Shifting North: Social Network Analysis and the Pithouse-to-Pueblo Transition in the Mogollon Highlands

Author(s): David Lewandowski

Year: 2015

Summary

This poster examines the changes in the social networks of the Mogollon Highlands that accompanied the transition to pueblo architecture around A.D. 1000 using Social Network Analysis (SNA). SNA offers a set of formal methods in which ties and relations between sites can are examined. Using the proportions of decorated ceramics within a site’s assemblage, social networks are created for 50-year intervals, allowing for changes in the networks to be observed before and after the pithouse-to-pueblo transition. This poster focuses on the relationship of the Mogollon Highlands to the Cibola region to the north, and the Mimbres region to the south and the social factors which accompanied the changing social networks.

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Shifting North: Social Network Analysis and the Pithouse-to-Pueblo Transition in the Mogollon Highlands. David Lewandowski. Presented at The 80th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Francisco, California. 2015 ( tDAR id: 397853)

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min long: -115.532; min lat: 30.676 ; max long: -102.349; max lat: 42.033 ;