Eastern Virgin Hinterlands: Ancestral Puebloan Settlement in Grand Canyon National Park

Summary

Margaret Lyneis, in her 1995 description of the Virgin Branch region, notes that three of the boundaries are quite distinct as they adjoin "non-Anasazi" societies. The eastern boundary is more diffuse, as the Virgin and Kayenta Puebloan traditions intersect in an area that is now part of Grand Canyon National Park. In this paper I will argue that Virgin settlement patterns in the western half of the Grand Canyon are distinct from the Kayenta and follow the upland/lowland pattern described for the Virgin heartland. I will also discuss preliminary findings that appear to push the Virgin boundary in Grand Canyon National Park eastward from the Kanab Plateau to the Walhalla Plateau, resulting in an increased overlap between the Virgin and Kayenta Puebloan traditions.

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): 20431