Possible Evidence for Mimbres Integration into Jornada Mogollon Villages: Introducing the Eastern Mimbres San Andres Aspect in South-Central New Mexico

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Recent Research at Jornada Mogollon Sites in South-Central New Mexico" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Investigations at Mesilla and Doña Ana phase villages within and adjacent to the Tularosa Basin have identified a set of cultural traits associated with the Mimbres culture. Extraordinarily high frequencies of Mogollon pottery, as well as similar mortuary patterns, agricultural practices, and possible evidence of gambling point to direct cultural influences from the Mimbres region. Petrographic analysis and INAA sourcing of Mimbres sherds from a sample of these sites indicate they were all made in the Mimbres region. Yet, the sheer volume of Classic Mimbres pottery imported to Jornada Mogollon villages along the San Andres and Organ Mountains suggests that a possible migration and integration of Mimbres groups occurred. There is an emerging cluster of residential sites (Huntington Pueblo, Lake Lucero Pueblo, Ricochet Village, Cottonwood Pueblo, Pole Site, Grandview Pueblo) with hundreds to thousands of examples of Mimbres pottery that we term the Eastern Mimbres San Andres Aspect. This paper synthesizes data from recently documented and prior known sites in the region from survey and excavation projects to assess the potential for and impacts of Mimbres integration into the area.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Recent Research at Jornada Mogollon Sites in South-Central New Mexico   •
• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

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Abstract Id(s): 23477