Salt Erosion

Severe, occasionally disastrous, erosion of the bases of adobe walls in the arid and semiarid regions of the Southwest is a phenomenon which has long been observed and commented upon. In historic times, erosion of this type has caused collapse of adobe buildings in the Rio Grande Valley of New Mexico; about Tucson, Arizona, it is serious, as it is in the Salt River Valley. Evidence of similar erosion has been noticed in excavations of prehistoric massive adobe or caliche walls of Hohokam and Salado structures of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries A.D. in the Salt and Gila River valleys of Arizona. Repair to check erosion and prevent collapse of walls was the primary purpose of Cosmos Mindeleff's stay at Casa Grande in the 1890's. Fewkes noticed similar cutting of standing walls at the nearby Adamsville site.

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A Pit House Site near Santa Ana Pueblo, New Mexico

American Antiquity ◽

10.2307/277001 ◽

1955 ◽

Vol 20 (3) ◽

pp. 241-255 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

J. W. Allen ◽

C. H. McNutt

Keyword(s):

New Mexico ◽

Rio Grande Valley ◽

Rio Grande ◽

River Valley ◽

Santa Ana ◽

The People ◽

Southwestern Archaeology ◽

Middle Rio Grande ◽

Middle Rio Grande Valley ◽

House Site

One of the greatest problems confronting southwestern archaeology in its aim of interpretive reconstruction of the cultures of prehistoric peoples lies in filling the gaps where little or no information exists concerning significant periods of development in particular areas. One such interval, of considerable duration, exists in the middle Rio Grande Valley. We have known for some time that this region was inhabited by some of the early hunting groups (Hibben 1941, 1951) as well as the later Pueblo peoples. But who the people were, if any, that lived here during the interim between these extremes has been, until recently, largely a matter for conjecture. No ecologic reason has been presented to show why this river valley could not have supported its share of inhabitants, whether hunters, gatherers, or agriculturalists, during these thousands of years.

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Cannon Reservoir Human Ecology Project. Volume 1. Euro-American Pioneer Settlement Systems in the Central Salt River Valley of Northeast Missouri.

10.21236/ada255755 ◽

1984 ◽

Author(s):

Roger D. Mason ◽

Michael J. O'Brien

Keyword(s):

Human Ecology ◽

River Valley ◽

Settlement Systems ◽

Salt River ◽

Salt River Valley ◽

Pioneer Settlement

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Did the Sinagua of the Verde Valley Settle in the Salt River Valley?

Southwestern Journal of Anthropology ◽

10.1086/soutjanth.3.3.3628777 ◽

1947 ◽

Vol 3 (3) ◽

pp. 230-246 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Albert H. Schroeder

Keyword(s):

River Valley ◽

Salt River ◽

Salt River Valley

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The Earliest People in the Southwest

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199978427.013.11 ◽

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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