In the footsteps of Kidder, Mera, and Shepard : an introduction / Winifred Creamer, James E. Snead and Don Fowler -- An imperishable record : history, theory, and the cultural landscape of the northern Rio Grande / James E. Snead -- Emerging from the shadows: the Archaic period in the northern Rio Grande / Stephen S. Post -- Torturing sherds : ceramic petrography and the development of Rio Grande archaeology / Judith A. Habicht-Mauche -- Ceramic analysis of intra- and intersite occupation at protohistoric pueblos in the northern Rio Grande / Winifred Creamer ... [et al.] -- "Now the god of the Spaniards is dead" : ethnogenesis and community formation in the aftermath of the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 / Robert W. Preucel, Loa P. Traxler and Michael V. Wilcox -- Descent group and sodality : alternative Pueblo social histories / John A. Ware -- The climate for ethnographic/ethnohistoric research in the Southwest / Elizabeth A. Brandt -- Transitions to agriculture : an introduction / John R. Roney and Robert J. Hard -- Maize agriculture and the rise of mixed farming-foraging economies in southeastern Arizona during the second millennium B.C. / Bruce B. Huckell, Lisa W. Huckell and Karl K. Benedict -- Early agriculture in northwestern Chihuahua / John R. Roney and Robert J. Hard -- The role of irrigation in the transition to agriculture and sedentism in the Southwest : a risk management model / Jonathan B. Mabry -- Duration, continuity, and intensity of occupation at a late Cienega phase settlement in the Santa Cruz River floodplain / David A. Gregory and Michael W. Diehl -- The forager to farmer transition on the Rainbow Plateau / Phil R. Geib and Kimberly Spurr --

Of maize and migration : mode and tempo in the diffusion of Zea mays in northwest Mexico and the American Southwest / John P. Carpenter, Guadalupe Sanchez and Maria Elisa Villalpando -- Ancient technology, justifiable knowledge, and replication experiments : resolving the inferential impasse / John E. Clark -- Basketmaker II horn flaking tools and dart point production : technological change at the agricultural transition / Phil R. Geib -- Technology of the sacred : painted basketry in the Southwest / Nancy Odegaard and Kelley Hays-Gilpin -- Community, metaphor, and gender : technological changes across the Pueblo III to Pueblo IV transition in the El Morro Valley, New Mexico / James M. Potter -- Broadening our research horizons through chemistry / Jenny L. Adams -- Experimental ceramic technology - or, the road to ruin(s) is paved with crack(ed) pots / Kathy Niles Hensler and Eric Blinman -- Status and social power : rock art as prestige technology among the San Juan Basketmakers of southeast Utah / Michael R. Robins.