A Post-Chacoan Cylindrical Vessel from Northern Black Mesa, Arizona

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

A recently identified Tusayan Polychrome (A.D. 1125–1290) jar from northern Black Mesa, Arizona, represents the only known Post-Chacoan cylindrical vessel. Identified within the midden of a small late Pueblo II-early Pueblo III period habitation site, the jar circumstantially connects Ancestral Puebloan groups in the Kayenta area to Chaco Canyon and the Chacoan system (or a common origin). In this presentation, we discuss the context of the jar, Hopi interpretations and insights, and ongoing residue analysis leading to two sociocultural considerations. First, we consider the possible connections between the Ancestral Puebloans of western Kayenta and Chaco Canyon, nearly 220 kilometers away. Second, we examine possible beverages the jar may have contained and how that may or may not relate to ritual beverage consumption associated with Chacoan cylindrical vessels and its connections to the Kayenta heartland.

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• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

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Abstract Id(s): 25699