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Barbara Roth, Associate
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Interests: Archaeology of hunter-gatherers, the transition
from foraging to farming, lithic technology, gender studies,
prehistoric household organization, American Southwest,
southern Great Basin.
Archaic period hunter-gatherers in arid settings used a
range of strategies to cope with their environment. The
various strategies influence the kinds of archaeological
remains we encounter, whether one's focus is on Archaic
period settlement patterns in the Sonoran Desert or
hunter-gatherer adaptations in arid environments in the
Southwest and southern Great Basin. Both the Archaic and the
late pre-historic hunter-gatherer adaptations can be
examined by means of land use studies and lithic analysis.
Also interesting is the transition from hunting-gathering to
farming in the Mimbres Mogollon region of southwestern New
Mexico and the changes in household organization that
occurred as groups became increasingly sedentary and
dependent on agriculture. A clear picture should emerge from
excavations of two Pithouse period sites in the uplands
surrounding the Mimbres River Valley and a new project at a
large pithouse site on the Mimbres River.
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Selected Publications
- In press. The Late
Pithouse Period Occupation at the Lake Roberts Vista
Site. Exploring Variability in Mogollon Pithouses,
B. Roth & R. Stokes, eds. Arizona State University
Anthropological Research Papers.
- 2004. (with K. Wellman) A
Real Life Example of a Cooperative CRM/Academic Field
School. From Campus to Corporation: The Rise of
Contract Archaeology in the Southwest. H. Roberts,
R. Ahlstrom, & B. Roth, eds. Society for American
Archaeology Book Series, Washington D.C.
- 2001. (with K Wellman) New
Insights into the Early Agricultural Period in the
Tucson Basin: Excavations at the Valley Farms Site. Kiva
67:59-79.
- 2000. Households at a
Rincon Phase Hohokam Site in the Tucson Basin of
Southern Arizona. Journal of Field Archaeology
27:285-294.
- 2000. Obsidian Source
Characterization and Hunter-gatherer Mobility: An
Example from the Tucson Basin. Journal of
Archaeological Science 7:305-314.
- 1999. (with R. Stokes)
Mobility, Sedentism, and Settlement Patterns in
Transition: The Late Pithouse Period in the Sapillo
Valley, New Mexico. Journal of Field Archaeology
26:423-434.
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