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Michael D Mathiowetz

Biographic Data

ID3839719
NAMEMichael D Mathiowetz
GIVEN NAMESMichael D
FAMILY NAMEMathiowetz
SIGNATUREMATHIOWETZ M D
AFFILIATIONSIndependent scholar, Riverside, CA, USA
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS3
TOTAL CITATIONS11
AUTHOR COUNT3
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX2
  • The Keepers of Tradition: Clown Societies in the Casas Grandes and Puebloan Worlds

    Michael D Mathiowetz, Michael Mathiowetz•ARTICLE•KIVA•2025•References: 40

    Often simply characterized as buffoons, Puebloan clowns are complex beings with integral relations to governance, katsina ritualism, medicine societies, and the agricultural cycle. Archaeological, ethnohistorical, and ethnological data from the U.S. Southwest and northwest Mexico indicate that clown societies among the Casas Grandes culture centered in Chihuahua, Mexico, were present during the Medio Period (AD 1200–1450) and may have influenced …

  • A History of Cacao in West Mexico: Implications for Mesoamerica and U.S. Southwest Connections

    Open Access•Michael D Mathiowetz, Michael Mathiowetz•ARTICLE•Journal of Archaeological Research•2018•Cited by: 6•References: 50

  • The Sun Youth of the Casas Grandes Culture, Chihuahua, Mexico (AD 1200-1450)

    Michael D Mathiowetz, Michael Mathiowetz•ARTICLE•KIVA•2018•Cited by: 5•References: 18

    Paquimé, the paramount Casas Grandes site in northern Chihuahua, Mexico, was arguably the most socially complex and hierarchical pueblo in US Southwest and northwest Mexican history and its complex mixture of Puebloan and Mesoamerican material culture and iconography revealed it to be highly syncretic. The present study examines recent conceptualizations of Casas Grandes religion in comparison to Pueblo and Mesoamerican ethnographic and archaeolo…

  • A History of Cacao in West Mexico: Implications for Mesoamerica and U.S. Southwest Connections

    Open Access•Michael D Mathiowetz, Michael Mathiowetz•ARTICLE•Journal of Archaeological Research•2018•Cited by: 6•References: 50

  • The Sun Youth of the Casas Grandes Culture, Chihuahua, Mexico (AD 1200-1450)

    Michael D Mathiowetz, Michael Mathiowetz•ARTICLE•KIVA•2018•Cited by: 5•References: 18

    Paquimé, the paramount Casas Grandes site in northern Chihuahua, Mexico, was arguably the most socially complex and hierarchical pueblo in US Southwest and northwest Mexican history and its complex mixture of Puebloan and Mesoamerican material culture and iconography revealed it to be highly syncretic. The present study examines recent conceptualizations of Casas Grandes religion in comparison to Pueblo and Mesoamerican ethnographic and archaeolo…

  • A History of Cacao in West Mexico: Implications for Mesoamerica and U.S. Southwest Connections

    Open Access•Michael D Mathiowetz, Michael Mathiowetz•ARTICLE•Journal of Archaeological Research•2018•Cited by: 6•References: 50

  • The Sun Youth of the Casas Grandes Culture, Chihuahua, Mexico (AD 1200-1450)

    Michael D Mathiowetz, Michael Mathiowetz•ARTICLE•KIVA•2018•Cited by: 5•References: 18

    Paquimé, the paramount Casas Grandes site in northern Chihuahua, Mexico, was arguably the most socially complex and hierarchical pueblo in US Southwest and northwest Mexican history and its complex mixture of Puebloan and Mesoamerican material culture and iconography revealed it to be highly syncretic. The present study examines recent conceptualizations of Casas Grandes religion in comparison to Pueblo and Mesoamerican ethnographic and archaeolo…

  • The Keepers of Tradition: Clown Societies in the Casas Grandes and Puebloan Worlds

    Michael D Mathiowetz, Michael Mathiowetz•ARTICLE•KIVA•2025•References: 40

    Often simply characterized as buffoons, Puebloan clowns are complex beings with integral relations to governance, katsina ritualism, medicine societies, and the agricultural cycle. Archaeological, ethnohistorical, and ethnological data from the U.S. Southwest and northwest Mexico indicate that clown societies among the Casas Grandes culture centered in Chihuahua, Mexico, were present during the Medio Period (AD 1200–1450) and may have influenced …

Archaeology (2 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (2 works) · Archaeology and Natural History (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Latin American history and culture (2 works) · Mesoamerica (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Ancient history (1 works) · Anthropology (1 works)

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