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Datos Biográficos
| ID | 34658 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | P L Crown |
| NOMBRES | P L |
| APELLIDO | Crown |
| FIRMA | CROWN P L |
| AFILIACIONES | University of New Mexico |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5084-3693 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 37 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 545 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 36 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1985 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 14 |
The Bonito Paleochannel in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
During the late eleventh century AD, a episode of erosion in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, threatened to destroy portions of the Pueblo Bonito great house and possibly other large buildings. Known as the Bonito Paleochannel, this large arroyo meant the loss of significant amounts of surface water from valley-wide flooding originating in upstream and tributary sources. We believe that erosion was probably the result of an increasing size and frequency…
Ceramic Production in the American Southwest
Ritual Deposition of Avifauna in the Northern Burial Cluster at Pueblo Bonito, Chaco Canyon
Birds play an important role in modern and historic Puebloan ceremonialism, with feathers, wings, stuffed birds, and live birds used for ceremonies, sacrifices, and creation of ritual paraphernalia. Archaeological evidence suggests birds played an ideological and ritual role for some prehispanic Southwestern groups as well. Here, we explore the use of avian remains for ritual purposes at Pueblo Bonito by presenting new evidence from the northern …
The complex history of Pueblo Bonito and its interpretation
Pueblo Bonito in Chaco Canyon is one of the most iconic pre-Hispanic archaeological sites in the U.S. Southwest. Archaeologists refer to it as a great house in recognition of its massive scale, and often describe it as the centre of the Chaco world. Yet questions remain about Pueblo Bonito’s origins, sequence of construction, duration of occupation and abandonment. Here, the authors present new research that helps to clarify the early phases of o…
Drinking Performance and Politics in Pueblo Bonito, Chaco Canyon
Drinking vessels provide information on changes in drinking practices, crafting, exchange patterns, rituals, and the creation of status differences in Chacoan society. They reveal a gradual sequence of change in vessel forms, followed by dramatic intensification of drinking activity in the AD 1000s that provided opportunities for differentiation among Chaco residents, particularly at Pueblo Bonito. Termination of the most iconic drinking vessel f…
Stable Oxygen Isotope Sourcing of Archaeological Fauna From Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
Modern datasets provide the context necessary for accurate interpretations of isotopic data from archaeological faunal assemblages. In this study, we use the oxygen isotope ratios (δ18O) of modern small mammals from Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, to quantify expected isotopic variation in a local population. The δ18O values of local, modern small mammals encompass a broad range (−6.0‰ to 4.8‰ VPDB), which is expected given the extreme seasonal variati…
Just Macaws
Evidence from bones, artifacts, and imagery demonstrates the importance of scarlet macaws in Southwest/Northwest sites from around A.D. 700 to today. Archaeologists interpret these birds as indicators of exchange, ritual, and social complexity. These varied interpretations are questioned based on the life cycle of the macaw and issues with aging archaeological specimens. Ethnographic and documentary data provide comparative material for archaeolo…
Water Management at Pueblo Bonito
Recent archaeological investigations at Pueblo Bonito in Chaco Canyon reveal that residents constructed a large diversion channel during the eleventh century A.D. as dramatic growth resulted in the expansion of the building onto the main valley floor. Sediments in the diversion channel reflect repeated episodes of flooding, rather than slow moving water typically found in irrigation canals, and archaeobotanical data indicate deposition during lat…
Foot Notes
Discussions of polydactyly in the U.S. Southwest describe rock art and skeletal material confirming the presence of six-toed individuals at a variety of sites and in a variety of time periods. A review of Pueblo Bonito collections and archives reveals both skeletal and footprint evidence for six-toed individuals and a large and diverse assemblage of cultural material exhibiting foot-related imagery, including ornaments, sandals, ceramic effigies,…
Micro-Scale Mapping Using Ground-Penetrating
Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) has become a common method for mapping archaeological sites in the American Southwest. A less tested use for this method is to survey architectural spaces within larger pueblos to map features that may relate to the function, use, and abandonment of a specific room. In Chaco Canyon, GPR was used in a room (Room 28) within Pueblo Bonito prior to excavation to determine the presence and depth of buried features. Compa…
