Jeffrey S Dean
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 74296 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Jeffrey S Dean |
| NOMBRES | Jeffrey S |
| APELLIDO | Dean |
| FIRMA | DEAN J S |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Arizona |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 30 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 242 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1970 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
The Pinyon Nut Pickers’ Camp
Navajo pinyon nut pickers’ camps are a textbook example of a limited occupation and special use site. These camps were occupied in the fall or early winter solely to gather the nuts of the Colorado pinyon pine (Pinus edulis). Navajos historically used pinyon nuts as a food source, but during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, these nuts also became an important source of income for Navajo families navigating the new demands of the U.S. …
In MemoriamWilliam J. Robinson 1929–2021
Transporting Timbers to Chaco Canyon
A total of 200,000+ large timbers were transported >75 km to Chaco Canyon, a political and religious center in the precontact U.S. Southwest, using only human power. Previous researchers reported that typical primary roof beams (vigas) of Chacoan Great Houses averaged 0.22 m in diameter and 5 m in length with a mass of 275 kg. However, the 275 kg mass appears to be a miscalculation. Here, we calculate that a ponderosa pine timber of the stated di…
Bridging People, Countries and Continents to Promote DendrochronologyIn MemoriamDieter Eckstein 1939–2021
During his path from student to Director of a world-leading wood research institute he visited numerous places around the world, connected to many fellow colleagues, and educated many students who are now working across the world, with many of them carrying on the "Eckstein spirit".
The Curious Douglas-Fir (Pseudotsuga Menziesii) Trees in Schulman Grove, Mesa Verde National Park, Southwestern Colorado, USA
In 1954, archaeologists James Allen Lancaster and Don Watson and dendrochronologist Edmund Schulman asserted that a small grove of Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii [Mirbel] Franco var. glauca [Beissener] Franco) trees in Navajo Canyon on the west side of Chapin Mesa in Mesa Verde National Park contained evidence of stone-axe-cut tree limbs. In 1965, archaeologists Robert Nichols and David Smith published an article entitled 'Evidence of Prehist…
Convergence of Evidence Supports a Chuska Mountains Origin for the Plaza Tree of Pueblo Bonito, Chaco Canyon
The iconic Plaza Tree of Pueblo Bonito is widely believed to have been a majestic pine standing in the west courtyard of the monumental great house during the peak of the Chaco Phenomenon (AD 850-1140). The ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) log was discovered in 1924, and since then, it has been included in 'birth' and 'life' narratives of Pueblo Bonito, although these ideas have not been rigorously tested. We evaluate three potential growth origi…
Resolving the migrant paradox
Reflections On the Foundation, Persistence, and Growth of the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, Circa 1930–1960
On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, it is appropriate to reflect on the origin of the LTRR and the oft overlooked early period of its history. The period from the “Bridging the gap” event in 1929 to the semi-retirement of A.E. Douglass in 1958 was a crucial time in the development of the LTRR. Although this paper focuses on the history of the LTRR between those events, at points the history of the LTRR…
Chapter 5. Population Growth and Collapse in a Multiagent Model of the Kayenta Anasazi in Long House Valley
Chapter 6. The Evolution of Social Behavior in the Prehistoric American Southwest
Chapter 4. Understanding Anasazi Culture Change Through Agent-Based Modeling
Mesa Verde Settlement History and Relocation
At the beginning of the thirteenth century A.D., the Mesa Verde region was densely inhabited by Ancestral Pueblo peoples. By the end of that century, Ancestral Pueblo peoples no longer permanently inhabited the region. We present detailed reconstructions of precipitation based on tree rings from five geographic subregions of Ancestral Pueblo occupation (Mesa Verde, Tsegi/Kayenta, Chama, Cibola, and Santa Fe) and a consideration of distributions o…
Sr/86Sr sourcing of ponderosa pine used in Anasazi great house construction at Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
Population growth and collapse in a multiagent model of the Kayenta Anasazi in Long House Valley
