W H Wills
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 15786 |
|---|---|
| NOME | W H Wills |
| PRENOMES | W H |
| SOBRENOME | Wills |
| ASSINATURA | WILLS W H |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of New Mexico |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3721-4662 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 29 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 277 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1988 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
The Bonito Paleochannel in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
During the late eleventh century AD, a episode of erosion in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, threatened to destroy portions of the Pueblo Bonito great house and possibly other large buildings. Known as the Bonito Paleochannel, this large arroyo meant the loss of significant amounts of surface water from valley-wide flooding originating in upstream and tributary sources. We believe that erosion was probably the result of an increasing size and frequency…
The Archaeology of the Bonito Paleochannel Cycle at Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
This study examines the archaeological record for water management in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, in relation to the Bonito Paleochannel cycle, ca. AD 1075–1150. We present evidence for a canal system at Pueblo Bonito that was destroyed by the entrenchment of the paleochannel. This canal system is associated with the peak of great house construction. Other water control features throughout the canyon were small and date to the period of paleochanne…
Communication in the Chaco World
The construction of great houses during the Bonito Phase (ca. AD 850–1200) in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, required massive amounts of building material and efficient mobilization and coordination of large labor pools. We employ least cost path analysis (LCA) to explore the potential communication network among great house communities in the Chaco “core” area and its relevance in managing sustained labor for constructing great houses. The results su…
Agricultural suitability of the Chaco Canyon Region, New Mexico
The Pueblo Bonito mounds
Evaluating the Gridded Agricultural Field Model in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, Using Geophysical Remote Sensing
Recent geophysical remote sensing, including ground-penetrating radar and magnetometry, has been used to investigate three areas within Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, predicted to contain prehispanic agricultural fields. These localities include a well-known but enigmatic area of large grid patterns near the Chetro Ketl great house, which are visible from the air but not at ground level. The gridded area has been interpreted by many researchers as an …
Cultivating Ideas
The diffusion of agriculture should, therefore, offer an excellent view of decision-making with respect to why agriculture was a viable subsistence option. According to Berry, archaeologists have unintentionally obscured the dynamic patterns of the past by lumping processes–like the adoption of agriculture–into culture historical periods demarcated by arbitrary and perhaps meaningless temporal boundaries. The use of arbitrary excavation units is …
The complex history of Pueblo Bonito and its interpretation
Pueblo Bonito in Chaco Canyon is one of the most iconic pre-Hispanic archaeological sites in the U.S. Southwest. Archaeologists refer to it as a great house in recognition of its massive scale, and often describe it as the centre of the Chaco world. Yet questions remain about Pueblo Bonito’s origins, sequence of construction, duration of occupation and abandonment. Here, the authors present new research that helps to clarify the early phases of o…
Stable Oxygen Isotope Sourcing of Archaeological Fauna From Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
Modern datasets provide the context necessary for accurate interpretations of isotopic data from archaeological faunal assemblages. In this study, we use the oxygen isotope ratios (δ18O) of modern small mammals from Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, to quantify expected isotopic variation in a local population. The δ18O values of local, modern small mammals encompass a broad range (−6.0‰ to 4.8‰ VPDB), which is expected given the extreme seasonal variati…
Water Management and the Political Economy of Chaco Canyon During the Bonito Phase (ca. AD 850-1200)
Agricultural intensification is widely assumed by archaeologists to have been a catalytic factor in the development of social complexity in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, between ca. AD 850 and 1200. In this perspective, water control technology resulted in surplus food production which was controlled by elites to finance the construction of massive buildings (“great houses”). However, recent fieldwork and archival research has been unable to substant…
