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 […]

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 extraordinary discoveries […]

For nearly two millennia, people in the US Southwest and Mexican Northwest have maintained a significant relationship with turkeys, a bird they domesticated for their feathers, meat, and other resources. Recent archaeological studies reveal diverse regional and temporal patterns in turkey management, but how and why did people in the Mimbres Valley of southwestern New […]

Using Ancestral pueblo data as a case study on how to engage with why gender violence is so universal and pervasive across time and space. Biography Debra L. Martin is an expert in human osteology and bioarchaeology, which involves the analysis of skeletonized human remains from archaeological as well as historic and contemporary settings. She […]

Understanding Cahokia—an indigenous city opposite modern-day St. Louis—is assisted by comparing it to Chaco. Both developed at about the same time, with major cultural and political shifts at both dated to ~1040 CE. Cahokia, however, appears more similar in layout to civic-ceremonial centers to the south in the Mississippi valley and Mexico, with great mounds, […]

Contemporary Oaxacan cuisine holds iconic status, in a nation already known—and even celebrated in UNESCO’s List of Intangible Heritage—for gastronomy. Countless festivals each year are devoted to individual ingredients and special preparations, including chapulines, enchilados, mezcal, quesillo, tejate, and at least seven moles. Though the origins of specific recipes may be disputed, archaeological investigations have […]

Linda Cordell was extraordinarily active in southwestern archaeology during her entire career. She augmented her own robust research by also investing her resources in the work of others. Because of this, her influence extended well beyond her own students to those of many of her colleagues. One of her last personal endeavors was working with […]

There has been recent reporting of the discovery of what appear to be traces of sixteenth-century European presence in extreme south-central and southeastern Arizona. As a result, assertions have been made that those traces are indications of an outpost of the Coronado Expedition, called Suya in the surviving documentary record and San Gerónimo III by […]