A Comparative Paleoethnobotanical Analysis of Geographically Disparate Salado Sites

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Mogollon, Mimbres, and Salado Archaeology in Southwest New Mexico and Beyond" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

In the thirteenth century, the southwestern United States underwent extensive demographic shifts, including migration and drastic social upheaval. From this context what archaeologists call the Salado ideology emerged in southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico in the fourteenth century from the interactions of Kayenta migrants and those occupying the regions in which they settled. Although much of what is known of the Salado world is linked to ceramics, extensive paleoethnobotanical datasets exist from regions such as the Gila River Valley, Mimbres Valley, and Tonto Basin. Through the comparison of paleoethnobotanical assemblages from geographically disparate Salado sites, I examine economic and subsistence differences between regions and explore the resulting patterns to identify factors contributing to interregional variability.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Mogollon, Mimbres, and Salado Archaeology in Southwest New Mexico and Beyond   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Abstract Id(s): 36827.0