Least Cost Paths and Movement in Tonto Basin, Central Arizona

Caseldine, Christopher

doi:10.1080/00231940.2021.1996517

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“…Our analyses of water costs come from calculations of one-way pairwise least-cost analyses (LCAs) of travel time between each Ancestral Pueblo cultural site to each of the documented spring and stream water sources in their region (Figure 3). Archaeologists use LCA to identify potential routes of travel between sites (e.g., Caseldine 2022;Hart et al 2019;Herzog 2013;White and Barber 2012) and to serve as proxies for resource acquisition costs measured in distance, time, or energy (e.g., Ladefoged et al 2019;McCoy et al 2011;White and Surface-Evans 2012). LCA is amenable to modeling how droughts affect water acquisition costs at regional scales because water and cultural sites are found at fixed locations but are not uniformly distributed through time and space.…”

Section: Building a Model Of Socio-hydrological Vulnerabilitiesmentioning

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Combining Paleohydrology and Least-Cost Analyses to Assess the Vulnerabilities of Ancestral Pueblo Communities to Water Insecurity in the Jemez Mountains, New Mexico

Aiuvalasit,

Jorgeson

2023

Am. Antiq.

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We developed a new approach to identify vulnerabilities to water insecurity across entire archaeological culture areas by combining a paleohydrological model of the sensitivites of hydrological systems to droughts with least-cost analyses of the costs to acquire domestic water. Using a custom Python script integrated into ArcGIS Pro software, we calculated the pairwise one-way cost in time for walking between 225 water sources and 5,446 Ancestral Pueblo cultural sites across the Jemez and Pajarito Plateaus of the Jemez Mountains, New Mexico. This allowed us to identify whether periodic hydrological droughts occurring between AD 1100 and 1700 increased water acquisition costs across these regions. We found that hydrological droughts increased travel times in both regions to durations exceeding modern standards for water insecurity. Beginning in the fourteenth century, greater underlying hydrogeological sensitivities to droughts and the decline of a dual-residence pattern caused by population losses made the remaining aggregated communities of the Pajarito Plateau much more vulnerable to water insecurity than those on the Jemez Plateau. This would have upended long-standing relationships between communities and water on the Pajarito Plateau during a time when socioeconomic integration across the northern Rio Grande Valley pulled people toward valley bottoms.

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Section: Building a Model Of Socio-hydrological Vulnerabilitiesmentioning

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Combining Paleohydrology and Least-Cost Analyses to Assess the Vulnerabilities of Ancestral Pueblo Communities to Water Insecurity in the Jemez Mountains, New Mexico

Aiuvalasit,

Jorgeson

2023

Am. Antiq.

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“…Parts of the region have been intensively studied, while certain time periods and much of the uplands have been less intensively sampled (see Clark and Caseldine 2021, for a recent overview). The basin was conveniently located along regional travel routes, allowing major settlements-particularly those with platform mounds-to participate and benefit from this exchange (Caseldine 2022;Wood 2000, p. 129-133). The junction of the Salt River and Tonto Creek now forms Roosevelt Lake since the damming of the confluence of the Salt River and Tonto Creek.…”

Section: Tonto Basinmentioning

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“…This phase marks the end of recognizable occupation in the area until the historic period. Tonto Basin's position in a border zone between the Hohokam, Mogollon, and Ancestral Pueblo regions has received much attention (e.g., Caseldine 2022;Clark 2001;Elson and Lindeman 1994;Hill et al 2015;Huntley et al 2016;Lyons and Clark 2012;Lyons 2013;Neuzil 2008;Wood 2000). Of particular note is the presence of masonry roomblock architecture and pottery uncharacteristic of the local Hohokam traditions, which has been interpreted as Kayenta immigration into Tonto Basin (Clark 2001;Lyons 2003;Lyons and Lindsay 2006;Stark, Elson, and Clark 1998), although some have attributed the architectural changes to warfare or population aggregation (Oliver 2001;Wood 2000).…”

