Puebloan Occupation of the Shivwits Plateau, North Rim of the Grand Canyon

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Archaeology of the Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

In this paper we examine the archaeology of the southwestern portion of the Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument. Drawing on an extensive survey database of more than 600 site records, we trace the Puebloan occupation of the area from the initial settlement at around A.D. 900/1000 to abandonment at about A.D. 1250. In particular, we examine what the data suggest regarding the area’s population density and the settlement and subsistence strategies used by the prehistoric inhabitants. These patterns are then compared to those found in other areas occupied by Ancestral Puebloan populations, and reasons for apparent differences and similarities are explored.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Archaeology of the Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument   •
• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

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Abstract Id(s): 24186