The Archaeology of Crafts Learning
Individuals learning to make pottery must master knowledge of materials and a complex production sequence. Intergenerational transmission of knowledge and diffusion of knowledge are basic processes in all human societies. How individuals learn, what they learn, and from whom they learn become aspects of their identity. Theoretical perspectives on learning and historical documents describing learning provide background for archaeologists intereste…
Evidence of cacao use in the Prehispanic American Southwest
Chemical analyses of organic residues in fragments of ceramic vessels from Pueblo Bonito in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, reveal theobromine, a biomarker for cacao. With an estimated 800 rooms, Pueblo Bonito is the largest archaeological site in Chaco Canyon and was the center of a large number of interconnected towns and villages spread over northwestern New Mexico. The cacao residues come from pieces of vessels that are likely cylinder jars, specia…
Life Histories of Pots and Potters
Archaeologists often implicitly assume that individual ceramic objects were the work of a single individual artisan. Ethnographic and archaeological data suggest that this assumption should be questioned. Ceramics from the Greater American Southwest demonstrate that multiple hands contribute to the finished products in two ways. Two artisans may collaborate on vessels in various combinations of task differentiation. Alternatively, some vessels ar…
AAA and Its Sections Recognize Outstanding Scholars
Modifying Pottery and Kivas at Chaco
Patterns of use of ceramic objects and masonry architecture at Chaco Canyon in the southwestern United States indicate refurbishing of some vessels and architectural forms. Ceramic cylinder jars show evidence for obliteration of earlier designs and subsequent repainting and refiring of new designs. Communal structures, or kivas, were dismantled and rebuilt. Three possible explanations for these patterns are explored: revision of errors, restorati…
Learning to Make Pottery in the Prehispanic American Southwest
Recent studies of apprenticeship and learning provide a framework for understanding how the social contexts of learning affect the material outcome of the learning process among potters. Using methods derived from educational psychology to examine prehispanic pottery made and painted by unskilled potters from the American Southwest, it is possible to evaluate cognitive maturity and motor skills. Comparisons of two culture areas indicate differenc…
Learning and Craft Production
Understanding the process by which technological skills are learned provides a means of recognizing the result of manufacturing activities by different segments of a society. It may also provide useful clues to social organization and even the recognition of group interactions. Understanding how the producers of material culture become who they are may help anthropologists understand continuity and change in material culture. Various, sometimes c…
U New Mexico for the Record
Ceramic Production in the American Southwest
Ceramics and Ideology
Ceramic Production in the American Southwest
Gender and Status in the Hohokam Pre-Classic to Classic Transition
Chaco & Hohokam
Synthesizing data and current thought about the regional systems of the Chacoans and the Hohokam, eleven archaeologists examine settlement patterns, subsistence economy, social organization, and trade, shedding new light on two of the most sophisticated cultures of the prehistoric Southwest.
Hohokam Archaeology along the Salt-Gila Aqueduct Central Arizona Project, Volume VII
This is the seventh volume of a nine-volume series reporting archaeological investigations in south-central Arizona along the SaltGila Aqueduct (SGA), conducted for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (USBR) under Contract No. 0-07-32-V0101. The SGA is a 58-mile-Iong component of the Central Arizona Project that begins east of Phoenix and extends to the vicinity of the Picacho Mountains. During the course of the analyses presented in this volume, it b…
Classic Period Hohokam Settlement and Land Use in the Casa Grande Ruins Area, Arizona
Learning and Craft Production
Understanding the process by which technological skills are learned provides a means of recognizing the result of manufacturing activities by different segments of a society. It may also provide useful clues to social organization and even the recognition of group interactions. Understanding how the producers of material culture become who they are may help anthropologists understand continuity and change in material culture. Various, sometimes c…
Life Histories of Pots and Potters
