Sounds of Change: Mapping Auditory Experiences through Time in the Greater Chaco Landscape
Author(s): Kris Primeau; Kellam Throgmorton; Ruth Van Dyke; David Witt
Year: 2024
Summary
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
Recent work has demonstrated that audibility between habitation sites, monumental construction, and other landscape elements was an actively managed aspect of the Ancestral Puebloan built environment both within Chaco Canyon and the Greater Chaco Landscape (GCL). GCL communities were inhabited for hundreds of years, during which the layout and relationships between features of the built environment transformed. These changes resulted in different sound environments and thus different auditory experiences over time. Focusing on the Morris 40 community, located on Ute Mountain Ute Land in northwest New Mexico, the authors modeled estimated soundsheds using the Archaeoacoustics Toolbox for GIS to explore how sounds produced within the landscape may have been heard and experienced as the community was established, grew, and declined between 750-1300 CE.
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Sounds of Change: Mapping Auditory Experiences through Time in the Greater Chaco Landscape. Kris Primeau, Kellam Throgmorton, Ruth Van Dyke, David Witt. Presented at The 89th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. 2024 ( tDAR id: 499743)
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Geographic Keywords
North America: Southwest United States
Spatial Coverage
min long: -124.365; min lat: 25.958 ; max long: -93.428; max lat: 41.902 ;
Record Identifiers
Abstract Id(s): 39702.0