Glyphs

Glyphs is the monthly newsletter of the Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society. The society’s newsletter, is published monthly and announces talks, field trips, classes, and relevant news.  AAHS members receive Glyphs as a part of their membership benefits.   The general public is welcome to download back issues of Glyphs as they are made available. The current issue of the newsletter is sent to AAHS Members electronically or by US mail.

Glyphs Volume 73 (2022-2023)

• No 1 – July 2022 – Lived Lives: Individuals in Mimbres Pithouse and Pueblo Communities, Barbara Roth
• No 2 – August 2022 – Pecos Conference
• No 3 – September 2022 – Re-viewing the Dishes: Considering the Place of Salado Polychrome Ceramics in the Phoenix Basin, Caitlin A. Wichlacz
• No 4 – October 2022 – Chacoan Perishable Technologies in Regional Perspective, Edward A. Jolie
• No 5 – November 2022 – Arizona’s and New Mexico’s Hidden Scholars: Husband and Wife Archaeological Teams, Nancy Parezo
• No 6 – December 2022 – High Places in the Painted Desert: Exploring Salient Spaces at Petrified Forest National Park, Maxwell Forton
• No 7 – January 2023 – Winter Party
• No 8 – February 2023 – The Leupp Isolation Center Historical Site: Interconnections of Navajo and Japanese American History during World War II, Davina Two Bears

Glyphs Volume 72 (2021-2022)

• No 1 – July 2021 – Five Millennia of Living on the Landscapes of the Jornada Mogollon Region of Southern New Mexico and West Texas, Myles Miller
• N0 2 – August 2021 – Pecos Conference
• No 3 – September 2021 – Early Formal Ceremonial Complexes and Olmec-Maya Interaction, Takeshi Inomata and Daniela Triadan
• No 4 – October 2021 – Eastern Pueblo Immigrants on the Middle Gila River, Chris Loendorf
• No 5 – November 2021 – Learning and Sharing in Oaxaca, Mexico: Cross-Cultural Exchange among U.S. Puebloan Weavers, Southwestern Textile Scholars, and Oaxacan Weavers for the 2019 AAHS Traditional Technologies Seminar
• No 6 – December 2022 – Monumental Avenues of the Chaco World: New Research at the Crossroads of Infrastructure, Ontology, and Power, Robert Weiner
• No 7 – January 2022 – Annual Research Slam
• No 8 – February 2022 – Looking from the South: A Material Perspective on Prehispanic West- Northwestern Mexico and U.S. Southwest Connections, José Luis Punzo Díaz
• No 9 – March 2022 – Exploring the Rise of Navajo Pastoralism in the (Peri) Colonial U.S. Southwest, Wade Campbell
• No 10 – April 2022 – Exploring the Many Interpretations of Chaco, Stephen Plog
• No 11 – May 2022 – Hechizas: A History of Looting and Ceramic Fakes in Northwest Chihuahua, Fabiola E. Silva
• No 12 – June 2022 – Strong Foundations and Promising Futures: Collaborative Efforts Between the Professional and Avocational Archaeological Communities, Steve A. Tomka

Glyphs Volume 71 (2020-2021)

• No 1 – July 2020 – July 2020 – No Lecture
• No 2 – August 2020 – August Glyphs
• No 3 – September 2020 – Food for Thought: The Deep History of Your Dinner, Karen R. Adams
• No 4 – October 2020 – Technologies of Capturing Color: Paint Practice and Its Analysis in the U.S. Southwest, Kelsey Hanson
• No 5 – November 2020- Using the Past as a Bridge to the Future, Jeffrey H. Altschul
• No 6 – December 2020 – Holiday Party and Research Slam
• No 7 – January 2021 – The Beginnings of Plains-Pueblo Interaction—The View from Southeastern New Mexico, John D. Speth
• No 8 – February 2021 – Zooarchaeology at Pueblo Grande and the Origin of Chickens in the American Southwest (Or Why Did the Chickens Cross the Desert?), Steven R. James
• No 9 – March 2021 – Early Agriculture and Collective Action in the Southern Southwest, John R. Roney and Robert J. Hards 
• No 10 – April 2021 – Sharing an Ear of Corn: An Archaeologist’s Perspective on the Role of Food in Community Collaborations, Lisa C. Young
• No 11 – May 2021 – Eastern and Western Pueblo Divergence: A Study of network Structure and Social Transformations, Evan Giomi
• No 12 – June 2021 – Cotton Weaving in Mesoamerica and the Northern U.S. Southwest: A Study of Loom Parts and Weaving Tools Across 1,000 Years and Two Continents, Ben Bellorado and Chuck LaRue
  
