Architectural and Technological Analyses from a Pueblo III Slab-lined Pit Structure in Northeastern Arizona

Summary

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

Teaming with the Navajo Division of Transportation, Dibble Engineering, and the Navajo Nation Heritage & Historic Preservation Department, Logan Simpson recently completed data recovery for the Dennehotso Loop Road Improvement Project on the Navajo Nation in northeastern Arizona. Within the area of potential effects data recovery resolved adverse effects to the southeast portion of a large pre contact habitation, locally known as “Many Homes,” inhabited from the Basketmaker III to Pueblo III periods (ca. AD 600 to 1300). Feature 58, an idiosyncratic slab-lined pit structure, was one of eighteen features within the APE and contained a diverse assemblage of ceramics, lithics, worked faunal bone, and various artiodactyls, turkey, and small game animal remains. Maize cob fragments from the floor fill date the structure to 1028—1162 cal AD, while ceramics provide a mean ceramic date of AD 1117. Up-right tabular sandstone construction of the structure includes an east wall with pecking possibly representing astronomical patterns. In this presentation, we discuss the material remains and architecture to elucidate activities within the structure.

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): 40370.0