PECOS 2009, PROGRAM

Thursday Night Reception and Registration: These events will take place at the Cortez Cultural Center in downtown Cortez. The Cortez Cultural Center is at 25 N. Market Street in Cortez (See Map).

All Friday and Saturday Activities: These events will take place at the McPhee Campground Group Camping Area (See Map).

Program Sessions: All sessions will take place under the Presentation Tent at the Group Area at McPhee Campground. A printable version of the presentation schedule is available here.

Presentation Schedule for Friday, August 7

*Time*	*Title*	Author(s)
8:00	Welcome and opening remarks
Regional Perspectives on Basketmaker II Forum – organized by Sally Cole
(1) DURANGO–ANIMAS AND UPPER SAN JUAN RIVERS, COLORADO AND NEW MEXICO
8:20	Early Agricultural Settlement in the Upper San Juan and Animas River Drainages	Leslie Sesler
8:30	Refining Chronological and Human Biological Data for the Durango Basketmakers	Mona Charles and Dawn Mulhern
8:40	Pushing the Limits and Torturing Corn Seeds: Cultural Adaptations and Climatic Change in the Upper San Juan During the Basketmaker II and Beyond	Ben Bellorado
(2) MOAB AND THE CANYONLANDS, UTAH
8:50	Basketmaker Chronology near Moab, Utah	Grant Fahrni
9:00	Basketmaker Age Woven Perishables of the Moab Region	Sharyl-Kinnear Ferris
9:10	Break
(3) SOUTHERN CHUSKA VALLEY AND CANYON DEL MUERTO, NEW MEXICO and ARIZONA
9:20	Basketmaker II in the Southern Chuska Valley of Northwest New Mexico	Tim Kearns
9:30	Early Basketmaker Community and Landscape in Canyon del Muerto, Arizona	Scott Travis
(4) COMB RIDGE, CEDAR MESA, NAVAJO MOUNTAIN, AND GRAND STAIRCASE, UTAH
9:40	Early Farmers at the Earth’s Backbone: Basketmaker II in the Comb Ridge Area	Winston Hurst, Francis Smiley and Michael Robins
9:50	New Insights from Old Collections: Cedar Mesa, SE Utah	William Lipe and R. G. Matson
10:00	Basketmaker II Occupation of the Navajo Mountain Region	Phil Geib and Kimberly Spurr
10:10	The Basketmaker II Horizon: A View From the Grand Staircase	Douglas McFadden
10:20	Regional Perspectives on Basketmaker II – General Discussion
11:10	Break
Reports
11:30	Late Archaic or Early Basketmaker Sites in Grand Canyon	Jonathan Damp and Nicholas Damp
11:40	Lake Powell Pipeline - PaleoWest Archaeology	Cory Breternitz
11:50	Rethinking Prehistoric Mortuary Practices in the Prescott (Arizona) Area	Kimberly Spurr and Stewart Deats
12:00	Lunch
Mini-Symposium – Chaco Migration and Emulation Research – organized by Paul Reed
1:00	Differentiating between Chacoan Migration and Emulation in the Middle San Juan	Paul Reed
1:10	Perishable Evidence for Chaco-Aztec Connections during the Bonito Phase	Laurie Webster
1:20	Middle San Juan Ceramic Studies: What’s Up?	Lori Stephens-Reed
1:30	Who Built the Great Houses? Chacoan Architecture and Masonry in the Middle San Juan	Gary Brown
1:40	Three Valleys, Three Tales: Variable Chacoan Presence, Diaspora, and Impact in the Middle San Juan	Paul Reed and Jeffery Clark
1:50	Break
Reports
2:10	Colorado Council of Professional Archaeologists: Serving the Profession State Wide	Kristin Kuckelman
2:20	Prehistory, Personality, and Place: Emil Haury, the Mogollon Conference, and the Pecos Conference	J. Jefferson Reid
2:30	Some Questions from Two Political Scientists to Our Chaco-Driven Archaeologist Siblings	Irvin and Alan Saltzstein Bromall
2:40	A carpenter's view of the Practical and Spiritual Significance of the Anasazi T-doorway	Charles Cambron
2:50	Clovis Blades and Bifaces: Perverse Fractures and the Integration of Two Reduction Strategies into One	Meghann Vance
3:00	Subsistence Data Integration: We’ve Come a Long Way Baby	Linda Scott Cummings
3:10	Break
3:30	Phase II of the Goodman Point Archaeological Project: Excavations at the Harlan Great Kiva Site	Grant Coffey and Steve Copeland
3:40	Four Years of Research at Goodman Point Pueblo	Kristin Kuckelman
3:50	The Village Ecodynamics Project, Phase II	Scott Ortman,
4:00	Turkey, Dog & Cottontail – A Kiva Floor Animal Burial at the Greenlee Site	Robin Lyle
4:10	Cortez "District"; AD 1150; 119 folks treated inconsiderately"	Kelly McAndrews, Dave Breternitz, Jim Colleran, Jerry Fetterman and Christy G. Turner II
4:20	Finding an Old Backsight: Twenty Years of Mesa Verde Regional Research and the Next Ten	Wilshusen, Richard
4:30	McLean Basin Inventory	Jerry Fetterman