  Glyphs Volume 70 (2019-2020)

• No 1 – July 2019 – A Renewed Study of a Patayan Walk-in Well on the Ranegras Plain in Far Western Arizona, Aaron Wright
• No 2 – August 2019 – 2019 Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society Awards Announced
• No 3 – September 2019 – Profound and Persistent Beauty: Results of the Petroglyph and Pictograph Recording Project in the Powder River Basin, Wyoming, Kirk Astroth
• No 4 – October 2019 – The Davis Ranch Site: A Kayenta Immigrant Enclave in Southeastern Arizona, Patrick D. Lyons
• No 5 – November 2019 – Seasons of the Sun: Experimental Timelapse Photographic Documentation of Archaeoastronomical Sites in Wupatki National Monument, David E. Purcell
• No 6 – December 2019 – Research Slam and Holiday Party
• No 7 – January 2020 – Chasing Centuries: The Search for Ancient Agave Cultivars across the Desert Southwest, Ron Parker
• No 8 – February 2020 – Studying Southwestern Archaeology, Stephen H. Lekson
• No 9 – March 2020 – Technologies of Capturing Color: Paint Practice and Its Analysis in the U.S. Southwest, Kelsey Hanson (lecture cancelled due to COVID-19)
• No 10 – April 202 Agricultural Adaptations with Socioeconomic Change in the Rio Grande, Kaitlyn Elizabeth Davis  (lecture cancelled due to COVID-19)
• No 11 – May 2020 May Glyphs
• No 12 – June 2020 June Glyphs

Glyphs Volume 69 (2018-2019)

• No 1 – July 2018 – Perforated Plates, Fish Bones, and the Archaeology of the Upper Gila River in the Fourteenth Century, Karen Gust Schollmeyer
• No 2 – August 2018 – Pecos Conference
• No 3 – September 2018 – The Forests and the Trees: Sourcing Construction Timbers at Aztec Ruins, New Mexico, Ronald H. Towner
• No 4 – October 2018 – A Drear, Bleak, Desolate Place: Tucson’s Abandoned Court Street Cemetery, J. Homer Thiel
• No 5 – November 2018 – Our Human Heritage: A Conservator’s Participation with Kennewick, Poisons, and Repatriation, Nancy Odegaard
• No 6 – December 2018 – Research Slam and Holiday Party
• No 7 – January 2019 – Tierra Perdida: New Mexico’s Piro and Tiwa Provinces, circa 1650–1700, Michael P. Bletzer
• No 8 – February 2019 – The Archaeology of Coastal Shell Middens along the Northern Gulf of California, Jonathan B. Mabry
• No 9 – March 2019 – Historical Period Ranching on the Barry M. Goldwater Range, Arizona, Scott Thompson
• No 10 – April 2019 – Living with the Canals: Water, Ecology, and Cultural Memory in the Sierra Madra Foothills, Elizabeth Eklund
• No 11 – May 2019 – Mendoza’s Aim: To Complete the Columbia Project, Richard Flint and Shirley Cushing Flint
• No 12 – June 2019 – Archaeological Fakes and Frauds in Arizona and Beyond, Matt Peeples

Glyphs Volume 68 (2017-2018)

