The Gila River Farm Site and Salado Coalescence during the Fourteenth Century in the Upper Gila, New Mexico

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Emerging Voices in Mogollon Archaeology" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Archaeology Southwest and the University of Arizona’s Upper Gila Preservation Archaeology (UGPA) Field School has conducted excavations for six field seasons (2016–2019; 2021–2022) at the Gila River Farm Site. This paper evaluates intrasite coalescence between a small migrant community with ancestry linked to the Kayenta-Tusayan area and local inhabitants of Mogollon ancestry within room blocks 3 and 4 of this Cliff-Phase (AD 1300–1450) Salado settlement using distributions of ceramics, ground stone tool attributes, and domestic installations as material culture markers of active and latent cultural identity indicators while also introducing a scalar element to the discussion of the Salado phenomenon in this area of southwestern New Mexico. Results from the Gila River Farm Site indicate a fully coalescent community within Room Block 4 by the time of depopulation.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Emerging Voices in Mogollon Archaeology   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 38355.0