Richard Martynec
Biographic Data
| ID | 638089 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Martynec |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Martynec |
| SIGNATURE | MARTYNEC R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Arizona State Museum |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Papaguería Obsidian Study
Archaeologists have used obsidian artifact tracing to address a variety of issues related to the interaction of prehistoric groups. This study focuses on an area in southwestern Arizona and northwestern Sonora, Mexico where several prehistoric groups overlapped and exploited well documented obsidian sources. Our study includes more than 900 obsidian artifacts from over 300 sites and use of GIS analysis to examine source distributions and regional…
Cremated Animal Bone Piles in the Western Papaguería
In 1985 Julian Hayden reported 95 heaps of cremated animal bones in the Sierra Pinacate. For a variety of reasons, he concluded that the practice was long-lived and unique to that area. He attributed it to the Pinacateño Areneños, an isolated band of Areneños (also known as Hia-Ced O’odham or “Sand Papagos”). Fieldwork in Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge, Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument and the Barry M. Goldwater Range East and West ove…
Unexplained Rock Features in Southwestern Arizona
Human-laid configurations of native rock are common archaeological features in southwestern Arizona, but we have observed six large rock features that do not readily fit into the current categories or explanations of purpose. Our features are distributed across a large area and as far as 150 km apart. All are exceptionally large piles of cobble-sized rocks placed perpendicularly across foot trails, in four cases lying along the crest of a pass, o…
The Las Playas Project
Nearly as many questions remain about the prehistory of the Western Papaguería as there were forty years ago despite several recent archaeological projects. It is still unresolved who occupied the area prehistorically, and what, if any, roles they played in the movement of resources such as salt, shell, and obsidian from their origins to Hohokam communities in the Salt, Gila, and Santa Cruz River Valleys. Their subsistence practices are still poo…
The Los Sitios Del Agua Obsidian Source (Formerly Az Unknown A) and Recent Archaeological Investigations Along the Rio Sonoyta, Northern Sonora
For over a decade and a half the locality of “AZ Unknown A” obsidian source has remained unknown. In 2006, during an archaeological reconnaissance of the upper Rio Sonoyta in northern Sonora, members of the Ajo Chapter of the Arizona Archaeological Society discovered a new obsidian source on a dome complex on the southeast side of the river basin near the previously recorded Los Vidrios. This new source was determined to match the elemental compo…
The Los Sitios Del Agua Obsidian Source (Formerly Az Unknown A) and Recent Archaeological Investigations Along the Rio Sonoyta, Northern Sonora
For over a decade and a half the locality of “AZ Unknown A” obsidian source has remained unknown. In 2006, during an archaeological reconnaissance of the upper Rio Sonoyta in northern Sonora, members of the Ajo Chapter of the Arizona Archaeological Society discovered a new obsidian source on a dome complex on the southeast side of the river basin near the previously recorded Los Vidrios. This new source was determined to match the elemental compo…
The Las Playas Project
Nearly as many questions remain about the prehistory of the Western Papaguería as there were forty years ago despite several recent archaeological projects. It is still unresolved who occupied the area prehistorically, and what, if any, roles they played in the movement of resources such as salt, shell, and obsidian from their origins to Hohokam communities in the Salt, Gila, and Santa Cruz River Valleys. Their subsistence practices are still poo…
The Los Sitios Del Agua Obsidian Source (Formerly Az Unknown A) and Recent Archaeological Investigations Along the Rio Sonoyta, Northern Sonora
For over a decade and a half the locality of “AZ Unknown A” obsidian source has remained unknown. In 2006, during an archaeological reconnaissance of the upper Rio Sonoyta in northern Sonora, members of the Ajo Chapter of the Arizona Archaeological Society discovered a new obsidian source on a dome complex on the southeast side of the river basin near the previously recorded Los Vidrios. This new source was determined to match the elemental compo…
The Las Playas Project
Nearly as many questions remain about the prehistory of the Western Papaguería as there were forty years ago despite several recent archaeological projects. It is still unresolved who occupied the area prehistorically, and what, if any, roles they played in the movement of resources such as salt, shell, and obsidian from their origins to Hohokam communities in the Salt, Gila, and Santa Cruz River Valleys. Their subsistence practices are still poo…
Unexplained Rock Features in Southwestern Arizona
Human-laid configurations of native rock are common archaeological features in southwestern Arizona, but we have observed six large rock features that do not readily fit into the current categories or explanations of purpose. Our features are distributed across a large area and as far as 150 km apart. All are exceptionally large piles of cobble-sized rocks placed perpendicularly across foot trails, in four cases lying along the crest of a pass, o…
Cremated Animal Bone Piles in the Western Papaguería
In 1985 Julian Hayden reported 95 heaps of cremated animal bones in the Sierra Pinacate. For a variety of reasons, he concluded that the practice was long-lived and unique to that area. He attributed it to the Pinacateño Areneños, an isolated band of Areneños (also known as Hia-Ced O’odham or “Sand Papagos”). Fieldwork in Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge, Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument and the Barry M. Goldwater Range East and West ove…
The Papaguería Obsidian Study
Archaeologists have used obsidian artifact tracing to address a variety of issues related to the interaction of prehistoric groups. This study focuses on an area in southwestern Arizona and northwestern Sonora, Mexico where several prehistoric groups overlapped and exploited well documented obsidian sources. Our study includes more than 900 obsidian artifacts from over 300 sites and use of GIS analysis to examine source distributions and regional…
Archaeology (4 works) · Archaeology and Natural History (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (2 works) · Prehistory (2 works) · Agriculture (1 work) · American Environmental and Regional History (1 work) · Artifact (error) (1 work)