Tree-Rings Tales from Tijeras Pueblo

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Archaeology, Cultural Heritage, and Public Education at Tijeras Pueblo, New Mexico" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

This paper describes how Linda Cordell, working with colleagues, including me, used building timbers to (1) date room construction and village occupation at Tijeras Pueblo, (2) understand villager’s choices about wood use, (3) describe changing climate conditions associated with the village’s occupation, and (4) propose the source areas for the village’s immigrant population. Her ability to accomplish this depended on dendrochronology—the science of dating and studying the annual rings of trees. Linda understood that trees were potentially vast repositories of ancient stories; here I share what she was able to learn from the woody archives of Tijeras Pueblo.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)   •
• Archaeology, Cultural Heritage, and Public Education at Tijeras Pueblo, New Mexico

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Abstract Id(s): 23194