Archaeologists often implicitly assume that individual ceramic objects were the work of a single individual artisan. Ethnographic and archaeological data suggest that this assumption should be questioned. Ceramics from the Greater American Southwest demonstrate that multiple hands contribute to the finished products in two ways. Two artisans may collaborate on vessels in various combinations of task differentiation. Alternatively, some vessels ar…
Ceramics and Ideology
Chaco and Hohokam
Learning to Make Pottery in the Prehispanic American Southwest
Recent studies of apprenticeship and learning provide a framework for understanding how the social contexts of learning affect the material outcome of the learning process among potters. Using methods derived from educational psychology to examine prehispanic pottery made and painted by unskilled potters from the American Southwest, it is possible to evaluate cognitive maturity and motor skills. Comparisons of two culture areas indicate differenc…
Gender and Status in the Hohokam Pre-Classic to Classic Transition
The Archaeology of Crafts Learning
Individuals learning to make pottery must master knowledge of materials and a complex production sequence. Intergenerational transmission of knowledge and diffusion of knowledge are basic processes in all human societies. How individuals learn, what they learn, and from whom they learn become aspects of their identity. Theoretical perspectives on learning and historical documents describing learning provide background for archaeologists intereste…
The Origins of Southwestern Ceramic Containers
In the Greater American Southwest, ceramic containers were not manufactured until A.D. 1, as much as fifteen hundred years after the appearance of the first cultigens and eight hundred years after the appearance of the first ceramic figurines. A model for pottery origins developed by James A. Brown is tested using Southwestern data. Pottery containers were produced in conjunction with increasing sedentism and a greater dependence on cultivated fo…
Classic Period Hohokam Settlement and Land Use in the Casa Grande Ruins Area, Arizona
Surveys and excavations along the Gila River, Arizona, between Florence and Casa Grande provide sufficient information on habitation-site and agricultural-feature location to permit preliminary assessment of land use and settlement patterning during the Hohokam Classic period (A.C. 1150–1400). A diverse subsistence base supported the inhabitants of this area. Irrigation agriculture, dry farming, and floodwater farming were all practiced by occupa…
Modifying Pottery and Kivas at Chaco
Patterns of use of ceramic objects and masonry architecture at Chaco Canyon in the southwestern United States indicate refurbishing of some vessels and architectural forms. Ceramic cylinder jars show evidence for obliteration of earlier designs and subsequent repainting and refiring of new designs. Communal structures, or kivas, were dismantled and rebuilt. Three possible explanations for these patterns are explored: revision of errors, restorati…
Ceramic Production in the American Southwest
Chaco and Hohokam
Evaluating the Construction Sequence and Population of Pot Creek Pueblo, Northern New Mexico
Continuing interest in the process of aggregation in the American Southwest requires accurate reconstruction of population figures for prehistoric pueblos. Since site size (rooms/floor space) often serves as a proxy for population size, evaluation of site growth is crucial for population reconstruction. Problems in dating are discussed with reference to Pot Creek Pueblo in northern New Mexico. The construction sequence is interpreted using 236 tr…
Drinking Performance and Politics in Pueblo Bonito, Chaco Canyon
Drinking vessels provide information on changes in drinking practices, crafting, exchange patterns, rituals, and the creation of status differences in Chacoan society. They reveal a gradual sequence of change in vessel forms, followed by dramatic intensification of drinking activity in the AD 1000s that provided opportunities for differentiation among Chaco residents, particularly at Pueblo Bonito. Termination of the most iconic drinking vessel f…
Water Management at Pueblo Bonito
Recent archaeological investigations at Pueblo Bonito in Chaco Canyon reveal that residents constructed a large diversion channel during the eleventh century A.D. as dramatic growth resulted in the expansion of the building onto the main valley floor. Sediments in the diversion channel reflect repeated episodes of flooding, rather than slow moving water typically found in irrigation canals, and archaeobotanical data indicate deposition during lat…
Water Storage in the Prehistoric Southwest
Prehistoric water storage features occur throughout the Southwest, dating between 6000 B.C. and historic times. A typology for over 150 features provides a means for classifying the basins and assessing the variability in the technology used to access and store water. Excavation is usually necessary for accurate evaluation of feature function. Access to impounded water freed populations from the need to settle near natural water sources and permi…
The complex history of Pueblo Bonito and its interpretation