Long House Valley in the Black Mesa area of northeastern Arizona (U.S.) was inhabited by the Kayenta Anasazi from about 1800 before Christ to about anno Domini 1300. These people were prehistoric ancestors of the modern Pueblo cultures of the Colorado Plateau. Paleoenvironmental research based on alluvial geomorphology, palynology, and dendroclimatology permits accurate quantitative reconstruction of annual fluctuations in potential agricultural …
Strontium isotopes reveal distant sources of architectural timber in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
Between A.D. 900 and 1150, more than 200,000 conifer trees were used to build the prehistoric great houses of Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, in what is now a treeless landscape. More than one-fifth of these timbers were spruce ( Picea ) or fir ( Abies ) that were hand-carried from isolated mountaintops 75–100 km away. Because strontium from local dust, water, and underlying bedrock is incorporated by trees, specific logging sites can be identified by …
Environmental Characteristics of the a.d. 900–1300 Period in the Central Mesa Verde Region
This paper has a threefold purpose. First, it reviews environmental evidence proposed to account for the final migrations from the Northern San Juan region: the Great Drought (A.D. 1276–;1299), the advent of the Little Ice Age (ca. A.D. 1200), and a prolonged period of climatic irregularity that began in the thirteenth century (ca. A.D. 1250–;1450). Second, it characterizes environmental variability for the A.D. 900–;1300 interval. Finally, it su…
Desert Dendrochronology
Archaeological tree-ring dating in the Southwestern deserts has been thwarted by the absence of the conditions necessary for dendrochronological dating: the recovery from prehistoric sites of a sufficiently large number of potentially datable charcoal samples and the existence of local master tree- ring chronologies that extend back into the prehistoric period. Recent archaeological collection and tree-ring chronology building have altered this s…
Donald Alan Graybill 1942-1993
Environmental and Chronological Factors in the Mesa Verde-Northern Rio Grande Migration
Radiocarbon Dating of Buried Trees and Climate Change in West-Central Oklahoma
Eleven radiocarbon dates and tree-ring analyses of 3 juniper logs demonstrate the potential for 14 C analysis of buried logs in the American Midwest. Three junipers ( cf. Juniperus virginiana ) were recovered from 9.20, 10.50, and 10.60 m in the fill of Carnegie Canyon, west-central Oklahoma. Their 14 C ages are calibrated between 3300 and 2800 yr ago. A negative correlation of tree rings and ∆ 14 C ( p = 0.013) supports the findings of Schmidt a…
La 2298
Tree-ring dates from Tapacito Ruin (LA 2298), the earliest securely dated Navajo pueblito, have played a central role in the interpretation of the Gobernador phase of Navajo history. Although previous research provided general parameters for the site occupation, the lack of provenience data for many of the tree-ring specimens left several questions unanswered. Research conducted in 1990 confirms the early occupation of the pueblito and offers sug…
Evaluating Tree-Ring Interpretations at Walpi Pueblo, Arizona
The availability both of documentary data on the history of the Hopi pueblo of Walpi and of tree-ring dates from the village provides a rare opportunity to evaluate tree-ring interpretations in the light of independent chronological evidence. Three major events in the history of the community are reflected in the village's overall tree-ring date distribution: the initial settlement around A.D. 1400 of the site of Koechaptevela, located on the fla…
People of the Mesa
The View From the North
I was asked to evaluate Mogollon from the perspective of the Colorado Plateau. Historically, Mogollon was disengaged from the original Basketmaker-Pueblo paradigm of Southwestern prehistory only with difficulty. In these days of Mogollon Conferences, we tend to forget that many eminent scholars vigorously resisted the concept of Mogollon. Many considered it to be Anasazi either diluted or enriched by contact with the Hohokam. Haury, Martin, and t…
Prehistoric Long-Distance Transport of Construction Beams, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
Identification of spruce (Picea) and fir (Abies) construction timbers at Chetro Ketl in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, implies that between A.D. 1030 and 1120 the Anasazi transported thousands of logs more than 75 km. These timbers came from high elevations, probably in mountains to the south (Mt. Taylor) and west (Chuska Mountains) where Chacoan interaction was well established. Survey in these mountains might disclose material evidence of these preh…
Human Behavior, Demography, and Paleoenvironment on the Colorado Plateaus
