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The Joyce Well Site : on the frontier of the Casas Grandes world

Title
The Joyce Well Site : on the frontier of the Casas Grandes world / James M. Skibo, Eugene B. McCluney, William H. Walker.
Author
Skibo, James M.
Publication
Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, [2002], ©2002.

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Additional Authors
  • McCluney, Eugene B., 1928-
  • Walker, William H., 1964-
Description
x, 193 pages : illustrations, maps, plans; 25 cm
Summary
  • "The Joyce Well site is in the remote boot heel of New Mexico, within the Gray Ranch, a huge spread whose owners continue to exercise careful control over its archaeological and natural resources. The site consists of a single-story pueblo of about 200 rooms that appears to have been associated with the Casas Grandes culture (Paquime) farther south in Chihuahua. Habitation peaked between AD 1200 and 1400.
  • One of the questions researchers have sought to answer is the nature of the interaction between Paquime and sites such as Joyce Well." "In 1963 Eugene McCluney excavated a portion of the pueblo and wrote a preliminary report. Since then, other researchers conducted smaller projects there until James Skibo and William Walker excavated the ball court and undertook a large-scale investigation of the site and surrounding region in 1999 and 2000.".
  • "This volume contains the 1963 report, plus all subsequent work. Analysis topics include plant remains, human skeletal material, ball courts and ritual performance, archaeomagnetic dating, and Animas Phase and Paquime comparisons. For the first time, the Joyce Well site is accessible to all archaeologists."--BOOK JACKET.
Subject
  • Casas Grandes culture > Hidalgo County
  • Excavations (Archaeology) > Hidalgo County
  • Archaeological dating > Hidalgo County
  • Magnetic resonance > Hidalgo County
  • Plant remains (Archaeology) > Hidalgo County
  • Human remains (Archaeology) > Hidalgo County
  • Joyce Well Site (N.M.)
  • Hidalgo County (N.M.) > Antiquities
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-188) and index.
Contents
1. Joyce Well and the Casas Grandes World / W. H. Walker, J. M. Skibo and E. B. McCluney -- 2. The 1963 Excavation / E. B. McCluney -- 3. Plant Remains from the 1963 Excavation / H. C. Cutler and W. C. Cutler -- 4. Human Skeletal Material from the 1963 Excavation / Erik K. Reed -- 5. Ball Courts and Ritual Performance / J. M. Skibo and W. H. Walker -- 6. Archaeomagnetic Dating / C. F. Schaafsma, J. R. Cox and D. Wolfman -- 7. The Animas Phase and Paquime Regional Differentiation and Integration at Joyce Well / J. P. Carpenter -- 8. Joyce Well and the Casas Grandes Religious Interaction Sphere / W. H. Walker and J. M. Skibo.
ISBN
087480728X (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2002004652
OCLC
  • 49610904
  • ocm49610904
  • SCSB-4307371
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries