Andrew I Duff
Biographic Data
| ID | 91195 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew I Duff |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew I |
| FAMILY NAME | Duff |
| SIGNATURE | DUFF A I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Washington State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9531-7024 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 133 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Chacoan Great House Communities, Ritual Landscapes, and the H-Spear Site
This paper documents and contextualizes a previously unrecorded Chacoan great house, H-Spear, located in the Cibola region of west-central New Mexico. The Chaco-era H-Spear Site (LA201571) has a great house, great kiva, and earthen berm surrounding the great house/great kiva complex. Full-coverage survey data from the Ojo Bonito Archaeological Project (OBAP) indicates extensive pre-Chacoan, Chacoan, and post-Chacoan occupations of the broader are…
A Diachronic Analysis of Obsidian Use at Chaco Canyon and the Influence of Social Factors on Obsidian Procurement
Chaco Canyon in New Mexico was the center of an extensive regional cultural system. The strength of Chaco's regional interactions has been partly defined by the presence of non–local goods including obsidian. We take a diachronic look at Chaco obsidian use from AD 500–1250 using the largest sample of XRF sourced obsidian available to date and combine this with technological analyses to identify significant changes in where and how Chacoans obtain…
The heterarchical life and spatial analyses of the historical Buddhist temples in the Chiang Saen Basin, Northern Thailand
Sourcing bighorn sheep from the Homol’ovi Settlement Cluster, Northeastern Arizona, through strontium isotope (87Sr/86Sr) analysis
New Dates for Megalithic Stele Monuments of Gedeo, South Ethiopia
This paper reports the results of an archaeological survey and test excavation conducted in one of the ancient megalithic stele sites in south Ethiopia, Sakaro Sodo. The Sakaro Sodo stele site is situated in Gedeo zone, which is known to have the largest number and highest concentration of megalithic stele monuments in Africa, with an estimate of more than 10,000 stelae in sixty or more sites. Prior to our work, only one absolute date was availab…
The Social Logic of the Temple Space: A Preliminary Spatial Analysis of Historical Buddhist Temples in Chiang Saen, Northern Thailand
The role of a Chaco-Era great house in the Southern Cibola Region of West-Central New Mexico: The Largo Gap great house community
Largo Gap is one of several late Pueblo II (a.d. 1050–1130) Chaco-style great houses located in the southern Cibola region of west-central New Mexico. This region is at the interface of two Southwestern cultural areas: Mogollon and Pueblo. We report results of survey and excavation research at the Largo Gap great house and associated community to explore the role great houses in this region served for local populations, as well as their articulat…
Debitage Stylistic Variability at Cox Ranch Pueblo
This paper applies the method of stylistic flake analysis of to the analysis of debitage from two middens from Cox Ranch Pueblo, a late Pueblo II (ca. 1050–1130) period habitation site in west-central New Mexico. Previous research has suggested the multiethnic nature of site occupation based on the presence of two distinct methods for the manufacture of utilitarian ceramics and the site's location at the interface of two of the Southwest's tradit…
Patterning in procurement of obsidian in Chaco Canyon and in Chaco-era communities in New Mexico as revealed by X-ray fluorescence
Changes in regional organization and mobility in the Zuni region of the American Southwest during the Pueblo III and IV periods: Insights from Inaa studies
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…
History and Process in Village Formation: Context and Contrasts from the Northern Southwest
Two processes characterize the later precontact history (twelfth-fourteenth centuries) of the northern part of the American Southwest: aggregation of people into large towns and depopulation of large regions. These processes have been explained as the result of environmental, economic, and social factors, including drought and warfare. Using a theoretical perspective based on Pauketat's 'historical processualism,' we argue that aggregation and de…
Alluvial cycles, climate, and puebloan settlement shifts near Zuni Salt Lake, New Mexico, USA
Twenty‐seven 14 C dates from alluvial deposits and soils exposed in modern arroyos near Zuni Salt Lake, New Mexico, provide evidence for past episodes of piedmont and valley entrenchment by low‐order ephemeral streams. We recognize two episodes of entrenchment at A.D. 900–1050 and A.D. 1300–1400 that correlate to other arroyo‐cutting events in the region. Episodes of piedmont and valley entrenchment are followed by approximately 200–300 years of …
