TH
(January 14-15, 2012)
SATURDAY JANUARY 14
9:00 – 12:00 Causes and Effects: Explaining Long Term Culture Change in the Southwest
Cynthia Herhahn, Ann Ramenofsky, Deborah Huntley, Jeremy Kulisheck and Ronald Towner
12:00- 1:00 LUNCH
POSTER PRESENTATIONS: 1:00 – 1:50
Poster authors will be present to discuss their posters. (Posters displayed 9-5 on January 14; thematic poster session abstracts follow presenter listing for the afternoon session).
2:00 – 5:00 Historical Ecology in the Southwest: Long-term Adaptation and Extreme Events
Ronald Towner
2:00 – 2:25 Mary M. Prasciunas and Vance T. Holliday
Terminal Pleistocene Paleoindian Ecology and Demography
2:30 – 2:55 Fred Nials
Village
Bigger Isn't Always Better: The Role of Extreme Events at an Early Agricultural Period
3:00 – 3:25 Mark D. Elson, Michael H. Ort, Kirk C. Anderson
Sunset Crater and Little Springs Volcano Eruptions: Hazards Management in the 11th
Century A.D. Prehistoric Southwest
3:30 – 3:55 Chris Roos
Fire, Climate, and Society in Ancient Southwestern Forests and Woodlands
4:00 – 4:25 Ronald Towner and Matthew Salzer
Historical Ecology and Tree-Rings in northern New Mexico
4:30 – 4:55 Emily Jones
The Changing Landscape of Protohistoric New Mexico: Settlement, Subsistence,
Ethnicity, and Fauna
5:30 – 7:30 RECEPTION AT HIBBEN CENTER AND MAXWELL MUSEUM

HISTORICAL ECOLOGY
Anne Baldwin, Mike Bremer, Jennifer Dyer, Rory Gauthier, Jeremy Kulisheck and Anastasia
Steffen
Human Adaptation and Response to Fire in the Jemez Mountains: A Long Term Perspective
Melissa Kruse-Peeples
Effectiveness of agricultural rock alignments for moisture retention in the American
Southwest
Debra L. Martin and Ryan P. Harrod
Bioarchaeology of Pueblo Conflict: Taking an Historical Ecology Approach to Interpersonal
Conflict and Violence
Colleen Strawhacker
The Ecological Impacts of Colonial Economies on O’odham Farmers on the middle Gila River
DEMOGRAPHY
Shelbie A. Bartlett and Patricia A. Gilman
Periphery, Frontier, or Their Own Place: Large Classic Mimbres Sites beyond the Mimbres
Valley Heartland
Gregson Schachner and Matthew A. Peeples
Scrutinizing a Ubiquitous Tool in the Southwest Archaeologist's Toolbox: The Effects of
Sampling and Regional Variation in Ceramic Seriation on the Interpretation of Population
Movement and Demography
Matt Schmader
A World Forever Changed: The Coronado Expedition’s Effect on the Tiguex Province
Jakob Sedig
Woodrow Ruin on the Upper Gila: Preliminary Investigation at a Large, Multi-component
Mimbres Site
MIGRATION
William H. Doelle and Andy Laurenzi
Protecting the Sites of the Kayenta Diaspora: The Salado Preservation Initiative
Katherine Dungan, Deborah Huntley, Robert Jones, and Jeffery Clark
Us and Them? Late Pre-contact Social Dynamics in Mule Creek, New Mexico

Wm. Randall Haas, Jr., Jeffery J. Clark, Barbara J. Mills, Lewis Borck, Brett Hill, Deborah Huntley,
Matthew Peeples, Susan C. Ryan, M.Steven Shackley, Meaghan A. Trowbridge
The SWSN Database: Late Prehispanic Artifact Distributions in the Western U.S. Southwest
Barbara Mills, Lewis Borck, Jeffery Clark, Wm. R. Haas, Matthew Peeples, and John M. Roberts,
Jr.
Multiscalar Perspectives on Southwest Social Networks, A.D. 1200-1500
Erik Simpson
Modeling Post A.D. 700 Population Movements and Culture in the Upper San Juan Region
SUNDAY JANUARY 15
8:30 – 11:00 Approaching Convergence in Archaeological Demography
Jeremy Kulisheck
8:30 – 8:55 Scott Ortman
Why Everyone Should Care about and Do Population Estimates
9:00 – 9:25 Kathryn Kamp
Population Growth and Fertility: The Role of Childhood
9:30 – 9:55 Ann Stodder
Quantifying Morbidity and Quality of Life in the Prehispanic Southwestern Villages
10:00 – 10:25 B. Sunday Eiselt and J. Andrew Darling
Ethnogenesis and Demography in Southwest Vecino Society
10:30 – 10:55 Severin Fowles
The Magic of Numbers and the Priority of History
11:00 – 11:25 Timothy A. Kohler and Kelsey M. Reese
Revisiting the Neolithic Demographic Transition in the North American Southwest
11:30- 11:45 Southwestern Board Overview, Sarah Herr
11:45 – 1:00 LUNCH
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1:00 – 3:30 Long-Distance Movement in the American Southwest: the Intersection of Objects,
People and Ideas

Deborah Huntley
1:00 – 1:25 Maxine McBrinn and James Adovasio
Marriage Patterns and Material Culture: A Pueblo/Fremont Test Case
1:30 – 1:55 Sharon Hull, F. Joan Mathien, and Mostafa Fayek
Turquoise Procurement Patterns Across the American Southwest
2:00 – 2:25 Jeffrey R. Ferguson, Karl W. Laumbach, Toni S. Laumbach, and Stephen H. Lekson
You Get it Here, I'll Get it There: Examining the Divergent Long Distance Exchange
Patterns throughout the Pithouse and Pueblo Occupation of the Cañada Alamosa
2:30 – 2:55 Scott Van Keuren
Leaving Old Spaces, Making New Places: Building Post-Migration Pueblos in the Late Pre-
Hispanic Period
3:00 – 3:25 Homer Thiel
Life on the Northern Frontier of the Pimeria Alta
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