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  title info:
    title: Prehistoric jewelry of the NAN Ranch Ruin (LA15049), Grant County, New Mexico
  name:
    name part: Parks-Barrett, Maria Shannon
    name part: 1971-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    date issued: 2001
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    form: remote
    extent: xv, 263 leaves : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm.
  abstract: Jewelry from the NAN Ranch Ruin (A.D. 600/650-1140), southwestern New Mexico, is analyzed with the following research goals: to describe the physical properties of the jewelry, to provide a contextual analysis in the form of mortuary and spatial patterning, and to interpret the social and ceremonial roles that jewelry played for the Mimbres at the NAN Ruin. Comparative data are provided, when available, from additional sites in the Mimbres Valley and the greater Southwest. The jewelry from the NAN Ruin is of two main material types, marine shell and stone. The most common jewelry types made from these materials are beads, pendants, and bracelets. In total, 1,970 individual pieces of marine shell jewelry, both whole and fragmentary, were recovered from the site. These materials include unidentified white shell, unidentified shell, Glycymeris, Nassarius, Pecten, Haliotis, Spondylus, Olivella, Conus, Coral, Strombus, Turritella, Architectonicidae, and Columbella. The majority of the marine shell originated in the Gulf of California. Shell jewelry was likely imported into the NAN Ranch Ruin from the Hohokam, who controlled the trade of marine shell throughout the region. In total, 10, 185 individual items of stone jewelry and materials, whole and fragmentary, were present at the NAN Ruin. These materials include talc, kaolinite, turquoise, galena, unidentified stone, quartz, slate, malachite, hematite, limestone, pumice, rhyolite, copper, jadeite, and basalt. All of these materials were available locally or within a short distance from the Mimbres Valley. A little over a quarter of the mortuary population (28.1%) at the NAN Ranch Ruin was associated with jewelry. Based on the application of two statistical tests, binomial distribution and factor analysis, there is no strong evidence that the presence of jewelry in the mortuary record is indicative of particular social categories, lineage affiliations, or vertical social stratification. The association of jewelry with sp…
  note: by Maria Shannon Parks-Barrett.
  note: "Major subject: Anthropology".
  note: Vita.
  note: Also available online.
  note: Issued also on microfiche from Lange Micrographics.
  note: M.A. Texas A&M University 2001.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (leaves 249-258).
  subject:
    topic: Major anthropology
  identifier: https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2001-THESIS-P366
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      url: https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2001-THESIS-P366
  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 020605
    record change date: 20220103114423.0
    record identifier: in00001696256