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Cerro Portezuelo

Posted January 4th, 2008 by rhowe
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Theme: 
Societies and Their Natural Environments

Description:

Team Members: 
  • George Cowgill, SHESC, Co-Principal Investigator 
  • Deborah Nichols, Dartmouth College, Co-Principal Investigator
  • Sarah Clayton
  • Destiny Crider 

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    Urbanization and Empire at the Aztec City of Calixtlahuaca (Toluca Valley, Mexico)

    Posted September 28th, 2007 by elaine
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    Theme: 
    Urban Societies

    Description

    Publications: 

    Smith, Michael E. (2003)
    Postclassic Urbanism at Calixtlahuaca: Reconstructing the Unpublished Excavations of José García Payón. Report to the Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies, Inc. Posted on the internet at: http://www.famsi.org/reports/01024/.

    Smith, Michael E., Jennifer Wharton, and Melissa McCarron (2003)
    Las ofrendas de Calixtlahuaca. Expresión Antropológica 19:35-53.

    Smith, Michael E. (2005)
    Los materiales arqueológicos de Calixtlahuaca y la sociedad posclásica de Matlatzinco. Paper presented at the VII Coloquio Internacional sobre Otopames, El Colegio Mexiquense, Toluca, Mexico. 

    Smith, Michael E., Juliana Novic, Peter C. Kroefges, and Angela Huster (2007)
    A New Map of the Aztec-Period City of Calixtlahuaca in Central Mexico. Antiquity 81:"Project Gallery" online: http://www.antiquity.ac.uk/ProjGall/smith1/index.html. 

    Tomaszewski, Brian M. (2006)
    A Cost-Effective Approach to GPS/ArcGIS Integration for Archaeological Surveying. ArcUser Fall 2006.  http://www.esri.com/news/arcnews/fall06articles/a-cost-effective.html.

    Umberger, Emily (2007)
    Historia del arte e Imperio Azteca: la evidencia de las esculturas. Revista Española de Antropología Americana 37:165-202.

    Team Members: 
    • Michael E. Smith (PI)
    • Lawrence B. Conyers, University of Colorado, Denver (participant)
    • Charles D. Frederick, University of Texas, Austin (participant)
    • Cynthia Heath-Smith, Arizona State University (participant)
    • Dorothy Hosler, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (participant)
    • Susan M. Norris, Fordham University (participant)
    • Brian Tomaszewski, Pennsylvania State University (participant)
    • Emily Umberger, Arizona State University (participant)
    • Juliana Novic, Arizona State University
    • Angela Huster, Arizona State University
    • Caitlin Guthrie, Arizona State University
    • Various unnamed graduate and undergraduate students from other universities in the U.S., Mexico, and Europe.
    Funding Sources: 

    National Science Foundation ($252,000)

    Partnerships: 

    Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Consejo de Arqueología (Mexico City, Mexico)
    Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Centro INAH Estado de México (Toluca, Mexico)
    Colegio Mexiquense (Toluca, Mexico)
    Instituto Mexiquense de Cultura (Toluca, Mexico)

    Proyecto Arqueologico La Mixtequilla

    Posted September 28th, 2007 by elaine
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    Theme: 
    Global Dynamics and Regional Interactions

    Description

    Since 1984 Dr. Barbara Stark has directed survey and mapping in the
    western Lower Papaloapan basin to investigate settlement patterns,
    economy, and political organization from a long-term regional
    perspective in south-central Veracruz.

    Publications: 

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    Team Members: 

    Barbara L. Stark (Principal Investigator)
    The team has included students and researchers from the Universidad
    Veracruzana, the Escuela Nacional de Antropologia e Historia, Tulane
    University, the University of Michigan, and the University of Arizona.
    ASU participants are listed below:

      Current ASU Graduate Students

    • Oralia Cabrera
    • Erin Chase
    • Chris Garraty
    • Alanna Ossa
    • Neil Miller
    • Kristin Sullivan

      • Former ASU Undergraduate and Graduate Students

    • Mark Brodbeck
    • Simon Bruder
    • L. Antonio Curet
    • Bradley Ensor
    • Robert Gasser
    • Carol Griffith
    • Lynette Heller
    • Todd Howell
    • Kevin Johns
    • Ellie Large
    • Suzanne Lewenstein
    • Michael Ohnersorgen
    • Ian Robertson
    • Thanet Skoglund
    Funding Sources: 

    National Science Foundation
    National Geographic Society
    Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research

    Population Affinity Assessment of Glen Canyon and Navajo Reservoir Prehistoric Skeletal Remains

    Posted September 28th, 2007 by elaine
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    Theme: 
    Human Origins, Evolution and Diversity

    Description

    The ultimate objective of the project is synthesis and interpretation
    of the physical anthropology data from skeletal remains excavated from
    the following Southwestern regions:

    1) Glen Canyon Project (Kayenta Anasazi and northern San Juan Anasazi);

    2) Navajo Reservoir Project (northern San Juan Anasazi).