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Investigating Material Culture Through Multilayer Network Analysis in Tonto Basin

Bischoff

2023

KIVA

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Network analysis has a strong foundation in Southwest archaeology, yet the combination of multiple types of artifacts in one analysis-multilayer network analysis-has not been formally applied except within a single artifact type. Many studies consider material culture holistically, yet network analysis has the advantage of focusing specifically on the relationships between entities (often communities) and how the structure of a network can benefit entities. This study uses architecture, ceramic, projectile point, and site location data from the Roosevelt Platform Mound Study and combines these data in a multilayer network analysis. This analysis provides a way to test the co-variance of these types of material culture with each other and with spatial variation. The results demonstrate a strong association between projectile points and spatial distance. Overall, the ceramic and projectile point networks exhibit significant differences. This indicates that the social networks that created these patterns had different social mechanisms. One potential cause of these differences is gendered spheres of interaction with men producing and exchanging projectile points and women producing and exchanging ceramics.

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“…Parts of the region have been intensively studied, while certain time periods and much of the uplands have been less intensively sampled (see Clark and Caseldine 2021, for a recent overview). The basin was also conveniently located along regional travel routes, allowing major settlementsparticularly those with platform mounds-to participate and benefit from this exchange (Caseldine 2022;Wood 2000, p. 129-133). The junction of the Salt River and Tonto Creek now forms Roosevelt Lake since the damming of the confluence of the Salt River and Tonto Creek.…”

Section: Tonto Basinmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…One aspect of Tonto Basin that has caught the attention of researchers is its location in a border zone between the Hohokam, Mogollon, and Ancestral Pueblo regions (e.g., Caseldine 2022;Clark 2001;Elson and Lindeman 1994;Hill et al 2015;Huntley et al 2016;Lyons and Clark 2012;Lyons 2013;Neuzil 2008;Wood 2000). Of particular note is the presence of masonry roomblock architecture and pottery uncharacteristic of the local Hohokam traditions, which has been interpreted as Kayenta immigration into Tonto Basin (Clark 2001;Lyons 2003;Lyons and Lindsay 2006;Stark, Elson, and Clark 1998).…”

Section: Tonto Basinmentioning

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Material Culture Networks in Tonto Basin

Bischoff¹

2022

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Tonto Basin is located in a border zone between the Hohokam, Mogollon, and Ancestral Pueblo regions and was primarily occupied during the Roosevelt phase (AD 1275-1325) and the Gila phase (AD 1325-1450). The Roosevelt phase is notable for the appearance of Salado pottery, which has been interpreted as evidence of Kayenta immigration into Tonto Basin and the beginning of the Salado phenomenon. Salado pottery production was widespread, with production often centered at the location of former immigrant enclaves. This study uses data from the Roosevelt Community Platform Mounds Study to analyze social relations through networks based on architecture, ceramics, projectile points, and site locations. The results show a strong correlation between projectile points and space, and differences in the ceramic and point networks suggest that different social processes, possibly relating to gender, influenced the structure of the networks. Sites in this study with roomblocks--associated with immigration--are highly central in the ceramic networks, but have low centrality in the point networks, indication differences in the networks and suggesting differences in the levels of social integration between the genders.

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Least Cost Paths and Movement in Tonto Basin, Central Arizona

Cited by 3 publications

References 14 publications

Combining Paleohydrology and Least-Cost Analyses to Assess the Vulnerabilities of Ancestral Pueblo Communities to Water Insecurity in the Jemez Mountains, New Mexico

Combining Paleohydrology and Least-Cost Analyses to Assess the Vulnerabilities of Ancestral Pueblo Communities to Water Insecurity in the Jemez Mountains, New Mexico

Investigating Material Culture Through Multilayer Network Analysis in Tonto Basin

Material Culture Networks in Tonto Basin

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