Hill People: New Research on Tijeras Canyon and the East Mountains

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Hill People: New Research on Tijeras Canyon and the East Mountains" at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

For decades, archaeological research in north-central New Mexico has focused on cultural developments in the Rio Grande Valley. With the notable exception of several long-term field school projects at Tijeras and Paa-ko pueblos, the diverse histories of populations living in the mountains east of Albuquerque—the “East Mountains”—have been overlooked or relegated to cultural resource management (CRM) reports. Alongside several ongoing reassessments of legacy collections from Tijeras and other East Mountain sites, a series of recent CRM, urban planning, and community history projects have generated new insights into the East Mountain region’s dynamic past. This session brings together people involved in these projects to share their discoveries, theories, and perspectives, with the goal of contributing to a more inclusive understanding of the complex human history of the East Mountains.