Archaeotecture: Building the Great House, the Great Life at Albert Porter Pueblo (5MT123)

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Architecture made up an important part of the built environment of Albert Porter Pueblo (5MT123), an ancestral village in southwestern Colorado and most intensively occupied during Pueblo II–Pueblo III (950–1300 CE). In my study, I conduct spatial-syntax analyses of collective belongings and individual belongings, or proxies for past activities in architectural roomblocks, to contrast with public architecture. My analyses indicate how different household members might have experienced different social realities in the same roomblocks over time—before and after the construction of the great house (1060–1280 CE). Examining architecture as material culture, my study asks how Indigenous peoples made their built environment meaningful and made meaning from their built environment, the Woods Canyon community, and more broadly, the Mesa Verde region.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 90th Annual Meeting, Denver, CO (2025)   •
• SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts

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Abstract Id(s): 51625