Recent research conducted in southern Sonora, Mexico provides an opportunity to revisit
debates about interaction between Mesoamerica and the North American Southwest (NAS) …

Here, we describe how Casas Grandes Medio period (AD 1200 to 1450) shamanic practices
of the North American Southwest used tobacco shamanism, a ritual stance called the …

This article revises the spatial and temporal boundaries of the Casas Grandes tradition
associated with northwest Chihuahua, Mexico, based on new data collected in neighboring …

Animist cultures around the world are based on interactions among humans and other-than-
human beings. Humans are active agents in this process and often establish alliances with …

Medio Period (AD 1200 to 1450) Casas Grandes shamans used tobacco and possibly other
entheogens to initiate trance states that allowed their spirits to travel across the cosmos …

Paquimé (also known as Casas Grandes), situated in northern Chihuahua between
Mesoamerican and Ancestral Puebloan groups, was a vibrant multicultural centre during the …

This article summarizes recent work at the site of Las Chachalacas, located in the Municipio
of Quiriego, southern Sonora. Set within the western foothills of the Sierra Madre Occidental …

La Playa is a significant archaeological site in Northwest Mexico that contains deposits from
over 10,000 years of continuous occupation. Significantly, it contains the earliest definable …

Archaeologists acknowledge that contemporary nation state boundaries were irrelevant to
precolonial populations. Notwithstanding, the boundary between the United States and …