Culture and Ecology of Chaco Canyon and the San Juan Basin. Frances Joan Mathien
The Protohistoric Pueblo World, A.D. 1275-1600
In the centuries before the arrival of Europeans, the Pueblo world underwent nearly continuous reorganization. Populations moved from Chaco Canyon and the great centers of the Mesa Verde region to areas along the Rio Grande, the Little Colorado River, and the Mogollon Rim, where they began constructing larger and differently organized villages, many with more than 500 rooms. Villages also tended to occur in clusters that have been interpreted in …
Prehistoric Population Dynamics in the Northern San Juan Region, a.d. 950–1300
If there is one distinctive event typically associated with the Northern San Juan region it is the "sudden abandonment" of this area in the late thirteenth century. Yet, examination of the process of migration reveals that it is seldom sudden and is often best understood as a historical process with a distinct demographic structure. Analyses of several regional data sets are used to estimate population ranges for the Northern San Juan region for …
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…
Ceramic Micro-Seriation: Types or Attributes
Micro-seriation using attributes of decorated ceramics has been shown to accurately refine intrasite and intersite relative dating. Using data from Pueblo de los Muertos, a nucleated town in west-central New Mexico, this presentation demonstrates that micro-seriation of type frequencies produces equally accurate results. Typological analysis also provides substantial time savings when compared to attribute recording. Additionally, using types wit…
Symbolism in the Early Palaeolithic: A Conceptual Odyssey
Archaeologists have been naive to expect that symbolic behaviour can be inferred more or less directly from the characteristics of an archaeological record. This article examines various construals of symbolism and its relationship to signs, indexes and style that are derived from more fully axiomatized theories of cognition in psychology, anthropology, linguistics and primatology. The authors' intent is to develop a more adequate operational def…
Patterning in procurement of obsidian in Chaco Canyon and in Chaco-era communities in New Mexico as revealed by X-ray fluorescence
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…
History and Process in Village Formation: Context and Contrasts from the Northern Southwest
Two processes characterize the later precontact history (twelfth-fourteenth centuries) of the northern part of the American Southwest: aggregation of people into large towns and depopulation of large regions. These processes have been explained as the result of environmental, economic, and social factors, including drought and warfare. Using a theoretical perspective based on Pauketat's 'historical processualism,' we argue that aggregation and de…
Symbolism in the Early Palaeolithic: A Conceptual Odyssey
Archaeologists have been naive to expect that symbolic behaviour can be inferred more or less directly from the characteristics of an archaeological record. This article examines various construals of symbolism and its relationship to signs, indexes and style that are derived from more fully axiomatized theories of cognition in psychology, anthropology, linguistics and primatology. The authors' intent is to develop a more adequate operational def…
Ceramic Micro-Seriation: Types or Attributes
Micro-seriation using attributes of decorated ceramics has been shown to accurately refine intrasite and intersite relative dating. Using data from Pueblo de los Muertos, a nucleated town in west-central New Mexico, this presentation demonstrates that micro-seriation of type frequencies produces equally accurate results. Typological analysis also provides substantial time savings when compared to attribute recording. Additionally, using types wit…
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…
Alluvial cycles, climate, and puebloan settlement shifts near Zuni Salt Lake, New Mexico, USA
Twenty‐seven 14 C dates from alluvial deposits and soils exposed in modern arroyos near Zuni Salt Lake, New Mexico, provide evidence for past episodes of piedmont and valley entrenchment by low‐order ephemeral streams. We recognize two episodes of entrenchment at A.D. 900–1050 and A.D. 1300–1400 that correlate to other arroyo‐cutting events in the region. Episodes of piedmont and valley entrenchment are followed by approximately 200–300 years of …
Changes in regional organization and mobility in the Zuni region of the American Southwest during the Pueblo III and IV periods: Insights from Inaa studies