Pueblo Bonito in Chaco Canyon is one of the most iconic pre-Hispanic archaeological sites in the U.S. Southwest. Archaeologists refer to it as a great house in recognition of its massive scale, and often describe it as the centre of the Chaco world. Yet questions remain about Pueblo Bonito’s origins, sequence of construction, duration of occupation and abandonment. Here, the authors present new research that helps to clarify the early phases of o…
Sensitivity, Precision, and Accuracy
Differences in analytical sensitivity, precision, and accuracy exist among techniques and laboratories involved in the chemical analysis of archaeological ceramics. Large differences in these analytical parameters become significant in the formulation of data bases where comparability of the data is being sought. Small differences become significant when comparing pottery produced from clay resources located within a discrete geological environme…
The Hohokam of the American Southwest
Foot Notes
Discussions of polydactyly in the U.S. Southwest describe rock art and skeletal material confirming the presence of six-toed individuals at a variety of sites and in a variety of time periods. A review of Pueblo Bonito collections and archives reveals both skeletal and footprint evidence for six-toed individuals and a large and diverse assemblage of cultural material exhibiting foot-related imagery, including ornaments, sandals, ceramic effigies,…
Morphology and Function of Hohokam Small Structures
Large numbers of prehistoric Hohokam structures less then 9 m2 in size have been excavated in the Salt-Gila Basin. These small structures occur both in isolated situations and within more substantial sites with large structures. Historic data for groups living in southern Arizona and northern Mexico reveal that small structures were constructed for a variety of uses, primarily for storage or temporary habitation. The function of historic small st…
Stable Oxygen Isotope Sourcing of Archaeological Fauna From Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
Modern datasets provide the context necessary for accurate interpretations of isotopic data from archaeological faunal assemblages. In this study, we use the oxygen isotope ratios (δ18O) of modern small mammals from Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, to quantify expected isotopic variation in a local population. The δ18O values of local, modern small mammals encompass a broad range (−6.0‰ to 4.8‰ VPDB), which is expected given the extreme seasonal variati…
The Architecture of Arroyo Hondo Pueblo, New Mexico
Ritual Deposition of Avifauna in the Northern Burial Cluster at Pueblo Bonito, Chaco Canyon
Birds play an important role in modern and historic Puebloan ceremonialism, with feathers, wings, stuffed birds, and live birds used for ceremonies, sacrifices, and creation of ritual paraphernalia. Archaeological evidence suggests birds played an ideological and ritual role for some prehispanic Southwestern groups as well. Here, we explore the use of avian remains for ritual purposes at Pueblo Bonito by presenting new evidence from the northern …
Classic Period Hohokam Settlement and Land Use in the Casa Grande Ruins Area, Arizona
Morphology and Function of Hohokam Small Structures
Large numbers of prehistoric Hohokam structures less then 9 m2 in size have been excavated in the Salt-Gila Basin. These small structures occur both in isolated situations and within more substantial sites with large structures. Historic data for groups living in southern Arizona and northern Mexico reveal that small structures were constructed for a variety of uses, primarily for storage or temporary habitation. The function of historic small st…
Classic Period Hohokam Settlement and Land Use in the Casa Grande Ruins Area, Arizona
Surveys and excavations along the Gila River, Arizona, between Florence and Casa Grande provide sufficient information on habitation-site and agricultural-feature location to permit preliminary assessment of land use and settlement patterning during the Hohokam Classic period (A.C. 1150–1400). A diverse subsistence base supported the inhabitants of this area. Irrigation agriculture, dry farming, and floodwater farming were all practiced by occupa…
Water Storage in the Prehistoric Southwest
Prehistoric water storage features occur throughout the Southwest, dating between 6000 B.C. and historic times. A typology for over 150 features provides a means for classifying the basins and assessing the variability in the technology used to access and store water. Excavation is usually necessary for accurate evaluation of feature function. Access to impounded water freed populations from the need to settle near natural water sources and permi…
The Hohokam of the American Southwest
Sensitivity, Precision, and Accuracy
Differences in analytical sensitivity, precision, and accuracy exist among techniques and laboratories involved in the chemical analysis of archaeological ceramics. Large differences in these analytical parameters become significant in the formulation of data bases where comparability of the data is being sought. Small differences become significant when comparing pottery produced from clay resources located within a discrete geological environme…
