Supplemental Readings for Archaeology Southwest Magazine Vol

Supplemental Readings for Archaeology Southwest Magazine Vol. 28, Nos. 3 & 4

COMPILED BY WILLIAM D. LIPE

Aitchison, Stewart - A Natural History History of Cedar Mesa

Aitchison, Stewart 2005 A Few Extraordinary Animals of Southeastern Utah. Blue Mountain Shadows 33:11-20.

Armstrong, David M. 1982 Mammals of the Canyon Country. Canyonlands Natural History Association, Moab, UT.

Behle, William H., Ella D. Sorensen, and Clayton M. White 1985 Utah Birds: A Revised Checklist. Utah Museum of Natural History Occasional Publication Number 4. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City, UT.

Elias, Scott A. 1997 The Ice-Age History of Southwestern Parks. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC and London.

Fillmore, Robert 2011 Geological Evolution of the Colorado Plateau of Eastern Utah and Western Colorado. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City, UT.

Lanner, Ronald M. 1981 The Pinon Pine: A Natural and Cultural History. University of Nevada Press, Reno, NV.

Waring, Gwendolyn L. 2011 A Natural History of the Intermountain West: Its Ecology and Evolutionary Story. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City, UT.

Zeveloff, Samuel I. 1988 Mammals of the Intermountain West. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City, UT

Aitchison, Stewart - San Juan Mission

Aitchison, Stewart 2005 A Guide to Southern Utah’s Hole-in-the-Rock Trail. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.

Miller, David E. 1966 Hole-in the-Rock: An Epic in the Colonization of the Great American West. University of Utah Press, SLC.

Hole-in-the-Rock Foundation web site:

Supplement to Archaeology Southwest Magazine Vol. 28, Nos. 3 & 4 (Summer and Fall, 2014) | www.archaeologysouthwest.org Blackburn, Fred M. — Early Archaeological Expeditions in Greater Cedar Mesa

Atkins, Victoria (editor) 1993 Anasazi Basketmaker; Papers from the 1990 Wetherill-Grand Gulch Symposium, Cultural Resource Series No. 24. Bureau of Land Management, Salt Lake City Utah. Available at http://digital.lib. usu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/Elusive/id/5810

Blackburn, Fred M 2006 The Wetherills: Friends of Mesa Verde. Durango Herald Small Press, Durango, CO.

Blackburn, Fred, and Ray Williamson 1997 Cowboys and Cave Dwellers: Basketmaker Archaeology in Utah’s Grand Gulch. School of American Research Press, Santa Fe. Available at the Utah State University Digital Library:

Blackburn, Fred M., and Victoria M. Atkins 1993 Handwriting on the Wall: Applying Inscriptions to Reconstruct Historic Archaeological Expeditions. In Anasazi Basketmaker: Papers from the 1990 Wetherill-Grand Gulch Symposium, edited by Victoria Atkins, pp. 41–102. Cultural Resource Series No. 24, Bureau of Land Management, Salt Lake City, Utah.

Knipmeyer, James 2006 In Search of a Lost Race: The Illustrated American Exploring Expedition of 1892. Xlibris Corporation.

Cole, Sally J. — Petroglyphs and Paintings of Greater Cedar Mesa

Charles, Mona C., and Sally J. Cole 2006 Chronology and Cultural Variation in Basketmaker II. Kiva 72(2):167–216.

Cole, Sally J. 1993 Basketmaker Rock Art at the Green Mask Site, Southeastern Utah. In Anasazi Basketmaker: Papers from the 1990 Wetherill-Grand Gulch Symposium, edited by Victoria Atkins, pp. 193–220. Cultural Resource Series No. 24, Bureau of Land Management, Salt Lake City.

1994 Roots of Anasazi and Pueblo Imagery. Kiva 60(2):289–311.

2006 Imagery and Tradition: Murals of the Mesa Verde Region. In The Mesa Verde World, edited by David Grant Noble, pp. 93–99. School of American Research Press, Santa Fe, NM.

