Animas-La Plata Project: Cultural resources research and sampling design
Animas-La Plata Project: Cultural resources research and sampling design

Author: James M. Potter

Publisher: Swca Environmental Consultants

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 100

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The ancient birthplace of some of the world's major religions and now a modern nuclear power, India is experiencing spectacular economic growth. In twenty-five years its population will overtake that of China, making it one of the most populous and rapidly-developing countries in the world. We all need to know more about this intriguing country. John Farndon explores the changing face of modern-day India and its fundamental contradictions. The country is leading the world in cutting edge technology and research, but it is also home to 40 per cent of the world's malnourished children. It is a liberal democracy, yet its political processes are influenced by some of the most conservative religious ideas in the world. The booming economy is at times both global and archaic. Getting to the heart of these inconsistencies, Farndon gives a fascinating insight into the country as it is now and as it will be in the future, and reveals how the changes in India will affect us all.

Animas-La Plata Project
Animas-La Plata Project

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Publisher: Swca Environmental Consultants

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 402

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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.

Animas-La Plata Project: Bioarchaeology
Animas-La Plata Project: Bioarchaeology

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Publisher: Swca Environmental Consultants

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 472

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Volume XV of the Animas-La Plata series (SWCA Anthropological Research Paper No. 10) contains thirteen chapters and multiple appendixes by a multitude of authors. The introductory chapter presents the broad archaeological context of the ALP project, explains some of the terminology used in writing about the ALP skeletal remains, and briefly characterizes the nature of the assemblage with respect to basic demographics such as the age and sex distribution of the human remains recovered from the different ALP sites. The NAGPRA process through the several stages of this long-term project is described, as is its influence on data collection. The remainder of the volume presents the results of bioarchaeological data collection and analysis conducted by different analysts who address mortuary practice, paleodemography, skeletal and dental morphology, health indicators in adults and children, biological variation, and ethnicity of the basin's Pueblo I residents. The final two chapters document the methods employed in the processed human remains (PHR) analysis from Sacred Ridge, and present the results of a first analysis of these data.

New Perspectives in Cultural Resource Management
New Perspectives in Cultural Resource Management

Author: Francis P. McManamon

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-09-14

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 1317327349

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New Perspectives in Cultural Resource Management describes the historic developments, current challenges, and future opportunities presented by contemporary Cultural Resource Management (CRM). CRM is a substantial aspect of archaeology, history, historical architecture, historical preservation, and public policy in the US and other countries. Chapter authors are innovators and leaders in the development and contemporary practice of CRM. Collectively they have conducted thousands of investigations and managed programs at local, state, tribal, and national levels. The chapters provide perspectives on the methods, policies, and procedures of historical and contemporary CRM. Recommendations are provided on current practices likely to be effective in the coming decades.

Animas-La Plata Project: Environmental studies
Animas-La Plata Project: Environmental studies

Author: James M. Potter

Publisher: Swca Environmental Consultants

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 328

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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
Animas-La Plata Project

Author: Alexander L. Wesson

Publisher: Swca Anthropological Research

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 272

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This volume of the Animas-La Plata series (SWCA Anthropological Research Paper No. 10) presents flaked stone and ground stone assemblage data and analysis methods and results. Patterning in Archaic, Basketmaker II, and Pueblo I assemblages through time and across space are addressed, and regional comparisons are made.

Animas-La Plata Project: Blue Mesa excavations
Animas-La Plata Project: Blue Mesa excavations

Author: James M. Potter

Publisher: Animas-La Plata Project

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 270

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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: Special studies
Animas-La Plata Project: Special studies

Author: James M. Potter

Publisher: Swca Research Paper

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781931901284

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At first glance it might seem as if this volume of the series is merely a collection of errant chapters that did not quite fit into any of the other volumes. Indeed, this volume provides a home for extra artifact reports, but it also houses synthetic pieces that are organized around topics rather than artifact classes per se, making it much more than a series of unrelated chapters on items of unusual media. As a result, this volume is large in scorpe and provides some of the best data regarding what transpired in the eighth and ninth centuries AD across the northern Southwest. As such, it is essential reading for anyone interested in Pueblo I research.