Reappraisal of Evidence for the Pueblo Revolt Village Located in the Villa of Santa Fe, 1680 to 1697

Summary

This is an abstract from the "The Archaeologies of Contact, Colony, and Resistance" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

For one hundred years archaeologists and historians have speculated about the location, size, and layout of the Pueblo Revolt village built on top of the Palace of the Governors following the expulsion of Spanish colonists and priests from New Mexico in August 1680. Few researchers have integrated archaeological data into their hypothetical models. This omission has resulted in a lack of concordance between their models and what is known about Puebloan building conventions from that time. The approach in my presentation integrates excavation data from the Palace of the Governors, historical accounts by Spanish observers, Puebloan scholar interpretations of Spanish accounts, and excavation data from Puebloan villages in the Galisteo Basin where Spanish missions were established prior to the Pueblo Revolt. Using these cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary data sources, I evaluate previous hypothetical models for the Pueblo Revolt village, and then present two alternative models. Finally, I consider the level of coordinated effort and organization required to build and populate the village in light of the Pan-Pueblo phenomena that exemplified that seventeen-year period.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• The Archaeologies of Contact, Colony, and Resistance   •
• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

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Abstract Id(s): 23712