Magna Investment and Development, Ltd. A portion of this right-of-way included a prehistoric archaeological site known as Milagro (AZ BB:10:46), parts of which had been investigated previously. Pima County indicated that prior to completion of the land exchange, archaeological investigations must be performed along the rout…
The archaic prehistory of the North American Southwest
Sentinel Butte
Clovis Paleoecology and Lithic Technology in the Central Rio Grande Rift Region, New Mexico
Clovis sites occur throughout the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, but are poorly documented in the central Rio Grande rift region. Here, we present data from two relatively unknown Clovis projectile point assemblages from this region: the first is from the Mockingbird Gap Clovis site and the second is from a survey of the surrounding region. Our goals are to reconstruct general features of the paleoecological adaptation of Clo…
A Protohistoric Piman Burial and a Consideration of Piman Burial Practices
The discovery of a single interment during construction of facilities at the Ina Road Wastewater Treatment Plant, Tucson, Arizona, in 1975 is reported. The associated lithic artifacts are described, and they are interpreted as typical of the protohistoric Sobaipuri. The archaeological rarity of Upper Piman burials led the authors to consult seventeenth through twentieth century documentary sources for comparative data, and the results of this res…
The Denver Elephant Project
One aspect of the Denver Elephant Project, the experimental use of thrusting spears, is presented. A recentlydeceased elephant was made available for archaeological experimentation, and as a part of this work the author manufactured and, with the aid of others, employed a series of thrusting spears tipped with Clovis fluted point replicas. It was found that the use of composite thrusting spears permitted penetration of the elephant carcass, but a…
Evidence supports the efficacy of Clovis points for hunting proboscideans
Cortaro Points and the Archaic of Southern Arizona
A new Archaic projectile point style, the Cortaro point, is introduced and described. Its morphology, manufacturing technology and distribution are documented, and it is shown to be a morphologically and technologically consistent point style. Available data indicate that it is limited to southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico. Temporal data for the Cortaro point are presented and suggest that it may be of late Middle or Late Archaic age. C…
The Paleo-Indian and Archaic Occupation of the Tucson Basin
Evidence for the occupation of the Tucson Basin during the Paleo-Indian and Archaic periods is presented and assessed. There is at present no conclusive evidence for Paleo-Indian utilization of the basin, although Clovis sites and isolated Clovis projectile points are known from areas bordering it. There is also weak evidence suggesting a possible Plainview presence in the area. In addition, it has been proposed that the pre- or nonprojectile poi…
Of Chipped Stone Tools, Elephants, and the Clovis Hunters
The experimental butchering of an elephant using chipped stone tools modeled after implements from Clovis sites is discussed. A description of the stone tools produced and utilized for this work is presented, along with an evaluation of the performance of the tools. Physical and anatomical observations are also reported for the elephant and ralated to hunting and butchering considerations. lmphcat1ons of the results of the experiment are discusse…
The Production of Secondary Multiple Flakes
Flakes having superimposed positive and negative bulbs of percussion may be produced in two ways: by being struck from a core from which a primary flake has previously been struck, or by being produced simultaneously with the primary flake. Conditions are defined under which those produced in the latter fashion can occur by natural agency, and thus need not be diagnostic of human industry
Geoarchaeology of the Mockingbird Gap (Clovis) site, Jornada del Muerto, New Mexico
The Mockingbird Gap site is one of the largest Clovis sites in the western United States, yet it remains poorly known after it was tested in 1966–1968. Surface collecting and mapping of the site revealed a dense accumulation of Clovis lithic debris stretching along Chupadera Draw, which drains into the Jornada del Muerto basin. We conducted archaeological testing and geoarchaeological coring to assess the stratigraphic integrity of the site and g…
The Gold Gulch Site
The excavation of a small Cochise culture site is discussed and the lithic assemblage from it described. An attempt is made to relate this site to a general system of seasonal resource exploitation
The Ventana Complex
Radiocarbon dating of charcoal samples and a re-examination of the artifacts from the Volcanic Debris layer in Ventana Cave were conducted in 1992-1994. The goal of this research was to better understand the chronological position and cultural affinities of the Ventana Complex, the name applied to the assemblage recovered from the Volcanic Debris. Ten new Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS)14C ages suggest that the Volcanic Debris accumulated bet…
The Hardt Creek Site
The excavation of a small preceramic site in the Tonto Basin, central Arizona is described. Analysis of the artifacts is presented to support placement of the site in a generalized Cochise culture association and to reconstruct the activities of the occupants of the site
Folsom Technology and Toolstone Use at the Martin Site, North Central New Mexico
The Martin site is a Folsom camp in the Estancia Basin, Santa Fe County, New Mexico, investigated in 1955 and only briefly described in a 1967 dissertation. Reanalysis of the implement collection was conducted during 2002, and the debitage was described in detail in 2005. The principal goal of the research was to integrate this important assemblage into current models of Folsom lithic technological organization through study of artifact assemblag…