Archaeological and paleoenvironmental data are integrated in an investigation of culture change among the Anasazi of the American Southwest by a conceptual model of the interaction among environment, population, and behavior, the major determinants of human adaptive systems. Geological, palynological, and dendrochronological reconstructions of low and high frequency environmental variability coupled with population trends are used to specify peri…
Prehistoric Long-Distance Transport of Construction Beams, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
Identification of spruce (Picea) and fir (Abies) construction timbers at Chetro Ketl in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, implies that between A.D. 1030 and 1120 the Anasazi transported thousands of logs more than 75 km. These timbers came from high elevations, probably in mountains to the south (Mt. Taylor) and west (Chuska Mountains) where Chacoan interaction was well established. Survey in these mountains might disclose material evidence of these preh…
Sr/86Sr sourcing of ponderosa pine used in Anasazi great house construction at Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
Resolving the migrant paradox
Mesa Verde Settlement History and Relocation
At the beginning of the thirteenth century A.D., the Mesa Verde region was densely inhabited by Ancestral Pueblo peoples. By the end of that century, Ancestral Pueblo peoples no longer permanently inhabited the region. We present detailed reconstructions of precipitation based on tree rings from five geographic subregions of Ancestral Pueblo occupation (Mesa Verde, Tsegi/Kayenta, Chama, Cibola, and Santa Fe) and a consideration of distributions o…
Environmental Characteristics of the a.d. 900–1300 Period in the Central Mesa Verde Region
This paper has a threefold purpose. First, it reviews environmental evidence proposed to account for the final migrations from the Northern San Juan region: the Great Drought (A.D. 1276–;1299), the advent of the Little Ice Age (ca. A.D. 1200), and a prolonged period of climatic irregularity that began in the thirteenth century (ca. A.D. 1250–;1450). Second, it characterizes environmental variability for the A.D. 900–;1300 interval. Finally, it su…
Evaluating Tree-Ring Interpretations at Walpi Pueblo, Arizona
The availability both of documentary data on the history of the Hopi pueblo of Walpi and of tree-ring dates from the village provides a rare opportunity to evaluate tree-ring interpretations in the light of independent chronological evidence. Three major events in the history of the community are reflected in the village's overall tree-ring date distribution: the initial settlement around A.D. 1400 of the site of Koechaptevela, located on the fla…
Chronological Analysis of Tsegi Phase Sites in Northeastern Arizona
La 2298
Tree-ring dates from Tapacito Ruin (LA 2298), the earliest securely dated Navajo pueblito, have played a central role in the interpretation of the Gobernador phase of Navajo history. Although previous research provided general parameters for the site occupation, the lack of provenience data for many of the tree-ring specimens left several questions unanswered. Research conducted in 1990 confirms the early occupation of the pueblito and offers sug…
The Sheep and Goat Corral
The recent growth of interest in Navajo archaeology suffers from the lack of an analytical foundation comparable to that which structures research on the prehistoric populations of the Southwest. Observations on the data potential of the ubiquitous sheep and goat corral are offered as a contribution to the effort to develop such a basis for Navajo archaeology. These corrals provide information on site function, site chronology, duration of site u…
People of the Mesa
Convergence of Evidence Supports a Chuska Mountains Origin for the Plaza Tree of Pueblo Bonito, Chaco Canyon
The iconic Plaza Tree of Pueblo Bonito is widely believed to have been a majestic pine standing in the west courtyard of the monumental great house during the peak of the Chaco Phenomenon (AD 850-1140). The ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) log was discovered in 1924, and since then, it has been included in 'birth' and 'life' narratives of Pueblo Bonito, although these ideas have not been rigorously tested. We evaluate three potential growth origi…
Transporting Timbers to Chaco Canyon
A total of 200,000+ large timbers were transported >75 km to Chaco Canyon, a political and religious center in the precontact U.S. Southwest, using only human power. Previous researchers reported that typical primary roof beams (vigas) of Chacoan Great Houses averaged 0.22 m in diameter and 5 m in length with a mass of 275 kg. However, the 275 kg mass appears to be a miscalculation. Here, we calculate that a ponderosa pine timber of the stated di…
