Darrell G Creel
Biographic Data
| ID | 207399 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Darrell G Creel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Darrell G |
| FAMILY NAME | Creel |
| SIGNATURE | CREEL D G |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Austin |
| ORCID | 0009-0008-7275-4449 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 249 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
A Changing Social Landscape
Dating Perishables to Refine the Chronology of Shrine Cave Use, the Goggle-eye Motif, and other Jornada and Mimbres Mogollon Iconography
Professional and avocational archaeologists have recovered thousands of perishable artifacts from caves and rockshelters across the southern US Southwest, but few have been radiocarbon dated. This article reviews thirty AMS radiocarbon dates obtained on perishable items from nine shrine caves in the Jornada and Mimbres Mogollon regions of south-central New Mexico and west Texas. Dates were obtained from fragments of tablitas, effigies, prayer sti…
Chihuahuan Desert Shrine Caves
This article presents radiocarbon dates on 29 perishable objects deposited in shrine caves in the Jornada and Mimbres Mogollon regions of far west Texas and southern New Mexico. The dated objects include tablita fragments, effigies, prayer sticks, hafted projectile point foreshafts, and flat curved sticks. Analysis of the dates reveals three significant trends: a particular set of Indigenous ritual practices involving shrine caves in the North Am…
Movement of Pots (and People) Across the Landscape
Lori Barkwill Lovea* , Jeffrey R. Fergusonb & Darrell Creelca Department of Anthropology, University of Texas at San Antonio, TX, USAb Department of Anthropology and MURR Archaeometry Laboratory, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USAc Department of Anthropology, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA
Re-evaluating the Mimbres Region Prehispanic Chronometric Record
Many decades of archaeological research in the Mimbres region have resulted in hundreds of chronometric dates obtained from contexts dating prior to A.D. 1450, but until now these data have not been compiled into a single database. Using dendrochronological, radiocarbon, and archaeomagnetic dates, we analyze each of the chronometric data sets to identify patterns and biases that help us better understand the tempo and duration of fundamental tran…
Mimbres Great Kivas and Plazas During the Three Circle Phase, ca. AD 850–1000
Most Mimbres villages had a great kiva that opened onto and was accessed through a plaza area during the Three Circle phase. In the few cases where these plazas have been excavated, secondary cremations and related artifact caches were present in some quantity. Use of plazas for interment of cremated individuals continued into the Mimbres Classic period, although great kivas were no longer built and used. The plazas remained in use, still surroun…
Ritual Construction, Use and Retirement of Mimbres Three Circle Phase Great Kivas
Three Circle phase great kivas in the Mimbres area of southwest New Mexico have been the subject of new field investigations and reanalysis of data from earlier excavations. The findings have led to an enhanced and more detailed understanding of physical changes in these special buildings during the Three Circle phase, particularly with regard to dating and ritual behaviors associated with construction, use, and formal retirement
Volume Introduction
Response to Perttula
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Biological Relationships between Foragers and Farmers of South-Central North America
Studies of relationships between archeology and biology in the south-central North America can enhance interpretations of social interactions between foraging and farming groups. The present report analyzes the adult dentition of hunter-gatherer populations from what is now Texas and compares them with adjacent samples of agriculturalists. These agriculturallist samples represent the Southwestern (Mimbres-Mogollon) and Southeastern (Caddo) cultur…
Sourcing ceramics with portable XRF spectrometers? A comparison with Inaa using Mimbres pottery from the American Southwest
National Register Testing at 41BQ285, Bosque County, Texas
Prewitt and Associates, Inc., conducted archeological test excavations at 41BQ285 in June 2006 for the Texas Department of Transportation under Texas Antiquities Permit No. 4102. Site 41BQ285, in southeastern Bosque County, was located during an archeological survey for the proposed replacement of the FM 56 bridge over the North Bosque River. It is a prehistoric campsite buried in a cumulic soil in the upper deposits of a late Holocene alluvial t…