The role of a Chaco-Era great house in the Southern Cibola Region of West-Central New Mexico: The Largo Gap great house community
Largo Gap is one of several late Pueblo II (a.d. 1050–1130) Chaco-style great houses located in the southern Cibola region of west-central New Mexico. This region is at the interface of two Southwestern cultural areas: Mogollon and Pueblo. We report results of survey and excavation research at the Largo Gap great house and associated community to explore the role great houses in this region served for local populations, as well as their articulat…
The heterarchical life and spatial analyses of the historical Buddhist temples in the Chiang Saen Basin, Northern Thailand
A Diachronic Analysis of Obsidian Use at Chaco Canyon and the Influence of Social Factors on Obsidian Procurement
Chaco Canyon in New Mexico was the center of an extensive regional cultural system. The strength of Chaco's regional interactions has been partly defined by the presence of non–local goods including obsidian. We take a diachronic look at Chaco obsidian use from AD 500–1250 using the largest sample of XRF sourced obsidian available to date and combine this with technological analyses to identify significant changes in where and how Chacoans obtain…
New Dates for Megalithic Stele Monuments of Gedeo, South Ethiopia
This paper reports the results of an archaeological survey and test excavation conducted in one of the ancient megalithic stele sites in south Ethiopia, Sakaro Sodo. The Sakaro Sodo stele site is situated in Gedeo zone, which is known to have the largest number and highest concentration of megalithic stele monuments in Africa, with an estimate of more than 10,000 stelae in sixty or more sites. Prior to our work, only one absolute date was availab…
Sourcing bighorn sheep from the Homol’ovi Settlement Cluster, Northeastern Arizona, through strontium isotope (87Sr/86Sr) analysis
The Social Logic of the Temple Space: A Preliminary Spatial Analysis of Historical Buddhist Temples in Chiang Saen, Northern Thailand
Debitage Stylistic Variability at Cox Ranch Pueblo
This paper applies the method of stylistic flake analysis of to the analysis of debitage from two middens from Cox Ranch Pueblo, a late Pueblo II (ca. 1050–1130) period habitation site in west-central New Mexico. Previous research has suggested the multiethnic nature of site occupation based on the presence of two distinct methods for the manufacture of utilitarian ceramics and the site's location at the interface of two of the Southwest's tradit…
Symbolism in the Early Palaeolithic: A Conceptual Odyssey
Archaeologists have been naive to expect that symbolic behaviour can be inferred more or less directly from the characteristics of an archaeological record. This article examines various construals of symbolism and its relationship to signs, indexes and style that are derived from more fully axiomatized theories of cognition in psychology, anthropology, linguistics and primatology. The authors' intent is to develop a more adequate operational def…
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…
Ceramic Micro-Seriation: Types or Attributes
Micro-seriation using attributes of decorated ceramics has been shown to accurately refine intrasite and intersite relative dating. Using data from Pueblo de los Muertos, a nucleated town in west-central New Mexico, this presentation demonstrates that micro-seriation of type frequencies produces equally accurate results. Typological analysis also provides substantial time savings when compared to attribute recording. Additionally, using types wit…
Prehistoric Population Dynamics in the Northern San Juan Region, a.d. 950–1300
If there is one distinctive event typically associated with the Northern San Juan region it is the "sudden abandonment" of this area in the late thirteenth century. Yet, examination of the process of migration reveals that it is seldom sudden and is often best understood as a historical process with a distinct demographic structure. Analyses of several regional data sets are used to estimate population ranges for the Northern San Juan region for …
The Protohistoric Pueblo World, A.D. 1275-1600
In the centuries before the arrival of Europeans, the Pueblo world underwent nearly continuous reorganization. Populations moved from Chaco Canyon and the great centers of the Mesa Verde region to areas along the Rio Grande, the Little Colorado River, and the Mogollon Rim, where they began constructing larger and differently organized villages, many with more than 500 rooms. Villages also tended to occur in clusters that have been interpreted in …
Alluvial cycles, climate, and puebloan settlement shifts near Zuni Salt Lake, New Mexico, USA
