Unroofed Great Kivas, Post-Chacoan Great Houses, and Aggregation: Kintigh's Legacy as Viewed from the Lion Mountain Community

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Attention to Detail: A Pragmatic Career of Research, Mentoring, and Service, Papers in Honor of Keith Kintigh" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

As graduate students, Keith Kintigh shaped each of our careers in significant ways. Keith introduced us to the archaeology of the Cibola region, a place that remains dear to us. He also inspired an enthusiasm for the use of statistics, particularly for ceramic typological seriation and chemical provenance studies. And his interest in the spatial organization of Ancestral Pueblo communities and the role of public architecture in those communities are themes we continue to explore. Our current archaeological work in the Lion Mountain area on the Cibola National Forest near Magdalena, New Mexico, allows us to combine these tools and interests. Over the past two summers we have documented over 50 sites in an area covering about 2 square miles -- sites that include ceramic types indicating a largely late Pueblo II-Pueblo III occupation with close ties to the Acoma and Zuni regions, grid gardens, public architecture that we are calling post-Chacoan great houses and an unroofed great kiva, and a possible Chacoan outlier. This paper presents preliminary results of our ongoing research and discusses how we have adapted Kintigh's model of aggregated post-Chacoan great house communities to an area much farther afield than originally included in his research.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Attention to Detail: A Pragmatic Career of Research, Mentoring, and Service, Papers in Honor of Keith Kintigh   •
• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

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Abstract Id(s): 23715