Persistent Places and Settlement Patterns in the Mogollon Highlands: A Case Study along Eagle Creek, Eastern Arizona

Summary

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

This paper examines settlement patterns and the concept of persistent places and its implications regarding population circulation, community, and identity during the Pithouse and Pueblo period occupations (A.D. 700–1450) within the Eagle Creek area of the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests (ASNF) in eastern Arizona. Eagle Creek is a perennial stream which flows south from the Mogollon Rim to the Gila River along the border of the ASNF and San Carlos Reservation, immediately east of the Point of Pines cultural region. In this study I focus on survey data to examine site occupation spans and site function to reconstruct persistence, the reuse of sites, population movements, and changes in community location and structure in the Eagle Creek area over time. Changes in the presence and proportions of sourced obsidian and non-local decorated ceramics are also used to discuss the changing external relationships of the prehistoric Eagle Creek residents, which may tell us about changes in shifting identity formation within the area over time, with implications for the adjacent Point of Pines area and greater Mogollon Highlands region.

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

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Abstract Id(s): 25335