The Becoming of Far View House

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

More than a century ago, Jesse W. Fewkes excavated Far View House, a large mesa top pueblo in Mesa Verde National Park. Despite a long history of research, interpretation, stabilization, and maintenance since its initial excavation in 1916, a complete construction history of Far View House has never been produced. New research at Far View, including architectural, tree-ring, and archival analysis, has enabled a detailed reconstruction of the formation and development of Far View House. These results illustrate a complex building history including at least five major phases of construction, which began sometime in the mid-to-late ninth century and possibly earlier, with a rectangular, single-story, eighteen room pueblo. Over the next four centuries, Far View was transformed into a multi-story, fifty-seven room pueblo with four enclosed kivas and a large, bisected plaza. This architectural reconstruction of Far View House illustrates the growing complexity of the building and the Far View community during the Chaco Era.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 38202.0