Archaeological investigations along U.S. 191 Near Wide Ruins, Apache County, Arizona
By: edited by Sarah A Herr ; contributions by Jenny L. Adams [and others]
Contributors: Arizona. Department of Transportation. Environmental and Enhancement Group; Arizona. Department of Transportation. Environmental Planning Group
Series: Technical report -- no. 2007-06; Technical report (Center for Desert Archaeology (Tucson, Ariz.)) -- 2007-06.
Publisher: Desert Archaeology, Inc.
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Tucson, Arizona
Language: eng
Number of pages: 420
Subjects: Antiquities; Navajo culture; Hopi culture; Zuni culture; Excavations (Archaeology); Indians of North America
Notes: "TRACS No. 191 AP 390 H 6025 01C, Project No. U-191-E-505."

"Prepared for Arizona Department of Transportation, Environmental and Planning Group, Phoenix, Arizona."

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Environment ; History ; Previous research ; Research questions ; Field methods : general ; Ethnography ; Analyses ; The storied landscape / Sarah A. Herr; title: Landforms, soils, and indigenous agricultural potential near Wide Ruins, Apache County, Arizona. Environmental setting ; Site geomorphology and stratigraphy ; Regional correlations ; Soil-geomorphic context of indigenous agriculture / Gary Huckleberry; title: The Red Ant Site / Sarah A. Herr; title: The Black Ant Site / Jenny L. Adams; title: The Kanine Site / Sarah A. Herr; title: The Kin Ten Ten Site / Sarah A. Herr; title: Small sites in the sand dunes / Sarah A. Herr; title: Osteological documentation of human burials from the U.S. 191 Wide Ruins Archaeological Project / Kimberly Spurr; title: Ceramic production and consumption in the Wide Ruins area / Sarah A. Herr; title: Wide Ruins flaked stone / R. Jane Silva; title: Ground stone tools and ecofacts recovered during the Wide Ruins Archaeological Project / Jenny L. Adams; title: Faunal remains from the U.S. 191 Wide Ruins Archaeological Project. Wide Ruins vertebrate faunal material ; Wide Ruins shell analysis / Jennifer A. Waters and Arthur W. Vokes; title: Plant macroremains and resource use near Wide Ruins, Arizona / Michael W. Diehl, Nicholas Beale, and Luther Leith; title: Wide Ruins pollen analysis / Susan J. Smith; title: Navajo ethnographic study for the U.S. 191 Wide Ruins Archaeological Project. Environmental and cultural setting ; Research methods ; Wide Ruins Navajo traditional history ; Navajo traditions and concerns about Anasazis ; Traditional cultural places in or near the project area / Klara Kelley and Harris Francis; title: Pueblo perspectives on the ancient landscapes of Wide Ruins. Understanding a place ; Time, space, and traditional knowledge ; The people who went north : Zuni landscape perspectives ; The ancestors are here : Hopi landscape perspectives ; Conclusions: A shared community, a shared authority / Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh; title: What happened here? / Sarah A. Herr; title: Soil profile descriptions / Gary Huckleberry; title: Ceramic wares and eypes / Sarah A. Herr; title: Supplemental groundstone data / Jenny L. Adams; title: Supplemental faunal data from the U.S. 191 Wide Ruins Archaeological Project / Jennifer A. Waters; title: Wide Ruins pollen results / Susan J. Smith; title: Petrographic data / Elizabeth J. Miksa.