Water Management at Pueblo Bonito
Recent archaeological investigations at Pueblo Bonito in Chaco Canyon reveal that residents constructed a large diversion channel during the eleventh century A.D. as dramatic growth resulted in the expansion of the building onto the main valley floor. Sediments in the diversion channel reflect repeated episodes of flooding, rather than slow moving water typically found in irrigation canals, and archaeobotanical data indicate deposition during lat…
Agriculture and community in Chaco Canyon
On the Trail of the Lonesome Pine
The great houses of Chaco Canyon (ca. A.D. 850-1150) are widely assumed to represent cosmological meaning through the orientation of walls and other features to celestial events. Archaeological models of such relationships are considered cosmographic. A prominent feature of these models is a lone pine tree at Pueblo Bonito that has been interpreted as a 'tree of life' symbolically connecting the physical and heavenly worlds. This study suggests t…
Shabik'Eschee Village in Chaco Canyon
This study revisits an earlier publication in this journal (Wills and Windes 1989) in which a settlement model involving seasonal mobility and limited household autonomy was outlined for Shabik'eschee Village, a Basketmaker III period (ca. A.D. 400-750) site in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. We return to that work for three reasons. First, the original interpretation has been challenged and an alternative view offered in the form of a large sedentary …
Cultural Identity and the Archaeological Construction of Historical Narratives
Modifying Pottery and Kivas at Chaco
Patterns of use of ceramic objects and masonry architecture at Chaco Canyon in the southwestern United States indicate refurbishing of some vessels and architectural forms. Ceramic cylinder jars show evidence for obliteration of earlier designs and subsequent repainting and refiring of new designs. Communal structures, or kivas, were dismantled and rebuilt. Three possible explanations for these patterns are explored: revision of errors, restorati…
Ritual and Mound Formation during the Bonito Phase in Chaco Canyon
Recent socioeconomic models for the Bonito phase (ca. A.D. 850-1150) in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, rely heavily on the inference that ritual activity was a causal factor in the design and construction of architectural features. A particular example of this inferential argument concerns earthen mounds, which are widely viewed as evidence for ceremonial gatherings and the intentional creation of sacred architecture. However, a critical evaluation of…
Pithouse Architecture and the Economics of Household Formation in the Prehistoric American Southwest
U New Mexico for the Record
The Transition from the Preceramic to Ceramic Period in the Mogollon Highlands of Western New Mexico
New excavations at the SU site have provided chronological and artifactual data leading to several revisions of long-standing interpretations of this important early pithouse settlement in the Mogollon Highlands of western New Mexico. As the type site for the Pine Lawn phase, conventionally dated at ca. A.C. 200 to 550, the SU site has been assumed to represent evidence for a cultural continuum between the preceramic and ceramic horizons in this …
The Ancient Southwestern Community
The Ancient Southwestern Community
The Origins of Southwestern Ceramic Containers
In the Greater American Southwest, ceramic containers were not manufactured until A.D. 1, as much as fifteen hundred years after the appearance of the first cultigens and eight hundred years after the appearance of the first ceramic figurines. A model for pottery origins developed by James A. Brown is tested using Southwestern data. Pottery containers were produced in conjunction with increasing sedentism and a greater dependence on cultivated fo…
Early Prehistoric Agriculture in the American Southwest
Early Prehistoric Agriculture in the American Southwest
The Origins of Southwestern Ceramic Containers
In the Greater American Southwest, ceramic containers were not manufactured until A.D. 1, as much as fifteen hundred years after the appearance of the first cultigens and eight hundred years after the appearance of the first ceramic figurines. A model for pottery origins developed by James A. Brown is tested using Southwestern data. Pottery containers were produced in conjunction with increasing sedentism and a greater dependence on cultivated fo…
Early agriculture and sedentism in the American Southwest
Evidence for Population Aggregation and Dispersal during the Basketmaker III Period in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
The appearance of pithouse settlements in the American Southwest that have multihabitation structures has been considered evidence for the emergence of 'village' social organization. The interpretation that village systems are reflected in pithouse architecture rests in great part on the assumption that large sites correspond to large, temporally stable social groups. In this article we examine one of the best known pithouse settlements in the So…
