Sand Canyon Pueblo Bibliography

During the course of this multiyear project, numerous publications and other documents have reported on various aspects of Crow Canyon's research in the Sand Canyon locality. Some of these works present data specific to Sand Canyon Pueblo; others provide information that allows readers to place the site, and Crow Canyon's investigations of it, within a broader regional and historical context. Included in the following list are: (1) books, chapters in books, and journal articles; (2) annual fieldwork reports; (3) papers presented at meetings; and (4) other unpublished manuscripts that contain material relevant to the study of this important site.

Books, Chapters in Books, and Journal Articles

Adams, K. R.

1992    The Environmental Archaeology Program. In The Sand Canyon Archaeological Project: A Progress Report, edited by W. D. Lipe, pp. 99–104. Occasional Papers, no. 2. Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, Colorado.

Adams, K. R., and V. E. Bowyer

2002    Sustainable Landscape: Thirteenth-Century Food and Fuel Use in the Sand Canyon Locality. In Seeking the Center Place: Archaeologyand Ancient Communities in the Mesa Verde Region, edited by M. D. Varien and R. H. Wilshusen, pp. 123–142. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.

Adler, M. A.

1992    The Upland Survey. In The Sand Canyon Archaeological Project: A Progress Report, edited by W. D. Lipe, pp. 11–23. Occasional Papers, no. 2. Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, Colorado.

Bradley, B. A.

1988    Unusual Vessel Forms from Sand Canyon Pueblo, Colorado. Pottery Southwest 15(2):1–4.

1989    Architectural Petroglyphs at Sand Canyon Pueblo (5MT765), Southwestern Colorado. Kiva 54:153–161.

1992    Excavations at Sand Canyon Pueblo. In The Sand Canyon Archaeological Project: A Progress Report, edited by W. D. Lipe, pp. 79–97. Occasional Papers, no. 2. Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, Colorado.

1993    Planning, Growth, and Functional Differentiation at a Prehistoric Pueblo: A Case Study from SW Colorado. Journal of Field Archaeology 20:23–42.

1996    Pitchers to Mugs: Chacoan Revival at Sand Canyon Pueblo. Kiva 61:241–255.

Bradley, C. S.

2002    Thoughts Count: Ideology and the Children of Sand Canyon Pueblo. In Children in the Prehistoric Puebloan Southwest, edited by K. A. Kamp, pp. 169–195. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.

Connolly, M. R.

1992    The Goodman Point Historic Land-Use Study. In The Sand Canyon Archaeological Project: A Progress Report, edited by W. D. Lipe, pp. 33–44. Occasional Papers, no. 2. Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, Colorado.

Gleichman, C. L., and P. J. Gleichman

1992    The Lower Sand Canyon Survey. In The Sand Canyon Archaeological Project: A Progress Report, edited by W. D. Lipe, pp. 25–31. Occasional Papers, no. 2. Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, Colorado.

Glowacki, D. M., H. Neff, and M. D. Glascock

1995    Characterization of Mesa Verde Black-on-White Ceramics from Southwestern Colorado Using NAA. Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry 196:215–222.

1998    An Initial Assessment of the Production and Movement of Thirteenth Century Ceramic Vessels in the Mesa Verde Region. Kiva 63:217–240.

Glowacki, D. M., H. Neff, M. Hegmon, J. W. Kendrick, and W. J. Judge

2002    Resource Use, Red-Ware Production, and Vessel Distribution in the Northern San Juan Region. In Ceramic Production and Circulationin the Greater Southwest: Source Determination by INAA and ComplementaryMineralogical Investigations, edited by D. M. Glowacki and H. Neff, pp. 67–73. Monographs of The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, no. 44. University of California, Los Angeles.

Haas, J., and W. Creamer

1996    The Role of Warfare in the Pueblo III Period. In The Prehistoric Pueblo World, A.D. 1150–1350, edited by M. A. Adler, pp. 205–213. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.

Kenzle, S. C.

1997    Enclosing Walls in the Northern San Juan: Sociophysical Boundaries and Defensive Fortifications in the American Southwest. Journal ofField Archaeology 24:195–210.

Kuckelman, K. A.

1999    Lester's Site. In The Sand Canyon Archaeological Project: Site Testing [HTML Title], edited by M. D. Varien, Chapter 8. Available: https://www.crowcanyon.org/sitetesting.

2002    Thirteenth-Century Warfare in the Central Mesa Verde Region. In Seeking the Center Place: Archaeology and Ancient Communitiesin the Mesa Verde Region, edited by M. D. Varien and R. H. Wilshusen, pp. 233–253. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.

