Food and Firewood in Gallina, New Mexico

Summary

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

Growing, collecting, preparing, storing, and using food and fuel are practices that illustrate environmental, community, and interpersonal relationships at the smallest and largest archaeological scales. This paper explores the plant landscape of the Gallina region and phase within the Ancestral Puebloan world. As understandings of this period and its people shift, serious consideration of the agricultural and other plant practices involved in daily life can contribute to a rich landscaping of lives in the relatively elevated, tree-covered hills of the Gallina region in northern New Mexico. Employing data from archives and gray literature as well as novel paleoethnobotanical evidence from excavation and survey, my initial work explores the way in which food and firewood choices left their mark on Gallina homes and hills, asking fundamental questions about the creation of community.

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): 37584.0