Early Chacoan Communities of the San Juan Basin

Summary

In the late summer of 2017, I conducted dissertation research at two Chacoan communities: Morris 40, on the Ute Mountain Ute Reservation, and Padilla Well, in Chaco Culture National Historic Park. I was assisted by a team comprised of Binghamton University graduate students and independent researchers from New Mexico and Colorado. We used remote sensing, geophysical survey, and material culture analysis to map and document these two communities. We evaluated the idea that migration from aggregated villages in the Northern San Juan region of Southwest Colorado contributed significantly to the development of Early Bonito Phase (AD 840-1020) Chacoan communities in the San Juan Basin of New Mexico. The broader goals of the project were to evaluate variability in political organization during the initial development of a complex political entity (Chacoan society) in order to understand how these kinds of social formations arise.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 83rd Annual Meeting, Washington, DC (2018)

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Abstract Id(s): 20421