Journal of the Southwest articles from September 1998

Journal of the Southwest archives from September 1998

Time for Collaboration: A. E. Douglass, Archaeologists, and the Establishment of Tree-Ring Dating in the American Southwest.
September 22, 1998... Archaeologist Fay-Cooper Cole of the University of Chicago wrote in 1934 that "chronology is the soul of archaeology," yet at that time the study of temporal relationships within the archaeological record had an exceedingly short pedigree. The...

Remembering A. E. Douglass.
September 22, 1998... I really got to know Andrew Douglass in the 1949-50 academic year. He was already into his eighties (he died at the age of ninety-four in 1962), so we're talking at most a dozen years of overlap. Our relationship was certainly not as close...

Reclamation, Ranching, and Reservation: Environmental, Cultural, and Governmental Rivalries in Transitional Arizona.
September 22, 1998... In the spring of 1996, Tonto National Forest burned spectacularly. The Lone Fire swept over 61,000 acres, much of which was within the Four Peaks Wilderness Area. During the week of the fire, the issue of appropriate land use captured the...

Yaquis vs. Yanquis: An Environmental and Historical Comparison of Coping with Aridity in Southern Sonora.
September 22, 1998... Aqui solo desierto, en al paraje y alma del senor de Sonora hay desierto. --Oscar Monroy Rivera(1) The ability to survive in the desert regions of northwestern Mexico has depended on humankind's adaptation to one...

The Rio Yaqui Delta: Early Twentieth-Century Photos from the Richardson Construction Company.
September 22, 1998... In the late nineteenth century, Mexican army engineers were sent to the Rio Yaqui delta to lay the groundwork for future agricultural production. The Comision Geografica, under federal orders, launched a military campaign to survey land and...