Kiva Journal

Kiva Journal A premier academic journal for archaeology, anthropology, and history of the American Southwest and Northern Mexico.

Kiva’s quarterly articles explore the rich tapestry of Southwestern culture and heritage.

Why did Chaco Canyon residents start using distant obsidian around AD 700 when closer sources existed? XRF analysis by M...
04/30/2026

Why did Chaco Canyon residents start using distant obsidian around AD 700 when closer sources existed? XRF analysis by Moss et al. shows how social ties shaped trade. https://buff.ly/MEPO4L2

A volcanic glass window into history: XRF analysis by Lindsay of obsidian from a 17th-century Spanish homestead in New M...
04/29/2026

A volcanic glass window into history: XRF analysis by Lindsay of obsidian from a 17th-century Spanish homestead in New Mexico sheds light on everyday exchanges between Pueblo and Spanish worlds. https://buff.ly/FnddHNt

How did ancient Tucson Basin potters make their glittering purple paint? Ownby & Myhrman analyze Broadline Purple-on-red...
04/28/2026

How did ancient Tucson Basin potters make their glittering purple paint? Ownby & Myhrman analyze Broadline Purple-on-red pottery (AD 500–700) to find out. https://buff.ly/Ke4kXSV

What did the Fremont people smoke? Searcy et al. analyzed ancient pipes from Wolf Village (AD 1000-1100) in Utah, findin...
04/23/2026

What did the Fremont people smoke? Searcy et al. analyzed ancient pipes from Wolf Village (AD 1000-1100) in Utah, finding traces of to***co, maize, and other plants. doi.org/10.1080/0023...

Thanks to increased access to digital collections, Kurota et al. redefine El Paso Polychrome pottery, improving how arch...
04/22/2026

Thanks to increased access to digital collections, Kurota et al. redefine El Paso Polychrome pottery, improving how archaeologists date Jornada Mogollon sites. https://buff.ly/UU8Blz3

How did gender shape ancient exchange? Bischoff’s Tonto Basin study uses multilayer network analysis of ceramics, archit...
04/21/2026

How did gender shape ancient exchange? Bischoff’s Tonto Basin study uses multilayer network analysis of ceramics, architecture, and projectile points to uncover separate social spheres. https://buff.ly/6FD7jq0

What ties the Tewa Basin to Chaco Canyon? Schillaci et al. uses ceramic compositional data to trace movement & interacti...
04/16/2026

What ties the Tewa Basin to Chaco Canyon? Schillaci et al. uses ceramic compositional data to trace movement & interaction in the Late Developmental period (AD 900-1200). https://buff.ly/nPJOl50

Food or ritual? At Homol’ovi I, rabbit & hare bones show how deeply interconnected the sacred and the everyday were for ...
04/16/2026

Food or ritual? At Homol’ovi I, rabbit & hare bones show how deeply interconnected the sacred and the everyday were for ancestral Puebloans according to new research by Sheets. https://buff.ly/wmaNZJe

New isotopic evidence by Sharpe et al. shows bison roamed New Mexico’s San Agustin plains, far beyond today’s ranges—liv...
04/14/2026

New isotopic evidence by Sharpe et al. shows bison roamed New Mexico’s San Agustin plains, far beyond today’s ranges—living alongside humans for centuries. https://buff.ly/QWup6iK

Centuries before Phoenix, the Hohokam built vast canals in the Salt River Valley. New research by Christopher Caseldine ...
04/09/2026

Centuries before Phoenix, the Hohokam built vast canals in the Salt River Valley. New research by Christopher Caseldine sheds light on their history and scale. https://buff.ly/Fgnt7lY

What clues about the past can soil reveal? In this vintage 1992 article, Huckleberry, our AAHS speaker in September, loo...
04/08/2026

What clues about the past can soil reveal? In this vintage 1992 article, Huckleberry, our AAHS speaker in September, looked at Arizona’s Salt River Valley where traces of ancient Hohokam irrigation still remain. https://buff.ly/Clgrm5x

In this classic 1987 KIVA article, Crown looks at native water storage across the Southwest, which empowered native peop...
04/07/2026

In this classic 1987 KIVA article, Crown looks at native water storage across the Southwest, which empowered native peoples to not only survive, but thrive in arid conditions. https://buff.ly/c5aABA8

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