Kuckelman, K. A., R. R. Lightfoot, and D. L. Martin

2000    Changing Patterns of Violence in the Northern San Juan Region. Kiva 66:147–165.

2002    The Bioarchaeology and Taphonomy of Violence at Castle Rock and Sand Canyon Pueblos, Southwestern Colorado. American Antiquity 67:486–513.

LeBlanc, S. A.

1999    Prehistoric Warfare in the American Southwest. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.

Lipe, W. D.

1992    Introduction. In The Sand Canyon Archaeological Project: A Progress Report, edited by W. D. Lipe, pp. 1–10. Occasional Papers, no. 2. Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, Colorado.

1992    Summary and Concluding Comments. In The Sand Canyon Archaeological Project: A Progress Report, edited by W. D. Lipe, pp. 121–133. Occasional Papers, no. 2. Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, Colorado.

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

2002    Social Power in the Central Mesa Verde Region, A.D. 1150–1290. In Seeking the Center Place: Archaeology and Ancient Communitiesin the Mesa Verde Region, edited by M. D. Varien and R. H. Wilshusen, pp. 203–232. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.

Lipe, W. D. (editor)

1992    The Sand Canyon Archaeological Project: A Progress Report. Occasional Papers, no. 2. Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, Colorado.

Lipe, W. D., and S. G. Ortman

2000    Spatial Patterning in Northern San Juan Villages, A.D. 1050–1300. Kiva 66:91–122.

Lipe, W. D., and M. D. Varien

1999    Pueblo III (A.D. 1150–1300). In Colorado Prehistory: A Context for the Southern Colorado River Basin, edited by W. D. Lipe, M. D. Varien, and R. H. Wilshusen, pp. 290–352. Colorado Council of Professional Archaeologists, Denver.

Mills, P. R.

1993    An Axe to Grind: A Functional Analysis of Anasazi Stone Axes from Sand Canyon Pueblo Ruin (5MT765), Southwestern Colorado. Kiva 58:393–413.

Morgan, W. N.

1994   Ancient Architecture of the Southwest. University of Texas Press, Austin.

Ortman, S. G.

2000    Conceptual Metaphor in the Archaeological Record: Methods and an Example from the American Southwest. American Antiquity 65:613–645.

Ortman, S. G., and B. A. Bradley

2002    Sand Canyon Pueblo: The Container in the Center. In Seeking the Center Place: Archaeology and Ancient Communities in the Mesa Verde Region, edited by M. D. Varien and R. H. Wilshusen, pp. 41–78. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.

Pierce, C., D. M. Glowacki, and M. M. Thurs

2002    Measuring Community Interaction: Pueblo III Pottery Production and Distribution in the Central Mesa Verde Region. In Seeking theCenter Place: Archaeology and Ancient Communities in the Mesa VerdeRegion, edited by M. D. Varien and R. H. Wilshusen, pp. 185–202. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.

Potter, J. M.

2000    Pots, Parties, and Politics: Communal Feasting in the American Southwest. American Antiquity 65:471–492.

Thompson, I.

2002    Native American Perspectives on Sand Canyon Pueblo and Other Ancestral Sites. In Seeking the Center Place: Archaeology and AncientCommunities in the Mesa Verde Region, edited by M. D. Varien and R. H. Wilshusen, pp. 257–262. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.

Turner, C. G., II, and J. A. Turner

1999    Man Corn: Cannibalism and Violence in the Prehistoric American Southwest. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.

Van West, C. R., and W. D. Lipe

1992    Modeling Prehistoric Climate and Agriculture in Southwestern Colorado. In The Sand Canyon Archaeological Project: A Progress Report, edited by W. D. Lipe, pp. 105–119. Occasional Papers, no. 2. Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, Colorado.

Varien, M. D. (editor)

1999    The Sand Canyon Archaeological Project: Site Testing [HTML Title]. Available: https://www.crowcanyon.org/sitetesting.

Varien, M. D., K. A. Kuckelman, and J. H. Kleidon

1992    The Site Testing Program. In The Sand Canyon Archaeological Project: A Progress Report, edited by W. D. Lipe, pp. 45–67. Occasional Papers, no. 2. Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, Colorado.

Varien, M. D., and R. H. Wilshusen (editors)

2002    Seeking the Center Place: Archaeology and Ancient Communities in the Mesa Verde Region. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.

Annual Fieldwork Reports

Adams, E. C.

1985    Annual Report of Test Excavations at 5MT765, Sand Canyon Pueblo, and Archaeological Survey in T36N, R18W, Sections 12 & 24, and T36N, R16W, Sections 29 & 30. Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, Colorado. Report submitted to the Bureau of Land Management, San Juan Resource Area Office, Durango, Colorado.

Adler, M. A.