Early Prehistoric Agriculture in the American Southwest
Modifying Pottery and Kivas at Chaco
Patterns of use of ceramic objects and masonry architecture at Chaco Canyon in the southwestern United States indicate refurbishing of some vessels and architectural forms. Ceramic cylinder jars show evidence for obliteration of earlier designs and subsequent repainting and refiring of new designs. Communal structures, or kivas, were dismantled and rebuilt. Three possible explanations for these patterns are explored: revision of errors, restorati…
Cultural Identity and the Archaeological Construction of Historical Narratives
Ritual and Mound Formation during the Bonito Phase in Chaco Canyon
Recent socioeconomic models for the Bonito phase (ca. A.D. 850-1150) in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, rely heavily on the inference that ritual activity was a causal factor in the design and construction of architectural features. A particular example of this inferential argument concerns earthen mounds, which are widely viewed as evidence for ceremonial gatherings and the intentional creation of sacred architecture. However, a critical evaluation of…
Shabik'Eschee Village in Chaco Canyon
This study revisits an earlier publication in this journal (Wills and Windes 1989) in which a settlement model involving seasonal mobility and limited household autonomy was outlined for Shabik'eschee Village, a Basketmaker III period (ca. A.D. 400-750) site in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. We return to that work for three reasons. First, the original interpretation has been challenged and an alternative view offered in the form of a large sedentary …
Water Management at Pueblo Bonito
Recent archaeological investigations at Pueblo Bonito in Chaco Canyon reveal that residents constructed a large diversion channel during the eleventh century A.D. as dramatic growth resulted in the expansion of the building onto the main valley floor. Sediments in the diversion channel reflect repeated episodes of flooding, rather than slow moving water typically found in irrigation canals, and archaeobotanical data indicate deposition during lat…
The Transition from the Preceramic to Ceramic Period in the Mogollon Highlands of Western New Mexico
New excavations at the SU site have provided chronological and artifactual data leading to several revisions of long-standing interpretations of this important early pithouse settlement in the Mogollon Highlands of western New Mexico. As the type site for the Pine Lawn phase, conventionally dated at ca. A.C. 200 to 550, the SU site has been assumed to represent evidence for a cultural continuum between the preceramic and ceramic horizons in this …
The complex history of Pueblo Bonito and its interpretation
Pueblo Bonito in Chaco Canyon is one of the most iconic pre-Hispanic archaeological sites in the U.S. Southwest. Archaeologists refer to it as a great house in recognition of its massive scale, and often describe it as the centre of the Chaco world. Yet questions remain about Pueblo Bonito’s origins, sequence of construction, duration of occupation and abandonment. Here, the authors present new research that helps to clarify the early phases of o…
Water Management and the Political Economy of Chaco Canyon During the Bonito Phase (ca. AD 850-1200)
Agricultural intensification is widely assumed by archaeologists to have been a catalytic factor in the development of social complexity in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, between ca. AD 850 and 1200. In this perspective, water control technology resulted in surplus food production which was controlled by elites to finance the construction of massive buildings (“great houses”). However, recent fieldwork and archival research has been unable to substant…
Patterns of Prehistoric Food Production in West-Central New Mexico
The Pueblo Bonito mounds
Stable Oxygen Isotope Sourcing of Archaeological Fauna From Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
Modern datasets provide the context necessary for accurate interpretations of isotopic data from archaeological faunal assemblages. In this study, we use the oxygen isotope ratios (δ18O) of modern small mammals from Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, to quantify expected isotopic variation in a local population. The δ18O values of local, modern small mammals encompass a broad range (−6.0‰ to 4.8‰ VPDB), which is expected given the extreme seasonal variati…
Pithouse Architecture and the Economics of Household Formation in the Prehistoric American Southwest
The Bonito Paleochannel in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
