Deep History of the Picuris Watershed

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.

Provocative new evidence from research on tribal lands suggests that Picuris was already a demographic center of the Eastern Pueblo world at the start of the tenth century CE. In this paper, we report on recent surveys and excavations at the Eagle Pile Site, home to a large Developmental period (850–1150 CE) village. We summarize what is currently known about the hundreds of pit houses that likely composed the village; we draw on a growing radiocarbon dataset to chronologically situate the village within the region’s deeper Holocene history; and we undertake compositional analyses of on-site Red Mesa Black-on-White and Kwahe’e Black-on-White pottery to explore exchange networks, particularly Picuris’ early connections to the emerging regional system based in Chaco Canyon.

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): 38306.0