%0 Thesis %B Anthropology %D 2008 %T Human response to environmental hazards: Sunset Crater as a case study %A May, Elizabeth %Y Dean, J. %K Archaeology %X Natural disasters and rapid environmental changes have resulted in a continuum of responses by human societies throughout history. A model is proposed that incorporates cultural and environmental aspects of human response to natural disasters. The 11 th century eruption of Sunset Crater volcano in northern Arizona is used as a case study in which the archaeological record and dendrochronological and geomorphological evidence are combined to characterize the nature of the human response. The model predicts that the population at Sunset Crater would have been pressured to move, or to move and make cultural or technological adaptations following the eruption. The model has utility in diverse conditions and can be used to interpret archaeological remains and facilitate modern disaster response. %B Anthropology %I University of Arizona %V MA %G eng %U http://ezproxy.library.arizona.edu/login?url=http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1564017781&sid=16&Fmt=2&clientId=43922&RQT=309&VName=PQD %0 Thesis %B Anthropology %D 2004 %T Household ritual, gender, and figurines in the Hohokam regional system %A Susan Stinson %K Arizona %K Figurines %K Gender %K Hohokam %K Household ritual %X Study of ritual in the Greater Southwest is dominated by research at the suprahousehold and community levels. However, this approach ignores the most basic segment of society, the household. This research addresses household ritual by determining the production, use, and discard of anthropomorphic ceramic figurines that were used at the sites of Snaketown and Grewe during the Pioneer (300 B.C.-A.D. 700) and Colonial (A.D. 700-900) periods. Agency and practice theory provide a background for this examination of human representations that may be tied with the creation of personhood and identity. Some 1440 figurines and figurine fragments are analyzed in order to determine their function and the sex of those individuals producing them. Function is determined by recording the patterns of construction, form, use-wear, damage, and disposal for each artifact. These results are compared to cross-cultural patterns of figurine use including ancestor ritual, healing and curing ritual, and the play of children (toys.) All aspects of figurine manufacture, use, and discard indicate that these items were employed in ancestor ritual within Hohokam households. In addition to the analysis of figurine attributes, I also determine who the producers of these figures were by examining fingerprint impressions left in the clay surface of the representations. Dermatoglyphic analyses provide the link between the manufacture of figurines and gender roles within the household. Ridge counting is used to distinguish between children and adults and males and females. A ridge count is a quantitative measure of the size and density of the fingerprint pattern, which is strongly inherited. The ridge count indices for the archaeological sample are compared with ridge count values from an ethnographic collection of Native American prints. These distributions of ridge count values show that women are the primary producers of the figurines, however a small percentage of men are manufacturing them in certain households. As part of ancestor ritual, figurines function as representations of deceased relatives who perpetuate access to property and resource rights. Women often maintain this ritual, which commemorates the dead while reinforcing social memory among the Hohokam. %B Anthropology %I University of Arizona %V PhD %U http://ezproxy.library.arizona.edu/login?url=http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=845713121&sid=7&Fmt=2&clientId=43922&RQT=309&VName=PQD %0 Thesis %B Anthropology %D 1997 %T A History of Archaeological Tree-Ring Datin: 1914-1945 %A Nash, Stephan Edward %Y Dean, J. %K Science history %X Dendrochronology, the science of assigning precise and accurate calendar dates to annual growth rings in trees, was the first independent dating technique available to prehistorians. Archaeological tree-ring dating came of age at a time when North American archaeologists concerned themselves primarily with time-space systematics, yet had no absolute and independent dating techniques available to guide their analyses. The history of archaeological tree-ring dating from 1914 through the end of World War II is often reduced to discussions of the discovery of specimen HH-39 on June 22, 1929 and considerations of the National Geographic Society Beam Expeditions of 1923, 1928, and 1929. The development and integration of archaeological tree-ring dating is in fact much more complex than these simplistic histories indicate. The “bridging of the gap,” as symbolized by the discovery of HH-39, represents merely the culmination of an intense 15-year long research effort that included at least seven “beam expeditions” and a great deal of laboratory and brilliant archaeological research. By 1931, four Southwestern archaeological research institutions had hired dendrochronologists to conduct archaeological tree-ring dating in support of their various research interests. By 1936, dendrochronology was being applied in support archaeological research in the Mississippi Valley and Alaska. By 1942 however, Southwestern archaeological tree-ring dating once again became the exclusive domain of the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research at the University of Arizona, and by 1950 efforts to extend tree-ring dating to other parts of North America as well. A controlled analysis and comparison of tree-ring sample collection activity, correspondence, unpublished research records, and the publication record relevant to North American archaeological tree-ring dating from 1914 