Geoarchaeology of the Boca Negra Wash Area, Albuquerque Basin, New Mexico, USA
Dozens of Paleoindian sites, including the Boca Negra Wash (BNW) Folsom site (LA 124474), are scattered across a basalt plateau (the West Mesa) on the western side of the Albuquerque Basin, and adjacent uplands. The BNW site, like many others in the area, is located near a small ( ̃60 × 90 m) playa basin that formed in a depression on the basalt surface and was subsequently covered by an eolian sand sheet (Unit 1) dated by OSL to ̃23,000 yr B.P. …
A San Dieguito Site on the Lower Gila River, Southwestern Arizona
The 1977 investigation of a small San Dieguito site on the Lower Gila River is described. A review of the San Dieguito complex is presented, followed by a description of three possible cultural features and the flaked lithic artifact assemblage from the site. Attributes of the artifacts suggest that the primary function of the site was raw material procurement and initial reduction. Variation in the degree of development of desert varnish indicat…
Evidence of Late Preceramic Agriculture at Cibecue, East-Central Arizona
A recent test excavation of a late preceramic period site near Cibecue in east-central Arizona has revealed evidence of maize agriculture. This report describes the site, its setting, and the investigative methods. A large sample of lithic artifacts was obtained from surface collection and excavation, including Cienega projectile points and numerous bifaces. Five hearths were uncovered in the test, four of which were excavated. AMS dating of maiz…
Investigations at Milagro, A Late Preceramic Site in the Eastern Tucson Basin
This report presents the results of archaeological excavations undertaken as part of a land exchange between Pima County and Magna Investment and Development, Ltd. A portion of this right-of-way included a prehistoric archaeological site known as Milagro (AZ BB:10:46), parts of which had been investigated previously. Pima County indicated that prior to completion of the land exchange, archaeological investigations must be performed along the rout…
A Buried Middle Archaic Site in the Tucson Basin
Despite great gains in knowledge about the Late Archaic/Early Agricultural period in the Tucson Basin, understanding of the Middle Archaic period remains slim. This paper reports on volunteer investigations at three buried Archaic sites within the Santa Cruz River floodplain: the Joe Ben Site (AZ BB:13:11), AZ BB:13:70, and an unnumbered locus north of the latter. The AZ BB:13:70 artifact assemblage and the Joe Ben site records suggest small-scal…
Desert Culture Sites Near Mormon Lake, Northern Arizona
Ten preceramic archaeological sites were located and extensively surface collected during July, 1970, as the result of a survey of the proposed realignment of the Flagstaff-Ciints Well Highway. Based on an analysis of projectile point styles, all of the sites appear to date to late preceramic times, although the general area was probably inhabited during both earlier and later periods. The sites are grouped into two functional categories: possibl…
A Fragmentary Clovis Point from Southwestern New Mexico
A large basal fragment of a Clovis point found on the western margin of the Playas Valley is described. Comparisons to Clovis points found in southern Arizona are presented, and the implications of the technological and stylistic similarities are discussed
The Production of Secondary Multiple Flakes
Flakes having superimposed positive and negative bulbs of percussion may be produced in two ways: by being struck from a core from which a primary flake has previously been struck, or by being produced simultaneously with the primary flake. Conditions are defined under which those produced in the latter fashion can occur by natural agency, and thus need not be diagnostic of human industry
A Fragmentary Clovis Point from Southwestern New Mexico
A large basal fragment of a Clovis point found on the western margin of the Playas Valley is described. Comparisons to Clovis points found in southern Arizona are presented, and the implications of the technological and stylistic similarities are discussed
The Gold Gulch Site
The excavation of a small Cochise culture site is discussed and the lithic assemblage from it described. An attempt is made to relate this site to a general system of seasonal resource exploitation
Desert Culture Sites Near Mormon Lake, Northern Arizona
Ten preceramic archaeological sites were located and extensively surface collected during July, 1970, as the result of a survey of the proposed realignment of the Flagstaff-Ciints Well Highway. Based on an analysis of projectile point styles, all of the sites appear to date to late preceramic times, although the general area was probably inhabited during both earlier and later periods. The sites are grouped into two functional categories: possibl…
The Hardt Creek Site
The excavation of a small preceramic site in the Tonto Basin, central Arizona is described. Analysis of the artifacts is presented to support placement of the site in a generalized Cochise culture association and to reconstruct the activities of the occupants of the site
Of Chipped Stone Tools, Elephants, and the Clovis Hunters
The experimental butchering of an elephant using chipped stone tools modeled after implements from Clovis sites is discussed. A description of the stone tools produced and utilized for this work is presented, along with an evaluation of the performance of the tools. Physical and anatomical observations are also reported for the elephant and ralated to hunting and butchering considerations. lmphcat1ons of the results of the experiment are discusse…
The Denver Elephant Project
