The Zooarchaeological Remains from San Miguel de Carnué (LA 12924) from the 2022 Field Season

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.

We present an initial analysis of zooarchaeological remains recovered from 2022 field season of the NMSU Archaeological Field School, directed by Dr. Kelly Jenks, for the ancestral frontier settlement of San Miguel de Carnué, occupied 1763–1771 by the Cañón de Carnué Land Grant Community in the East Mountains of Albuquerque, New Mexico. Our analysis is framed by understandings of the cultural and ecological changes caused by the introduction of domestic animals such as cattle, sheep, goat, pigs, and chickens as New Mexico’s communities were drawn into Spain’s transoceanic empire. We analyze taxonomic abundance, variation in anatomical part representation, and human, animal, and environmental modifications evident on the assemblage to construct taphonomic histories of animal remains recovered from different archaeological contexts. We compare our results to zooarchaeological assemblages recovered from Paa-ko, Tijeras Canyon, and similar contemporary sites.

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): 36003.0