• No 1 – July 2017 – New Discoveries and Native American Traditional Knowledge at Montezuma Castle, Matthew Guebard
• No 2 – August 2017 – Cummings, Stoner and Lindsay Awards
• No 3 – September 2017 – Zuni Heritage and Cultural Landscape Documentation through Film: Zuni and the Grand Canyon, Kurt E. Dongoske
• No 4 – October 2017 – The Myth of Tucson, Robert W. Vint
• No 5 – November 2017 – Persistence: A Comanche History of Eighteenth Century New Mexico, Lindsay M. Montgomery
• No 6 – December 2017 – Holiday Party and Research Slam
• No 7 – January 2018 – Preserving the Mimbres Pueblo Legacy: The Elk Ridge Story, Karl W. Laumbach
• No 8 – February 2018 – Protecting the Greater Chaco Landscape: The Role of Current Research and Technology, Paul F. Reed
• No 9 – March 2018 – Sights and Sounds of the Cocoraque Butte Rock Art Site, Janine Hernbrode and Peter Boyle
• No. 10 – April 2018 – Dressing Up in the Ancient Southwest: The Fashions of Fancy Footwear in the Chaco and Post-Chaco Eras, Benjamin A. Bellorado
• No. 11 – May 2018 – Accumulating Identities at the Homol’ovi Settlement Cluster, Samantha G. Fladd
• No. 12 – June 2018 – Landscapes of Resilience: O’odham Resource Use in the Colonial Pimería Alta, Nicole M. Mathwich

Glyphs Volume 67 (2016-2017)

• • No 1 – July 2016 – Digital Archaeology for the Public: An Update on the State of the Field in 2016, Douglas W. Gann

• • No 2 – August 2016 – 2016 Cummings and Stoner Awardees

• • No 3 – September 2016 – Thirty Years into Yesterday: A History of Grasshopper Archaeology, J. Jefferson Reid

• • No 4 – October 2016 – Social Contexts of Mimbres and Chaco Macaws, Patricia A. Gilman

• • No 5  – November 2016 – The Southwest Archaeological Obsidian Project and Preclassic Hohokam Social Identity, M. Steven Shackley

• • No 6 – December 2016 – Frank Hamilton Cushing as a Professional Archaeologist in the 1880s and Anthropology at the 1893 World’s Fair, David R. Wilcox

• • No 7 – January 2017 – Archaeology in the Valleys of the Sierra Madre Occidental, Sonora Mexico, Matthew C. Pailes

• • No 8 – February 2017 – O’odham History in Spanish Written Accounts, Dale S. Brenneman, Bernard Siquieros, and Ronald Geronimo

• • No 9 – March 2017 – Gambling Dice and Speaking Birds: New Approaches to Ritual Power at Chaco Canyon, Robert Weiner

• • No 10 – April 2017 –Raising Time to the Level of Explication: 13,000 Years of Adaptation in the Sonoran Desert at La Playa, SON F:10:3, John Philip Carpenter

• No 11 – May 2017 – Creating Community in Colonial Alta California, John G. Douglass
• No 12 – June 2017 –A Colorful Past: Turquoise and Social Identity in the Late Prehispanic Western Pueblo Region, A.D. 1275– 1400, Saul L. Hedquist

Glyphs Volume 66 (2015-2016)

• • No 1 – July 2015 – Irrigation, Social Changes, and Ecological Knowledge in Early Farming Societies in the Sonoran Desert, Jonathan B. Mabry

• • No 2 – August 2015 – Pecos Conference

• • No 3 – September 2015 – The Archaeology of the Human Experience, Michelle Hegmon

• • No 4 – October 2015 – Ancient Woodworking, Animal Use, and Hunting Practices in Southeastern Utah: New Insights from the Study of Early Perishable Collections, Chuck LaRue and Laurie Webster

• • No 5 – November 2015 – The Earliest Apache in Arizona: Evidence and Arguments, Deni J. Seymour

• • No 6 – December 2015 – 2nd Annual Research Slam

• • No 7 – January 2016 – Can Pueblo Corn Save African Farms? Kyle Bocinsky

• • No 8 – February 2016 – It’s All About Scale: Polity and Alliance in Prehistoric Central Arizona, David R. Abbott

• • No 9 – March 2016 – Hard Times in Dry Lands: Apocalypse in the Ancient Southwest or Business as Usual? Debra L. Martin

• • No 10 – April 2016 – Arch and Hist Ancestors, Raymond H. Thompson

• • No 11 – May 2016 – The Luke Solar Project: Middle and Late Archaic Period Subsistence and Settlement in the Western Phoenix Basin, John D. Hall

• No 12 – June 2016 – Pueblo People, Franciscan Missions, and the Arrival of the “Refuse Wind”: The Archaeology of Native American Depopulation, Reforestation, and the Dawn of the Anthropocene, Matthew Liebmann

