Books by Minette C Church
Archaeology of the Night: Life After Dark in the Ancient World, 2018
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Archaeologies of the British in Latin America, 2019
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Colorado History: A Context for Historical Archaeology, 2007
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Evaluative Testing of three Early Twentieth Century Sheep ranching sites on the Piñon Canyon Maneuver Site, Las Animas County, Colorado, 2009
In 2001, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs tested three sites on the
Department of the Ar... more In 2001, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs tested three sites on the
Department of the Army's Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site in order to assess damage by
tracked vehicles that breached protective fences around the sites during Army
training maneuvers. All three sites were related to sheep ranching in the area
between c. 1890 and c. 1910. 5LA2316 is the foundations of a substantial residential
sheep ranch, complete with foundations of residential architecture and a cistern as
well as other ranch outbuildings and features. 5LA2366 is a sheep camp with
evidence of what might be more substantial residential features in the forms of a
cistern and a dugout. The site displays a more extensive early occupation dating
between c. 1870 and c. 1890, as well as the later ocuppation to c. 1910. 5LA2359 is
a more ephemeral sheep camp. 5LA2316 and 5LA2366 retain archaeological research
potential despite the adverse impacts of tracked vehicles, while 5LA2359 was
reassessed in the field as having little further archaeological research value.
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Journal of Anthropological Research
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Journal of Social Archaeology, 2002
A narrow focus on architecture and surrounding features, situated in
predominately political and... more A narrow focus on architecture and surrounding features, situated in
predominately political and economic reconstructions of historical
context, has limited our understanding of Native and non-native
occupations of the Plains in southeastern Colorado. Anglo, Hispano
and Native groups came to the territory with different ideas as to the
land’s promise, and therefore engaged in different subsistence
strategies. Influenced by the terrain and by each other, they created
new cultural landscapes. Large blocks of federally-owned land
provide opportunities for archaeologists to look at such anthropogenic
landscapes writ large. Researchers can combine archaeological
data and historical documents in order to examine culturally
constituted perceptions of land and landscape, and the effects of such
perceptions on land use: in short, the transformation of land into
homeland.
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Historical Archaeology, 1995
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The San Pedro Maya Project was initiated in 2002, using a multidisciplinary methodology that join... more The San Pedro Maya Project was initiated in 2002, using a multidisciplinary methodology that joins together archaeological data, written documents and oral histories, all aimed at achieving a greater understanding of the San Pedro Maya, and more specifically, to discover the processes that resulted in its incorporation – political, economical and social- in the English colony of British Honduras (Leventhal et al. 2001: Yaeger et al. 2004a). The Maya group that is the focus of this project is one of the Yucatecan speaking groups that arrived in British Honduras –present
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In a series of eighteenth-century treaties, Spain granted British companies a concession to cut l... more In a series of eighteenth-century treaties, Spain granted British companies a concession to cut logwood and mahogany along a portion of the western shore of the Bay of Honduras, in what is today Belize. The terms of these treaties, negotiated in far-away European capitals, set the stage for tensions between British woodcutters and long-term Maya residents living in the Yalbac Hills region adjacent to the concessions. Bilateral treaties signed in Europe did not reflect local geopolitical realities and the socio-political landscape in the southeastern portion of the Yucatan Peninsula. In practice, the western boundary of the British logging concessions was not a frontier with colonial New Spain or, subsequently, Guatemala, but with independent Maya groups that were effectively politically autonomous. In this paper we argue that various configurations of Maya polities in this region, from the late eighteenth through the late nineteenth centuries, consistently understood Black Creek and...
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… Maya Lowlands: Papers of the 2003 …, 2004
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: In 2001, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs tested three sites on the Department of the A... more : In 2001, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs tested three sites on the Department of the Army's Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site in order to assess damage by tracked vehicles that breached protective fences around the sites during Army training maneuvers. All three sites were related to sheep ranching in the area between c. 1890 and c. 1910. 5LA2316 is the foundations of a substantial residential sheep ranch, complete with foundations of residential architecture and a cistern as well as other ranch outbuildings and features. 5LA2366 is a sheep camp with evidence of what might be more substantial residential features in the forms of a cistern and a dugout. The site displays a more extensive early occupation dating between c. 1870 and c. 1890, as well as the later occupation to c. 1910. 5LA2359 is a more ephemeral sheep camp. 5LA2316 and 5LA2366 retain archaeological research potential despite the adverse impacts of tracked vehicles, while 5LA2359 was reassessed in the field as h...