Evaluating the Construction Sequence and Population of Pot Creek Pueblo, Northern New Mexico
Continuing interest in the process of aggregation in the American Southwest requires accurate reconstruction of population figures for prehistoric pueblos. Since site size (rooms/floor space) often serves as a proxy for population size, evaluation of site growth is crucial for population reconstruction. Problems in dating are discussed with reference to Pot Creek Pueblo in northern New Mexico. The construction sequence is interpreted using 236 tr…
This Is Not a Conclusion
Remembrance of Emil W. Haury
Chaco and Hohokam
Chaco and Hohokam
The Architecture of Arroyo Hondo Pueblo, New Mexico
The Origins of Southwestern Ceramic Containers
In the Greater American Southwest, ceramic containers were not manufactured until A.D. 1, as much as fifteen hundred years after the appearance of the first cultigens and eight hundred years after the appearance of the first ceramic figurines. A model for pottery origins developed by James A. Brown is tested using Southwestern data. Pottery containers were produced in conjunction with increasing sedentism and a greater dependence on cultivated fo…
Ceramics and Ideology
Ceramic Production in the American Southwest
Gender and Status in the Hohokam Pre-Classic to Classic Transition
Ceramic Production in the American Southwest
U New Mexico for the Record
Learning to Make Pottery in the Prehispanic American Southwest
Recent studies of apprenticeship and learning provide a framework for understanding how the social contexts of learning affect the material outcome of the learning process among potters. Using methods derived from educational psychology to examine prehispanic pottery made and painted by unskilled potters from the American Southwest, it is possible to evaluate cognitive maturity and motor skills. Comparisons of two culture areas indicate differenc…
Learning and Craft Production
Understanding the process by which technological skills are learned provides a means of recognizing the result of manufacturing activities by different segments of a society. It may also provide useful clues to social organization and even the recognition of group interactions. Understanding how the producers of material culture become who they are may help anthropologists understand continuity and change in material culture. Various, sometimes c…
Modifying Pottery and Kivas at Chaco
Patterns of use of ceramic objects and masonry architecture at Chaco Canyon in the southwestern United States indicate refurbishing of some vessels and architectural forms. Ceramic cylinder jars show evidence for obliteration of earlier designs and subsequent repainting and refiring of new designs. Communal structures, or kivas, were dismantled and rebuilt. Three possible explanations for these patterns are explored: revision of errors, restorati…
AAA and Its Sections Recognize Outstanding Scholars
Life Histories of Pots and Potters
Archaeologists often implicitly assume that individual ceramic objects were the work of a single individual artisan. Ethnographic and archaeological data suggest that this assumption should be questioned. Ceramics from the Greater American Southwest demonstrate that multiple hands contribute to the finished products in two ways. Two artisans may collaborate on vessels in various combinations of task differentiation. Alternatively, some vessels ar…
Evidence of cacao use in the Prehispanic American Southwest
Chemical analyses of organic residues in fragments of ceramic vessels from Pueblo Bonito in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, reveal theobromine, a biomarker for cacao. With an estimated 800 rooms, Pueblo Bonito is the largest archaeological site in Chaco Canyon and was the center of a large number of interconnected towns and villages spread over northwestern New Mexico. The cacao residues come from pieces of vessels that are likely cylinder jars, specia…
The Archaeology of Crafts Learning
Individuals learning to make pottery must master knowledge of materials and a complex production sequence. Intergenerational transmission of knowledge and diffusion of knowledge are basic processes in all human societies. How individuals learn, what they learn, and from whom they learn become aspects of their identity. Theoretical perspectives on learning and historical documents describing learning provide background for archaeologists intereste…
Micro-Scale Mapping Using Ground-Penetrating
Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) has become a common method for mapping archaeological sites in the American Southwest. A less tested use for this method is to survey architectural spaces within larger pueblos to map features that may relate to the function, use, and abandonment of a specific room. In Chaco Canyon, GPR was used in a room (Room 28) within Pueblo Bonito prior to excavation to determine the presence and depth of buried features. Compa…
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