1988    Archaeological Survey and Testing in the Sand Canyon Pueblo/Goodman Point Ruin Locality, Montezuma County, Colorado, 1987 Field Season. Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, Colorado. Report submitted to the Bureau of Land Management, San Juan Resource Area Office, Durango, Colorado.

Bradley, B. A.

1986    1985 Annual Report of Test Excavations at Sand Canyon Pueblo (5MT765). Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, Colorado. Report submitted to the Bureau of Land Management, San Juan Resource Area Office, Durango, Colorado.

1987    Annual Report of Excavations at Sand Canyon Pueblo (5MT765), Montezuma County, Colorado: 1986 Field Season. Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, Colorado. Report submitted to the Bureau of Land Management, San Juan Resource Area Office, Durango, Colorado.

1988    Annual Report on the Excavations at Sand Canyon Pueblo, 1987 Field Season. Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, Colorado. Report submitted to the Bureau of Land Management, San Juan Resource Area Office, Durango, Colorado.

1990    Annual Report of the 1989 Excavations at Sand Canyon Pueblo (5MT765). Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, Colorado. Report submitted to the Bureau of Land Management, San Juan Resource Area Office, Durango, Colorado.

1991    Excavations in Public Architecture at Sand Canyon Pueblo: The 1991 Field Season. Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, Colorado. Report submitted to the Bureau of Land Management, San Juan Resource Area Office, Durango, Colorado.

Bradley, B. A., and M. J. Churchill

1994    Excavations in Civic Architecture at Sand Canyon Pueblo: The 1992 Field Season. Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, Colorado. Report submitted to the Bureau of Land Management, San Juan Resource Area Office, Durango, Colorado.

1995    Annual Report of the 1993 Excavations at Sand Canyon Pueblo (5MT765). Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, Colorado. Report submitted to the Bureau of Land Management, San Juan Resource Area Office, Durango, Colorado.

Kleidon, J., and B. A. Bradley

1989    Annual Report of the 1988 Excavations at Sand Canyon Pueblo (5MT765). Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, Colorado. Report submitted to the Bureau of Land Management, San Juan Resource Area Office, Durango, Colorado.

Van West, C. R., M. A. Adler, and E. K. Huber

1987    Archaeological Survey and Testing in the Vicinity of Sand Canyon Pueblo, Montezuma County, Colorado, 1986 Field Season. Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, Colorado. Report submitted to the Bureau of Land Management, San Juan Resource Area Office, Durango, Colorado.

Papers Presented at Meetings

Adams, E. C.

1985    Sand Canyon Pueblo: A Thirteenth Century Anasazi Ceremonial Center in Southwestern Colorado. Paper presented at the 50^th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Denver.

Bradley, B. A.

1988    Kiva Use in the Thirteenth Century in the Mesa Verde Area: A New Assessment. Paper presented at the 53^rd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Phoenix.

1990    Patterns of Growth at Prehistoric Pueblos: A Case Study from Southwestern Colorado. Paper presented at the 55^th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Las Vegas.

1992    The Durable Legacy: Another Look at Anasazi Architecture in the Mesa Verde Area. Paper presented at the Anasazi Architecture and American Design Symposium, Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado.

Bradley, C. S.

1999    Obligation and the Children of Sand Canyon Pueblo. Paper presented at the 64^th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Chicago.

Churchill, M. J., K. A. Kuckelman, and M. D. Varien

1998    Public Architecture in the Mesa Verde Region, AD 900 to 1300. Paper presented at the 63^rd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Seattle.

Kuckelman, K. A.

2001    Skull Trauma and Warfare in the Ancient Southwest. Paper presented at the 66^th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans.

2003    Structural Burning in the Ancient Puebloan Northern Southwest. Paper presented at the 68^th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Milwaukee.

Lightfoot, R. R., and K. A. Kuckelman

1994    Warfare and the Pueblo Abandonment of the Mesa Verde Region. Paper presented at the 59th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Anaheim.

1995    Ancestral Pueblo Violence in the Northern Southwest. Paper presented at the 60th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Minneapolis.

Muir, R. J.

1999    Intensification of Communal Ritual: Zooarchaeology of the Sand Canyon Locality. Paper presented at the 64^th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Chicago.

Thurs, M., D. M. Glowacki, and C. Pierce

1996    Pottery Production in Sand Canyon. Paper presented at the 61^st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans.

Other

Adams, E. C.

1986    Report to the National Geographic Society on the 1984 Excavations at Sand Canyon Pueblo, an Anasazi Ceremonial Center in Southwestern Colorado. Manuscript on file, Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, Colorado.

Adams, K. R.