Presentation Schedule for Saturday, August 8

Time	Title	Author(s)
Mini-Symposium – Perspectives on Heritage Preservation – organized by Chuck Riggs
8:00	The “Sacred Trust,” Archaeology, and Heritage Preservation at Fort Lewis College	Chuck Riggs
8:10	Massacre in the Sierra Mazatán and Indigenous Archaeology in Sonora, México	Randy McGuire
8:20	Collaborative Heritage Preservation from Crow Canyon’s perspective	Mark Varien
8:30	Y á d i i l a, H á d i i l i ł ? !: Perspective from a practicing Native American archaeologist	William Tsosie
8:40	A Federal Archaeologist’s Perspective on Contemporary Heritage Preservation	Linda Farnsworth
8:50	Digging Up the Others	Kevin Jones
9:00	Gazers and Geezers Preserving Montezuma County Heritage Resources	Dale Davidson
9:10	A CRM Perspective on Heritage Preservation	Stephanie Whittlesey
9:20	Rocks in Hard Places: Museums, Archaeology, and the Future	Stephen Nash
9:30	Rocks in Hard Places: Museums, Archaeology, and the Future	Jim Walker
9:40	Break
Reports
10:00	A Towering Enigma: A Discussion of Pueblo III Towers	Alison Bredthauer
10:30	Carhart Ruin	Erin Baxter
10:40	The Mitchell Springs Community	David Dove
10:50	Update on the San Juan Public Lands	Julie Coleman
11:00	Business Meeting
12:00	Lunch

Time	Title	Author(s)
Reports
1:00	New Dates from Brew’s Site 13	James Allison
1:10	Nancy Patterson Village: “A Golden Thread” in the Mesa Verde Heartland: Social and Political Implications through Architecture and Ethnography	Daniel Cutrone, Alan Black, Sergio Garza and Sandra Plymale-Schneeberger
1:20	Canyonlands National Park 2004-2006 River Corridor Architectural and Rock Art Survey	Sue Eininger
1:30	Structural Wood & Dendrochronology east along the Pecos & west in SE Utah	Tom Windes
1:40	The Old Wood Calibration Project and the Missing Ute Prehistory of Colorado	Steven Baker, Jeffrey Dean and Ronald Towner
1:50	Break
2:10	Move Over Thomas Jefferson: America’s First Archaeologist was Juan Rivera in Colorado in 1765	Steven Baker
2:20	From Durango to Chimney Rock: New Insights into the Prehistory of the Northern San Juan Basin	Jason Chuipka
2:30	Fill Reduction and Excavation at Chimney Rock Great House (5AA83)	Brenda Todd
2:40	Recent Investigations Along The North Road	Jim Copeland
2:50	A Previously Under-recorded Chaco Great House Community on the Chuska Slope	David Purcell and Erick Laurila
3:00	Survey Tracts East of Aztec, New Mexico	Vern Hensler
3:10	Break
3:30	Totah Archaeological Project Update: The 2009 San Juan College Field School	Linda Wheelbarger
3:40	Happy Hundredth, SAPU!	Aleta Lawrence
3:50	You Don't Bring Sand to the Beach: Source Provenience Studies of Obsidian Artifacts from Ancestral Jemez Pueblos	Matthew Liebmann
4:00	Cultural Resources at Cebolleta, Near Mt. Taylor	Karl Kumli
4:10	Aviation Archaeology at Mount Taylor, Cibola National Forest, New Mexico	Linda Popelish
4:20	Rethinking Developmental Period Site Structure in the Middle Rio Grande Valley	Robin Cordero and Peggy Gerow
4:30	Stone Calendars	Ron Barber

Poster Presentations – Friday, August 7

Title	Author(s)
Recent Data Recovery Excavations at American Ranch near Prescott, Arizona	Stewart Deats
From Utah to Acoma, mask iconography 100 B.C.E. – 1928 C.E.	Robin Gay Wakeland
Another Look at Zia Pueblo Ceramics	C. Dean Wilson
The Celestial Southwest: The Sky Was Their Spielberg	Suzan Bradford
Stabilization of Reconstructed Pueblo Architecture: Is It a “REAL” Site?	Rebecca Procter
Replicating Pueblo II Period Mineral Paint	Susan Ryan
Astronomy and Cultural Identity	Kim Malville
Upper Salt Creek Site Documentation and Condition Assessment 2009; Canyonlands National Park	Hannah Russell and Erin Lewis
Carnegie Museum Expeditions to Utah, 1940s	David Watters

Poster Presentations – Saturday, August 8

Title	Author(s)
Modeling Quarry Sites in the Central Mesa Verde Region	Fumi Arakawa and Chris Nicholson
2009 Excavations at the Pigg Site, SW Colorado	Kelli Ford and Amber Granger
November 2008 Magnetometer Survey Project Results from Chapin Mesa, Mesa Verde National Park , Colorado	John Schwegman and Jo Young
Results of Testing for the Fill Levels Adjustment Project at West Ruin, Aztec Ruins National Monument	Aron Adams
Navigating Ancient Travel Routes Crossing the San Juan Basin	Stephen Janes
High Altitude Ancestral Puebloan Use of the Valle Grande, Valles Caldera National Preserve, Jemez Mountains, NM	Ariane Pinson, Nicholas Jarman and Aneshia Savino
Update on the Permian Basin MOA in Southeastern New Mexico	George MacDonell, Bruce Boeke, Martin Stein and Lynn Robinson
Below the Stairs and Behind the Rooms: Photographic Documentation of Unusual Architecture at Talus Unit, Chaco Canyon	Joan Mathien, Joyce Raab, Craig Fredrickson and Regina Fredrickson
Architecture and Beyond—A Time Odyssey: Results for 1 out of 9 Test Units at Aztec West Ruin	Sara Svatos

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