 Glyphs Volume 65 (2014-2015)

• • No 1 – July 2014 – La Frontera: A History of the Borderlands in Southeast Arizona, Rebecca Orozco

• • No 2 – August 2014 – Pecos Conference

• • No 3 – September 2014 – What! No Chiles in the Ancient Southwest?, Paul Minnis

• • No 4 – October 2014 – Homes of Stone, Place of Dreams: The Ancient People of Flagstaff, Christian E. Downum

• • No 5 – November 2014 – Recent Work at the Guevavi Mission Site, Barnet Pavao- Zuckerman and J. Homer Thiel

• • No 6 – December 2014 – Research Slam

• • No 7 – January 2015 – Searching for Golden Empires: Epic Cultural Collisions in Sixteenth Century America, William K. Hartmann

• • No 8 – February 2015 – Women’s Health Demands Protective Cleanliness: Examining Health and Illness in Early Twentieth Century Tucson, Ashley Morton

• • No 9 – March 2015 – Life and Death at a Hohokam Ballcourt Village in the Northern Tucson Basin, Todd W. Bostwick

• • No 10 – April 2015 – The Great Battle of 1698, on the San Pedro River by Deni J. Semour

• • No 11 – May 2015 –The Ritual Practice of Hohokam Rock Art in the Phoenix Basin by Aaron M. Wright

• No 12 – June 2015 – Cochise Culture Re-revisited: 2014–2015 Excavations at Desperation Ranch by Jesse A. M. Ballenger and Jonathan B. Mabry

Glyphs Volume 64 (2013-2014)

• No 1 – July 2013 – Downtown Underground: The Archaeology of a Desert Community, William H. Doelle
• No 2 – August 2013 – Cummings and Stoner Awards
• No 3 – September 2013 – Synergies of Success: Stories of Cooperation between Professional and Avocational Archaeologists in Arizona, David R. Wilcox
• No 4 – October 2013 – New Research with the Earliest Perishable Collections from Southeastern Utah, Laurie D. Webster
• No 5 – November 2013 – Prehistory, Personality, and Place: Emil W. Haury and the Mogollon Controversy, J. Jefferson Reid
• No 6 – December 2013 – Mimbres: Its Causes and Consequences, Stephen H. Lekson
• No 7 – January 2014 –New Perspectives on the Origins of Maya Civilization: Archaeological Excavations at Ceibal, Daniela Triadan
• No 8 – February 2014 – Households, Community, and Social Power at the Harris Site, Mimbres Valley, New Mexico by Barbara J. Roth
  
• No 9 – March 2014 – Hunting, Farming, and Human Impacts on the Prehistoric Southwestern Environment by Karen Gust Schollmeyer
• No 10 – Apri l 2014 – New Perspectives on the Rock Art of Tumamoc Hill by Gayle Harrison Hartmann and Peter C. Boyle
• No 11 – May 2014 – The Ties that Bind: The Social and Religious Context of Building Murals in the Western Mesa Verde Region by Benjamin A Bellorado
• No 12 – June 2014 – Can’t We All Just Get Along? Domestic Disputes and Warfare in the Prehistoric Sonoran Desert by James T. Watson

 Glyphs Volume 63 (2012-2013)

• No 1 – July 2012  –Tne Neglected Stage of Puebloan Culture History by Arthur Rohn
• No 2 – August 2012 – Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society 2012 Awards
• No 3 – September 2012 – What is the Meaning of Mimbres Art by Patricia Gilman
• No 4 – October 2012 – Chacoan Immigration and Influence in the Middle San Juan by Paul Reed
• No 5 – November 2012 – Upward Sun River (Xaasaa Na’) Site: Climate Change, Geoarchaeology, and Human Land Use in Ice Age Alaska, Joshua D. Reuther and Ben A. Potter
• No 6 – December 2012 – It’s Monumental, but It’s Flat: The Stone Architecture of Bison Hunters in Northwestern Montana, Jesse A. M. Ballenger and María N. Zedeño
• No 7 – January 2013 – University Indian Ruin: Changing Views of the Late Classic Period, Suzanne Fish, Paul Fish, and Mark Elson
  
• No 8 – February 2013 – From Typology to Topology: Social Networks and the Dynamics of the Late Prehispanic Southwest, Barbara J. Mills
  
