Cave du Pont and the Western Basketmaker World

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Archaeology of the Virgin Branch Puebloan Region" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Over the last two decades, new archaeological findings have challenged traditional ideas about the Western Basketmaker culture. We now know that the processes involved in the origin and spread of early farming in the western Puebloan region were much more complex than previously recognized. Rather than resulting from a single wave of migrations that brought in a homogenous culture and lifeway, the new data suggest that corn and Basketmaker II materials spread through processes that included both migration and diffusion. In this poster, we present new information from the Cave du Pont site to explore the identities and lifeways of the people who used that cave. These findings are then compared against those of other Western Basketmaker II sites to explore the place of Cave du Pont in the Western Basketmaker world.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Archaeology of the Virgin Branch Puebloan Region   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 40410.0