During the late eleventh century AD, a episode of erosion in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, threatened to destroy portions of the Pueblo Bonito great house and possibly other large buildings. Known as the Bonito Paleochannel, this large arroyo meant the loss of significant amounts of surface water from valley-wide flooding originating in upstream and tributary sources. We believe that erosion was probably the result of an increasing size and frequency…
Agricultural suitability of the Chaco Canyon Region, New Mexico
Evaluating the Gridded Agricultural Field Model in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, Using Geophysical Remote Sensing
Recent geophysical remote sensing, including ground-penetrating radar and magnetometry, has been used to investigate three areas within Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, predicted to contain prehispanic agricultural fields. These localities include a well-known but enigmatic area of large grid patterns near the Chetro Ketl great house, which are visible from the air but not at ground level. The gridded area has been interpreted by many researchers as an …
The Archaeology of the Bonito Paleochannel Cycle at Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
This study examines the archaeological record for water management in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, in relation to the Bonito Paleochannel cycle, ca. AD 1075–1150. We present evidence for a canal system at Pueblo Bonito that was destroyed by the entrenchment of the paleochannel. This canal system is associated with the peak of great house construction. Other water control features throughout the canyon were small and date to the period of paleochanne…
On the Trail of the Lonesome Pine
The great houses of Chaco Canyon (ca. A.D. 850-1150) are widely assumed to represent cosmological meaning through the orientation of walls and other features to celestial events. Archaeological models of such relationships are considered cosmographic. A prominent feature of these models is a lone pine tree at Pueblo Bonito that has been interpreted as a 'tree of life' symbolically connecting the physical and heavenly worlds. This study suggests t…
Early agriculture and sedentism in the American Southwest
Archeology
Patterns of Prehistoric Food Production in West-Central New Mexico
Evidence for Population Aggregation and Dispersal during the Basketmaker III Period in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
The appearance of pithouse settlements in the American Southwest that have multihabitation structures has been considered evidence for the emergence of 'village' social organization. The interpretation that village systems are reflected in pithouse architecture rests in great part on the assumption that large sites correspond to large, temporally stable social groups. In this article we examine one of the best known pithouse settlements in the So…
Early Prehistoric Agriculture in the American Southwest
Early Prehistoric Agriculture in the American Southwest
The Origins of Southwestern Ceramic Containers
In the Greater American Southwest, ceramic containers were not manufactured until A.D. 1, as much as fifteen hundred years after the appearance of the first cultigens and eight hundred years after the appearance of the first ceramic figurines. A model for pottery origins developed by James A. Brown is tested using Southwestern data. Pottery containers were produced in conjunction with increasing sedentism and a greater dependence on cultivated fo…
The Transition from the Preceramic to Ceramic Period in the Mogollon Highlands of Western New Mexico
New excavations at the SU site have provided chronological and artifactual data leading to several revisions of long-standing interpretations of this important early pithouse settlement in the Mogollon Highlands of western New Mexico. As the type site for the Pine Lawn phase, conventionally dated at ca. A.C. 200 to 550, the SU site has been assumed to represent evidence for a cultural continuum between the preceramic and ceramic horizons in this …
The Ancient Southwestern Community
The Ancient Southwestern Community
U New Mexico for the Record
Ritual and Mound Formation during the Bonito Phase in Chaco Canyon
Recent socioeconomic models for the Bonito phase (ca. A.D. 850-1150) in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, rely heavily on the inference that ritual activity was a causal factor in the design and construction of architectural features. A particular example of this inferential argument concerns earthen mounds, which are widely viewed as evidence for ceremonial gatherings and the intentional creation of sacred architecture. However, a critical evaluation of…
Pithouse Architecture and the Economics of Household Formation in the Prehistoric American Southwest
Modifying Pottery and Kivas at Chaco
