Fumiyasu Arakawa
Biographic Data
| ID | 3791032 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fumiyasu Arakawa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fumiyasu |
| FAMILY NAME | Arakawa |
| SIGNATURE | ARAKAWA F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Crow Canyon Archaeological Center |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Identifying new quarries as a method for expanding research
Evaluation of trade and interaction between Chaco Canyon and Chaco outlier sites in the American Southwest by investigating trachybasalt temper in pottery sherds
Gendered Analysis of Lithics From the Central Mesa Verde Region
Archaeologists have emphasized men's activities and neglected the role of women in their analyses of lithic assemblages. In this study, I argue that both men and women created lithic debitage and used stone tools. I further argue that women created and used stone tools primarily in the context of activities conducted at residential sites; in contrast, men created and used tools away from the residential site. I build expectations for my analyses …
The Consequences of Social Processes
Tracking broad-scale behavioral patterns using both lithics and faunal remains offers one line of evidence for investigating both prehistoric subsistence activities and the consequences of aggregation and increases in population size. Accumulation research, which examines the ratio of projectile points to cooking pottery sherds from the same context, shows a higher ratio of projectile points in areas with lower population densities. This pattern …
Cyclical Cultural Trajectories
In this study, models of cultural evolution are used to examine one of most intensively studied archaeological areas in world: the central Mesa Verde region of southern Colorado (USA). I work back and forth between models in this case study to tease out new insights into culture change in the Mesa Verde region and to suggest ways that models of culture change can be improved. The results of a new research program, the Village Ecodynamics Project,…
Obsidian Evidence of Interaction and Migration from the Mesa Verde Region, Southwest Colorado
A growing body of evidence demonstrates that ancestral Pueblo people living in the central Mesa Verde region of the U.S. Southwest maintained long-distance contacts with other Pueblo peoples. Questions of Pueblo interactions through time and across space have traditionally been addressed using ceramic sourcing data. This research uses obsidian source data to argue that, from A.D. 600 to 920, residents of the central Mesa Verde region obtained obs…
Geoarchaeological investigation of lithic resources in the central Mesa Verde region, Colorado, USA
An important question in Southwestern archaeological research is how social and economic ties between prehistoric groups changed through time. The chemical and mineralogical matching of stone tools and ceramics to source areas is one approach to addressing this question. Here we challenge the assumption that igneous rocks used for manufacturing stone tools and ceramics in the Mesa Verde region of Colorado were originally derived from the Chuska M…
Toolstohe Procurement Patterns on Wetherill Mesa, Mesa Verde, A.D. 600–1280
Analysis of debitage from Wetherill Mesa in Mesa Verde National Park indicates dramatic changes in toolstone procurement patterns through time. For much of the early occupation of Wetherill Mesa, locally available igneous and indurated shale toolstones were the primary resources utilized. During the Pueblo II period, however, there was a shift to the use of Brushy Basin chert, which outcrops approximately 20 km away. By the end of the Pueblo II p…
Obsidian Evidence of Interaction and Migration from the Mesa Verde Region, Southwest Colorado
A growing body of evidence demonstrates that ancestral Pueblo people living in the central Mesa Verde region of the U.S. Southwest maintained long-distance contacts with other Pueblo peoples. Questions of Pueblo interactions through time and across space have traditionally been addressed using ceramic sourcing data. This research uses obsidian source data to argue that, from A.D. 600 to 920, residents of the central Mesa Verde region obtained obs…
Geoarchaeological investigation of lithic resources in the central Mesa Verde region, Colorado, USA
An important question in Southwestern archaeological research is how social and economic ties between prehistoric groups changed through time. The chemical and mineralogical matching of stone tools and ceramics to source areas is one approach to addressing this question. Here we challenge the assumption that igneous rocks used for manufacturing stone tools and ceramics in the Mesa Verde region of Colorado were originally derived from the Chuska M…
Gendered Analysis of Lithics From the Central Mesa Verde Region
