Todd L Howell
Biographic Data
| ID | 125085 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Todd L Howell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Todd L |
| FAMILY NAME | Howell |
| SIGNATURE | HOWELL T L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Arizona State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 63 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
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…
Determining Gender and Kinship at Hawikku
Corruccini questions our identification of kin group-based cemeteries and our inference of an ascriptive component of leadership at Hawikku based on the presumed use of flawed sex determinations, statistical problems, and inattention to potential gender-based differences in morphological similarity. We address each of these topics and present new evidence to support our contention that cemeteries at Hawikku were kin based
Post-Chacoan Social Integration at the Hinkson Site, New Mexico
The century following the collapse of Chaco is often viewed as a time of cultural backsliding. However, imposing sites with Chaco-inspired public architecture provide evidence of large communities, dating between A.D. 1200 and 1275, that laid the organizational foundations of well-known Pueblo IV towns. This article reports on excavations at one such Zuni-area settlement, the Hinkson site. In this site, 32 residential room blocks surround a great…
Identifying Leaders at Hawikku
Using a method for identifying leaders from mortuary data, I examine the nature of leadership at Hawikku, an ancestral Zuni village. Several types of gender-specific leadership roles are identified and a functional interpretation is offered for each. A demographic reconstruction is used, along with expectations of the number of leaders expected from two ideal decision-making models (centralized and representative council), to argue that Hawikku p…
Archaeological Identification of Kin Groups Using Mortuary and Biological Data
Despite the central role that kinship plays in key anthropological arguments, recent archaeological efforts to detect kinship have been notably scarce. Here, age and sex distributions and dental morphology traits that reflect genetic affinity are used to argue that specific kin groups were buried in formal, spatially discrete cemeteries in the ancestral Zuni settlement of Hawikku. The inferred kin groups are then used to investigate Hawikku polit…
Tracking Zuni Gender and Leadership Roles across the Contact Period
Mortuary data from the ancestral Zuni village of Hawikku, which spans both the prehistoric and historic periods, are used to examine temporal changes in gender-specific leadership positions. A cross-cultural model linking changes in gender roles to contact with Spanish and Athapaskan groups is presented and tested with the Hawikku data. The contact model suggests that European influences often undermine traditional female authority; Spanish and A…
Evaluating the Utility of Auger Testing as a Predictor of Subsurface Artifact Density
This article presents an assessment of the effectiveness of manual auger testing as a tool to predict subsurface artifact density. Sherd counts obtained from auger tests are compared with 1m × 1m test excavations of the same grid square. At several residential locations in the Mexican state of Veracruz, the correlation between auger sherd counts and excavation sherd counts is unexpectedly low. Several potential factors are explored and analyses i…
Archaeological Identification of Kin Groups Using Mortuary and Biological Data
Despite the central role that kinship plays in key anthropological arguments, recent archaeological efforts to detect kinship have been notably scarce. Here, age and sex distributions and dental morphology traits that reflect genetic affinity are used to argue that specific kin groups were buried in formal, spatially discrete cemeteries in the ancestral Zuni settlement of Hawikku. The inferred kin groups are then used to investigate Hawikku polit…
Post-Chacoan Social Integration at the Hinkson Site, New Mexico
The century following the collapse of Chaco is often viewed as a time of cultural backsliding. However, imposing sites with Chaco-inspired public architecture provide evidence of large communities, dating between A.D. 1200 and 1275, that laid the organizational foundations of well-known Pueblo IV towns. This article reports on excavations at one such Zuni-area settlement, the Hinkson site. In this site, 32 residential room blocks surround a great…
Tracking Zuni Gender and Leadership Roles across the Contact Period
Mortuary data from the ancestral Zuni village of Hawikku, which spans both the prehistoric and historic periods, are used to examine temporal changes in gender-specific leadership positions. A cross-cultural model linking changes in gender roles to contact with Spanish and Athapaskan groups is presented and tested with the Hawikku data. The contact model suggests that European influences often undermine traditional female authority; Spanish and A…
Identifying Leaders at Hawikku
Using a method for identifying leaders from mortuary data, I examine the nature of leadership at Hawikku, an ancestral Zuni village. Several types of gender-specific leadership roles are identified and a functional interpretation is offered for each. A demographic reconstruction is used, along with expectations of the number of leaders expected from two ideal decision-making models (centralized and representative council), to argue that Hawikku p…
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…
Evaluating the Utility of Auger Testing as a Predictor of Subsurface Artifact Density
This article presents an assessment of the effectiveness of manual auger testing as a tool to predict subsurface artifact density. Sherd counts obtained from auger tests are compared with 1m × 1m test excavations of the same grid square. At several residential locations in the Mexican state of Veracruz, the correlation between auger sherd counts and excavation sherd counts is unexpectedly low. Several potential factors are explored and analyses i…
Determining Gender and Kinship at Hawikku
Corruccini questions our identification of kin group-based cemeteries and our inference of an ascriptive component of leadership at Hawikku based on the presumed use of flawed sex determinations, statistical problems, and inattention to potential gender-based differences in morphological similarity. We address each of these topics and present new evidence to support our contention that cemeteries at Hawikku were kin based
Evaluating the Utility of Auger Testing as a Predictor of Subsurface Artifact Density
This article presents an assessment of the effectiveness of manual auger testing as a tool to predict subsurface artifact density. Sherd counts obtained from auger tests are compared with 1m × 1m test excavations of the same grid square. At several residential locations in the Mexican state of Veracruz, the correlation between auger sherd counts and excavation sherd counts is unexpectedly low. Several potential factors are explored and analyses i…
Tracking Zuni Gender and Leadership Roles across the Contact Period
Mortuary data from the ancestral Zuni village of Hawikku, which spans both the prehistoric and historic periods, are used to examine temporal changes in gender-specific leadership positions. A cross-cultural model linking changes in gender roles to contact with Spanish and Athapaskan groups is presented and tested with the Hawikku data. The contact model suggests that European influences often undermine traditional female authority; Spanish and A…
Post-Chacoan Social Integration at the Hinkson Site, New Mexico
The century following the collapse of Chaco is often viewed as a time of cultural backsliding. However, imposing sites with Chaco-inspired public architecture provide evidence of large communities, dating between A.D. 1200 and 1275, that laid the organizational foundations of well-known Pueblo IV towns. This article reports on excavations at one such Zuni-area settlement, the Hinkson site. In this site, 32 residential room blocks surround a great…
Identifying Leaders at Hawikku
Using a method for identifying leaders from mortuary data, I examine the nature of leadership at Hawikku, an ancestral Zuni village. Several types of gender-specific leadership roles are identified and a functional interpretation is offered for each. A demographic reconstruction is used, along with expectations of the number of leaders expected from two ideal decision-making models (centralized and representative council), to argue that Hawikku p…
Archaeological Identification of Kin Groups Using Mortuary and Biological Data
Despite the central role that kinship plays in key anthropological arguments, recent archaeological efforts to detect kinship have been notably scarce. Here, age and sex distributions and dental morphology traits that reflect genetic affinity are used to argue that specific kin groups were buried in formal, spatially discrete cemeteries in the ancestral Zuni settlement of Hawikku. The inferred kin groups are then used to investigate Hawikku polit…
Determining Gender and Kinship at Hawikku
Corruccini questions our identification of kin group-based cemeteries and our inference of an ascriptive component of leadership at Hawikku based on the presumed use of flawed sex determinations, statistical problems, and inattention to potential gender-based differences in morphological similarity. We address each of these topics and present new evidence to support our contention that cemeteries at Hawikku were kin based
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…
Archaeology (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (4 works) · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Excavation (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works)