• No 9 – March 2013 – The Boring Side of Paquimé, Paul Minnis
• No 10 – April 2013 – Goldie Tracy Richmond: Trapper, Trader, and Quiltmaker, Carolyn O’Bagy Davis
  
• No 11 – May 2013 – Hohokam Petroglyphs at Sutherland Wash: Flower World and Gender Imagery, Janine Hernbrode and Peter Boyle
• No 12 – June 2013 – Recent Discoveries at the Hardy Site and Fort Lowell, J. Homer Thiel

Glyphs Volume 62 (2011-2012)

• No 1 – July 2011 –Tree-rings, Documents, and Oral Histories in Cebolla Creek, New Mexico by Ronald H. Towner
• No 2 – August 2011 – Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society 2011 Awards
• No 3 – September 2011 – Homol’ovi and Beyond by E. Charles Adams
• No. 4 – October 2011 – What’s in the Bag? by Janet Lever-Wood and Laurie Webster
• No 5 – November 2011 – Relic Hunters: Encounters with Antiquity in Nineteenth Century America by James E. Snead
• No 6 – December 2011 – Upward Sun River (Xaasaa Na’) Site: Climate Change, Geoarchaeology and Human Land Use in Ice Age Alaska by Joshua D. Reuther and Ben A. Potter
• No. 7 – January 2012 – The Opatas: Who They Were and What Became of Them by David Yetman
• No 8 – February 2012 – Sears Point Rock Art and Beyond: Synopsis of the 2008–2012 Recording Project, Evelyn Billo, Robert Mark, and Donald E. Weaver, Jr
• No 9 – March 2012 – Before Lake Powell: Memories of Glen Canyon, William D. Lipe
• No 10 – April 2012 – Power, Distance, and Mesoamerican-U.S. Southwestern Interaction by Ben A. Nelson
• No 11 – May 2012 – Identity and Social Transformation across the Prehispanic Cibola World, Matthew A. Peeples
• No 12 – June 2012 – Hands-on Prehistory by Allen Denoyer

Glyphs Volume 61 (2010-2011)

• No 1 – July 2010 –  Preserving the Past for the Benefit of Future Generations: Accomplishments of the Pima County Historic Preservation Bond, by Linda Mayro and Roger Anyon
• No 2 – August 2010 – 2010 Pecos Conference
• No 3 – September 2010 – The Real Dirt on Southwestern Archaeology by Raymond Thompson
• No 4 – October 2010 –  Cerros de Trincheras in the Hohokam World: A Case Study of the Cerro Prieto Site by Matthew Pailes
• No 5 – November 2010- New Clues, New Research, and New Photos of the Oldest Art in Western North America: Current Thoughts on the Western Archaic Tradition by Henry Wallace
• No 6 – December 2010 – Two Views on Zuni Migration: Traditional History and Archaeology by T.J. Ferguson
• No 7 – January 2011 – Tree-Rings, Documents, and Oral Histories in Cebolla Creek, New Mexico by Ronald Towner
• No 8 – February 2011 – The Bluff Great House and the Chaco Phenomenon – Catherine Cameron
• No 9 – March 2011 –  Chocolate, Ritual and Exchange in the American Southwest – Patricia Crown
• No 10 – April 2011 – Whiptail Ruin: Hunters and Migrants in Thirteeth-Century Tucson by Linda Gregonis
• No 11 – May 2011 – Then and Now: Lessons from the Mimbres by Margaret C Nelson
• No 12 – June 2011 –The Interplay Between Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology in Interpreting Human Skeletal Variation by Bruce E. Anderson

Glyphs Volume 60 (2009-2010)

