Theses & Dissertations

Several Master’s theses and PhD dissertations resulted from the Arroyo Hondo Pueblo project. Six resulted directly from the fieldwork at Arroyo Hondo and others used the research in their writings. 

DIRECTLY RESULTING FROM PROJECT

Collins, Susan M.

1975 Prehistoric Rio Grande Settlement Patterns and the Inference of Demographic Change. PhD dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado.

Dickson Jr., D. Bruce

1972 Settlement Pattern Stability and Change in the Pueblo Culture of the Middle Northern Rio Grande Region of New Mexico. PhD dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson.

Habicht-Mauche, Judith A.

1988 An Analysis of Southwestern-Style Utility Ware Ceramics from the Southern Plains in the Context of Protohistoric Plains-Pueblo Interaction. PhD dissertation, Harvard University.

Kelley, N. Edmund

1973 Ecology of the Arroyo Hondo Pueblo Site. Master’s thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.

Palkovich, Ann M.

1978 A Model of the Dimensions of Mortality and Its Application to Paleodemography. PhD dissertation, Department of Anthropology, Northwestern University, Evanston.             

Wetterstrom, Wilma

1976 The Effects of Nutrition on Population Size at Pueblo Arroyo Hondo, New Mexico. PhD dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

MAJOR USE OF ARROYO HONDO MATERIAL

Bronitsky, Gordon Jay

1977 An Ecological Model of Trade: Prehistoric Economic Change in the Northern Rio Grande Region of New Mexico. PhD dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson.

Shapiro, Jason S.

1997 Fingerprints on the Landscape: Space Syntax Analysis and Cultural Evolution in the Northern Rio Grande. PhD dissertation, Department of Anthropology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park.