Casas Grandes Vecindarios: Assessing Settlement Patterns in the Carretas Valley, Chihuahua, Mexico

Summary

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

Recent archaeological surveys and excavations recorded numerous Medio period (1200-1450 CE) mounds and settlements in the Carretas Valley, Chihuahua, Mexico. This study employed geospatial measures and rank-size analysis to characterize unexcavated mounds and excavated settlements. These results were compared to previously published settlement data from other subregions in the Casas Grandes world. Our results suggest a fair degree of cultural heterogeneity within the Carretas Valley, and a similar degree of heterogeneity between Carretas communities and other vecindarios in the Casas Grandes world. This study offers a valuable addition to case studies on the organizational character of “hinterland” communities.

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): 53651