1989    Plant Remains from Sand Canyon Pueblo (5MT765), a Mesa Verde Phase Pueblo III Site in Southwestern Colorado. Manuscript on file, Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, Colorado.

2000    Sand Canyon Pueblo Worked Vegetal Analysis Results. Manuscript on file, Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, Colorado.

Bradley, B. A., and W. D. Lipe

1990    Investigating 13th Century Anasazi Public Architecture at Sand Canyon Pueblo. Proposal submitted to the National Geographic Society. Manuscript on file, Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, Colorado.

Bradley, C. S.

1998    Obligation and Children: Attitudes of Obligation in the Nurturing and Interpretation of Children. Unpublished Master's thesis, Vermont College of Norwich University, Montpelier, Vermont.

Chao, V. S.

1991    Stylistic and Functional Variability Within Sand Canyon Pueblo. Manuscript on file, Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, Colorado.

Gish, J. W.

1988    Pollen Analysis of Structure 208 at Sand Canyon Pueblo, Colorado. Manuscript on file, Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, Colorado.

1990    Pollen Results from Five Pueblo III Sites, Upper Sand Canyon, Southwestern Colorado. Manuscript on file, Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, Colorado.

Goodwill-Cohen, L. F.

2001    A Space Syntax Analysis of Prudden Units in the Mesa Verde Region of Southwestern Colorado: AD 750–1300. Unpublished Master's thesis, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, Cambridge.

Grady, J.

1986    Photogrammetric Mapping of Sand Canyon Pueblo, 5MT765. Manuscript on file, Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, Colorado.

Hoffman, J. M.

1985    Preliminary Report on Human Skeletal Remains from Sand Canyon Pueblo (5MT765) and the Duckfoot Site (5MT3868): 1984 Excavations of the Crow Canyon Center for Southwestern Archeology. Manuscript on file, Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, Colorado.

1987    Preliminary Report on Human Skeletal Remains from Sand Canyon Pueblo (5MT765): 1985 Excavations of the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center. Manuscript on file, Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, Colorado.

1990    Report on Human Skeletal Remains from Sand Canyon Pueblo (5MT765): 1987 Excavations of the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center. Manuscript on file, Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, Colorado.

Hovezak, M. J.

1992    Construction Timber Economics at Sand Canyon Pueblo. Unpublished Master's thesis, Department of Anthropology, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff.

Huber, E. K.

1993    Thirteenth Century Pueblo Aggregation and Organizational Change in Southwestern Colorado. Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman.

Katzenberg, M. A.

1995    Report on Bone Chemistry Studies from the Sand Canyon Locality. Manuscript on file, Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, Colorado.

Kice, D. A.

1990    Preliminary Report on Human Skeletal Remains from Sand Canyon, Colorado: 1988 Excavations of the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center. Manuscript on file, Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, Colorado.

1991    Preliminary Report on Human Skeletal Remains from Sites 5MT765, 5MT3901, 5MT3930 and 5MT3936: 1988 Excavations of the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center. Manuscript on file, Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, Colorado.

Lightfoot, R. R. (compiler)

1991    Sand Canyon Locality Context: Research Design and Preliminary Results. Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, Colorado. Report submitted to the Bureau of Land Management, San Juan Resource Area Office, Durango, Colorado.

Lipe, W. D., and B. A. Bradley

1988    Prehistoric Pueblo Organization, Sand Canyon Locality, Southwestern Colorado. Proposal submitted to the National Science Foundation. Manuscript on file, Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, Colorado.

Malville, N. J.

1993    Dental Enamel Hypoplasias in Permanent Teeth from Duckfoot, Sand Canyon, and Wallace Sites. Manuscript on file, Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, Colorado.

Mills, P. R.

1987    Use-Wear Analysis of Stone Axes from Sand Canyon Pueblo Ruin (5MT765), Southwestern Colorado. Unpublished Master's thesis, Department of Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman.

Muir, R. J.

1999    Zooarchaeology of Sand Canyon Pueblo, Colorado. Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia.

Nicklaw, D. J.

1995    Social Complexity at Sand Canyon Pueblo: A Case Study from S.W. Colorado. Unpublished Master's thesis, Department of Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman.

Scott, L. J., and D. K. Aasen

1985    Pollen and Macrofloral Analyses of Sand Canyon Pueblo: Feasibility Study and Preliminary Interpretations. Manuscript on file, Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, Colorado.

Turner, N. A.

1991    Anasazi Abandonment and Sand Canyon Pueblo: Artifact Assemblages from Special Use vs. Habitation Structures. Manuscript on file, Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, Colorado.

Walker, D. N.

1990    Preliminary Report on Faunal Remains from Sand Canyon Pueblo (5MT765), Colorado. Manuscript on file, Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, Colorado.