Patterns of use of ceramic objects and masonry architecture at Chaco Canyon in the southwestern United States indicate refurbishing of some vessels and architectural forms. Ceramic cylinder jars show evidence for obliteration of earlier designs and subsequent repainting and refiring of new designs. Communal structures, or kivas, were dismantled and rebuilt. Three possible explanations for these patterns are explored: revision of errors, restorati…
Cultural Identity and the Archaeological Construction of Historical Narratives
Agriculture and community in Chaco Canyon
On the Trail of the Lonesome Pine
The great houses of Chaco Canyon (ca. A.D. 850-1150) are widely assumed to represent cosmological meaning through the orientation of walls and other features to celestial events. Archaeological models of such relationships are considered cosmographic. A prominent feature of these models is a lone pine tree at Pueblo Bonito that has been interpreted as a 'tree of life' symbolically connecting the physical and heavenly worlds. This study suggests t…
Shabik'Eschee Village in Chaco Canyon
This study revisits an earlier publication in this journal (Wills and Windes 1989) in which a settlement model involving seasonal mobility and limited household autonomy was outlined for Shabik'eschee Village, a Basketmaker III period (ca. A.D. 400-750) site in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. We return to that work for three reasons. First, the original interpretation has been challenged and an alternative view offered in the form of a large sedentary …
Water Management at Pueblo Bonito
Recent archaeological investigations at Pueblo Bonito in Chaco Canyon reveal that residents constructed a large diversion channel during the eleventh century A.D. as dramatic growth resulted in the expansion of the building onto the main valley floor. Sediments in the diversion channel reflect repeated episodes of flooding, rather than slow moving water typically found in irrigation canals, and archaeobotanical data indicate deposition during lat…
Water Management and the Political Economy of Chaco Canyon During the Bonito Phase (ca. AD 850-1200)
Agricultural intensification is widely assumed by archaeologists to have been a catalytic factor in the development of social complexity in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, between ca. AD 850 and 1200. In this perspective, water control technology resulted in surplus food production which was controlled by elites to finance the construction of massive buildings (“great houses”). However, recent fieldwork and archival research has been unable to substant…
The complex history of Pueblo Bonito and its interpretation
Pueblo Bonito in Chaco Canyon is one of the most iconic pre-Hispanic archaeological sites in the U.S. Southwest. Archaeologists refer to it as a great house in recognition of its massive scale, and often describe it as the centre of the Chaco world. Yet questions remain about Pueblo Bonito’s origins, sequence of construction, duration of occupation and abandonment. Here, the authors present new research that helps to clarify the early phases of o…
Stable Oxygen Isotope Sourcing of Archaeological Fauna From Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
Modern datasets provide the context necessary for accurate interpretations of isotopic data from archaeological faunal assemblages. In this study, we use the oxygen isotope ratios (δ18O) of modern small mammals from Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, to quantify expected isotopic variation in a local population. The δ18O values of local, modern small mammals encompass a broad range (−6.0‰ to 4.8‰ VPDB), which is expected given the extreme seasonal variati…
Cultivating Ideas
The diffusion of agriculture should, therefore, offer an excellent view of decision-making with respect to why agriculture was a viable subsistence option. According to Berry, archaeologists have unintentionally obscured the dynamic patterns of the past by lumping processes–like the adoption of agriculture–into culture historical periods demarcated by arbitrary and perhaps meaningless temporal boundaries. The use of arbitrary excavation units is …
Evaluating the Gridded Agricultural Field Model in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, Using Geophysical Remote Sensing
Recent geophysical remote sensing, including ground-penetrating radar and magnetometry, has been used to investigate three areas within Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, predicted to contain prehispanic agricultural fields. These localities include a well-known but enigmatic area of large grid patterns near the Chetro Ketl great house, which are visible from the air but not at ground level. The gridded area has been interpreted by many researchers as an …
The Pueblo Bonito mounds
Archaeology (28 obras) · Geography (26 obras) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (23 obras) · Canyon (16 obras) · History (16 obras) · Cartography (13 obras) · Agriculture (10 obras) · Archaeology and Natural History (10 obras) · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies (10 obras) · Bonito (8 obras)