The Early Brown Ware Horizon in East-Central Arizona, AD 300-550: Preliminary Results from Recent Survey, Excavation, and Collections-Based Research

Summary

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

The Early Brown Ware Horizon, also known as the Basketmaker II-III transition, is one of the most pivotal yet poorly understood temporal intervals in the Prehispanic northern Southwest. This poster reports on recent site reconnaissance, small-scale excavations, and collections-based analyses focused on an area with a dense occupation at this time, East Central Arizona. Recorded sites range in size from small hamlets with a handful of structures to large sites with over 50 pithouses. Spatially extensive test excavations and intensive paleoethnobotanical sampling at two large sites provides new high-quality chronometric data and a robust botanical record with implications for understanding mobility practices. Survey and excavation data also suggest important differences between the routine activities that took place at contemporary sites located in higher elevation and lower elevation areas. Further research on this transitional period will help shed light on the scale and tempo of the social and economic changes that accompanied the shift to sedentary agrarian life across much of the region.

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

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Abstract Id(s): 25381