Refining Perspectives on Salado Polychrome Ceramics at Las Colinas Mound 8

Summary

This is an abstract from the "WHY PLATFORM MOUNDS? PART 1: MOUND DEVELOPMENT AND CASE STUDIES" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

As time passes, fewer and fewer of us retain an intimate knowledge of the site of Las Colinas and the excavations that took place there in the 1960s and 1980s. Published artifact data for the site do not accommodate certain research interests, including inquiry into Salado polychrome ceramics, a significant ceramic category present mostly in the platform mound area. In this paper I present results from ongoing work with the Las Colinas archival materials and collections that aims to improve the resolution and completeness of our view of the site. I present the results of a completed typological reanalysis of Salado polychromes recovered during the 1980s excavations and consider the broader implications of the chronological and technological patterns that emerge. Other ceramic and feature data are marshaled to situate the Salado ceramics within a broader context and allow for new perspectives on what people and things were doing in the platform mound area.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• WHY PLATFORM MOUNDS? PART 1: MOUND DEVELOPMENT AND CASE STUDIES   •
• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

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Abstract Id(s): 23706