Chacoan Trade, Interaction, and Influence at Point Pueblo in the Middle San Juan Region of Northwestern New Mexico

Summary

This is an abstract from the "The Archaeology of Trade and Exchange" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

San Juan College field school sessions and volunteer work have been conducted over the past 15 years at Point Pueblo on the B-Square Ranch where a multistory D-shaped great house is associated with a great kiva. This is one of several Chacoan communities in the Middle San Juan region of northwestern New Mexico and artifacts there indicate interaction with other communities to the south and west. The great kiva was initially the focus of excavation while recent work has concentrated on the great house that has so far revealed an arc of 12–15 rooms, blocked-in kiva, and 10–12 large rooms, some of which are multistory. Several rooms provided evidence of burned *latillas between the upper and lower story rooms. Room 34 contained a particularly large quantity of ceramics, animal bone, lithics, and exotic items. Previous analyses have provided information that Point Pueblo ceramics are predominantly local in origin but also include quantities of tradewares from the south and west. The goal of this analysis is to assess the extent of Chacoan trade, interaction, and influence at Point Pueblo by reviewing ceramic types revealed during these excavations from the great kiva, great house, and other areas of the site.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• The Archaeology of Trade and Exchange   •
• Society for American Archaeology 86th Annual Meeting, Online (2021)

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Abstract Id(s): 32339