FORAGERS AND FARMERS IN THE NORTHERN RIO GRANDE VALLEY, NEW MEXICO

KIVA ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 73 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
BRADLEY J. VIERRA ◽  
RICHARD I. FORD
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
Rio Grande Valley ◽  
Rio Grande ◽  
Northern Rio Grande

Specialized Production in the Southwest: A Case from Arroyo Hondo (LA-12)

1985 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 217-233
Author(s):  
Gordon Bronitsky
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
Rio Grande Valley ◽  
Rio Grande ◽  
Stone Tools ◽  
Ecological Studies ◽  
Variability Analysis ◽  
Chipped Stone ◽  
Specialized Production ◽  
Northern Rio Grande

The Pueblo IV period in the northern Rio Grande valley of New Mexico (AD 1200–1540) was one of increasing climatic and demographic variability. Analysis of certain chipped stone tools from Arroyo Hondo, New Mexico (LA-12) has provided an understanding of some of the means prehistoric populations in the region employed to cope with this variability, focusing on changes in productive strategy. A theoretical model of resource restriction is presented, derived from general ecological studies and recent research into the relationships between population growth and cultural change. Selected lithic data are used to test implications of the model. The results of these tests and their bearing on the general model are then discussed.

Tewa Place Names for Early Habitation Sites in the Northern Rio Grande Valley, New Mexico

2017 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 142-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael A. Schillaci ◽  
Steven A. Lakatos ◽  
Logan D. Sutton
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
Rio Grande Valley ◽  
Rio Grande ◽  
Place Names ◽  
Northern Rio Grande

GEOMORPHIC AND INCISION HISTORY OF THE NORTHERN RIO GRANDE RIVER GORGE NEAR QUESTA, NEW MEXICO

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Travis W. Clow ◽  
◽  
Whitney M. Behr ◽  
Mark Helper ◽  
Peter Gold ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
Rio Grande ◽  
History Of ◽  
Rio Grande River ◽  
Northern Rio Grande

Earthquake Hazard Estimation in Areas of Low Historical Seismicity: A Focus on the Northern Rio Grande Rift, Colorado and New Mexico

1990 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 657-680 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles E. Glass
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
Gaussian Model ◽  
Rio Grande ◽  
Earthquake Hazard ◽  
Weibull Model ◽  
Historical Seismicity ◽  
Rio Grande Rift ◽  
Earthquake Activity ◽  
Sangre De Cristo ◽  
Northern Rio Grande

Estimates of the probability of future earthquake activity are difficult to make in areas where historical seismicity may be low or absent, but where young fault scarps attest to recent or ongoing tectonism. Three non-Poisson models, a Weibull model, a Gaussian model and a lognormal model, are used to estimate the earthquake hazard for one such area, the northern Rio Grande Rift. This portion of the Rio Grande Rift displays numerous Holocene faults attesting to ongoing tectonism, but displays essentially no historical seismicity. The earthquake hazard for the Sangre de Cristo fault zone from Taos, New Mexico to Salida, Colorado calculated using these models is remarkably consistent (probability of at least one Mo = 7 earthquake in the next 50 years ∼ 2.5 × 10−3), with increased hazard for the Sangre de Cristo fault in north San Luis Valley (∼5.0×10−3) and near Taos (∼1.0×10−2) due to the long holding times along these segments.

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.

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