Desert Dendrochronology
Archaeological tree-ring dating in the Southwestern deserts has been thwarted by the absence of the conditions necessary for dendrochronological dating: the recovery from prehistoric sites of a sufficiently large number of potentially datable charcoal samples and the existence of local master tree- ring chronologies that extend back into the prehistoric period. Recent archaeological collection and tree-ring chronology building have altered this s…
The View From the North
I was asked to evaluate Mogollon from the perspective of the Colorado Plateau. Historically, Mogollon was disengaged from the original Basketmaker-Pueblo paradigm of Southwestern prehistory only with difficulty. In these days of Mogollon Conferences, we tend to forget that many eminent scholars vigorously resisted the concept of Mogollon. Many considered it to be Anasazi either diluted or enriched by contact with the Hohokam. Haury, Martin, and t…
Chronological Analysis of Tsegi Phase Sites in Northeastern Arizona
Independent Dating in Archaeological Analysis
The Colorado Plateaus: Cultural Dynamics and Paleoenvironment
Convergent archeological, geological, palynological, dendrochronological, and radiometric data provide a paleoenvironmental record for the American Southwest at a level of detail and time resolution not previously achieved. Many prehistoric cultural and demographic changes on the Colorado Plateaus coincided with environmental fluctuations defined by precisely dated geoclimatic and bioclimatic indicators. These coincidences support the interpretat…
The Sheep and Goat Corral
The recent growth of interest in Navajo archaeology suffers from the lack of an analytical foundation comparable to that which structures research on the prehistoric populations of the Southwest. Observations on the data potential of the ubiquitous sheep and goat corral are offered as a contribution to the effort to develop such a basis for Navajo archaeology. These corrals provide information on site function, site chronology, duration of site u…
Human Behavior, Demography, and Paleoenvironment on the Colorado Plateaus
Archaeological and paleoenvironmental data are integrated in an investigation of culture change among the Anasazi of the American Southwest by a conceptual model of the interaction among environment, population, and behavior, the major determinants of human adaptive systems. Geological, palynological, and dendrochronological reconstructions of low and high frequency environmental variability coupled with population trends are used to specify peri…
Prehistoric Long-Distance Transport of Construction Beams, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
Identification of spruce (Picea) and fir (Abies) construction timbers at Chetro Ketl in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, implies that between A.D. 1030 and 1120 the Anasazi transported thousands of logs more than 75 km. These timbers came from high elevations, probably in mountains to the south (Mt. Taylor) and west (Chuska Mountains) where Chacoan interaction was well established. Survey in these mountains might disclose material evidence of these preh…
The View From the North
I was asked to evaluate Mogollon from the perspective of the Colorado Plateau. Historically, Mogollon was disengaged from the original Basketmaker-Pueblo paradigm of Southwestern prehistory only with difficulty. In these days of Mogollon Conferences, we tend to forget that many eminent scholars vigorously resisted the concept of Mogollon. Many considered it to be Anasazi either diluted or enriched by contact with the Hohokam. Haury, Martin, and t…
People of the Mesa
Evaluating Tree-Ring Interpretations at Walpi Pueblo, Arizona
The availability both of documentary data on the history of the Hopi pueblo of Walpi and of tree-ring dates from the village provides a rare opportunity to evaluate tree-ring interpretations in the light of independent chronological evidence. Three major events in the history of the community are reflected in the village's overall tree-ring date distribution: the initial settlement around A.D. 1400 of the site of Koechaptevela, located on the fla…
La 2298
Tree-ring dates from Tapacito Ruin (LA 2298), the earliest securely dated Navajo pueblito, have played a central role in the interpretation of the Gobernador phase of Navajo history. Although previous research provided general parameters for the site occupation, the lack of provenience data for many of the tree-ring specimens left several questions unanswered. Research conducted in 1990 confirms the early occupation of the pueblito and offers sug…
Environmental and Chronological Factors in the Mesa Verde-Northern Rio Grande Migration
Radiocarbon Dating of Buried Trees and Climate Change in West-Central Oklahoma
