The Archaeology of the Sierra Blanca Region of Southeastern New Mexico (Volume 74)

by Jane H. Kelley

In this monumental work, Jane Holden Kelley preserved archaeological data from many important sites in southeastern New Mexico, many of which no longer exist. She also established a basic chronological framework for the upland portion of this area. Sites discussed include Bloom Mound and the Bonnell site, as well as many sites in the Upper Gallo Drainage, the Upper Hondo Drainage, the Upper Macho Drainage, and north of Capitan Mountain.

565 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1984

About the author

Dr. Jane Holden Kelley, Professor Emerita of Archaeology at the University of Calgary, daughter of TAS co-founder and pioneer in Texas archeology, Dr. William Curry Holden, is herself an accomplished archaeologist. She earned her B.A. in history from Texas Technological College (now Texas Tech University) in 1949, and went on to The University of Texas at Austin (UT), where she received her M.A. in anthropology in 1951, completing her thesis on the Bonnell site near Ruidoso, New Mexico. Later, she wrote her dissertation at Harvard University on the archaeology of the Sierra Blanca Region of Southeastern New Mexico, graduating with her Ph.D. in 1966.

Dr. Kelley has worked in New Mexico, El Salvador, and Chihuahua, and is currently involved in a 3-year grant-funded project in Chihuahua investigating the pithouse phase (or the Viejo period). She has published several books, including two on Yaqui life histories, a project she first worked on with her father; a monograph on Cihuatan; and the Archaeology and Methodology of Science, with philosopher Marsha Hanen. Dr. Kelley’s numerous journal articles cover a diverse range of topics such as gender, Yaqui law, and the politics of archaeology. She has been published in The Bulletin of the Texas Archeological Society, American Antiquity, Latin American Antiquity, Kiva, and Current Anthropology, to name a few. She is past treasurer of the Society for American Archaeology, and recently presented a paper on Chihuahua and served as a discussant in another session at the 73rd Annual Meeting of the SAA in Vancouver