The New Indigeneity of Thirteenth-Century New Mexico

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Northern Rio Grande History: Routes and Roots" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The thirteenth century was a period of heightened social transformation in the northern Rio Grande region of New Mexico. Local populations swelled with the arrival of Pueblo immigrants, older dispersed settlement systems were replaced by densely occupied villages, and commitments to agricultural production deepened. Concurrent with these changes was a revolutionary transformation in the way communities related to their surrounding landscapes and expressed what, in a modern idiom, would be referred to as their indigeneity. In this paper we seek to clarify this new discourse of indigeneity and its material ramifications through a study of the ancestral Picuris village of Tunuypa, one of the largest thirteenth-century pueblos in the region. Tunuypa has not previously been reported, and this paper therefore also seeks to establish the significance of its position within the wider coalition period history of the Rio Grande valley.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 86th Annual Meeting, Online (2021)   •
• Northern Rio Grande History: Routes and Roots

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Abstract Id(s): 32591