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American Antiquity
the most modern methods. These databases are some of the largest in the SW/NW. In the second chap... more the most modern methods. These databases are some of the largest in the SW/NW. In the second chapter, however, Rocek reminds us that this kind of coverage is restricted to a subset of the Jornada, mostly in the western basins and mountain ranges. The first section of the book, following the two introductory chapters, focuses on farming in the Jornada lowlands—that is, the basins between the mountain ranges. Miller and Kenmotsu use the results of 1,120 flotation samples, another example of the very large datasets available, to show that the use of agriculture increased after AD 1150, along with the use of cacti and succulents. The latter decreased after AD 1300 with increasing agriculture and aggregation into pueblos. Miller and Kenmotsu also use the sources of more than 1,600 pieces of obsidian to show that nonlocal obsidian decreased through time, presumably related to increasing sedentism. Condon and Vasquez consider 170 ethnobotanical samples, each with a radiocarbon date, from 83 sites. They find, contrary to Miller and Kenmotsu, a continued heavy use of wild plants after AD 1300, although they too see evidence for increased agriculture after that date. Railey and Turnbow examine early agriculture in southern New Mexico and determine that it was not a late development in the Jornada, as has been proposed. While there is little evidence of maize agriculture in the basins until AD 1000, the highlands show the use of agriculture several centuries before AD 500. The next section of the volume focuses on mobility. Miller, Graves, Ernst, and Swanson provide an elegant study of trails using the linear distribution of ceramics recorded through intensive survey and GIS mapping. Lynch and Rocek analyze geological sources, distance to them, and lithic debitage to consider their relationships to different kinds of mobility. Boggess, Yost, Hill, Cummings, and Malainey analyze the contents of a complete in situ bowl from a site in the Eastern Extension. The bowl was probably made 200 km to the west, and it contained a sophisticated mix of foods, possibly including fish. Hill examines the circulation of ceramics in the Eastern Extension and finds that more than 75% of the sherds were made in the Western Jornada. The final section of the book considers the borders of the Jornada. In an excellent summary of a littleknown region, Kenmotsu views the Jornada from La Junta de los Rios to the southeast on the Rio Grande. The chapter by Cruz Antillón, Maxwell, and MacWilliams on the Jornada in Chihuahua emphasizes the involvement with those in the adjoining Casas Grandes area, which had the presence of elites. There was substantial ideological sharing between the two, but their identities remained distinct. Miller and Montgomery provide a summary of ubiquitous plant-baking facilities. Using excavation data from 66 such features, they suggest that people collected 180 metric tons of rocks to construct these features, a substantial labor investment that may emphasize the importance of fermented beverages for feasting and social events. Railey uses more than 1,288 radiocarbon dates from 421 sites to track population movement and to show that people in far southeastern New Mexico were not static hunter-gatherers during the second millennium AD. Because of significant differences across the region, Wiseman suggests that the people in the Jornada were not a single culture, particularly after AD 1200. When I read this book, I learned that I knew very little about the Jornada, and now I want to know more. I hope that the editors and authors will compile another edited volume that builds on these chapters, especially the social dimensions presented in many chapters, which includes ideological data and interpretations.
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Legacies of Space and Intangible Heritage: Archaeology, Ethnohistory, and the Politics of Cultural Continuity in the Americas, 2017
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Department of the Army's Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site in order to assess damage by
tracked vehicles that breached protective fences around the sites during Army
training maneuvers. All three sites were related to sheep ranching in the area
between c. 1890 and c. 1910. 5LA2316 is the foundations of a substantial residential
sheep ranch, complete with foundations of residential architecture and a cistern as
well as other ranch outbuildings and features. 5LA2366 is a sheep camp with
evidence of what might be more substantial residential features in the forms of a
cistern and a dugout. The site displays a more extensive early occupation dating
between c. 1870 and c. 1890, as well as the later ocuppation to c. 1910. 5LA2359 is
a more ephemeral sheep camp. 5LA2316 and 5LA2366 retain archaeological research
potential despite the adverse impacts of tracked vehicles, while 5LA2359 was
reassessed in the field as having little further archaeological research value.
Papers by Minette C Church
predominately political and economic reconstructions of historical
context, has limited our understanding of Native and non-native
occupations of the Plains in southeastern Colorado. Anglo, Hispano
and Native groups came to the territory with different ideas as to the
land’s promise, and therefore engaged in different subsistence
strategies. Influenced by the terrain and by each other, they created
new cultural landscapes. Large blocks of federally-owned land
provide opportunities for archaeologists to look at such anthropogenic
landscapes writ large. Researchers can combine archaeological
data and historical documents in order to examine culturally
constituted perceptions of land and landscape, and the effects of such
perceptions on land use: in short, the transformation of land into
homeland.
Department of the Army's Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site in order to assess damage by
tracked vehicles that breached protective fences around the sites during Army
training maneuvers. All three sites were related to sheep ranching in the area
between c. 1890 and c. 1910. 5LA2316 is the foundations of a substantial residential
sheep ranch, complete with foundations of residential architecture and a cistern as
well as other ranch outbuildings and features. 5LA2366 is a sheep camp with
evidence of what might be more substantial residential features in the forms of a
cistern and a dugout. The site displays a more extensive early occupation dating
between c. 1870 and c. 1890, as well as the later ocuppation to c. 1910. 5LA2359 is
a more ephemeral sheep camp. 5LA2316 and 5LA2366 retain archaeological research
potential despite the adverse impacts of tracked vehicles, while 5LA2359 was
reassessed in the field as having little further archaeological research value.
predominately political and economic reconstructions of historical
context, has limited our understanding of Native and non-native
occupations of the Plains in southeastern Colorado. Anglo, Hispano
and Native groups came to the territory with different ideas as to the
land’s promise, and therefore engaged in different subsistence
strategies. Influenced by the terrain and by each other, they created
new cultural landscapes. Large blocks of federally-owned land
provide opportunities for archaeologists to look at such anthropogenic
landscapes writ large. Researchers can combine archaeological
data and historical documents in order to examine culturally
constituted perceptions of land and landscape, and the effects of such
perceptions on land use: in short, the transformation of land into
homeland.
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