Bones of birds of sacrifice have been recovered from excavations of archaeological dating as early as 300 B.C. to the present. A four part model is presented which relates the occurances of these specimans to socio-politico-religio-economic stages in the development of the prehistory of the southwest. THese include Paleo-Indian big game hunting, dry farming, canal irragated farming, and population aggregation phenomena as illustrated by archaeological excavation, osteological remains, and iconography in Southwestern and Mesoamerican sites.

Southwest Birds of Sacrifice

McKusick, Charmion R.

Arizona Archaeological Society

The Upland Salado people of the Globe-Miami area in central Arizona have left us an expansive trove of iconography. This volume documents a Kayenta immigrant population at Besh-Ba-Gowah. Development of Salado iconography is followed from the Old World, through the Early Postclassic International Symbol Set and Mimbres figurative pottery design, to A.D. 1440s Salado ceramic symbolism. Mesoamerican god cults and the psychoactive medicinals associated with them, as expressed in Salado iconography, are discussed in relationship to religious change and the local termination of the Salado phenomenon in this fascinating, very readable, and rigorously documented report, which is richly illustrated with nearly 200 drawings.

Upland Salado Iconography and Religious Change (The Arizona Archaeologist)

Politics & Social Sciences

Archaeology

Gila Pueblo is the type-site for the Salado Culture, whose people were the late-prehistoric Western Pueblo inhabitants of the Roosevelt Basin in east-central Arizona. Their pottery has the largest areal distribution of any Southwestern prehistoric ware. The most famous of their sites are Tonto Cliff Dwellings, near the southern shore of Roosevelt Lake, and Gila Pueblo and Besh-ba-gowah, just south of Globe. Gila Pueblo was a major village, consisting of several hundred contiguous rooms. It was a large, nucleated settlement, located at or near the center of a densely populated area. It was one of eight such settlements located along Pinal Creek which, in turn, lay astride the major trade route coming up the San Pedro River from Casas Grandes. In this comprehensive volume, Charmion R. McKusick and Jon Nathan Young detail the discoveries they made during excavations of Gila Pueblo in the 1970s. Their findings offer important insights into the influential culture that occupied the pueblo. Many of those insights are further explored in Charmion McKusick's Upland Salado Iconography and Religious Change.

The Gila Pueblo Salado (The Arizona Archaeologist)

Young, Jon Nathan

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Southwest Birds of Sacrifice

Upland Salado Iconography and Religious Change (The Arizona Archaeologist)

The Gila Pueblo Salado (The Arizona Archaeologist)