Thirty Years Into Yesterday: A History of Archaeology at Grasshopper Pueblo

Thirty Years Into Yesterday: A History of Archaeology at Grasshopper Pueblo

Thirty Years Into Yesterday: A History of Archaeology at Grasshopper Pueblo

Thirty Years Into Yesterday: A History of Archaeology at Grasshopper Pueblo

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Overview

For thirty years, the University of Arizona Archaeological Field School at Grasshopper—a 500-room Mogollon pueblo located on what is today the Fort Apache Indian Reservation in Arizona—probed the past, taught scholars of international repute, and generated controversy. This book offers an extraordinary window into a changing American archaeology and three different research programs as they confronted the same pueblo ruin.

Like the enigmatic Mogollon culture it sought to explore and earlier University of Arizona field schools in the Forestdale Valley and at Point of Pines, Grasshopper research engendered decades of controversy that still lingers in the pages of professional journals. Jefferson Reid and Stephanie Whittlesey, players in the controversy who are intimately familiar with the field school that ended in 1992, offer a historical account of this major archaeological project and the intellectual debates it fostered.

Thirty Years Into Yesterday charts the development of the Grasshopper program under three directors and through three periods dominated by distinct archaeological paradigms: culture history, processual archaeology, and behavioral archaeology. It examines the contributions made each season, the concepts and methods each paradigm used, and the successes and failures of each. The book transcends interests of southwestern archaeologists in demonstrating how the three archaeological paradigms reinterpreted Grasshopper, illustrating larger shifts in American archaeology as a whole. Such an opportunity will not come again, as funding constraints, ethical concerns, and other issues no doubt will preclude repeating the Grasshopper experience in our lifetimes.

Ultimately, Thirty Years Into Yesterday continues the telling of the Grasshopper story that was begun in the authors’ previous books. In telling the story of the archaeologists who recovered the material residue of past Mogollon lives and the place of the Western Apache people in their interpretations, Thirty Years Into Yesterday brings the story full circle to a stunning conclusion.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780816533176
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Publication date: 11/01/2015
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 288
File size: 8 MB

About the Author

Jefferson Reid is a southwestern archaeologist and professor of anthropology at the University of Arizona. Stephanie Whittlesey directs archaeological investigations for Statistical Research, a private consulting firm.

Table of Contents

{FMT}Contents{\} List of Figures List of Maps List of Tables Preface List of Abbreviations 1 Introduction 2 Grasshopper in the Archaeological Imagination 3 Prelude to Grasshopper, 1919--1962 4 Culture History, 1963--1965 5 Processual Archaeology, 1966--1973 6 Transition and Change, 1974--1978 7 Behavioral Archaeology, 1979--1992 8 Archaeological Lessons from a Mogollon Pueblo 9 Retrospect and Prospect Bibliography Figure Credits Map Credits Index {FMT}Figures{\} Grasshopper Pueblo and the Field School camp Apache cowboy camp Excavation at Grasshopper Pueblo Byron Cummings at Rainbow Bridge A. V. Kidder and Emil Haury Field School staff and students, 1964 Field School staff and students, 1971 Field School staff and students, 1979 Field School staff and students, 1989 Mapping with alidade and plane table Pottery from Grasshopper Pueblo {FMT}Maps{\} The Grasshopper region Grasshopper Pueblo Chodistaas Pueblo Grasshopper Spring Pueblo Grasshopper Pueblo, 1965 Grasshopper Pueblo, 1968 Grasshopper Pueblo, 1973 East and West Villages, Grasshopper Pueblo Room 216, Grasshopper Pueblo Room 359, Grasshopper Pueblo {FMT}Tables{\} The 1963 Season The 1964 Season The 1965 Season The 1966 Season The 1967 Season The 1968 Season The 1969 Season The 1970 Season The 1971 Season The 1972 Season The 1973 Season The 1974 Season The 1975 Season The 1976 Season The 1977 Season The 1978 Season The 1979 Season The 1980 Season The 1981 Season The 1982 Season The 1983 Season The 1984 Season The 1985 Season The 1986 Season The 1987 Season The 1988 Season The 1989 Season The 1990 Season The 1991 Season The 1992 Season
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