2009 Legacy on Stone: Rock Art of the Colorado Plateau and Four Corners Region. Johnson Books, Boulder, CO.

Grant, Campbell 1978 Canyon de Chelly: The People and Rock Art. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.

Schaafsma, Polly 1980 Indian Rock Art of the Southwest. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque.

Supplement to Archaeology Southwest Magazine Vol. 28, Nos. 3 & 4 (Summer and Fall, 2014) | www.archaeologysouthwest.org Davis, William E. and Jonathan D. Till — The Lime Ridge Clovis Site

Agenbroad, Larry D., and Jim I. Mead 1989 Quaternary Geochronology and Distribution of Mammuthus on the Colorado Plateau. Geology 17:861–864.

Betancourt, Julio L., and Norma Biggar 1985 Preliminary Assessment of Late Quaternary Vegetation and Climate of Southeastern Utah Based on Analyses of Packrat Middens. Office of Nuclear Waste Isolation, Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus, Ohio.

Coats, Larry L., Jim I. Mead, and R. Scott Anderson 2003 Late Pleistocene Life on the Colorado Plateau: Faunal and Floral Evidence from the National Parks, Arizona and Utah. Paper presented at the Geological Society of America, Session No. 65: Paleoindian Western North America: Climate and Life at the Last Glacial Termination, Seattle.

Davis, William E. 1989 The Lime Ridge Clovis Site. Utah Archaeology 2:66–76.

Davis, William E., and Gary M. Brown 1986 The Lime Ridge Clovis Site. Current Research in the Pleistocene 3:1–3.

Malotki, Ekkehart, and Henry D. Wallace 2011 Columbian Mammoth Petroglyphs From the San Juan River Near Bluff, Utah, United States. Rock Art Research 28(2):143–152.

Vance, Meghann M. 2011 Stone Without Bones: Reconstructing the Lime Ridge Clovis Site. Master’s Thesis, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff.

Ewing, Josh — Cedar Mesa’s Uncertain Future

Friends of Cedar Mesa web page: (also cedarmesafriends.org)

The FCM proposal for a special protective designation for the area is at

National Trust for Historic Preservation National Treasures Program: “Ancestral Places of Southeast Utah.”

Utah Dine’ Bike’yah proposal for a National Conservation Area in western San Juan County, Utah: See especially:

Hurst, Winston B. and James G. Willian — Younger Traces: Other Cedar Mesa Archaeologies

Hurst, Winston, and Jay Willian 2011 Ute and Navajo Archaeology in the Comb Ridge Area. Blue Mountain Shadows, Vol. 44 (Fall 2011):49–57.

Supplement to Archaeology Southwest Magazine Vol. 28, Nos. 3 & 4 (Summer and Fall, 2014) | www.archaeologysouthwest.org McPherson, Robert S. 2011 As If the Land Owned Us: An Ethnohistory of the White Mesa Utes. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.

Kemp, Brian M. and William D. Lipe — Ancient Turkeys

Speller, Camilla F., Brian M. Kemp, Scott D. Wyatt, Cara Monroe, William D. Lipe, Ursula M. Arndt, and Dongya Yang 2010 Complex History for Turkey Domestication in Pre-Contact North America. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107(7):2807–2812.

Lipe, William D. — Tortuous and Fantastic: Cultural and Natural Wonders of Greater Cedar Mesa — Culture History of Cedar Mesa Before 1300: Findings of the Cedar Mesa Project and Its Successors

Cameron, Catherine M. 2009 Chaco and After in the Northern San Juan: Excavations at the Bluff Great House. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.

Hurst, Winston (guest editor) 1994 Deep History: The Archaeological Record of San Juan County’s Early Inhabitants. Special issue, Blue Mountain Shadows, Vol. 13 (Summer 1994). San Juan County Historical Society, Blanding, Utah.

2011 Deep History II: San Juan County’s Archaeological Record. Special issue, Blue Mountain Shadows, Vol. 44 (Fall 2011). San Juan County Historical Society, Blanding, Utah.

