Archaeological Investigations at a Multicomponent Site on the Shiviwts Plateau
Author(s): Benjamin Van Alstyne; Karen Harry; Daniel Perez
Year: 2021
Summary
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
During the summer of 2019, members of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas excavated two rooms within Pete’s Pocket, a Virgin Branch Pueblo cultural site located on the Shivwits Plateau in Arizona. The rooms, which were located about 300 meters from the north rim of the Grand Canyon, were contiguous and circular, forming an almost figure-eight shape. An unusually large amount of architectural rubble was associated with one of the rooms, suggesting it likely had been a tower. The second room contained numerous handstones and sandstone on its floor. The implications of these findings are discussed.
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Archaeological Investigations at a Multicomponent Site on the Shiviwts Plateau. Benjamin Van Alstyne, Karen Harry, Daniel Perez. Presented at The 86th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. 2021 ( tDAR id: 467731)
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Keywords
General
Ancestral Pueblo
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Architecture
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Digital Archaeology: Photogrammetry
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use-wear analysis, ceramics
Geographic Keywords
North America: Southwest United States
Spatial Coverage
min long: -124.365; min lat: 25.958 ; max long: -93.428; max lat: 41.902 ;
Record Identifiers
Abstract Id(s): 33350