Human-Environment Interaction in the Late Archaic and Early Mogollon/Anasazi of the Chevelon Creek Drainage


Julien Riel-Salvatore, M.A.
Department of Anthropology
Arizona State University



This site summarizes the results of an independent research project entitled "Human-Environment Interaction in the Late Archaic-Early Anasazi/Mogollon of the Chevelon Creek Drainage." I conducted this project in the fall of 2000, as part of a Graduate Research Fellowship awarded to me by the Archaeological Research Institute at Arizona State University, during the fall semester of 2000. The ultimate goals of the project were as follows:

  1. Synthesize the large number of dispersed archaeological data available for the Chevelon Creek Drainage in northern Arizona;
  2. Use this information to establish a rough chronological framework according to which recorded sites could be classified;
  3. Through the use of a Geographic Information Systems (GIS), observe patterns in site distribution in that area to detect diachronic changes in land-use patterns.

In the pages of this site, some of the elements relative to that third goal are presented and the main conclusions suggested by these results are presented.


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