Scale and Time-Space Systematics in the Post-A.D. 1100 Mimbres Region of the North American Southwest
Time-space systematics for the end of the Classic Mimbres period and subsequent developments in southwest New Mexico are outlined, and the variable spatial scale of these processes is emphasized. The regional unity of the Late Pithouse and Classic periods began to break down around a.d. 1130, a time when disparate developments characterize different portions of the region. The Terminal Classic (ca. a.d. 1130 and later) represents the first steps …
Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis of Pottery from the George C. Davis (41Ce19) Site, Texas
The George C. Davis Site (41CE19) in central East Texas holds a prominent position in American archaeology. Fifty prehistoric ceramic specimens from early Caddoan contexts (A.D. 800–1200) were analyzed by instrumental neutron activation analysis (INAA) at the Missouri University of Missouri Research Reactor Center (MURR). The chemical compositions of the Davis ceramics were compared with previously identified Caddoan ceramic compositional groups.…
New Interpretations of Mimbres Public Architecture and Space
Recent excavations and reanalysis of existing data on communal pit structures provide intriguing insights into ritual and cultural developments over a period of about 350 years, from A.D. 800 to 1140, in the Mimbres Valley of southwestern New Mexico. In the middle of this period, people shifted dwellings from pithouses to pueblos, a shift previously viewed as the pivotal transformation of Mimbres society. In this paper we show that significant ch…
Scale and Time-Space Systematics in the Post-A.D. 1100 Mimbres Region of the North American Southwest
Time-space systematics for the end of the Classic Mimbres period and subsequent developments in southwest New Mexico are outlined, and the variable spatial scale of these processes is emphasized. The regional unity of the Late Pithouse and Classic periods began to break down around A.D. 1130, a time when disparate developments characterize different portions of the region. The Terminal Classic (ca. A.D. 1130 and later) represents the first steps …
Caddo Conference
Prehistoric Macaws and Parrots in the Mimbres Area, New Mexico
Macaws and parrots were important birds in prehistoric Mimbres-area communities by A.D. 1000. Scarlet macaws (Ara macao) apparently were imported into the area from the tropical lowlands in Mexico, but one other species each of macaw (Ara militaris) and parrot (Rhynchopsitta pachyrhyncha) probably could have been obtained from much closer natural ranges. Macaws in particular evidently were of special, perhaps ceremonial, importance as indicated b…
Bison Hides in Late Prehistoric Exchange in the Southern Plains
Widespread exchange networks operative in the early historic period in the southern Plains and adjacent areas were documented by early Spanish explorers. Among the more important trade items they noted were bison hides, including robes. It is suggested here that the occurrence of beveled knives and endscrapers in assemblages dating after about A.D. 1300 reflects the importance of bison hides in late prehistoric exchange. Both of these chippedston…
A Faunal Record From West Central Texas and its Bearing on Late Holocene Bison Population Changes in the Southern Plains
A faunal record from archaeological site 4JTG91, Tom Green County, Texas, contains good evidence for late Holocen bison population changes in the west central portion of the state. The prehistoric faunal remains occur in stratified overbank flood deposits along the South Concho River and date from ca 600 B. C. to A.D. 1650-1700. Bison bone occurs in all deposits except those dating approximately A.D. 900-1300
A Primary Cremation at the NAN Ranch Ruin, with Comparative Data on Other Cremations in the Mimbres Area, New Mexico
In 1980 a primary cremation was excavated at the NAN Ranch Ruin in Grant County, New Mexico. This cremation has been dated to the Three Circle Phase (A.C. 750–1000) of the Late Pithouse Period (A.C. 550–1000) on the basis of both stratigraphy and archaeomagnetic dating. Cremation was a rare form of mortuary treatment at the NAN Ranch Ruin and was equally rare in a review of other Three Circle Phase and Classic Period (A.C. 1000–1150) sites in the…
Anthropomorphic Rock Art Figures in the Middle Mimbres Valley New Mexico
Anthropomorphic rock art figures occur frequently at rock art sites in the middle Mimbres River Valley of New Mexico. During survey in 1987, 23 sites with rock art were recorded, 11 of which have anthropomorphic figures. Most of these figures can be attributed to the Jornada Style, dated at roughly A.D. 1000–1400. Thes figures range from full-body images to masks. The so-called Tlaloc figures have no counterpart representation on Mimbres Classic …
