Pueblo (Other Keyword)
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This is an abstract from the "Collaborative Archaeology at Picuris Pueblo: The New History" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. We present results of a large-scale geochemical sourcing study of obsidian artifacts from Picuris Pueblo. We compare those results to obsidian-sourcing data from other sites on the Taos Plateau and in the Rio Chama basin. At Picuris Pueblo, almost all obsidian artifacts were produced on Valles Rhyolite or Cerro Toledo...
Ollas and Inequality: Reflections on Space, Ceramics, and Power Relationships at the Sanchez site. (2018)
Spanish exploitation of Indigenous people’s labor was a foundational component of the initial colonization of New Mexico. Pueblo Indians and enslaved Plains peoples worked on Spanish public infrastructure projects, built Spanish Missions, tended friar’s livestock, and helped with the daily operations of outlying estancias. At the Sanchez site, evidence of daily labors can be seen in broken manos and metates scattered around the site, the presence of the adobe structures that were built by Pueblo...
Partnership Building: Moving Beyond the Collaborative Model (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Social Justice in Native North American Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In North America, American Indian communities are engaging with archaeology in two distinct, and sometimes intersecting, ways: one is by working with governmental agencies in complying with local, state and federal laws meant to protect and preserve their cultural heritage, the other involves engaging with their cultural heritage...
Petroglyph Panels in Isolation: Differences in Cultural Expression through Rock Art Placement in the Landscape of Petrified Forest National Park (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Archaeological Research in Petrified Forest National Park" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Across Petrified Forest National Park, ancestral Puebloans left their mark on the landscape through the creation of thousands of petroglyph panels. While the exact meaning behind the glyphs depicted in petroglyph panels has been blurred by the passage of time and poses a formidable interpretive challenge to archaeologists, the...
A Petrographic Analysis of Jemez Black-on-white Pottery from Five Classic Period Sites in the Jemez Province, New Mexico (c. 1350-1700 AD) (2016)
Unlike many other ceramic types in the American Southwest, Jemez Black-on-white is commonly regarded as a distinctive locally-made type that remained both stylistically and compositionally unchanged for three centuries. This generally accepted status of Jemez Black-on-white, however, has meant that until recently, little additional work has been done to better understand its origins and development. Here, I present the results of a petrographic analysis of 15 Jemez Black-on-white sherds taken...
Place as Reference: Metonymy in Pueblo Landscapes (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Sacred Southwestern Landscapes: Archaeologies of Religious Ecology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. For contemporary Pueblo people in the American Southwest, land, history, and religion are inextricably entwined. Historical events and religious beliefs manifest on the land at different physical and conceptual scales. Over time, places come to represent larger landscapes or philosophical concepts, effectively becoming...
Plazas, Proxemics, and Ritual Power: The Main Plaza and Ceremonial Precinct at Paquimé, Chihuahua, and Its Place in a Plaza-Pueblo World (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Humble Houses to Magnificent Monuments: Papers in Honor of Jerry D. Moore" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In his seminal article on Andean plazas, Jerry Moore (1996) characterized plazas as spaces that serve as a setting for diverse public interactions, including as arenas that help to structure verbal and nonverbal ritual communication in the context of ritually infused power dynamics. In the Puebloan and Mogollon...
Pottery Assemblage Change from the 16th to 19th Centuries in the Pueblo of Pojoaque (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Most studies of Colonial Period Tewa pottery have focused on complete vessels collected in recent times. Between 2016-2019 a team of students and volunteers at the University of Colorado Boulder had the opportunity to study excavated potsherd collections from 1952 excavations by Florence Hawley Ellis at two sites within the Pueblo of Pojoaque. The Garcia...
Pottery Production at the Dillard Site: An Early Basketmaker III Community Center in the Central Mesa Verde Region (2018)
The Dillard site (5MT10647)-the earliest community center identified in the Mesa Verde region-may contain among the oldest examples of multi-household pottery production during the Basketmaker III period. A thorough understanding of how pottery was produced and obtained at this early large pithouse village, which is centered on a great kiva, provides important insights on village organization and interpersonal relationships. In this poster, we explore compositional variation in pottery...
Practicing Indigenous Data Sovereignty On and Off Picuris Pueblo Lands (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Collaborative Archaeology at Picuris Pueblo: The New History" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Over the past decade, a growing number of archaeological projects in North America have incorporated community-based participatory research (CBPR) methods. For Indigenous communities, this collaborative paradigm marks an extension of a more global body of anti-colonial activism and policymaking oriented around Indigenous...
Presenting Pojoaque History through Exhibits (2019)
This is an abstract from the "From Collaboration to Partnership in Pojoaque, New Mexico" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As someone who was born and raised in my own Pueblo, it amazed me how much I don’t know of the history of the Pueblo of Pojoaque. I’ve heard bits and pieces, different versions of stories from different people, and I’ve read about our history but none made an impact until I was part of a discussion at the University of Colorado,...
Prophets of the Ancient Southwest (2018)
How do prophecy and new religious movements impact life histories of artifacts and architecture? Ethnographic evidence indicates that prophets realize their visions, in part, by transforming relationships between people and material objects. They shun, embrace, or reorient technologies, artifacts, and architecture. Not surprisingly, in cultures where spiritual forces already animate artifacts and architecture, such reorganizations can produce dramatic changes in material culture. Much of the...
Protecting Ancestral Pojoaque Places (2019)
This is an abstract from the "From Collaboration to Partnership in Pojoaque, New Mexico" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Protecting Pueblo of Pojoaque ancestral sites is a challenge. Inside our exterior boundaries are non-native encroachments. Cultural properties are often located within these checker board properties and more often than not have significant cultural meaning to the Pueblo’s culture and history. Tangible and intangible cultural...
