scholarly journals A spatial analysis of civic-ceremonial architecture in the central Mesa Verde Region, United States

2017 ◽  
Vol 47 ◽  
pp. 12-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grant D. Coffey ◽  
Susan C. Ryan
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Spatial Analysis ◽  
Mesa Verde ◽  
Mesa Verde Region ◽  
Ceremonial Architecture

scholarly journals Spatial analysis of family forest landownership in the southern United States

2019 ◽  
Vol 188 ◽  
pp. 163-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neelam C. Poudyal ◽  
Brett J. Butler ◽  
Donald G. Hodges
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Spatial Analysis ◽  
Southern United States ◽  
Family Forest

Spatial Analysis of Climate-Viticulture Indices for the Eastern United States

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 23-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosalyn Francine MacCracken ◽  
Paul R. Houser
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Spatial Analysis ◽  
Growing Season ◽  
Climate Indices ◽  
Growing Degree Days ◽  
Eastern United States ◽  
Degree Days ◽  
The Us ◽  
Resolution Dataset ◽  
Effective Degree

This study characterizes the climate structure in the Eastern United States for suitability of winegrape growth. For this study, the Eastern US is defined as the 44 contiguous Eastern most states. This excludes the premium wine growing states of California, Washington, Oregon and Idaho. For this characterization, a comparative study is performed on the four commonly used climate-viticulture indices (i.e., Average Growing Season Temperature, Growing Degree Days, Heliothermal Index and Biologically Effective Degree Days), and a new climate-viticulture index, the Modified-GSTavg (Mod-GSTavg). This is accomplished using the 1971 – 2000 PRISM 800-meter resolution dataset of climate temperature normal for the study area of 44 states and 62 American Viticultural Areas across the Eastern United States. The results revealed that all the climate indices have similar spatial patterns throughout the US with varying magnitudes and degrees of suitability.

Temporal Variation in Obsidian Procurement in the Northern Rio Grande and Its Implications for Obsidian Movement into the San Juan Area

2019 ◽  
Vol 85 (1) ◽  
pp. 152-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
James L. Moore ◽  
Eric Blinman ◽  
M. Steven Shackley
Keyword(s):  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
Rio Grande ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Migration Stream ◽  
North Central ◽  
Reverse Migration ◽  
Pajarito Plateau ◽  
Mesa Verde ◽  
Northern Rio Grande ◽  
Mesa Verde Region

Arakawa and colleagues (2011) use temporal changes in obsidian source patterns to link the late thirteenth-century abandonment of the Mesa Verde region to Ortman's (2010, 2012) model of Tewa migration to the northern Rio Grande. They employ Anthony's (1990) concept of reverse migration, inferring that an increase in Mesa Verde–region obsidian from a specific Jemez Mountain source reflects the scouting of an eventual migration path. Weaknesses of this inference are that only obsidian data from the Mesa Verde region were used in its development and that the model does not consider the complexities of previously documented patterns of settlement and stone raw material use in the northern Rio Grande. By examining source data from parts of northwestern and north-central New Mexico, we find that the patterning seen in the Mesa Verde obsidian data is widespread both geographically and temporally. The patterns are more indicative of a change in acquisition within a down-the-line exchange system than a reverse migration stream. Population trends on the southern Pajarito Plateau, the probable source of the acquisition change, suggest ancestral Keres rather than Tewa involvement in thirteenth-century obsidian distribution.

scholarly journals A multivariate spatial analysis of vowel formants in American English

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jack Grieve ◽  
Dirk Speelman ◽  
Dirk Geeraerts
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Spatial Analysis ◽  
American English ◽  
Western United States ◽  
The West ◽  
Acoustic Data ◽  
Vowel Formant ◽  
Multivariate Spatial Analysis ◽  
Vowel Formants ◽  
Vowel Shift

This paper presents the results of a multivariate spatial analysis of thirty-eight vowel formant variables measured in 236 cities from across the contiguous United States, based on the acoustic data from the Atlas of North American English. The results of the analysis both confirm and challenge the results of the Atlas. Most notably, while the analysis identifies similar patterns as the Atlas in the West and the Southeast, the analysis finds that the Midwest and the Northeast are distinct dialect regions that are considerably stronger than the traditional Midland dialect region identified in the Atlas. The analysis also finds evidence that a vowel shift is actively shaping the language of the Western United States.

Cannibalism, Warfare, and Drought in the Mesa Verde Region during the Twelfth Century A.D.

2000 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
pp. 145-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian R. Billman ◽  
Patricia M. Lambert ◽  
Banks L. Leonard
Keyword(s):  
Heat Exposure ◽  
American Southwest ◽  
Controversial Issues ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
Cut Marks ◽  
Broken Bones ◽  
Mesa Verde ◽  
Bone Fragments ◽  
Habitation Site ◽  
Mesa Verde Region

AbstractThe existence of cannibalism has emerged as one of the most controversial issues in the archaeology of the American Southwest. In this paper, we examine this issue by presenting the results of our investigation at 5MT10010, a small early Pueblo III habitation site in southwestern Colorado. Battered, broken bones from seven individuals were discovered in two adjacent pithouses at 5MT10010. Mixed and incomplete remains of four adults and an adolescent were recovered from the floor and ventilator shaft of one pithouse; the remains of two subadults were found on the floor and in various subfeatures of the second. Cut marks and percussion scars implicate humans in the disarticulation and reduction of these bodies. Evidence of heat exposure on some bone fragments and laboratory analyses of a human coprolite recovered from one of the pithouses support the interpretation that people prepared and consumed human body parts. The discovery of disarticulated human remains at 5MT10010 is one of a number of similar finds in the northern Southwest. Analysis of cases from the Mesa Verde region indicates a sharp increase in cannibalism around A.D. 1150, a time of drought and the collapse of the Chaco system. The causes, consequences, and nature of this apparent outbreak of cannibalism are examined in light of 5MT10010 and other recent finds.

Are young Americans carless across the United States? A spatial analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 78 ◽  
pp. 102197 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jun Liu ◽  
Shashi Nambisan ◽  
Xiaobing Li ◽  
Xing Fu
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Spatial Analysis ◽  
The United States
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