Michelle I. Turner, Becoming Chacoan: The Archaeology of the Aztec North Great House (PhD Dissertation)
Site Name Keywords
LA5603
Site Type Keywords
Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex
Other Keywords
Great House •
Architecture •
Aztec Ruins •
Chaco Canyon •
Landscape •
Chaco Canyon Outlier Sites •
Aztec North •
materiality theory
Culture Keywords
Ancestral Puebloan
Investigation Types
Data Recovery / Excavation
Material Types
Ceramic •
Chipped Stone •
Dating Sample •
Fauna •
Building Materials •
Macrobotanical
Temporal Keywords
Pueblo II-Pueblo III
Geographic Keywords
New Mexico •
New Mexico (State / Territory) •
United States of America (Country) •
San Juan County (County) •
North America (Continent) •
Chaco Canyon •
Aztec Ruins National Monument, New Mexico •
USA (Country)
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Becoming Chacoan: The Archaeology of the Aztec North Great House (2019)
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Between 900 and 1140 CE, people at Chaco Canyon and throughout its region built multistory monumental structures with hundreds of rooms, known as great houses. This dissertation reports on recent archaeological testing on one such great house, the Aztec North great house at Aztec Ruins National Monument. I argue that Aztec North’s occupation represents an early, transitional period, as people previously not involved in the Chaco world made choices that increasingly brought them into Chaco’s...