Archaeology without Borders: Contact, Commerce, and Change in the U.S. Southwest and Northwestern Mexico

List of Figures

Figure 3.1. Map of Mexico and the southwestern United States. Figure 3.2. Map of Chihuahua. Figure 3.3. Map of southwestern Chihuahua, showing location of sites discussed in the text. Figure 3.4. View of site A33-02, facing southeast. Figure 3.5. Excavation profile of site A33-02. Figure 5.1. Regional study areas: western San Juan Basin, northern San Juan Basin, and northern Rio Grande Valley. Figure 5.2. Period 2 plant ubiquity in the western San Juan Basin. Figure 5.3. Periods 1–3 plant ubiquity in the northern San Juan Basin. Figure 5.4. Periods 1–3 plant ubiquity in the northern Rio Grande Valley. Figures ix 38 39 43 47 48 73 74 75 76  Figure 5.5. Maize ubiquity by time period and region. Figure 6.1. Global comparison of archaeological sequence durations by system state. Figure 6.2. Map of projected duration of transition to agriculture for Mexico. Figure 6.3. Projected sequence comparison for a few locations in Mexico. Figure 11.1. Nested relationships between mobile hunters and gatherers. Figure 11.2. Primary sandal elements. Figure 11.3. Expected distribution of stylistic characteristics within the nested social organization of mobile hunters and gatherers. Figure 11.4. Locations of sites cited in the text. Figure 11.5. Cordage attributes. Figure 11.6. Type 5 points. Figure 11.7. Length versus proximal shoulder angle from Bat Cave (BC), Tularosa Cave (TC), Cordova Cave (CC), and Fresnal Shelter (FS). Figure 11.8. Two-warp plain-weave sandal from Tularosa Cave. Figure 11.9. Four-warp plain-weave sandal from Fresnal Shelter. Figure 11.10. Four-warp scuffer-toe sandal from Fresnal Shelter. Figure 11.11. Two-warp plain-weave sandal with fishtail heel from Fresnal Shelter. Figure 12.1. The Northern San Juan region. Figure 12.2. Pottery-band murals in kivas. Figure 12.3. Pottery-band murals on storage rooms, and murals that blend landscape and container imagery. Figure 12.4. Decorated kiva from site 42SA9310, southeastern Utah. Figure 13.1. Four unfinished burden baskets with deliberate breaks in the banding line, Canyon del Muerto. Figure 13.2. Homolovi Polychrome bowl with interior and exterior (in mirror) broken banding lines. Figure 13.3. Pathways in petroglyphs. Figure 13.4. Early painted pottery with design based on coiled basket. Figure 13.5. Banding line on Jeddito Black-on-yellow bowl from Homol’ovi I with post-firing line break scratched in. Figure 13.6. Close-up of triple line break at the rim of a bowl from Santo Domingo, probably early twentieth century. Figure 14.1. Map of the Pueblo Southwest showing the location of Hummingbird Pueblo and Pottery Mound in the Lower Rio Puerco study area. Figure 14.2. Map of Pottery Mound. Figure 14.3. Map of Hummingbird Pueblo. Figure 14.4. Interiors of four Pottery Mound Polychrome bowls and one bowl fragment from Pottery Mound showing examples of icons found on fourteenth- and fifteenth-century pottery in the study area. Figures 79 96 100 101 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 231 232 233 244 259 260 262 264 265 266 272 273 274 276 xi Figure 17.1. Region referred to in the text as the Northwest, consisting of northwestern Mexico and the southwestern United States. Figure 17.2. Cultures and chronological stages discussed in the text. Figure 17.3. Partial view of the Loma Alta altar showing some of the sculptures. Figure 17.4. The two sculptural traditions of the Loma Alta phase of Purépecha Culture and the Alta Vista–Vesuvio phase of the Chalchihuites Culture. Figure 17.5. Fragment of a ritual vessel from Loma Alta decorated with post-firing painting in the stripped investment technique. Figure 17.6. The Bird-Serpent, Loma Alta phase, site of Loma Alta. Figure 17.7. Human-serpent composite figures from Loma Alta and the Chalchihuites area. Figure 17.8. Figures with bows and arrows on ceramics and rock art. Figure 18.1. (a) Engraving associated with the Ehécatl, the wind spirit in central Mexico, from San Quintín Canyon, Durango; (b) cruciform figure from a site in the Sierra Madre of Durango; (c) figure of Kokopelli from Piedra de Amolar; (d) butterfly-style hairdo found at Tepehuanes; (e) jar from La Ferrería, Durango, depicting a figure with only one leg. Figure 18.2. (a) Dancers with braids and leather anklets...