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Excavations (archaeology) -- New Mexico -- Chaco Canyon

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:

1940 University of New Mexico Field School Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 0051
Scope and Contents This collection is made up of 135 black and white prints. The locations that occur most often are BC 52, Chetro Ketl, Jemez and Mesa Verde. The school is thought to have been in Mesa Verde on a field trip. Photographs depict excavations, landscapes, and students.

Prints: 93085 - 93219
Dates: 1940

Anne Harding Photograph Collection

 Collection — HC 207, CHCU 0050
Identifier: Coll 0050
Scope and Contents Scope and Contents:

The collection consists of 118 photographs and 1 photo album.

Pictures are from the UNM Chaco Canyon field school that Anne Harding attended in 1937. Many have brief notations on the back.
Dates: 1937

Barbara Mills' Ceramics Data and Notes

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 0036
Scope and Contents Scope and Contents:

File units consist almost exclusively of computer data sheets. Any notes are usually of data to be entered into the computer.
Dates: 1983-1986 (bulk dates: 1985)

Bis Sa’Ani Region Archaeological Records

 Collection
Identifier:  Coll 0027
Scope and Contents Scope and Contents:Survey forms, field notes, reports, administrative records, maps, photos, publications, memorandums, correspondence relating to the Alamito Mitigation Project from 1979 to 1983 are contained within this collection. These documents could be of interest to scholars investigating the hard data recovered from this particular archaeological project. This collection holds a wealth of documentation from the Navajo Nation and the contract archaeologists involved in...
Dates: 1973-1996 (bulk dates: 1977-1983)

Chaco Synthesis Project Records

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 0048
Abstract The Chaco Synthesis Project, funded by the National Park Service and managed by Stephen H. Lekson of the University of Colorado-Boulder, was an extensive scholarly endeavor aimed at re-evaluating the Chacoan culture. This multi-year project included six topically themed conferences, a panel discussion, symposium papers, and a School of Advanced Research (SAR) seminar, and was conducted from 2001 to 2006. The project synthesized findings from the earlier Chaco Project (1971-1982) and culminated...
Dates: 1996-2006; Majority of material found within 1997-2003

Marshall B. Clinard Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 0055
Scope and Contents Notes, Photographs, Ephemera, Photo Album
Dates: 1837-1932 (Bulk 1930-1931)

National Park Service Chaco Project Records

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 0002
Scope and Contents Scope and Contents: This collection contains the records pertaining to 29SJ and 29MC sites survey, excavation, data analyses, and research publications conducted by the National Park Service Chaco Project staff at the Chaco Center, a research unit under the direction of the Southwest Regional Office. The records are organized into series primarily by site excavation or survey project. Other series include special studies, images, computer data, administrative files, and the...
Dates: 1823-2005 (bulk dates: 1970-1985)

Oral history interview with Richard Wetherill II

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-817-BC
Abstract The collection consists of an audio interview with Richard Wetherill II, conducted by Richard Sandlin in December 1977. The interview gives insight into the Wetherill family, relationships with the Navajo, and life in the Southwest during the early-mid 20th century.
Dates: 1977 December 1-4

Paul Reiter Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 0032
Scope and Contents The Paul Reiter Collection contains material related to all aspects of Reiter’s career with the University of New Mexico field schools and the Museum of New Mexico. A large part of the collection consists of the Reiter Notebooks, a set of bound volumes containing research material accumulated by Paul Reiter. These Notebooks include excavation reports, field reports, student papers, field notes, lecture notes, correspondence, artifact lists, field data forms, autographed notes, graphs,...
Dates: 1870-1942 (Bulk 1929-1938)

Raymond Baby Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 0049
Scope and Contents Photographs, negatives and lantern slides depicting excavations in Chaco Canyon. Majority are of site BC-53. Photographs are in good condition. Titles for photographs encompass what is written on the backs of the prints. When back of photograph provides no information, archivist-assigned title appears between brackets [].

Neg #s: 93001-93084
Dates: 1940

Richard Vann Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 0033
Scope and Contents Manuscripts, film negatives, photocards, photographsThe manuscripts are mostly notes from classes which he took during the Field School on the Zuni language, paleontology, ceramics, geology, Pueblo ethnology and copies of student papers he wrote. There are also copies of several journals -- DIGS (C52487), El Palacio (C52488), and a UNM Bulletin for the Field School session (C52489); newspaper clippings; and a copy of the 1924 Albuquerque Auto Show catalog (C52490).The...
Dates: 1924-1965 (Bulk 1929-1931)