• No 1 –  July 2009 –  History, Households, and Power in the Ancient Hohokam World, by William Graves
• No 2 – August 2009 – On the Trail of Tumamoc Graffiti: Georgie Hazel Scott, by Katherine Cerino
• No 3 – September 2009 – Zeckendorfs and Steinfelds: Merchant Princes of the Southwest, by Bettina O’Neil Lyons
• No 4 – October 2009 – Hopi Migration History, by Eric Polingyouma
• No 5 – November 2009 – Cerros de Trinceras and Warfare in Sonora, Mexico, by Randall McGuire
• No 6 – December 2009 – Fast Approaching Zero: Tree-ring Dating at Mesa Verde National Park, by Stephen E. Nash
• No 7 – January 2010 – Fact and Fiction of Ancient Puebloan Cannibalism, by John Kantner
• No 8 – Feburary 2010 – Revisiting Las Capas and its Place in Early Agriculture, by Jim Vint
• No 9 – March – 2010 – Chimney Rock and Chaco, Pinnacle Ruin and Mesa Verde: Regional Interactions in the Ancestral Pueblo World, by Stephen Lekson
• No 10 – April 2010 – Yádilla, Hádiilil: Perspectives from a Practicing Native American Archaeologist, by William B. Tsosie, Jr.
• No 11 – May 2010 – I Rented a Mule and Found Religion, by Todd A. Pitezel
• No 12 – June 2010 –Massacre at Camp Grant: Forgetting and Remembering Apache History by Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh

Glyphs Volume 59  (2008-2009)

• No 1 –  July 2008 –  Naco Arizona: Renewed Paleontological and Archaeological Prospecting on the U.S.–Mexico Border, by Jesse Ballenger
• No 2 – August 2008 – Archaeological Excavations along the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon, by Allyson Mathis, Lisa Leap, and Kimberly Spurr
• No 3 – September 2008 – Challenges of Historic Preservation along the U.S.–Mexico Boundary: Examples from Southeastern Arizona’s Sky Islands, by David Mehalic
• No 4 – October 2008 – The Coronado Expedition through Arizona and Sonora in 1539–1542: New Research, New Results, by Gayle Harrison Hartmann andWilliam K. Hartmann
• No 5 – November 2008 – The Cleansing Fire: The Quetzalcoatl Myth and Hohokam Rituals, by Stephanie Whittlesey
• No 6 – December 2008 – A Seventeenth Century Instance of Hopi Clowning? The Trial of Juan Suñi, 1659, by Anton Daughters
• No 7 – January 2009 – Drawing from the Past: Interpreting Rock Art of the Lower Pecos, by Carolyn E. Boyd
• No 8 – Feburary 2009 – On a Foundation of Potsherds: Building a New Model of the Phoenix Basin Hohokam, by David R. Abbott
• No 9 – March – 2009 – Paquimê Postscript: New work Around Casas Grandes, by Paul Minnis and Michael Whalen
• No 10 – April 2009 – Hopi Summer: Letters from First Mesa, by Carolyn O’Bagy Davis
• No 11 – May 2009 – Human Adaptation to Catastrophic Events: Lessons from the 11th Century A.D. Eruption of Sunset Crater Volcano, by Mark Elson
• No 12 – June 2009 – Migration, Aggregation, and Collapse in the Southern Southwest, by Jeffery Clark

Glyphs Volume 58  (2007-2008)

• No 1 –  July 2007 –  Large-scale Excavations at Honey Bee, a Hohokam Town in Oro Valley, by Henry Wallace
• No 2 – August 2007 – In Awato’ovi’s Shadow: Kawàyka’a in the History of Southwestern Archaeology, by Kelley Hays-Gilpin
• No 3 – September 2007 – California Basketry, by Suzanne Griset
• No 4 – October 2007 – Out of the Museum Basement: The Textiles, Baskets, and Painted Wood from Pueblo Bonito and Aztec Ruins, by Laurie Webster
• No 5 – November 2007 – Recent Investigations of the Hohokam Colonial Period in the Tucson Basin, by Eric Klucas
• No 6 – December 2007 – Preservation Archaeology at Casa Malpais, by Doug Gann
• No 7 – January 2008 – Pueblo Social History: Upstreaming into the Past, by John Ware
• No 8 – Feburary 2008 – A Millennium on the Meridian: Chaco Meridian Revisited, by Stephen H. Lekson
• No 9 – March – 2008 – Geoglyphs: Orphans of Rock Art, by John Fountain
• No 10 – April 2008 – At the Still Point of the Turning World: Chaco and Its Outliers, by Ruth Van Dyke
• No 11 – May 2008 – Issue Missing
• No 12 – June 2008 – Landscapes of Fraud: Mission Tumacácori and the Betrayal of the O’odham, by Thomas E. Sheridan

Glyphs Volume 57 – 50

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