Lipe, William D. 1970 Anasazi Communities in the Red Rock Plateau. In Reconstructing Prehistoric Pueblo Societies, edited by William Longacre, pp. 84–139. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque.

1995 The Depopulation of the Northern San Juan: Conditions in the Turbulent 1200s. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 14:143–169.

2006 Notes from the North. In The Archaeology of Chaco Canyon, an Eleventh-Century Pueblo Regional Center, edited by Stephen H. Lekson, pp. 261–313. School of American Research Press, Santa Fe, NM.

Matson, R.G., William D. Lipe, and William R. Haase IV 1988 Adaptational Continuities and Occupational Discontinuities: The Cedar Mesa Anasazi. Journal of Field Archaeology 15(3):245–264.

Noble, David Grant (editor) 2006 The Mesa Verde World. School of American Research Press, Santa Fe, NM.

Spangler, Jerry, Andrew Yentsch, and Rachelle Green 2010 Farming and Foraging on the Southwestern Frontier: An Overview of the Archaeological and Historical Resources of the Greater Cedar Mesa Area. Antiquities Section Selected Papers, Vol. IX, No. 18. Utah Division of State History, Salt Lake City. Available at

Supplement to Archaeology Southwest Magazine Vol. 28, Nos. 3 & 4 (Summer and Fall, 2014) | www.archaeologysouthwest.org Varien, Mark D., William D. Lipe, Michael A. Adler, Ian Thompson, and Bruce Bradley 1996 Southwest Colorado and Southeast Utah Settlement Patterns, A.D. 1100–1300. In The Pueblo World: A.D. 1150–1350, edited by Michael A. Adler, pp. 86–113. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.

Varien, Mark D., Scott G. Ortman, Timothy A. Kohler, Donna M. Glowacki, and C. David Johnson 2007 Historical Ecology in the Mesa Verde Region: Results from the Village Ecodynamics Project. American Antiquity 72:273–300.

Also see the archive of unpublished theses, dissertations, reports, and presentations at the Cedar Mesa Project section of the WSU Research Exchange site:

Matson, R. G. — Cedar Mesa Basketmaker II: The Story Continues

Coltrain, Joan Brenner, and Joel C. Janetski 2013 The Stable and Radio-isotope Chemistry of Southeastern Utah Basketmaker II Burials: Dietary Analysis Using the Linear Mixing Model SISUS, Age and Sex Patterning, Geolocation and Temporal Patterning. Journal of Archaeological Science 40:4711–4730

Charles, Mona (editor) 2006 Untitled Special Issue on the Basketmaker II period. Kiva 72(2):147–282.

Ellwood, Emily C., M. Paul Scott, William D. Lipe, R. G. Matson, and John G. Jones 2013 Stone-boiling Maize with Limestone: Experimental Results and Implications for Nutrition Among SE Utah Preceramic Groups. Journal of Archaeological Science 40:35–44.

Geib, Phil 2011 Foragers and Farmers of the Northern Kayenta Region. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.

Geib, Phil, and Winston Hurst 2013 Should Dates Trump Context? Evaluation of the Cave 7 Skeletal Assemblage Radiocarbon Dates. Journal of Archaeological Science 40(6):2754–2770.

Hurst, Winston, Francis E. Smiley, and Michael R. Robins 2011 Early Farmers at the Earth’s Backbone: Basketmaker II in the Comb Ridge Area. Southwestern Lore 77(2–3):89–101.

Matson, R. G. 1991 The Origins of Southwestern Agriculture. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.

Matson, R. G., and Karen Dohm (editors) 1994 Anasazi Origins: Recent Research on the Basketmaker II. Special Issue on the Basketmaker II period. Kiva 60(2):159–344.

Supplement to Archaeology Southwest Magazine Vol. 28, Nos. 3 & 4 (Summer and Fall, 2014) | www.archaeologysouthwest.org Matson, R. G., and Brian Chisholm 1991 Basketmaker II Subsistence: Carbon Isotopes and Other Dietary Indicators from Cedar Mesa, Utah. American Antiquity 56:444–459.

