@article{1c87d1ed9cf24bfb880984e5cbcf94ba,
title = "Ceramic Dating Advances for Analyzing the Fourteenth-Century Migration to Perry Mesa, Arizona",
abstract = "During the early fourteenth century, perhaps thousands of migrants arrived atop the windswept landscape of Perry Mesa, in central Arizona. They built large massive room blocks strategically overlooking the access routes onto the mesa rim. A key to understanding the migration process is documenting the number of antecedent residents on the mesa and their settlement distribution. Different migration processes are implied if the mesa top was virtually vacant, moderately settled, or densely clustered immediately prior to the migrants{\textquoteright} arrival. Unfortunately, documenting the antecedent settlement pattern has been largely stymied by poor temporal control, which has left the antecedent remains largely invisible archaeologically. To fill the chronometric gap, Scott Wood (2014 Antecedents II: A Progress Report on the Origins of the Perry Mesa Settlement and Conflict Management System. Paper prepared for Fall 2012 Arizona Archaeological Council Conference; publication of proceedings pending) has recently described ceramic signatures for different time periods. In this paper, we test the validity and utility of Wood's Early Classic and Late Classic signatures. We then apply the dating refinements to better reconstruct the Perry Mesa migration process.",
keywords = "Ceramic Chronology, Migration, Perry Mesa, Verde Confederacy, Wingfield Plain",
author = "David Abbott and Jennifer Burgdorf and Jesse Harrison and Judd, {Veronica X.} and Mortensen, {Justin D.} and Hannah Zanotto",
note = "Funding Information: Our research would not have been possible without the financial assistance of two organizations. The Bureau of Land Management has most generously supported the Legacies on the Landscape Project since its inception under a series of cooperative agreements (JSA041006, L08AC15546, and L10AC20436). Funding from the National Science Foundation (BTS-0613201) has also underwritten parts of the fieldwork and analysis described here. Funding Information: Our research would not have been possible without the financial assistance of two organizations. The Bureau of Land Management has most generously supported the Legacies on the Landscape Project since its inception under a series of cooperative agreements (JSA041006, L08AC15546, and L10AC20436). Funding from the National Science Foundation (BTS-0613201) has also underwritten parts of the fieldwork and analysis described here. We are most grateful to the citizen archaeologists of the Desert Foothills Chapter of the Arizona Archaeological Society and the Friends of the Tonto National Forest for their meticulous and enthusiastic assistance in the field, and to Katherine Spielmann for her expert direction of the Arizona State University Legacies on the Landscape project. Special thanks go to Bryan Lausten, Archaeologist of the Agua Fria National Monument, for his encouragement and support. The authors are also especially appreciative of Scott Wood's long-term commitment to the archaeology of Perry Mesa and his inspiring leadership. The work performed in the Tonto National Forest was under a disturbing permit issued by the Tonto National Forest. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2017, {\textcopyright} 2017 Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society. All rights reserved.",
year = "2017",
month = jul,
day = "3",
doi = "10.1080/00231940.2017.1297760",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "83",
pages = "292--315",
journal = "KIVA",
issn = "0023-1940",
publisher = "Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society",
number = "3",
}