A Historical-Processual Approach to Household Architecture in the Northern U.S. Southwest.

Summary

The transition from lightly built, short-term or ephemeral structures to substantially built, sophisticated dwellings occurred between A.D. 400 and 1400 in the Ancient Pueblo Southwest. At the early end of this period, most dwellings were occupied by a single household and may have only lasted for about a decade. By the end of this period, nearly the entire population of the northern Southwest lived in multi-household, apartment-style dwellings that housed entire villages for generations. This 1000 year architectural transition obviously evinces many concurrent changes in Ancient Pueblo society. Our paper focuses on the middle portion of this period of architectural and social development from A.D. 650-1150. During this interval, both more and less substantial dwellings were simultaneously constructed by households with different social and cultural backgrounds. We consider these differences in houses and households from the perspective of historical process, which includes population movement and dialectical relationships within Ancient Pueblo society.

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This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 80th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2015)   •
• The "Neolithic House": Worldwide Comparisons

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