Matson, R. G., William D. Lipe, and William Haase IV 1988 Adaptational Continuities and Occupational Discontinuities: The Cedar Mesa Anasazi. Journal of Field Archaeology 15:245–264.

1990 Human Adaptations on Cedar Mesa, Utah. Available at:

Native American Perspectives

Grayeyes, Willie (Board Chairman, Utah Dine’ Bike’yah) 2014 Editorial

Hays-Gilpin, Kelley, and Ramson Lomatewama 2013 Some Contemporary Pueblo Perspectives on Archaeology in the Pueblo World. Kiva 78(3):229–246.

Naranjo, Tessie 1995 Thoughts on Migration by Santa Clara Pueblo. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 14:247– 250.

2006 “We Came from the South, We Came From the North” Some Tewa Origin Stories. In The Mesa Verde World, edited by David Grant Noble, pp. 49–57. School of American Research Press, Santa Fe, NM.

Video “Visit with Respect” (2007)

Till, Jonathan D. and Winston B. Hurst — Monumental Landscapes on Cedar Mesa

Allison, James R., Winston B. Hurst, Jonathan D. Till, and Donald C. Irwin. 2012 Meanwhile, In the West. In Crucible of Pueblos: the Early Pueblo Period in the Northern Southwest, edited by Richard H. Wilshusen, Gregson Schachner, and James R. Allison. Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, University of California at Los Angeles.

Hurst, Winston B., Owen Severance, and Dale Davidson 1993 Uncle Albert’s Ancient Roads. Blue Mountain Shadows 12:2–9.

Hurst, Winston B., and Jonathan Till 2006 Mesa Verdean Sacred Landscapes. In The Mesa Verde World: Explorations in Ancestral Puebloan Archaeology, edited by David Grant Noble, pp. 75–83. School of American Research Press, Santa Fe.

2009 A Brief Survey of Great Houses and Related Features in Southeastern Utah. In Chaco and After in the Northern San Juan, by Catherine Cameron, pp. 44–80. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.

Supplement to Archaeology Southwest Magazine Vol. 28, Nos. 3 & 4 (Summer and Fall, 2014) | www.archaeologysouthwest.org Lipe, William D., R. G. Matson, and Jesse Morin 2011 Report on Survey Conducted in 2009 in San Juan County, Utah Under BLM Permit 085025. Submitted to the Monticello Field Office, Bureau of Land Management, Monticello, UT. Available at

Rommes, Donald J. — Photographing Cedar Mesa Rommes, Donald J. and William D. Lipe 2013 Cliff Dwellers of Cedar Mesa: The Culture, Sites, and Exodus of the Ancestral Puebloans. Canyonlands Natural History Association, Moab, UT.

Webster, Laurie D. — Documenting Early Collections of Perishable Artifacts from Greater Cedar Mesa

Hayes, Ann 1993 The Chicago Connection: 100 Years in the Life of the C.H. Green Collection. In Anasazi Basketmaker: Papers from the 1990 Wetherill-Grand Gulch Symposium, edited by Victoria M. Atkins, pp. 121–127. Bureau of Land Management Cultural Resource Series No. 24. Salt Lake City, Utah.

Phillips, Ann 1993 Archaeological Expeditions into Southeastern Utah and Southwestern Colorado between 1888– 1898 and the Dispersal of the Collections. In Anasazi Basketmaker: Papers from the 1990 Wetherill-Grand Gulch Symposium, edited by Victoria M. Atkins, pp. 103–118. Bureau of Land Management Cultural Resource Series No. 24. Salt Lake City, Utah.

Webster, Laurie D. 2006 Recent Perishables Research in the U.S. Southwest. Kiva 71(3):227–233. This is the introduction to a special issue of Kiva edited by Webster and devoted to perishables research in the Southwest.

Webster, Laurie D., and Kelley A. Hays-Gilpin 1994 New Trails for Old Shoes: Sandals, Textiles, and Baskets in Basketmaker Culture. Kiva 60(2):313–327

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