Archaeologists have emphasized men's activities and neglected the role of women in their analyses of lithic assemblages. In this study, I argue that both men and women created lithic debitage and used stone tools. I further argue that women created and used stone tools primarily in the context of activities conducted at residential sites; in contrast, men created and used tools away from the residential site. I build expectations for my analyses …
The Consequences of Social Processes
Tracking broad-scale behavioral patterns using both lithics and faunal remains offers one line of evidence for investigating both prehistoric subsistence activities and the consequences of aggregation and increases in population size. Accumulation research, which examines the ratio of projectile points to cooking pottery sherds from the same context, shows a higher ratio of projectile points in areas with lower population densities. This pattern …
Cyclical Cultural Trajectories
In this study, models of cultural evolution are used to examine one of most intensively studied archaeological areas in world: the central Mesa Verde region of southern Colorado (USA). I work back and forth between models in this case study to tease out new insights into culture change in the Mesa Verde region and to suggest ways that models of culture change can be improved. The results of a new research program, the Village Ecodynamics Project,…
Evaluation of trade and interaction between Chaco Canyon and Chaco outlier sites in the American Southwest by investigating trachybasalt temper in pottery sherds
Toolstohe Procurement Patterns on Wetherill Mesa, Mesa Verde, A.D. 600–1280
Analysis of debitage from Wetherill Mesa in Mesa Verde National Park indicates dramatic changes in toolstone procurement patterns through time. For much of the early occupation of Wetherill Mesa, locally available igneous and indurated shale toolstones were the primary resources utilized. During the Pueblo II period, however, there was a shift to the use of Brushy Basin chert, which outcrops approximately 20 km away. By the end of the Pueblo II p…
Geoarchaeological investigation of lithic resources in the central Mesa Verde region, Colorado, USA
An important question in Southwestern archaeological research is how social and economic ties between prehistoric groups changed through time. The chemical and mineralogical matching of stone tools and ceramics to source areas is one approach to addressing this question. Here we challenge the assumption that igneous rocks used for manufacturing stone tools and ceramics in the Mesa Verde region of Colorado were originally derived from the Chuska M…
Obsidian Evidence of Interaction and Migration from the Mesa Verde Region, Southwest Colorado
A growing body of evidence demonstrates that ancestral Pueblo people living in the central Mesa Verde region of the U.S. Southwest maintained long-distance contacts with other Pueblo peoples. Questions of Pueblo interactions through time and across space have traditionally been addressed using ceramic sourcing data. This research uses obsidian source data to argue that, from A.D. 600 to 920, residents of the central Mesa Verde region obtained obs…
Cyclical Cultural Trajectories
In this study, models of cultural evolution are used to examine one of most intensively studied archaeological areas in world: the central Mesa Verde region of southern Colorado (USA). I work back and forth between models in this case study to tease out new insights into culture change in the Mesa Verde region and to suggest ways that models of culture change can be improved. The results of a new research program, the Village Ecodynamics Project,…
Gendered Analysis of Lithics From the Central Mesa Verde Region
Archaeologists have emphasized men's activities and neglected the role of women in their analyses of lithic assemblages. In this study, I argue that both men and women created lithic debitage and used stone tools. I further argue that women created and used stone tools primarily in the context of activities conducted at residential sites; in contrast, men created and used tools away from the residential site. I build expectations for my analyses …
The Consequences of Social Processes
Tracking broad-scale behavioral patterns using both lithics and faunal remains offers one line of evidence for investigating both prehistoric subsistence activities and the consequences of aggregation and increases in population size. Accumulation research, which examines the ratio of projectile points to cooking pottery sherds from the same context, shows a higher ratio of projectile points in areas with lower population densities. This pattern …
Evaluation of trade and interaction between Chaco Canyon and Chaco outlier sites in the American Southwest by investigating trachybasalt temper in pottery sherds
Identifying new quarries as a method for expanding research
Archaeology (8 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (8 works) · Geography (8 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (5 works) · Pottery (4 works) · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies (3 works) · Canyon (3 works) · Geology (3 works) · Cape verde (2 works) · Demography (2 works)