Prosaic Biases: Independent Factors Contributing to the Definition of the Classic and Colonial Archaeological Record of New Mexico, USA

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Ann F. Ramenofsky: Papers in Honor of a Non-Normative Career" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Archaeological records are knowledge palimpsests of the research agendas responsible for identifying and defining these records. When evaluating the representativeness of these records, biases inherent to the research agendas themselves, ranging from methodological approaches to political considerations, are typically implicated. However, factors independent from research agendas can exert strong forces on the composition of a record. In New Mexico, land ownership, land use, and access for researchers significantly has affected the composition of the record considered for the ancestral and early modern Pueblo Classic and Colonial periods (A.D. 1325-1825). This relatively prosaic source of bias may exert a stronger influence on the how this period is known than research biases, despite being largely unrecognized.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)   •
• Ann F. Ramenofsky: Papers in Honor of a Non-Normative Career

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Abstract Id(s): 24375