Cañon de Carnué: A Place of Connection

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Hill People: New Research on Tijeras Canyon and the East Mountains" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Cañon de Carnué (also known as Tijeras Canyon) is a place of transition—between the Rio Grande Valley and Great Plains, the Sandia and Manzano Mountains, the alpine forests and riparian bottomlands, and between the communities—human and nonhuman—that inhabit these environments. We often understand this canyon through the different places it connects, but perhaps it is more useful to focus on the canyon itself as a place of connection, and to consider how these connections shape the communities that occupy the canyon. In this paper, I explore the many connections made or maintained by the communities who lived at San Miguel de Carnué (LA 12924), a multicomponent archaeological site above Tijeras Creek near the west end of the canyon. I also consider how these connections, in this place of transition, could lead to transformation.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Hill People: New Research on Tijeras Canyon and the East Mountains   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Abstract Id(s): 37042.0