Pueblo Agricultural Adaptations to Socioeconomic Changes in New Mexico (2021)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This presentation illustrates the results of the survey work of the agricultural areas around two precontact villages (Poshuouinge and Pueblo Blanco) and two contact-era villages (Cuyamungue and San Marcos). One hundred and fifty-six agricultural features were documented on the survey and ranged from Pueblo irrigation ditches in and slightly above the...
The Pueblo Farming Project: A Hopi-Crow Canyon Archaeological Center Collaboration (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Pueblo Farming Project, or PFP, is a collaboration between the Hopi tribe and the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center. The Primary goal of the PFP is to investigate traditional Pueblo farming techniques and assess how they could help us understand ancient farming in The Mesa Verde region. The PFP established 5 experimental garden plots. Traditional Hopi...
Pueblo of Acoma Ethnographic Study of the Greater Chaco Landscape (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Over the last 4 years, Archaeology Southwest has been working to protect the Greater Chaco Landscape from the damaging effects of oil-gas development. We have partnered with a number of environmental and preservation organizations, engaged the NM Congressional delegation on numerous occasions, and attended many, many meetings with the New Mexico Bureau of Land...
Pueblo of Acoma's Rapid Ethnographic Surveys of the Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project (2019)
This is an abstract from the "The Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project: A Multivocal Analysis of the San Juan Basin as a Cultural Landscape" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Pueblo of Acoma officially signed onto the NGWSP Programmatic Agreement to be a Concurring Party member on May 20, 2016. At that time, the Bureau of Reclamation provided the Pueblo with a Financial Assistance Award (FAA) that would be used for Phase I of this project. ...
The Pueblo of Acoma’s Cultural Inheritance and Archaeological Partnership in “The Lands Between” of Southeastern Utah (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Amidst the pandemic, the authors (a group of individuals from the Pueblo of Acoma, academics, and non-profit organizations) planned and gathered in southeastern Utah to begin a project in 2021 to explore and strengthen Acoma’s deep and inalienable connections to the north. We soon found that the process of building meaningful and long-lasting partnerships...
Pueblo Warriors, Witches and Cannibals: Indigenous Concepts of Corporeality and the Biorchaeological Record (2019)
This is an abstract from the "From Individual Bodies to Bodies of Social Theory: Exploring Ontologies of the Americas" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In Pueblo oral tradition, a persistent narrative exists regarding malevolent forces that commit transgressions while inhabiting the corporeal bodies of community members. Referred to as witches (although this is not a term Pueblo people would use) they bring about crop failures through droughts, and...
Puebloan Patterns in Montezuma Canyon: Insights from the Nancy Patterson Ruin (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Archaeological Research in Montezuma Canyon, San Juan County, Utah" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Nancy Patterson Ruin is one of several large, multi-component pueblos, positioned at the mouths of side canyons draining into Montezuma Creek. Although occupations at Nancy Patterson span at least Basketmaker III through late Pueblo III, the most visible occupations are late Pueblo I and mid-Pueblo III. Unique...
Rabbits, Pronghorn, Oh Deer! Oh My! A Preliminary Analysis of Subsistence Strategies at Wupatki National Monument, Northern Arizona (2018)
Wupatki National Monument is a Puebloan site located in the Sinagua region of Northern Arizona, featuring an array of wildlife available to past populations for subsistence and technological purposes. Analyzing faunal remains from Colorado Plateau sites is an important part of developing a holistic understanding of the lifeways of agricultural communities in the Southwest. This poster focuses on the zooarchaeological analysis of materials from Wupatki National Monument housed at the Museum of...
Rabbits, Pronghorn, Oh Deer! Oh My! Part II: A Complete Faunal Analysis of Utility Indices at Wupatki National Monument, Northern Arizona (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Wupatki National Monument, a Puebloan site located in the Sinagua region of Northern Arizona, yielded an assortment of wildlife available to past populations. Analyzing faunal remains from archaeological sites on the Colorado Plateau develops a holistic understanding of the prehistoric lifeways of Southwest communities. Through the determination of taxa...
The Race Track: A Chacoan Legacy in the Northern Rio Grande (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Collaborative Archaeology at Picuris Pueblo: The New History" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A portion of a retired race track was excavated in 2023 on Picuris tribal lands within the right-of-way of a planned infrastructure project. Just one of Picuris’s many race tracks, the feature draws our attention to the ongoing heritage of Chacoan “roads” in the northern Rio Grande region, while also underscoring the local...
Rare and Isolated Artifact Occurrences from the Caves of the El Malpais Lava Fields of New Mexico (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Subterranean" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. After more than a century of sustained looting, the lava tube caves of El Malpais have lost volumes from what was once an unparalleled record of cave use by Ancestral Pueblo people. Occasionally, artifacts stolen from the caves appear on public auction blocks, offering a brief glimpse of what used to be. In general, archaeologists seeking...
The Ray Robinson Collection – A Successful Collaboration to Save Safford Basin Archaeological Artifacts (2018)
In 1957, Arizona State Museum director Emil Haury, ranch owner Ray Claridge and geologist/avocational Ray Robinson visited the Bonito Creek site in Arizona’s Safford Basin as reported by Wasley in 1962. Robinson returned to the site after that initial visit to "save" many objects that Haury did not take with him that day, along with "prospecting" other sites during the 1960s in the Safford Basin being threatened by development. For 59 years, Robinson preserved these objects along with limited...