"Where the Mountains Meet the Plains": Plains-Pueblo Connections on the Park and Chaquaqua Plateaus During the Diversification Period, AD 1050-1450

Summary

The Park and Chaquaqua Plateaus—politically bisected by the Colorado-New Mexico state line—are distinctive geographical features that demarcate the transition from the Rocky Mountains to the Llano Estacado and High Plains. Regional archaeology has emphasized interpretation of sites as part of a cultural demarcator between the Northern Rio Grande Pueblos and residents of the Southern and Central Plains. Yet there has been limited work to examine local, between-household interactions and the effects of increasing trade, conflict, and movement in those regions during the Late Pre-Colombian Period. Utilizing decades of archaeological undertakings in southeastern Colorado and northeastern New Mexico, this paper will focus on Sopris, Apishapa, and Cimarron sites of the Diversification Period (AD 1050-1450) and their material record as a case study for questions surrounding the concept of a "cultural frontier."

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• Society for American Archaeology 80th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2015)

Keywords

Spatial Coverage