    Team Members: 
    • Diane Hawkey, Co-Principal Investigator
    • Christy G. Turner II Co-Principal Investigator
    • Kristen Hartnett Research Associate
    Funding Sources: 

    Bureau of Reclamation ($57,000)

    The Mixtec Noble House in Colonial Mexico

    Posted September 28th, 2007 by elaine
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    Theme: 
    Culture, Heritage and Identity

    This project employs Lévi-Strauss's model of the "house society" to
    study the colonial indigenous nobility of the Mixteca region of Oaxaca,
    Mexico. The focus is on noble status and noble estates, and the
    associated practices of inheritance, succession, and marriage alliance.
    Data come from various archives in the cities of Oaxaca, Puebla, Mexico
    City, and Seville, Spain.

    Publications: 

    John K. Chance (2004)

    "La casa noble mixteca: Una hipótesis sobre el cacicazgo prehispánico y colonial," in Estructuras políticas en el Oaxaca antiguo.
    Memoria de la Tercera Mesa Redonda de Monte Albán. Nelly M. Robles
    García, ed. Mexico City: Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia.
    Pp. 1-26.

    Team Members: 

    John K. Chance, Principal Investigator

    Funding Sources: 

    Fulbright-Hays ($41,000)

    Long-Term Coupled Socioecological Change in the American Southwest and Northern Mexico

    Posted September 28th, 2007 by elaine
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    Theme: 
    Societies and Their Natural Environments

    Description

    Team Members: 
    • Margaret C. Nelson, Principal Investigator, SHESC
    • Michelle Hegmon, Principal Investigator, SHESC
    • Keith W. Kintigh, Principal Investigator, SHESC
    • Ben A. Nelson, Principal Investigator, SHESC
    • John M. Anderies, Principal Investigator, School of Life Sciences
    • Dave Abbott, SHESC
    • Charles Redman, SHESC
    • Arleyn Simon, SHESC
    • Katherine Spielmann, SHESC
    • Sander van der Leeuw, SHESC
    • Ann Kinzig, School of Life Sciences
    • Peter McCartney, International Insitute for Sustainability
    • Charlene Saltz, International Institute for Sustainability
    • Brenda Shears, International Institue for Sustainabiloty
    • Nikol Grant, Internaitonal Institute for Sustainability
    • Gregson Schachner, graduate student, SHESC
    • Karen Schollmeyer, graduate student, SHESC
    • Scott Ingram, graduate student, SHESC
    • M. Jansson
    Funding Sources: 

    National Science Foundation, Submission Pending

    Landscape Reconstruction in the Malpaso Valley, Zacatecas, Mexico

    Posted September 28th, 2007 by elaine
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    Theme: 
    Societies and Their Natural Environments

    Description

    Publications: 

    Elliott, Michelle (2002)

    Paleoethnobotanical Perspectives on Land Use and Environment in
    Mesoamerica's Northern Frontier. Paper presented at the 66th Annual
    Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans,
    Louisiana.

    Elliott, Michelle, Christopher T. Fisher, Roberto S. Molina Garza, Blanca Mata and Ben A. Nelson (2003)
    An Interdisciplinary Approach to Landscape Evolution
    in the Malpaso Valley, Zacatecas, Mexico. Poster presented at the 68th
    Annnual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Milwaukee.

    Nelson, Ben A. and Vincent W. Schiavitti (2003)
    Survey in Malpaso Valley, Zacatecas, Mexico. Poster
    presented at the 68th Annual Meeting of the Society for American
    Archaeology, Milwaukee.

    Mata-González, Blanca M., Roberto S. Molina-Garza, Christopher T. Fisher, and and Ben A. Nelson Michelle Elliott (2002)
    Evidencia de Cambio Climático-Ambiental Reciente en
    la Mesa Central, Zacatecas: Geomorfología, Estratigrafía del
    Cuaternario y Magnetismo de Rocas. GEOS 2(22):1100-1101.

    Team Members: 
      Principal Investigators:

    • Ben A. Nelson
    • Chris Fisher

      • Faculty Associate:

    • Roberto Molina Garza

      • Participants:

    • Michelle Elliott
    • Blanca M. Mata-González
    Funding Sources: 

    National Science Foundation

    Partnerships: 

    Kent State University
    Colorado State University
    Universidad Autónoma Nacional de México, Unidad de Geociencias

    Curation of Archaeological Materials in Cuernavaca, Mexico

    Posted September 27th, 2007 by Anonymous
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    Theme: 
    Culture, Heritage and Identity

    This project will construct an archaeological storage facility in Cuernavaca, Mexico, for archaeological artifacts excavated at sites in the Mexican state of Morelos.

