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Acknowledgments

¶ 1   This report is the outcome of the contributions of a large number of individuals over three decades. It is a pleasure to recognize these efforts here. W. James Judge, former Chief of the Division of Cultural Research (The Chaco Center) entrusted me with the Chaco Additions Survey. I appreciate his confidence in me, although he must, on at least a few occasions over the project’s long history, have wondered why he did it.

¶ 2   During the project’s two field seasons Peter J. McKenna acted as crew chief of the second field crew, in addition to providing much needed counsel and guidance to a fledgling project director. Peter patiently helped me revise and correct hundreds of pages of computer coding sheets after I discovered that a largely narrative recording format was not easily translated into a computerized data base. The field crew members during the two field seasons included William Brancard, Martha Graham, Jay Holley, Daisy Levine, Judith A. Miles, Barbara J. Mills, Mary Stiner, Elizabeth O. Wills, and Lisa C. Young. H. Wolcott Toll and Thomas C. Windes of the Chaco Center staff filled in as needed during both seasons. Volunteers included Barbara M. Hegarty and Scott P. Blanchard. Guest appearances were made by Wirt H. Wills, John D. Speth, and Stephen H. Lekson.

¶ 3   Subsequent to the field work, much of the computer coding and data entry was ably performed by Daisy Levine. All of the survey data analyses were done under contract, and I would particularly like to thank authors Lynne Sebastian, Jeffrey H. Altschul, Anne C. Cully, Mollie S. Toll, Barbara J. Mills, Catherine M. Cameron, Lisa C. Young, Carol Legard Gleichman, Miranda Warburton, Willow Roberts Powers, and Ruth M. Van Dyke for their skillful organization, analysis and interpretation of a daunting amount of information. Identification and dating of the historic artifacts was done by Henry Walt, and informant interviews for the ethnohistory study were conducted by Frederick York. Unfortunately neither Henry nor Fred were able to complete their work. Walt’s artifact data base was used to prepare the historic artifact chapter, and York’s field notes form the basis of Willow Roberts Powers’s ethnohistory chapter. All the of authors labored for months to produce the chapters that present the survey data. Each of the chapters prepared on contract were individually peer reviewed prior to acceptance of the final report. I would to thank Janet Orcutt (Chapter 2), Bruce Benz (Chapter 3), Peter McKenna, Tom Windes, and H. Wolcott Toll (Chapter 4), Carl Phagan, Tom Windes, and Barbara Mills (Chapter 5), Tom Rocek and David M. Brugge (Chapter 6), Dennis Gilpin and Willow Powers (Chapter 7), and David M. Brugge (Chapter 8) for their useful comments and suggestions.

¶ 4   Ruth M. Van Dyke generously volunteered to finish writing the first and last chapters of the volume in 1999, when other responsibilities and a lack of funding made me despair of ever finishing the survey volume. It is in no small part due to Ruth’s enthusiasm and persistence that you are reading these words.

¶ 5   The chapter manuscripts were converted and retyped into a single word processing format by Heidi Reed, and a peer review of the entire volume was organized by Frances Joan Mathien in 2001. Peer reviewers David M. Brugge, W. James Judge (by then long retired from the National Park Service), and R. Gwinn Vivian provided detailed and invaluable comments. Over the past few years all of the authors (except Miranda Warburton who has forsaken broken glass and rusting cans for a new career) have assisted Ruth and me in addressing the peer review comments, and making a final round of changes and corrections. Miranda graciously gave me permission to revise her chapter as I saw fit.

¶ 6   Drafting of many illustrations included in the volume was originally performed by Jerry Livingston and Ernesto Martinez of the National Park Service, and was most recently completed by Anne Hull of the Department of Anthropology, Binghamton University — SUNY and by Nancy Lamm of Buckhorn Geotech. I would like to thank the Department of Anthropology at Binghamton University — SUNY for allowing Anne to work on the survey illustrations.

¶ 7   Over the past year and a half Ruth Van Dyke has provided invaluable guidance and support in the final preparation of the manuscript. Erina Gruner, Ruth’s graduate research assistant during the fall of 2011, made final corrections and formatted much of the manuscript, for which I am deeply grateful. Matthew O’Brien, archaeology graduate student at the University of New Mexico provided much needed expertise in updating the presentation of statistical results in Chapter 6.

¶ 8   Chaco Cultural National Historical Park archaeologist James Trott provided support to the survey during its planning and field stages, and in recent decades Dabney Ford has provided guidance on park policies and made repeated attempts to obtain National Park Service funding to publish the project results. Dabney, and park Archivists Wendy Bustard and Tyler Love have provided support and access to the Chaco Archive at the University of New Mexico, where the Additions Survey archival collection is now stored. I would especially like to thank Tyler, Kurt Vossler, Rita Shukla, and Andy Lillienthal for electronically cleaning and refreshing the project’s aging photos and illustrations. At the National Park Service’s Cultural Resource Management Office in Santa Fe, I would like to thank my former boss, James Bradford, for allowing me to take home on loan, my voluminous Chaco Additions files.

¶ 9   Nearly last, but certainly not least, I would like to thank Steve Plog for offering to publish the Chaco Additions Survey report on the Chaco Archive website. Without Steve’s support and the technical help of Worthy Martin, Sarah Wells, and Carrie Heitman it is very likely that the survey manuscript would still be lying in boxes at the Archive.

¶ 10   Finally, I would like to thank my wife, Willow, for graciously and patiently enduring my tedious and at times all consuming preoccupation with the manuscript over the last many months.

¶ 11   To all those mentioned, as well as any others who I may have unintentionally, and regrettably forgotten, I extend my sincere thanks for making this volume possible.

Robert P. Powers