The Southwest

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Brooks
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
Rocky Mountains ◽  
Rio Grande Valley ◽  
Rio Grande ◽  
Dual Process ◽  
Santa Fe ◽  
Place Making ◽  
Southern Rocky Mountains ◽  
San Juan River ◽  
New Locations

Few traveling between Santa Fe, New Mexico, and the Rio Grande valley realize that they are traversing one of the most significant American Indian migration and settlement corridors in the Southwest, a well-watered and fertile floodplain that served to link peoples of the southern Rocky Mountains and the San Juan River to those of the Jemez range and Sangre de Cristo Mountains, and the Rio Grande, across some 300 miles. This chapter gives an overview of Pueblo (Tiwa, Tewa, Towa, Keres, Hopi, and Zuni), Apache, Navajo, and O’odham histories, and reveals a dual process of migration and place making across a millennium. The Southwest has a high variability in seasonal precipitation, and its peoples have demonstrated creative and adaptable cultures that allowed for movement to new locations and the creation of new homelands as a crucial aspect of their survival.

Two new Gordionus species (Nematomorpha: Gordiida) from the southern Rocky Mountains (USA)

Zootaxa ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 3406 (1) ◽  
pp. 30 ◽  
Author(s):  
ALYSSA C. BEGAY ◽  
ANDREAS SCHMIDT-RHAESA ◽  
MATTHEW G. BOLEK ◽  
BEN HANELT
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New Mexico ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
Rocky Mountains ◽  
The State ◽  
The Body ◽  
National Forest ◽  
Santa Fe ◽  
First Order ◽  
Southern Rocky Mountains

The phylum Nematomorpha contains approximately 350 species in 19 extant genera. The genus Gordionus contains 56species, four of which occur in the contiguous United States of America. Here we describe two new Gordionus speciesfrom the southern Rocky Mountains. Worms were collected at three sites in the Santa Fe National Forest in northern NewMexico in the southernmost tip of the Rocky Mountains. Sites consisted of first order streams above 3120m in aspen/pinewoodland. Gordionus lokaaus n. sp. has flat, polygonal or roundish, areoles covering all parts of the body. The male cloa-cal opening is surrounded by broad bristles with stout apexes forming a unique tube-like opening. Adhesive warts aresmall and postcloacal spines are thin and triangular-shaped. Gordionus bilaus n. sp. also has flat polygonal or roundshaped areoles, but has indistinct interareolar furrows making neighboring areoles appear fused. The male cloacal openingis surrounded by stout, finger-like bristles in 2‒3 rows. Adhesive warts are larger and postcloacal spines are broad andmound-shaped. These species double the number known from the state of New Mexico and are the first gordiids described from the southern part of the Rocky Mountains.

The Earliest People in the Southwest

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jesse Ballenger ◽  
Vance Holliday ◽  
Guadelupe Sanchez
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
Rio Grande Valley ◽  
Rio Grande ◽  
Projectile Point ◽  
Upper Rio Grande ◽  
Point Type

Paleoindian occupations across the Southwest are known largely from surface artifact collections because relatively few in situ sites are known. Clovis is the exception, with one of the world’s highest concentrations of Clovis mammoth kills occurring in southeast Arizona (Murray Springs, Naco, and Lehner). Otherwise Clovis is thinly scattered across New Mexico, Chihuahua, and Sonora. Folsom is the most common Paleoindian projectile point type in the Southwest in terms of numbers, but is largely concentrated in the basins of the Upper Rio Grande valley in New Mexico and Colorado. Unfluted Paleoindian artifact styles are widely scattered throughout the region, but most are concentrated along the Upper Rio Grande valley.

Status, Distribution, and Conservation of Native Freshwater Fishes of Western North America

2007 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
Cutthroat Trout ◽  
Rio Grande ◽  
National Forests ◽  
Santa Fe ◽  
Private Lands ◽  
Indian Reservation ◽  
Oncorhynchus Clarkii ◽  
Fort Apache Indian Reservation ◽  
Central Arizona

ABSTRACT Three native trouts occur in the southwestern United States. The Rio Grande cutthroat trout <em>Oncorhynchus clarkii virginalis</em> persists in New Mexico and southern Colorado on the Santa Fe, Carson, and Rio Grande national forests and private lands. The Gila trout <em>O. gilae</em> and the Apache trout <em>O. gilae apache</em> (also known as <em>O. apache</em>) occur in isolated headwater streams of the Gila and Little Colorado rivers on the Gila and Apache- Sitgreaves national forests and Fort Apache Indian Reservation in southwestern New Mexico and east-central Arizona, respectively. For more than two decades, intensive management has been directed at the Apache, Gila, and Rio Grande cutthroat trouts. Despite the efforts, their decades-long listed status remains unchanged for the Gila and Apache trouts, and the Rio Grande native is under consideration for listing. The objectives of this paper are to review the literature and management activities over the past quarter of a century in order to delineate why recovery and conservation have been so difficult for southwestern trout.

Annual Cycle of Reproduction and Molt in Gambel Quail of the Rio Grande Valley, Southern New Mexico

The Condor ◽  
1966 ◽  
Vol 68 (6) ◽  
pp. 541-561 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ralph J. Raitt ◽  
Robert D. Ohmart
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
Annual Cycle ◽  
Rio Grande Valley ◽  
Rio Grande

ICP-MS Isotopic Signatures of Lead Ceramic Glazes, Rio Grande Valley, New Mexico, 1315–1700

1996 ◽  
Vol 462 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas E. Pingitore ◽  
David Hill ◽  
Joshua Villalobos ◽  
Jeff Leach ◽  
John A. Peterson
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
Rio Grande Valley ◽  
Rio Grande ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Ancestral Pueblo ◽  
Trade Routes ◽  
Isotopic Signatures ◽  
Icp Ms ◽  
Lead Source ◽  
Source Materials

ABSTRACTICP-MS isotopie analysis of lead ceramic glazes suggests at least two sources were exploited by Ancestral Pueblo potters to obtain the lead raw material, presumably galena (PbS). Five Rio Grande lead glazeware sherds from the Sandia area and two found at Socorro share a common isotopie fingerprint. The temper of one of the Socorro sherds confirms an origin in the Sandia area; petrography of the temper of the second sherd does not tie to any known Socorro source rock. Two other glazeware sherds from Socorro have a distinctly different lead isotopie signature. A fifth Socorro glaze may be a mixture of the Sandia and Socorro lead source materials. The differences in lead isotopie signature thus accord well with mineralogical differences in the ceramic pastes. Lead isotopie signatures generated by ICP-MS analysis are a powerful new tool for grouping glazeware sherds, classifying individual samples, defining lead sources, and delineating trade routes.

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