Radiocarbon Dating of Corn
Nine samples from well-dated prehistoric sites in the southwestern United States have been radiocarbon dated in order to determine the accuracy of14C dates on corn. The results indicate that a normalized and calibrated14C date on corn is as accurate an estimate of the sample's age as is a14C date for any other material. This accuracy has implications not only for future selection of14C samples but also for interpretation of existing dates on corn…
Sourcing ceramics with portable XRF spectrometers? A comparison with Inaa using Mimbres pottery from the American Southwest
New Interpretations of Mimbres Public Architecture and Space
Recent excavations and reanalysis of existing data on communal pit structures provide intriguing insights into ritual and cultural developments over a period of about 350 years, from A.D. 800 to 1140, in the Mimbres Valley of southwestern New Mexico. In the middle of this period, people shifted dwellings from pithouses to pueblos, a shift previously viewed as the pivotal transformation of Mimbres society. In this paper we show that significant ch…
Prehistoric Macaws and Parrots in the Mimbres Area, New Mexico
Macaws and parrots were important birds in prehistoric Mimbres-area communities by A.D. 1000. Scarlet macaws (Ara macao) apparently were imported into the area from the tropical lowlands in Mexico, but one other species each of macaw (Ara militaris) and parrot (Rhynchopsitta pachyrhyncha) probably could have been obtained from much closer natural ranges. Macaws in particular evidently were of special, perhaps ceremonial, importance as indicated b…
Bison Hides in Late Prehistoric Exchange in the Southern Plains
Widespread exchange networks operative in the early historic period in the southern Plains and adjacent areas were documented by early Spanish explorers. Among the more important trade items they noted were bison hides, including robes. It is suggested here that the occurrence of beveled knives and endscrapers in assemblages dating after about A.D. 1300 reflects the importance of bison hides in late prehistoric exchange. Both of these chippedston…
Re-evaluating the Mimbres Region Prehispanic Chronometric Record
Many decades of archaeological research in the Mimbres region have resulted in hundreds of chronometric dates obtained from contexts dating prior to A.D. 1450, but until now these data have not been compiled into a single database. Using dendrochronological, radiocarbon, and archaeomagnetic dates, we analyze each of the chronometric data sets to identify patterns and biases that help us better understand the tempo and duration of fundamental tran…
A Primary Cremation at the NAN Ranch Ruin, with Comparative Data on Other Cremations in the Mimbres Area, New Mexico
In 1980 a primary cremation was excavated at the NAN Ranch Ruin in Grant County, New Mexico. This cremation has been dated to the Three Circle Phase (A.C. 750–1000) of the Late Pithouse Period (A.C. 550–1000) on the basis of both stratigraphy and archaeomagnetic dating. Cremation was a rare form of mortuary treatment at the NAN Ranch Ruin and was equally rare in a review of other Three Circle Phase and Classic Period (A.C. 1000–1150) sites in the…
Scale and Time-Space Systematics in the Post-A.D. 1100 Mimbres Region of the North American Southwest
Time-space systematics for the end of the Classic Mimbres period and subsequent developments in southwest New Mexico are outlined, and the variable spatial scale of these processes is emphasized. The regional unity of the Late Pithouse and Classic periods began to break down around A.D. 1130, a time when disparate developments characterize different portions of the region. The Terminal Classic (ca. A.D. 1130 and later) represents the first steps …
Radiocarbon Dating of Corn
Nine samples from well-dated prehistoric sites in the southwestern United States have been radiocarbon dated in order to determine the accuracy of14C dates on corn. The results indicate that a normalized and calibrated14C date on corn is as accurate an estimate of the sample's age as is a14C date for any other material. This accuracy has implications not only for future selection of14C samples but also for interpretation of existing dates on corn…
Scale and Time-Space Systematics in the Post-A.D. 1100 Mimbres Region of the North American Southwest
