Architectural Investigations at a Multicomponent Site on the Shivwits Plateau

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.

During the summer of 2019, members of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, excavated two rooms within Pete’s Pocket, a Virgin Branch Puebloan site located on the Shivwits Plateau, Arizona. The rooms, located about 300 m from the north rim of the Grand Canyon, were contiguous and circular, forming an almost Figure 8 shape. An unusually large amount of stone was associated with one of the rooms suggesting it likely was a tower. The second room had walls that suggest it was built using two types of construction technologies and it contained numerous handstones on its floor. We used Building Information Modeling, photogrammetry, and 3D modeling to analyze the architecture. The implications of these findings are discussed.

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): 40171.0