The Landscapes of the Cottonwood Springs Pueblo, Southern 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.

LA 175 (Cottonwood Spring Pueblo, A.D. 1000-1450) is one of the largest multi-component settlements associated with Cottonwood Draw on the west side of the San Andres Mountains in southern New Mexico. It has been the site of multiple field excavations by New Mexico State University anthropology students. The pueblo complex consists of multiple pueblos, artifact concentrations, and agricultural features that straddles a prehistoric cultural boundary between the Mimbres Branch of the Mogollon Culture on the west and the Jornada Mogollon Branch to the east and south. The Cottonwood complex provides an opportunity to look at how and why a series of population aggregations and abandonments occurred. The site and surrounding areas are made up of basin and range transitions to more rugged mountainous terrain. With this terrain are both physical and ideational landscapes, including extensive rock art images. Given the complexity of the archaeological record and the extensive use of the entire Jornada Basin, the question addressed in this paper is why and how does LA 175 fit into the larger physical and ideational landscapes of the western San Andres mountains.

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): 24060