Landscape Systems of San Miguel de Carnué

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 historic settlement of San Miguel de Carnué is an eighteenth-century Spanish colonial frontier settlement in northern New Mexico, which served as a buffer settlement to protect Albuquerque from raids by surrounding nomadic tribes. The occupants, who were of mixed ancestry, constructed the settlement and had lived there for less than a decade when a raid resulted in fatalities, abandonment, and forced destruction of their homes. Past archaeological research focused on the site has been sparse due to early confusion over the settlement’s original location. My research has focused on understanding the influences of the natural, built, and cultural systems of landscapes on San Miguel de Carnué, especially regarding the intentions behind the decisions that the settlers may have faced during the creation and eventual destruction of the settlement. By looking at these three systems of landscapes, we are able to identify the relationships between them, and more specifically, how the creation of the settlement had been established according to the cultural system, with the natural system affecting how the built system was constructed.

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): 36425.0