One aspect of the Denver Elephant Project, the experimental use of thrusting spears, is presented. A recentlydeceased elephant was made available for archaeological experimentation, and as a part of this work the author manufactured and, with the aid of others, employed a series of thrusting spears tipped with Clovis fluted point replicas. It was found that the use of composite thrusting spears permitted penetration of the elephant carcass, but a…
The Paleo-Indian and Archaic Occupation of the Tucson Basin
Evidence for the occupation of the Tucson Basin during the Paleo-Indian and Archaic periods is presented and assessed. There is at present no conclusive evidence for Paleo-Indian utilization of the basin, although Clovis sites and isolated Clovis projectile points are known from areas bordering it. There is also weak evidence suggesting a possible Plainview presence in the area. In addition, it has been proposed that the pre- or nonprojectile poi…
A Protohistoric Piman Burial and a Consideration of Piman Burial Practices
The discovery of a single interment during construction of facilities at the Ina Road Wastewater Treatment Plant, Tucson, Arizona, in 1975 is reported. The associated lithic artifacts are described, and they are interpreted as typical of the protohistoric Sobaipuri. The archaeological rarity of Upper Piman burials led the authors to consult seventeenth through twentieth century documentary sources for comparative data, and the results of this res…
Cortaro Points and the Archaic of Southern Arizona
A new Archaic projectile point style, the Cortaro point, is introduced and described. Its morphology, manufacturing technology and distribution are documented, and it is shown to be a morphologically and technologically consistent point style. Available data indicate that it is limited to southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico. Temporal data for the Cortaro point are presented and suggest that it may be of late Middle or Late Archaic age. C…
Evidence of Late Preceramic Agriculture at Cibecue, East-Central Arizona
A recent test excavation of a late preceramic period site near Cibecue in east-central Arizona has revealed evidence of maize agriculture. This report describes the site, its setting, and the investigative methods. A large sample of lithic artifacts was obtained from surface collection and excavation, including Cienega projectile points and numerous bifaces. Five hearths were uncovered in the test, four of which were excavated. AMS dating of maiz…
The archaic prehistory of the North American Southwest
E.B. “Ted” Sayles, Pioneer Southwestern Archaeologist
(1997). E.B. “Ted” Sayles, Pioneer Southwestern Archaeologist. KIVA: Vol. 63, No. 1, pp. 69-85
Wandering Villagers
A San Dieguito Site on the Lower Gila River, Southwestern Arizona
The 1977 investigation of a small San Dieguito site on the Lower Gila River is described. A review of the San Dieguito complex is presented, followed by a description of three possible cultural features and the flaked lithic artifact assemblage from the site. Attributes of the artifacts suggest that the primary function of the site was raw material procurement and initial reduction. Variation in the degree of development of desert varnish indicat…
U New Mexico for the Record
Clovis Revisited
Folsom Lithic Technology
The Ventana Complex
Radiocarbon dating of charcoal samples and a re-examination of the artifacts from the Volcanic Debris layer in Ventana Cave were conducted in 1992-1994. The goal of this research was to better understand the chronological position and cultural affinities of the Ventana Complex, the name applied to the assemblage recovered from the Volcanic Debris. Ten new Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS)14C ages suggest that the Volcanic Debris accumulated bet…
Journey to the Ice Age
Geoarchaeology of the Boca Negra Wash Area, Albuquerque Basin, New Mexico, USA
Dozens of Paleoindian sites, including the Boca Negra Wash (BNW) Folsom site (LA 124474), are scattered across a basalt plateau (the West Mesa) on the western side of the Albuquerque Basin, and adjacent uplands. The BNW site, like many others in the area, is located near a small ( ̃60 × 90 m) playa basin that formed in a depression on the basalt surface and was subsequently covered by an eolian sand sheet (Unit 1) dated by OSL to ̃23,000 yr B.P. …
"Comment on "Redefining the Age of Clovis
Waters and Stafford (Reports, 23 February 2007, p. 1122) provided useful information about the age of some Clovis sites but have not definitively established the temporal span of this cultural complex in the Americas. Only a continuing program of radiometric dating and careful stratigraphic correlations can address the lingering ambiguity about the emergence and spread of Clovis culture.
Rarámuri Rijibara
Rarámuri men of northern Mexico continue to manufacture stone gaming pieces called rijibara for use in a game called cuatro or rijibara. In 1978, eight of these gaming pieces were manufactured by two Rarámuri men during a visit to the Arizona State Museum. The implements and the resulting debitage were analyzed by the first author as a means of identifying variation resulting from individual differences in knapping technique, skill, or motor habi…
Geoarchaeology of the Mockingbird Gap (Clovis) site, Jornada del Muerto, New Mexico
The Mockingbird Gap site is one of the largest Clovis sites in the western United States, yet it remains poorly known after it was tested in 1966–1968. Surface collecting and mapping of the site revealed a dense accumulation of Clovis lithic debris stretching along Chupadera Draw, which drains into the Jornada del Muerto basin. We conducted archaeological testing and geoarchaeological coring to assess the stratigraphic integrity of the site and g…
The Allen Site
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