    Publications: 

    Team Members: 
    • Michael E. Smith, Principal Investigator
    • David C. Grove (participant), University of Florida
    • Kenneth G. Hirth (participant), Pennsylvania State University
    Funding Sources: 

    National Science Foundation ($128,427)

    Partnerships: 

    Instituto Nacional de Anthropología e Historia (Mexico) 



    Culture, Conservation and the State in Mexico

    Posted September 27th, 2007 by Anonymous
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    Theme: 
    Societies and Their Natural Environments

    Anthropologist Nora Haenn has been using ethnography to explore connections between state policies and rainforest protection. Her work addresses a series of questions that now challenge human-environment studies: How is the environment both an entity outside human society and the product of how people think and relate to each another? How should we prioritize the ecological, ideological, social, political, economic, and historical factors that create today's environments?

    Publications: 

    Haenn, Nora. (2005)
    Fields of Power, Forests of Discontent: Culture, Conservation, and the State in Mexico, University of Arizona Press.

    Haenn, Nora. and Richard Wilk, eds. (2005)
    Environment in Anthropology: Readings in Culture, Nature, and Sustainable Living. New York: New York University Press.

    Haenn, Nora (in press)
    The Changing and Enduring Ejido: A State and Regional Examination of Mexico's Land Tenure Counter-Reforms. Land Use Policy.

    Haenn, Nora (2003)
    "Risking Environmental Justice: Culture, Conservation, and Governance at Calakmul, Mexico" in Social Justice in Latin America. Susan Eckstein and Timothy Wickham- Crawley, eds., pp.81-101. New York: Routledge Press.

    Haenn, Nora (2002)
    "Nature Regimes in Southern Mexico: A History of Power and Environment" in Ethnology 41(1):1-26.

    Haenn, Nora (2000)
    "Biodiversity is Diversity in Use: Community-based Conservation in the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve" in Amrica Verde. Arlington, VA: The Nature Conservancy. (Additional Spanish language version published 2001.)

    Haenn, Nora (1999)
    "Working Forests: Conservation and Conflict in Tropical Mexico" in Delaware Review of Latin American Studies. 1(1).

    Haenn, Nora (1999)
    "The Power of Environmental Knowledge: Ethnoecology and Environmental Conflicts in Mexican Conservation" in Human Ecology. 27(3): 477-491.

    Haenn, Nora (1999)
    "Community Formation in Frontier Mexico: Accepting and Rejecting Migrants," in Human Organization. 58(1):36-43.

    Haenn, Nora. (1997)
    "New Rural Poverty: The Tangled Web of Environmental Protection and Economic Aid in Southern Mexico," Journal of Poverty, vol. 1:1 (1997). 

    Team Members: 

    Nora Haenn, Principal Investigator

    Bioarchaeology of Copán, Honduras

    Posted September 27th, 2007 by Anonymous
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    Theme: 
    Biological, Social and Cultural Dimensions of Health

    This project focuses on the life histories and population biology of individuals interred within the Copán Pocket during the first millennium after Christ. 

    Publications: 

    Jane E. Buikstra, T.D. Price, J.H. Burton, and L.E. Wright. Tombs from Copan’s Acropolis: A Life History Approach. In Understanding Early Classic Copan. Ellen E. Bell, Marcello A. Canuto, and Robert J. Sharer, eds., Chapter 1. pp. 191-212. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (2004).

    Kenneth C. Nystrom, Jane E. Buikstra, and Ethan M. Braunstein. Radiographic Evaluation of Early Classic Elites from Copán, Honduras. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 5: 196-207 (2005).

    Kenneth C. Nystrom, and Jane E. Buikstra. Trauma induced changes in Diaphyseal Cross-Sectional Geometry in Elites from Copán, Honduras. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. (in press) 

    Team Members: 
    • Jane E. Buikstra
    • Robert Sharer
    • William Fash
    • Loa Traxler
    • Douglas Price
    • James Burton
    • Jennifer Piehl
    • E. Wyllys Andrews V
    • Katie Miller
    • Allan Maca
    Funding Sources: 

    NSF
    National Geographic Society
    FAMSI
    Ahua Foundation 

    Partnerships: 

    Instituto Hondureño de Antropología y Historia

    University of Wisconsin Laboratory of Archaeological Chemistry
    University of Pennsylvania, Museum of Archaeology
    Harvard University, Dept. Anthropology
    Tulane University

    Colgate University

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