Since prehistory, our ancestors have employed the sky as a clock, calendar, and a means for navigation and surveying.  Mesoamerican cultures developed sophisticated and systematic practices of astronomical observations and measurement.  Evidence suggests that the native people of the American Southwest were influenced by these neighboring cultures and incorporated some of this knowledge into their […]

Río Azul is an ancient Maya city located in NE Peten in Guatemala. In the late 70’s the site was heavy looted and artifacts were being sold at the auction market around the world. In the 80’s an Archaeological Project took place and they documented all the looter’s excavations and the tombs they have emptied, […]

Case studies from various nineteenth-century sites where material culture reveals evidence of prostitution, including a brothel in Five Points—New York City’s most notorious neighborhood—and parlor houses a few blocks from the White House and Capitol Hill. lso Brothels in the American West are also looked at—in urban Los Angeles and in frontier sites and mining […]

Abstract to come. Keith Kintigh Keith W. Kintigh is an American anthropologist and professor emeritus at Arizona State University. He specializes in quantitative archaeology and the archaeology of the Southwestern United States, conducting field research on Ancestral Pueblo sites in the Cibola region of New Mexico.

  For more than 900 years, humans have left their mark on the neighborhood on the south side of the Santa Fe River known as Barrio de Analco. Within the Barrio de Analco, conclusive physical evidence of its past residents often has been difficult to uncover. The vague traces left by Ancestral Puebloan, Hispano, Mestizo, […]

Aspen CRM Solutions recently completed archaeological surveys of the monument units surrounding the Tompiro pueblo of Abó and the Tiwa pueblo of Quaraí at Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument near Mountainair, New Mexico, both of which contain the remains of a large pueblo and a Spanish Colonial mission.  The occupation sequences for both are now […]

Virtual Lecture Although historians and Tibetologists since the early 20th C have collected and interpreted religious documents describing in general terms rituals of death and safe passage to the afterlife among the early peoples of the Himalayas, the archaeological record offered little insight into them. But recent research by archaeologists across the region have made […]