Eleven radiocarbon dates and tree-ring analyses of 3 juniper logs demonstrate the potential for 14 C analysis of buried logs in the American Midwest. Three junipers ( cf. Juniperus virginiana ) were recovered from 9.20, 10.50, and 10.60 m in the fill of Carnegie Canyon, west-central Oklahoma. Their 14 C ages are calibrated between 3300 and 2800 yr ago. A negative correlation of tree rings and ∆ 14 C ( p = 0.013) supports the findings of Schmidt a…
Desert Dendrochronology
Archaeological tree-ring dating in the Southwestern deserts has been thwarted by the absence of the conditions necessary for dendrochronological dating: the recovery from prehistoric sites of a sufficiently large number of potentially datable charcoal samples and the existence of local master tree- ring chronologies that extend back into the prehistoric period. Recent archaeological collection and tree-ring chronology building have altered this s…
Donald Alan Graybill 1942-1993
Environmental Characteristics of the a.d. 900–1300 Period in the Central Mesa Verde Region
This paper has a threefold purpose. First, it reviews environmental evidence proposed to account for the final migrations from the Northern San Juan region: the Great Drought (A.D. 1276–;1299), the advent of the Little Ice Age (ca. A.D. 1200), and a prolonged period of climatic irregularity that began in the thirteenth century (ca. A.D. 1250–;1450). Second, it characterizes environmental variability for the A.D. 900–;1300 interval. Finally, it su…
Strontium isotopes reveal distant sources of architectural timber in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
Between A.D. 900 and 1150, more than 200,000 conifer trees were used to build the prehistoric great houses of Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, in what is now a treeless landscape. More than one-fifth of these timbers were spruce ( Picea ) or fir ( Abies ) that were hand-carried from isolated mountaintops 75–100 km away. Because strontium from local dust, water, and underlying bedrock is incorporated by trees, specific logging sites can be identified by …
Population growth and collapse in a multiagent model of the Kayenta Anasazi in Long House Valley
Long House Valley in the Black Mesa area of northeastern Arizona (U.S.) was inhabited by the Kayenta Anasazi from about 1800 before Christ to about anno Domini 1300. These people were prehistoric ancestors of the modern Pueblo cultures of the Colorado Plateau. Paleoenvironmental research based on alluvial geomorphology, palynology, and dendroclimatology permits accurate quantitative reconstruction of annual fluctuations in potential agricultural …
Sr/86Sr sourcing of ponderosa pine used in Anasazi great house construction at Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
Mesa Verde Settlement History and Relocation
At the beginning of the thirteenth century A.D., the Mesa Verde region was densely inhabited by Ancestral Pueblo peoples. By the end of that century, Ancestral Pueblo peoples no longer permanently inhabited the region. We present detailed reconstructions of precipitation based on tree rings from five geographic subregions of Ancestral Pueblo occupation (Mesa Verde, Tsegi/Kayenta, Chama, Cibola, and Santa Fe) and a consideration of distributions o…
Reflections On the Foundation, Persistence, and Growth of the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, Circa 1930–1960
On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, it is appropriate to reflect on the origin of the LTRR and the oft overlooked early period of its history. The period from the “Bridging the gap” event in 1929 to the semi-retirement of A.E. Douglass in 1958 was a crucial time in the development of the LTRR. Although this paper focuses on the history of the LTRR between those events, at points the history of the LTRR…
Chapter 5. Population Growth and Collapse in a Multiagent Model of the Kayenta Anasazi in Long House Valley
Chapter 6. The Evolution of Social Behavior in the Prehistoric American Southwest
Chapter 4. Understanding Anasazi Culture Change Through Agent-Based Modeling
Resolving the migrant paradox
Convergence of Evidence Supports a Chuska Mountains Origin for the Plaza Tree of Pueblo Bonito, Chaco Canyon
The iconic Plaza Tree of Pueblo Bonito is widely believed to have been a majestic pine standing in the west courtyard of the monumental great house during the peak of the Chaco Phenomenon (AD 850-1140). The ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) log was discovered in 1924, and since then, it has been included in 'birth' and 'life' narratives of Pueblo Bonito, although these ideas have not been rigorously tested. We evaluate three potential growth origi…
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