Ancestral Tewa (Other Keyword)
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The Lithics of Late Coalition Period Tewa Pueblos: Negotiating Tewa Society in the Rio Chama Valley (2018)
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In Ohkay Owingeh’s origin tradition the Tewa peoples emerged into this world from the north and traveled south as two separate groups – the Summer and Winter people – before coming together to create a new society in the Rio Chama valley of northern New Mexico. This history parallels our archaeological understanding of diverse peoples, likely migrants from the Mesa Verde region and indigenous Rio Grande populations, who settled the Chama in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. However, the...