Time-space systematics for the end of the Classic Mimbres period and subsequent developments in southwest New Mexico are outlined, and the variable spatial scale of these processes is emphasized. The regional unity of the Late Pithouse and Classic periods began to break down around a.d. 1130, a time when disparate developments characterize different portions of the region. The Terminal Classic (ca. a.d. 1130 and later) represents the first steps …
Mimbres Great Kivas and Plazas During the Three Circle Phase, ca. AD 850–1000
Most Mimbres villages had a great kiva that opened onto and was accessed through a plaza area during the Three Circle phase. In the few cases where these plazas have been excavated, secondary cremations and related artifact caches were present in some quantity. Use of plazas for interment of cremated individuals continued into the Mimbres Classic period, although great kivas were no longer built and used. The plazas remained in use, still surroun…
Ritual Construction, Use and Retirement of Mimbres Three Circle Phase Great Kivas
Three Circle phase great kivas in the Mimbres area of southwest New Mexico have been the subject of new field investigations and reanalysis of data from earlier excavations. The findings have led to an enhanced and more detailed understanding of physical changes in these special buildings during the Three Circle phase, particularly with regard to dating and ritual behaviors associated with construction, use, and formal retirement
A Faunal Record From West Central Texas and its Bearing on Late Holocene Bison Population Changes in the Southern Plains
A faunal record from archaeological site 4JTG91, Tom Green County, Texas, contains good evidence for late Holocen bison population changes in the west central portion of the state. The prehistoric faunal remains occur in stratified overbank flood deposits along the South Concho River and date from ca 600 B. C. to A.D. 1650-1700. Bison bone occurs in all deposits except those dating approximately A.D. 900-1300
Anthropomorphic Rock Art Figures in the Middle Mimbres Valley New Mexico
Anthropomorphic rock art figures occur frequently at rock art sites in the middle Mimbres River Valley of New Mexico. During survey in 1987, 23 sites with rock art were recorded, 11 of which have anthropomorphic figures. Most of these figures can be attributed to the Jornada Style, dated at roughly A.D. 1000–1400. Thes figures range from full-body images to masks. The so-called Tlaloc figures have no counterpart representation on Mimbres Classic …
Chihuahuan Desert Shrine Caves
This article presents radiocarbon dates on 29 perishable objects deposited in shrine caves in the Jornada and Mimbres Mogollon regions of far west Texas and southern New Mexico. The dated objects include tablita fragments, effigies, prayer sticks, hafted projectile point foreshafts, and flat curved sticks. Analysis of the dates reveals three significant trends: a particular set of Indigenous ritual practices involving shrine caves in the North Am…
Dating Perishables to Refine the Chronology of Shrine Cave Use, the Goggle-eye Motif, and other Jornada and Mimbres Mogollon Iconography
Professional and avocational archaeologists have recovered thousands of perishable artifacts from caves and rockshelters across the southern US Southwest, but few have been radiocarbon dated. This article reviews thirty AMS radiocarbon dates obtained on perishable items from nine shrine caves in the Jornada and Mimbres Mogollon regions of south-central New Mexico and west Texas. Dates were obtained from fragments of tablitas, effigies, prayer sti…
Movement of Pots (and People) Across the Landscape
Lori Barkwill Lovea* , Jeffrey R. Fergusonb & Darrell Creelca Department of Anthropology, University of Texas at San Antonio, TX, USAb Department of Anthropology and MURR Archaeometry Laboratory, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USAc Department of Anthropology, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA
Volume Introduction
Biological Relationships between Foragers and Farmers of South-Central North America
Studies of relationships between archeology and biology in the south-central North America can enhance interpretations of social interactions between foraging and farming groups. The present report analyzes the adult dentition of hunter-gatherer populations from what is now Texas and compares them with adjacent samples of agriculturalists. These agriculturallist samples represent the Southwestern (Mimbres-Mogollon) and Southeastern (Caddo) cultur…
Radiocarbon Dating of Corn
Nine samples from well-dated prehistoric sites in the southwestern United States have been radiocarbon dated in order to determine the accuracy of14C dates on corn. The results indicate that a normalized and calibrated14C date on corn is as accurate an estimate of the sample's age as is a14C date for any other material. This accuracy has implications not only for future selection of14C samples but also for interpretation of existing dates on corn…
