Excavations at seven sites in West Prescott, Arizona, provide new information on a poorly understood group.  The results suggest a "pit house-figurine" population of the Prescott Culture who reinforced social identity through production of ceramic figurines in human and animal forms.  Evidence indicates use of a range of local wild resources including large game, cultivation of maize and other domesticated plants, and trade in marine shell, Hohokam ceramics, and at least some of the Prescott Gray Ware pottery that is associated with this culture.

Prehistory in West Prescott, Arizona (Swca Research Paper)

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Animas-La Plata Project, Volume I: Cultural Resources Research and Sampling Design (Swca Anthropological Research Paper)

<p>This report compiles evidence concerning cultural affiliation with NAGPRA items recovered from the Animas–La Plata (ALP) project area near Durango, Colorado, for 25 modern tribal groups residing in Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico. Though a small percentage of the cultural resources in the ALP project area represent earlier and later cultures, most identified archaeological remains, including NAGPRA items, date to the Pueblo I period (ca. A.D. 700–900). A preponderance of geographic, biological, oral tradition, linguistic, and archaeological evidence reasonably leads to the conclusion that the modern Keresan Pueblos of Acoma, Laguna, and Zia are the closest cultural affiliates to the Pueblo I period sites in the ALP project area.</p>

Animas-La Plata Project, Volume II: Cultural Affiliation Study (Swca Anthropological Research Paper, 10)

Perry, Elizabeth M.

This volume of the Animas–La Plata series describes the results of excavations on Blue Mesa, a borrow area just south of Durango, Colorado, as part of the Animas–La Plata (ALP) Project.  In 2002 and 2003, SWCA excavated seven sites, all of which dated to the early Pueblo I period (AD 750–850): four habitations and three limited activity sites.  One of the limited activity sites also contained a small Basketmaker II component and a Paleoindian component.  The authors use these limited excavation data in conjunction with previous survey data to address issues of chronology, population, and settlement on the mesa and to make comparisons with nearby Ridges Basin, the location of the ALP reservoir.

Animas-La Plata Project, Volume III: Blue Mesa Excavations

Chuipka, Jason P.

This volume of the Animas-La Plata series describes the results of excavations at 12 sites in the eastern end of the Ridges Basin approximately 2 miles south of Durango, Colorado, as part of the Animas-La Plata (ALP) Project. Between 2002 and 2005 SWCA excavated these sites, all of which dated to the early Pueblo I period (AD 750-825). All of the sites in the Eastern Basin were small habitation sites consisting of one or two pit structures with associated surface structures, extramural features, and middens. The volume is concluded with a summary discussion of chronology, architecture, material culture, population, subsistence, and settlement within both local and regional cultural contexts.

4: Animas-La Plata Project, Ridges Basin Excavation: Eastern Basin Sites;Animas-la Plata Project; SWCA Anthropological Research Paper

This volume of the Animas-La Plata series describes the results of excavations at 7 sites in the northern and central portions Ridges Basin approximately 2 miles south of Durango, Colorado, as part of the Animas-La Plata (ALP) Project. Though not as tightly aggregated as other Pueblo I habitation clusters, the North-central Cluster contained unique pockets of aggregation in the form of multiple-pit-structure habitations. These multiple-habitation sites produced perhaps the most variable and least cohesive assemblage of Pueblo I features and artifacts in the project area and, as such, they represent some of the most interesting sites in the area. The volume is concluded with a summary discussion of chronology, architecture, material culture, population, subsistence, and settlement within both local and regional cultural contexts.

Animas-La Plata Project Volume VII: Ridges Basin Excavations: North-Central Sites (SWCA Anthropological Research Papers)

This volume of the Animas-La Plata series describes the results of excavations at 9 sites at the western end Ridges Basin approximately 2 miles south of Durango, Colorado, as part of the Animas-La Plata (ALP) Project.  The Western Cluster encompassed two and possiblythree groupings of single small Pueblo I habitations around thevillage site known as the Sacred Ridge site. The volume is concluded with a summary discussion of chronology, architecture, material culture, population, subsistence, and settlement within both local and regional cultural contexts.

Animas-La Plata Project Volume VIII: Ridges Basin Excavations: Western Basin Sites (Swca Anthropological Research Paper)

This volume of the Animas–La Plata series (SWCA Anthropological Research Paper No. 10) describes the results of excavations at one Late Archaic site, three Basketmaker II sites, nineteen Pueblo I limited activity sites, and six undated artifact scatters in Ridges Basin, located approximately 2 miles south of Durango, Colorado. The volume concludes with a summary discussion of chronology, architecture, material culture, population, subsistence, and settlement within both local and regional cultural contexts.

Animas-La Plata Project Volume IX: Ridges Basin Excavations: Archaic, Basketmaker II, and Limited Activity Sites (SWCA Anthropological Research Papers)

This volume of the Animas–La Plata series (SWCA Anthropological Research Paper No. 10) contains three sections: geomorphological studies, archaeobotanical studies, and vertebrate faunal studies. The first section comprises studies of landscape change and stability, soil fertility, and paleoclimate in Ridges Basin. The second section comprises six chapters describing and interpreting modern environmental, macrobotanical, and pollen analyses conducted as part of the project. The final section describes and interprets the vertebrate faunal data recovered during project excavations.

Animas-La Plata Project Volume X: Environmental Studies (Swca Anthropological Research Papers)

<p>This volume of the Animas–La Plata series (SWCA Anthropological Research Paper No. 10) describes the results of excavations at the largest and most complex site in the Animas–La Plata project area, the Sacred Ridge site (5lp245). Located in Ridges Basin approximately 8 km (4.8 miles) southwest of Durango, Colorado, Sacred Ridge was a multiple habitation site containing 22 pit structures and dating to the early Pueblo I period (A.D. 750–850). The volume concludes with a discussion of chronology, architecture, material culture, population, subsistence, and settlement at the site and in comparison with nearby sites.</p>

Animas-La Plata Project Volume XII: Ridges Basin Excavations: The Sacred Ridge Site (Swca Anthropological Research Paper)

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