Pueblo Closure: Migration and Exchange in an Animate World

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Ritual Closure: A Global Perspective" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Closure ceremonies and other rites of passage rituals mark the lives of buildings and can track the movements of peoples. In the Puebloan southwest these are common components of the archaeological record whose rich information remains relatively untapped. In this paper, we compare closure practices across Jornada Mogollon pueblos during the El Paso Phase. We emphasize case studies in the San Andres Mountains, Sacramento Mountains, and El Paso region. We see in these data and across the larger Jornada Culture Area at two ritual traditions, one in the north another in the south and a third possibly reflecting a mix of the two. These share similarities such as burning and burial of the pueblos, but they differ the selection of artifacts emplaced on floors and in fill as the techniques of their depositions. We explore traces of social organization, exchange and migration in these variable formation processes

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 90th Annual Meeting, Denver, CO (2025)   •
• Ritual Closure: A Global Perspective

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Abstract Id(s): 51424