A Primary Cremation at the NAN Ranch Ruin, with Comparative Data on Other Cremations in the Mimbres Area, New Mexico
In 1980 a primary cremation was excavated at the NAN Ranch Ruin in Grant County, New Mexico. This cremation has been dated to the Three Circle Phase (A.C. 750–1000) of the Late Pithouse Period (A.C. 550–1000) on the basis of both stratigraphy and archaeomagnetic dating. Cremation was a rare form of mortuary treatment at the NAN Ranch Ruin and was equally rare in a review of other Three Circle Phase and Classic Period (A.C. 1000–1150) sites in the…
Anthropomorphic Rock Art Figures in the Middle Mimbres Valley New Mexico
Anthropomorphic rock art figures occur frequently at rock art sites in the middle Mimbres River Valley of New Mexico. During survey in 1987, 23 sites with rock art were recorded, 11 of which have anthropomorphic figures. Most of these figures can be attributed to the Jornada Style, dated at roughly A.D. 1000–1400. Thes figures range from full-body images to masks. The so-called Tlaloc figures have no counterpart representation on Mimbres Classic …
A Faunal Record From West Central Texas and its Bearing on Late Holocene Bison Population Changes in the Southern Plains
A faunal record from archaeological site 4JTG91, Tom Green County, Texas, contains good evidence for late Holocen bison population changes in the west central portion of the state. The prehistoric faunal remains occur in stratified overbank flood deposits along the South Concho River and date from ca 600 B. C. to A.D. 1650-1700. Bison bone occurs in all deposits except those dating approximately A.D. 900-1300
Bison Hides in Late Prehistoric Exchange in the Southern Plains
Widespread exchange networks operative in the early historic period in the southern Plains and adjacent areas were documented by early Spanish explorers. Among the more important trade items they noted were bison hides, including robes. It is suggested here that the occurrence of beveled knives and endscrapers in assemblages dating after about A.D. 1300 reflects the importance of bison hides in late prehistoric exchange. Both of these chippedston…
Prehistoric Macaws and Parrots in the Mimbres Area, New Mexico
Macaws and parrots were important birds in prehistoric Mimbres-area communities by A.D. 1000. Scarlet macaws (Ara macao) apparently were imported into the area from the tropical lowlands in Mexico, but one other species each of macaw (Ara militaris) and parrot (Rhynchopsitta pachyrhyncha) probably could have been obtained from much closer natural ranges. Macaws in particular evidently were of special, perhaps ceremonial, importance as indicated b…
Caddo Conference
Scale and Time-Space Systematics in the Post-A.D. 1100 Mimbres Region of the North American Southwest
Time-space systematics for the end of the Classic Mimbres period and subsequent developments in southwest New Mexico are outlined, and the variable spatial scale of these processes is emphasized. The regional unity of the Late Pithouse and Classic periods began to break down around A.D. 1130, a time when disparate developments characterize different portions of the region. The Terminal Classic (ca. A.D. 1130 and later) represents the first steps …
New Interpretations of Mimbres Public Architecture and Space
Recent excavations and reanalysis of existing data on communal pit structures provide intriguing insights into ritual and cultural developments over a period of about 350 years, from A.D. 800 to 1140, in the Mimbres Valley of southwestern New Mexico. In the middle of this period, people shifted dwellings from pithouses to pueblos, a shift previously viewed as the pivotal transformation of Mimbres society. In this paper we show that significant ch…
Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis of Pottery from the George C. Davis (41Ce19) Site, Texas
The George C. Davis Site (41CE19) in central East Texas holds a prominent position in American archaeology. Fifty prehistoric ceramic specimens from early Caddoan contexts (A.D. 800–1200) were analyzed by instrumental neutron activation analysis (INAA) at the Missouri University of Missouri Research Reactor Center (MURR). The chemical compositions of the Davis ceramics were compared with previously identified Caddoan ceramic compositional groups.…
National Register Testing at 41BQ285, Bosque County, Texas
