Classic Picuris: Reassessing the Discoveries of Herbert Dick’s Early Excavations

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Collaborative Archaeology at Picuris Pueblo: The New History" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

In 1961, in collaboration with the Picuris Pueblo tribal nation, Dr. Herb Dick initiated a multidisciplinary research project that documented architecture, agrarian strategies, sacred landscapes, ethnohistory, ethnobotany, avifauna, and other lines of evidence to better understand the past millennium of Picuris's history. This research resulted in the most extensively excavations of any presently occupied pueblo community, generated collections of millions of artifacts, and broadened our understandings of northern Rio Grande history and prehistory. The past 60 years these understandings have gone underpublished and, hence, underappreciated. This paper highlights the amazing accomplishments of the earlier work accomplished in concert with the people of Picuris Pueblo. It also emphasizes the intensely collaborative, and sometimes combative, nature of this early example of multidisciplinary research in living Indigenous communities.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Collaborative Archaeology at Picuris Pueblo: The New History   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 38369.0