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Free PDF Download ARCHAEOLOGY SOUTHWEST CONTINUE ON TO THE NEXT PAGE FOR YOUR magazineFREE PDF (formerly the Center for Desert Archaeology) is a private 501 (c) (3) nonprofit organization that explores and protects the places of our past across the American Southwest and Mexican Northwest. We have developed an integrated, conservation- based approach known as Preservation Archaeology. Although Preservation Archaeology begins with the active protection of archaeological sites, it doesn’t end there. We utilize holistic, low-impact investigation methods in order to pursue big-picture questions about what life was like long ago. As a part of our mission to help foster advocacy and appreciation for the special places of our past, we share our discoveries with the public. This free back issue of Archaeology Southwest Magazine is one of many ways we connect people with the Southwest’s rich past. Enjoy! Not yet a member? Join today! 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For more than sixty years, the prevailing scenario of " CLOVIS" IS THE: NAME: GIVE:N TO THE: OLDE:ST and most widespread the peopling of the Americas culture conspicuous in the archaeological record of the western hemisphere, radio­ envisioned Clovis mammoth carbon-dated between about 11,600 and 10,900 years ago. However, long-held theories about hunters walking across a the origins of this culture and its role in the peopling of the Americas are changing in the temporary land bridge con­ wake of new research, dates, and discoveries. necting Siberia and Alaska In the first meeting of its kind since 1941, experts gathered in October 1999 for the at the waning of the last Ice "Clovis and Beyond" conference in Santa Fe, advertised as a "free-wheeling, no-holds-barred Age. Now, new data from conversation" about these new developments. Sponsors of the conference included the the Southwest and Smithsonian Institution, the Center for the Study of the First Americans, and the Museum elsewhere are challenging of New Mexico Laboratory of Anthropology. this model. This issue of Among the issues discussed were new views of Clovis and pre-Clovis cultures, the con­ Archaeology Southwest reex­ troversial implications of the 8,400-year-old "Kennewick Man" skeleton (see page 8), whether amines the greatest mystery biological connections between early and contemporary Native American groups can be in American archaeology, assumed without DNA analyses, and if the scientific value of very ancient skeletons should starting with broad perspec­ outweigh the rights of tribes to rebury their claimed ancestors. tives and then focusing on With the growing acceptance of the age and implications of the 12,500-year-old Monte the evidence from South­ Verde II site in Chile, the bottom has dropped out of New World prehistory for many of the western sites. The articles attending archaeologists. The "Clovis First" and "Ice-free Corridor" models that have domi­ explore new information nated American archaeology since the 1940s are now competing with models of earlier migra­ and ideas about the peopling tions and other routes of colonization. of the Americas; the remark­ Because the ice-free corridor between Alaska and the northern Plains did not open until able tool technologies of the 13,000 years ago, an alternative model of an earlier, coastal route of migration from Asia has Clovis culture; the dramatic been revived. The model is given new plausibility by the discoveries of Monte Verde II and a climatic changes that affect- ed big-game hunters and In 1926, Byron Cummings and his students from the University ofArizona excavated a mammoth their prey; newly discovered skull at Whitewater Draw in southeastern Arizona. They believed that the grinding stones they Pleistocene rock art; and found below the skull were the first proof of an Ice Age human presence in the New World (see recent archaeological field­ pages 4 and 5). Photograph courtesy of the Arizona State Museum, negative number 71. work that may ultimately change our understanding of the first peoples of the Southwest. For expanded coverage, visit our website at < www.cdarc.org > . - Jonathan B. Mab1Y, Issue Editor ~rchaeo log'i Southwest IS a Quarteri.y' Publication ot the Center for Desert Archaeolo&J 12,000-year-old settlement on the Four proposed migration routes. Accum­ coast of Peru, and two 11 ,OOO-year-old ulating evidence points to more than one human skeletons from sites on the migration, by more than one route, from Pacific Coast of North America. more than one region of the Old World; But acceptance of these sites has early America may have been a melting come slowly. The lead excavator of pot of different peoples. Illustration by Monte Verde, Tom Dillehay of the Rob Ciaccio. University of Kentucky, has had to address numerous critiques. He sug­ argued that "multiple working gested that a "Clovis Mafia," com­ hypotheses" are the best approach. prised of influential American archae­ Throughout western North America, ologists, has ignored convincing pre­ Mike Waters of Texas A&M University Clovis evidence from South America sees no examples of pre-Clovis sites because it is not on their own turf and that meet all the necessary criteria: the artifacts are unfamiliar. "There is identifiable artifacts or human a North American prejudice; evidence remains, a definable geological context, of Paleoindians is not limited to pro­ and well-associated dating information jectile points," Dillehay asserted. (see pages 4-5). Others questioned why Ruth Gruhn of the University of such a large and diverse region would Alberta argued for the acceptance of be by-passed by earlier groups. still older sites, warning, "The Monte Verde I and Pedra Other topics included the distinctive characteristics of Furada sites in South America, both radiocarbon-dated to early American skeletons, and the genetic diversity among more than 30,000 years ago, are a time bomb waiting living Native Americans. From these data, some physical beneath any models for peopling of the Americas no earlier anthropologists argued that the Americas were colonized than 15,000 years ago." Others called for reconsideration of more than once and by different peoples, including some a sea route from the South Pacific islands to South America, "failed migrations"-biological populations that did not a possibility made famous by Thor Heyerdahl's experimen­ survive after arrival (see page 8). tal journey on the reed boat "Kon-Tiki" in 1947. The conference was not without political undertones. Interest also returned to the striking similarities­ Noticeable was frequent use of the terms "First Americans" widely discussed during the 1930s-between Clovis lithic or "Paleoamericans" instead of "Paleoindians," reflecting technology and that of the Upper Paleolithic "Solutrean archaeologists' new awareness of the uncertain and possibly culture" that flourished in western Europe 20,000 to 16,000 mixed cultural affiliations of very old human remains in the years ago. Dennis Stanford of the Smithsonian Institution New World. Keith Kintigh, president of the Society for and Bruce Bradley, an archaeological consultant from American Archaeology, said "Today, there are assumptions Colorado, see strong similarities between Clovis and of cultural affiliation before a shovel hits the ground. First Solutrean artifacts. They think that eastern North America Americans are Native Americans, but they should be classi­ was colonized by Solutrean groups using skin-covered fied as culturally unidentified." boats to skirt the margin of the Atlantic sea ice. Stanford Many archaeologists also complained about current observed that the colonization of Australia demonstrates interpretations of the 1990 Native American Graves that, by Clovis time, humans had at least 40,000 years of Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) that can result experience in maritime travel. in reburial of these remains without scientific study. The Also discussed was possible evidence of pre-Clovis opponents in this issue share a deep cynicism about the fed­ occupations at the Meadowcroft, Topper, and Cactus Hill eral government's role, thinks Jo Ann Harris, a law profes­ sites in the eastern United States, and Pendejo Cave in New sor at Pace University. "Scientists and Native Americans Mexico. James Adovasio of Mercyhurst Archaeological both think that government policy favors the other, and ... Institute, the excavator of Meadowcroft, described frag­ that politics are implemented rather than laws," said ments of basketry, matting, and cordage from pre-Clovis Harris. age contexts (including an apparent basket piece
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