Implications of Ceramic Analysis on Rio Grande Glaze Ware from San Miguel de Carnué (LA 12924): A Puebloan Settlement within the Early Spanish Colonial Period of New Mexico

Summary

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

Southwest archaeologists have largely overlooked historical Indigenous archaeology in favor of examining the prehispanic past. San Miguel de Carnué, located east of Albuquerque in central New Mexico, is a multicomponent site occupied intermittently from the Ancestral Puebloan to the Late Spanish Colonial period. Historic Pueblo people inhabited the site during the Early Spanish Colonial period, dating between the early 1500s to the Pueblo Revolt of 1680. Carnué was previously excavated in 1946 and most recently in 2022. This poster presents the results of an analysis of the Late Rio Grande Glaze Ware ceramic collections from the 1946 excavations. Utilizing typology, design and an in-depth temper compositional analysis, the results of this research offers new insight into who lived here, when, and what forces shaped their daily lives during this turbulent period.

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): 53537