Landscape Dendroarchaeology: 150 Years of Human/Environment Interaction in the Cebolla Creek Drainage of Western New Mexico, USA

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Landscapes tell stories. They contain evidence of past cultural and environmental change and the relationships between the two. Dendroarchaeology—the use of tree-ring data from past human activities—is uniquely positioned to provide the fine-grained temporal resolution necessary for understanding these relationships. This paper examines 150 years of multiethnic land use and environmental change in the Cebolla Creek drainage of western New Mexico using dendroarchaeological, documentary, and oral history data. Hispano, Navajo, and Anglo populations all impacted this landscape in different ways, Thus, the landscape we see today is markedly different that the one the Acoma and Zuni people depopulated in the 1300s.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Abstract Id(s): 37179.0