Ongoing Investigations at the Gila River Farm Site

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Local Development and Cross-Cultural Interaction in Pre-Hispanic Southwestern New Mexico and Southeastern Arizona" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The manifestation of the Salado Phenomenon in the Upper Gila is expressed as a combination of

local Mogollon traits and traits associated with immigrants from northeastern Arizona. New

communities that were formed in the generations after initial migration incorporated ceramic

styles, architecture, and other attributes of both the local population and Kayenta descendants.

Recent excavations at the Gila River Farm site (LA 39315), a Cliff phase Salado site near Cliff,

New Mexico, suggest that the 14th- and 15th-century inhabitants may have had diverse

backgrounds, but also maintained a broader identity that is recognized across the southern

Southwest as Salado. This poster presents the results from Archaeology Southwest and the

University of Arizona’s Upper Gila Preservation Archaeology field school 2016–2018

excavations and places the Gila River Farm site in the broader context of Salado sites in the

Upper Gila.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)   •
• Local Development and Cross-Cultural Interaction in Pre-Hispanic Southwestern New Mexico and Southeastern Arizona

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Record Identifiers

Abstract Id(s): 24484