Fieldhouses without Fields: Agropastoral Landscapes in the Sandia Mountains, NM

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Field Houses and Traditional Agricultural Landscapes of the Northern US Southwest" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The western foothills of the Sandia Mountains outside of Albuquerque, NM offers a unique perspective to understand the diversity of land tenure patterns that involve periodic mobility from primary to semi-permanent residences. This paper explores the land tenure patterns of Hispanic communities that used the mountains as part of a mixed agricultural and herding economy from the 1600s to the mid-twentieth century. New pedestrian survey, in combination with ethnohistorical data have revealed several semi-permanent residences related to this period of use and provide new insights into mobility patterns of these agropastoral communities.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Field Houses and Traditional Agricultural Landscapes of the Northern US Southwest   •
• Society for American Archaeology 90th Annual Meeting, Denver, CO (2025)

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Abstract Id(s): 51912