Social Interaction and Networks at the Intersection of Central Mesa Verde and Chaco/Cibola Culture Areas in the Middle San Juan River Valley

Part of: Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Social Interaction and Networks at the Intersection of Central Mesa Verde and Chaco/Cibola Culture Areas in the Middle San Juan River Valley," at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The Archaeology of the Totah Middle San Juan region of the Northern Southwest can be explored and analyzed using an temporal based exploration and analysis of intersections of Cibola, Chacoan and Central Mesa Verde cultures in the proximity of the San Juan River drainage system. Independent and academic researchers have investigated the interaction of Cibola, Chacoan, and Central Mesa Verde cultural regions through exploration and analysis of settlement patterns, ceramic artifacts, lithic artifacts, osteology artifacts, perishable artifacts, and architecture. Researchers have identified attributes that explore determinations of the nature of occupation as Chacoan or local origin for great houses or outliers, of site architectural components, and a variety of material culture in the Middle San Juan River drainage region. These analyses provide evidence that the Middle San Juan region has experienced extensive migration and colonization through its occupation history and that the Chacoan era occupation consists of emulation of Great House Attributes by local residents. A bottom-up approach methodology was explored to explore the competing hypotheses of a diasporic community model and migration/colonization model of the Totah Middle San Juan River Drainage occupation settlement patterns.

Other Keywords
Ancestral Pueblo • Ceramic Analysis • Material Culture and Technology • Lithic Analysis • Chronology • Social Interaction • Pueblo • Conservation and Curation • Cultural interaction boundary

Geographic Keywords
United States of America (Country) • North America (Continent) • USA (Country) • New Mexico (State / Territory) • Oklahoma (State / Territory) • Arizona (State / Territory) • Texas (State / Territory) • Sonora (State / Territory) • Chihuahua (State / Territory) • Colorado (State / Territory)

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  • Anomalous Floor 2 Features in the Point Pueblo Great Kiva (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Carol Lorenz. David Preston.

    This is an abstract from the "Social Interaction and Networks at the Intersection of Central Mesa Verde and Chaco/Cibola Culture Areas in the Middle San Juan River Valley" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. During the 2016 and 2018 seasons, excavators found more than 150 features in Floor 2 of the eastern half of the Great Kiva at Point Pueblo. Of these, 99 were east of the eastern vault complex. Features were lined with clay or adobe, demonstrated...

  • Ceramics of Sterling Site and Cultural Interaction along the Middle San Juan River, New Mexico (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Hayward Franklin.

    This is an abstract from the "Social Interaction and Networks at the Intersection of Central Mesa Verde and Chaco/Cibola Culture Areas in the Middle San Juan River Valley" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Ceramic analysis of older collections from the Sterling Site on the San Juan River reveal local and imported types from Cibola-Chaco, Chuska Valley, and northern San Juan districts. Pottery suggests active interaction between populations from three...

  • Point Pueblo and Surrounding Middle San Juan River Valley Great House or Great Kiva Communities (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Linda Wheelbarger.

    This is an abstract from the "Social Interaction and Networks at the Intersection of Central Mesa Verde and Chaco/Cibola Culture Areas in the Middle San Juan River Valley" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Geographically, the Middle San Juan River Valley, a well-watered area of northwestern New Mexico, is situated between the more famous Ancestral Pueblo culture areas of Mesa Verde and Chaco. After a brief review of known Middle San Juan great house...

  • The Sterling Site: A Preliminary Study of the Lithic Assemblage of a Bonito Phase Pueblo Community (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Roger Moore.

    This is an abstract from the "Social Interaction and Networks at the Intersection of Central Mesa Verde and Chaco/Cibola Culture Areas in the Middle San Juan River Valley" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Sterling Site is an Ancestral Puebloan structure with related features located in the San Juan River watershed near Farmington, New Mexico. The site was excavated in the early 1970's by the Archaeological Society of New Mexico under the...