A View from Above: The Dynamic Human Landscapes of the East Mountains

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.

The diverse natural and social environments of the uplands east of Albuquerque have shaped equally diverse and overlapping human landscapes. In this paper, a variety of geospatial analyses are employed to trace the dimensions of East Mountain settlement through time, beginning with the region’s early farming communities and continuing through the land grant communities of the nineteenth century. By examining the ebb and flow of human settlement in Tijeras Canyon and along the margins of the Sandia and Manzano Mountains, I identify common threads running through the area’s communities through time but also identify contrasts hinting at intriguing differences between them. These observations are then considered in terms of the historical and cultural forces that shaped them, as well as the particular lens through which previous archaeologists have interpreted these patterns.

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): 37006.0