to 1945 provides a chronicle of important events in the development of archaeological dendrochronology, provides an understanding of the processes through which tree-ring dating became incorporated in increasingly sophisticated archaeological analyses and interpretations of Southwestern and indeed North American prehistory, serves as a case study for a proposed unilineal model of the development and incorporation of analytical techniques in archaeology, and lays the foundation for a body of theory regarding the development of ancillary chronometric and archaeometric techniques and their application to archaeological problems. %B Anthropology %I University of Arizona %V PhD %G eng %U http://ezproxy.library.arizona.edu/login?url=http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=739840221&sid=5&Fmt=2&clientId=43922&RQT=309&VName=PQD %0 Thesis %D 1992 %T Holzanatomische Untersuchungen zur Rekonstruktion der Feuergeschichte eines Bestandes von Pinus ponderosa Laws. in den Santa Rita Mountains, Arizona %A Wolfgang Ortloff %K Arizona %K german %K ponderosa pine %K santa rita %K santa rita mountains %I Universitat Freiburg %8 05/1992 %G German %0 Thesis %B Geosciences %D 1985 %T Hydroclimatology of flow events in the Gila River Basin, Central and Southern Arizona %A Hirschboeck, K. %K floods %K Hydrology %K mixed populations %X

Traditional flood-frequency techniques are based on the assumption that the observed flood record represents a sample that has been drawn from a single climatically homogeneous population of floods. A hydroclimatic approach was used to evaluate this assumption by identifying the circulation patterns and atmospheric flood-generating mechanisms which control the temporal and spatial variability of flooding. Mean monthly discharges and instantaneous peak flows of the partial duration series were analyzed for thirty gaging stations in the climatically sensitive, semiarid, Gila River basin for the period 1950 to 1980. Correlation fields and composite maps were constructed to define the relationship between 700 mb height circulation anomalies and mean monthly streamflow. Individual flood events were linked to climate by analyzing daily synoptic weather maps and classifying each flood event into one of eight hydroclimatic categories on the basis of the atmospheric mechanisms which generated each flow. The analysis demonstrated that floods and anomalously high streamflow in the Gila River basin originate from a variety of atmospheric processes which vary spatially, seasonally, and from year-to-year. The mechanisms most important for generating floods included winter fronts, cutoff lows, tropical storms, snowmelt, and widespread and localized summer monsoon-related circulation patterns. When flood discharges were grouped into hydroclimatically homogeneous categories, histogram plots of their frequency distributions exhibited means and variances that differed from those of the overall frequency distribution of the entire flood series. The means of the discharges generated by frontal precipitation and tropical storms tended to plot above the mean of the overall series, while the means of floods generated by snowmelt tended to plot below the overall mean. Flood estimates computed from a series containing mixed distributions were not the same as flood estimates computed from climatically homogeneous subsets of the same series. These results have implications for traditional flood-frequency analysis and other stochastic methods of analyzing hydrologic time series. The hydroclimatically-defined subgroups in the flood series of the Gila River basin indicate that nonhomogeneity and nonstationarity can be imparted to a hydrologic time series by differing atmospheric mechanisms alone.

%B Geosciences %I University of Arizona %V PhD %U http://ezproxy.library.arizona.edu/login?url=http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=753278081&sid=23&Fmt=2&clientId=43922&RQT=309&VName=PQD %0 Report %D 1977 %T History of Droughts in Washington State %A Governors Ad Hoc Executive Water Emergency Committee Staff %K climate %K droughts %K environment %K historic %K history %K washington %K water %0 Thesis %B School of Renewable Natural Resources %D 1975 %T The Historical Potential of Snowfall as a Water Resources in Arizona %A Tunnicliff, Brock Matthew %Y Ffolliott, P. %K Watershed Management %X …Tree-ring chronologies from the San Francisco Mountains and White Mountains region of central Arizona where used to reconstruct past annual snowfall water equivalents for up to the last 500 years… %B School of Renewable Natural Resources %I University of Arizona %V MS %G eng %0 Generic %D 1923 %T Historical Address %A Douglass, A.E. %K address %K Douglass %K historic %K steward observatory %0 Newspaper Article %B Tucson Citizen %D 1910 %T Halleys Comet %A Douglass, A.E. %K astronomy %K comet %K Douglass %K Halleys %K historic %K newspaper %K tucson %B Tucson Citizen %C Tucson %0 Journal Article %J Popular Astronomy %D 1900 %T A Hypothesis Regarding the Surface Markings of Jupiter %A Douglass, A.E. %K Douglass %K hypothesis %K jupiter %K marking %K surface %B Popular Astronomy %N No. 79 %0 Newspaper Article %B Coconino Sun %D 1895 %T How Tall We Are %A Funston, C.M. %A Douglass, A.E. %K astronomy %K Douglass %K Flagstaff %K historic %K newspaper %K observation %B Coconino Sun %C Flagstaff %0 Generic %D 1882 %T Halo on September 2 %K Douglass %K halo %K historic %K punchard ensign %0 Newspaper Article %D 0 %T Height of the San Francisco Mountains and Other Points %A Douglass, A.E. %K Douglass %K mountains %K newspaper %K san francisco %I The Coconino Sun %C Flagstaff %0 Book Section %D 0 %T The Hydrogen Ion Concentration Base Exchange Capacity and Sulphate Content of Soils %A Katz, Morris %A Atkinson, H.J. %A Wyatt, F.A. %K base exchange %K concentration %K hydrogen %K soils %K sulphate content