Prewitt and Associates, Inc., conducted archeological test excavations at 41BQ285 in June 2006 for the Texas Department of Transportation under Texas Antiquities Permit No. 4102. Site 41BQ285, in southeastern Bosque County, was located during an archeological survey for the proposed replacement of the FM 56 bridge over the North Bosque River. It is a prehistoric campsite buried in a cumulic soil in the upper deposits of a late Holocene alluvial t…
Scale and Time-Space Systematics in the Post-A.D. 1100 Mimbres Region of the North American Southwest
Time-space systematics for the end of the Classic Mimbres period and subsequent developments in southwest New Mexico are outlined, and the variable spatial scale of these processes is emphasized. The regional unity of the Late Pithouse and Classic periods began to break down around a.d. 1130, a time when disparate developments characterize different portions of the region. The Terminal Classic (ca. a.d. 1130 and later) represents the first steps …
Sourcing ceramics with portable XRF spectrometers? A comparison with Inaa using Mimbres pottery from the American Southwest
Biological Relationships between Foragers and Farmers of South-Central North America
Studies of relationships between archeology and biology in the south-central North America can enhance interpretations of social interactions between foraging and farming groups. The present report analyzes the adult dentition of hunter-gatherer populations from what is now Texas and compares them with adjacent samples of agriculturalists. These agriculturallist samples represent the Southwestern (Mimbres-Mogollon) and Southeastern (Caddo) cultur…
Response to Perttula
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Mimbres Great Kivas and Plazas During the Three Circle Phase, ca. AD 850–1000
Most Mimbres villages had a great kiva that opened onto and was accessed through a plaza area during the Three Circle phase. In the few cases where these plazas have been excavated, secondary cremations and related artifact caches were present in some quantity. Use of plazas for interment of cremated individuals continued into the Mimbres Classic period, although great kivas were no longer built and used. The plazas remained in use, still surroun…
Ritual Construction, Use and Retirement of Mimbres Three Circle Phase Great Kivas
Three Circle phase great kivas in the Mimbres area of southwest New Mexico have been the subject of new field investigations and reanalysis of data from earlier excavations. The findings have led to an enhanced and more detailed understanding of physical changes in these special buildings during the Three Circle phase, particularly with regard to dating and ritual behaviors associated with construction, use, and formal retirement
Volume Introduction
Re-evaluating the Mimbres Region Prehispanic Chronometric Record
Many decades of archaeological research in the Mimbres region have resulted in hundreds of chronometric dates obtained from contexts dating prior to A.D. 1450, but until now these data have not been compiled into a single database. Using dendrochronological, radiocarbon, and archaeomagnetic dates, we analyze each of the chronometric data sets to identify patterns and biases that help us better understand the tempo and duration of fundamental tran…
Movement of Pots (and People) Across the Landscape
Lori Barkwill Lovea* , Jeffrey R. Fergusonb & Darrell Creelca Department of Anthropology, University of Texas at San Antonio, TX, USAb Department of Anthropology and MURR Archaeometry Laboratory, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USAc Department of Anthropology, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA
Dating Perishables to Refine the Chronology of Shrine Cave Use, the Goggle-eye Motif, and other Jornada and Mimbres Mogollon Iconography
Professional and avocational archaeologists have recovered thousands of perishable artifacts from caves and rockshelters across the southern US Southwest, but few have been radiocarbon dated. This article reviews thirty AMS radiocarbon dates obtained on perishable items from nine shrine caves in the Jornada and Mimbres Mogollon regions of south-central New Mexico and west Texas. Dates were obtained from fragments of tablitas, effigies, prayer sti…
Chihuahuan Desert Shrine Caves
This article presents radiocarbon dates on 29 perishable objects deposited in shrine caves in the Jornada and Mimbres Mogollon regions of far west Texas and southern New Mexico. The dated objects include tablita fragments, effigies, prayer sticks, hafted projectile point foreshafts, and flat curved sticks. Analysis of the dates reveals three significant trends: a particular set of Indigenous ritual practices involving shrine caves in the North Am…
A Changing Social Landscape
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