Twenty‐seven 14 C dates from alluvial deposits and soils exposed in modern arroyos near Zuni Salt Lake, New Mexico, provide evidence for past episodes of piedmont and valley entrenchment by low‐order ephemeral streams. We recognize two episodes of entrenchment at A.D. 900–1050 and A.D. 1300–1400 that correlate to other arroyo‐cutting events in the region. Episodes of piedmont and valley entrenchment are followed by approximately 200–300 years of …
Culture and Ecology of Chaco Canyon and the San Juan Basin. Frances Joan Mathien
History and Process in Village Formation: Context and Contrasts from the Northern Southwest
Two processes characterize the later precontact history (twelfth-fourteenth centuries) of the northern part of the American Southwest: aggregation of people into large towns and depopulation of large regions. These processes have been explained as the result of environmental, economic, and social factors, including drought and warfare. Using a theoretical perspective based on Pauketat's 'historical processualism,' we argue that aggregation and de…
Changes in regional organization and mobility in the Zuni region of the American Southwest during the Pueblo III and IV periods: Insights from Inaa studies
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…
Patterning in procurement of obsidian in Chaco Canyon and in Chaco-era communities in New Mexico as revealed by X-ray fluorescence
Debitage Stylistic Variability at Cox Ranch Pueblo
This paper applies the method of stylistic flake analysis of to the analysis of debitage from two middens from Cox Ranch Pueblo, a late Pueblo II (ca. 1050–1130) period habitation site in west-central New Mexico. Previous research has suggested the multiethnic nature of site occupation based on the presence of two distinct methods for the manufacture of utilitarian ceramics and the site's location at the interface of two of the Southwest's tradit…
The role of a Chaco-Era great house in the Southern Cibola Region of West-Central New Mexico: The Largo Gap great house community
Largo Gap is one of several late Pueblo II (a.d. 1050–1130) Chaco-style great houses located in the southern Cibola region of west-central New Mexico. This region is at the interface of two Southwestern cultural areas: Mogollon and Pueblo. We report results of survey and excavation research at the Largo Gap great house and associated community to explore the role great houses in this region served for local populations, as well as their articulat…
Sourcing bighorn sheep from the Homol’ovi Settlement Cluster, Northeastern Arizona, through strontium isotope (87Sr/86Sr) analysis
New Dates for Megalithic Stele Monuments of Gedeo, South Ethiopia
This paper reports the results of an archaeological survey and test excavation conducted in one of the ancient megalithic stele sites in south Ethiopia, Sakaro Sodo. The Sakaro Sodo stele site is situated in Gedeo zone, which is known to have the largest number and highest concentration of megalithic stele monuments in Africa, with an estimate of more than 10,000 stelae in sixty or more sites. Prior to our work, only one absolute date was availab…
The Social Logic of the Temple Space: A Preliminary Spatial Analysis of Historical Buddhist Temples in Chiang Saen, Northern Thailand
A Diachronic Analysis of Obsidian Use at Chaco Canyon and the Influence of Social Factors on Obsidian Procurement
Chaco Canyon in New Mexico was the center of an extensive regional cultural system. The strength of Chaco's regional interactions has been partly defined by the presence of non–local goods including obsidian. We take a diachronic look at Chaco obsidian use from AD 500–1250 using the largest sample of XRF sourced obsidian available to date and combine this with technological analyses to identify significant changes in where and how Chacoans obtain…
The heterarchical life and spatial analyses of the historical Buddhist temples in the Chiang Saen Basin, Northern Thailand
Chacoan Great House Communities, Ritual Landscapes, and the H-Spear Site
This paper documents and contextualizes a previously unrecorded Chacoan great house, H-Spear, located in the Cibola region of west-central New Mexico. The Chaco-era H-Spear Site (LA201571) has a great house, great kiva, and earthen berm surrounding the great house/great kiva complex. Full-coverage survey data from the Ojo Bonito Archaeological Project (OBAP) indicates extensive pre-Chacoan, Chacoan, and post-Chacoan occupations of the broader are…
Archaeology (18 works) · Geography (17 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (14 works) · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies (10 works) · History (10 works) · History (6 works) · Archaeology and Natural History (5 works) · Canyon (5 works) · Cartography (5 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (5 works)