Rock art studies have indicated that the katchina cult and associated religious sodalities arrived in the Pueblo Southwest in the early 14th century from the Jornada region of the Mogollon. Recent studies of prehistoric Pueblo social organization suggest that population aggregation after A.D. 1150 led to the need for means of intravillage social integration. It is proposed that the arrival of the katchina cult and its widespread acceptance occurred in response to this need for intravillage integrative mechanisms.
Illinois and expanded the range of archaeomagnetic dating into the Midwest, work that now is being prepared for publication by Fowler. During these years he also encouraged the early career of his student David W. Stahle, who eventually went on to develop a tree-ring chronology for Arkansas and the Southeast that has major ramifications for archaeological dating in this region. Also with Stahle, he demonstrated that Alpha-Recoil track dating was unreliable.While his years in Arkansas were productive, Wolfman's real interests lay elsewhere. Fortunately he was the recipient of several grants that allowed him to extend his research in archaeomagnetism to Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and Peru. He liked nothing better than to ride a horse into the jungles of Honduras or Guatemala to collect archaeomagnetic samples at remote sites. His preferred mode of travel to Mexico and Central America was in his beat-up, but reliable (a vehicle that he claimed never let him down), 1968 Ford van, his home on the road. Dan and his van were inseparable until his death. Once outside Oaxaca, Mexico, he was held up at gun point and kidnapped with his van by "officials" who claimed to be police. In the end, he, and the van, were released, but without his money and the curious archaeomagnetic cubes that were confiscated.In 1988 Dan and van returned to New Mexico where he was employed by the Museum of New Mexico, Office of Archaeological Studies, with the goal of establishing a full-time archaeomagnetic dating laboratory. Shortly thereafter the University of Arizona Press published what were to be among his most significant contributions to the field-his several papers in Archaeomagnetic Dating (Eighmy and Sternberg 1990). At the Office of Archaeological Studies, while compiling grant applications, working hard to raise private donations, and dating samples with the help of the Rock Magnetism Laboratory at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Dan also took on responsibility as director of field projects until the archaeomagnetic laboratory could be opened. Despite the many tasks, Dan successfully opened the lab on a fully operational basis in early 1993. After the lab was functioning, requests for Dan's services began to skyrocket. He worked with researchers in Senegal, Peru, Bolivia, and Mexico, as well as the southwestern'United States. In this context he was developing an archaeomagnetic curve for Peru and expanding the ranges of the curves for the Southwest and Mesoamerica. He was also working on archaeomagnetic curves for California and Hawaii.At the time of his death, Dan was involved with a project coordinated by the Museum of New Mexico As he worked with and trained archaeologists throughout the Americas, many came to know Dan as a strong advocate of archaeomagnetism, steadfastly dedicated to the exploration of precise dating techniques. He trained students across the globe and gave countless tours of the laboratory to a worldwide array of visitors. Dan's substantial contributions to dating methods in archaeology will be ...
Casas Grandes and Its Hinterland: Regional Organization in Northwest Mexico. Michael E. Whalen and Paul E. Minnis. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2001. 250 pp.
Great Excavations: Tales of Early Southwestern Archaeology, 1888‐1939. Melinda Elliot. Santa Fe, NM: School of American Research Press, 1995. Distributed by the University of Washington Press, xvii. 251 pp. 136 b/w photos, map, notes, bibliography, index. $40.00 (cloth), $20.00 (paper).
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