The Protohistoric Pueblo World, A.D. 1275-1600

E. Charles Adams, Andrew I. Duff

• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Year: 2004
• Print ISBN:
  9780816533633
  9780816523436
• eBook ISBN:
  9780816543670
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Archaeology
• Index: Social Sciences

In the centuries before the arrival of Europeans, the Pueblo world underwent nearly continuous reorganization. Populations moved from Chaco Canyon and the great centers of the Mesa Verde region to areas along the Rio Grande, the Little Colorado River, and the Mogollon Rim, where they began constructing larger and differently organized villages, many with more than 500 rooms. Villages also tended to occur in clusters that have been interpreted in a number of different ways. This book describes and interprets this period of southwestern history immediately before and after initial European contact, A.D. 1275-1600—a span of time during which Pueblo peoples and culture were dramatically transformed. It summarizes one hundred years of research and archaeological data for the Pueblo IV period as it explores the nature of the organization of village clusters and what they meant in behavioral and political terms. Twelve of the chapters individually examine the northern and eastern portions of the Southwest and the groups who settled there during the protohistoric period. The authors develop histories for settlement clusters that offer insights into their unique development and the variety of ways that villages formed these clusters. These analyses show the extent to which spatial clusters of large settlements may have formed regionally organized alliances, and in some cases they reveal a connection between protohistoric villages and indigenous or migratory groups from the preceding period. This volume is distinct from other recent syntheses of Pueblo IV research in that it treats the settlement cluster as the analytic unit. By analyzing how members of clusters of villages interacted with one another, it offers a clearer understanding of the value of this level of analysis and suggests possibilities for future research. In addition to offering new insights on the Pueblo IV world, the volume serves as a compendium of information on more than 400 known villages larger than 50 rooms. It will be of lasting interest not only to archaeologists but also to geographers, land managers, and general readers interested in Pueblo culture.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• 1. Settlement Clusters and the Pueblo IV Period (E. Charles Adams and Andrew I. Duff)
• 2. Tewa versus Tiwa: Northern Rio Grande Settlement Patterns and Social History, A.D. 1275 to 1540 (Severin M. Fowles)
• 3. ‘‘Ruins of Our Forefathers’’: Large Sites and Site Clusters in the Northern Rio Grande (James E. Snead, Winifred Creamer, and Tineke Van Zandt)
• 4. Pueblo IV Community Formation in the Central Rio Grande Valley: The Albuquerque, Cochiti, and Lower Rio Puerco Districts (Suzanne L. Eckert and Linda S.Cordell)
• 5. Social Identity and the Internal Organization of the Jumanos Pueblos Settlement Cluster in the Salinas District, Central New Mexico (William M. Graves)
• 6. Pueblo IV in the Chihuahuan Desert (Stephen H. Lekson, Michael Bletzer,and A. C. Mac Williams)
• 7. Archaeological Patterning and Organizational Scale of Late Prehistoric Settlement Clusters in the Zuni Region of New Mexico (Deborah L. Huntley and Keith W. Kintigh)
• 8. Settlement Clustering and Village Interaction in the Upper Little Colorado Region (Andrew I. Duff)
• 9. Migration, Factionalism, and the Trajectories of Pueblo IV Period Clusters in the Mogollon Rim Region (Eric J. Kaldahl, Scott Van Keuren, and Barbara J. Mills)
• 10. The Political Geography and Territoriality of 14th-Century Settlements in the Mogollon Highlands of East-Central Arizona (Daniela Triadan and M. Nieves Zedeño)
• 11. The Formation of Settlement Clusters on Anderson Mesa (Wesley Bernardini and Gary M.Brown)
• 12. Homol’ovi: A 13th–14th-Century Settlement Cluster in Northeastern Arizona (E. Charles Adams)
• 13. Hopi Settlement Clusters Past and Present (E. Charles Adams, Vincent M. LaMotta, and Kurt Dongoske)
• 14. Clusters Revisited (Katherine A. Spielmann)
• 15. Social Formations in the Pueblo IV Southwest: An Ethnological View (Peter Whiteley)
• Appendix: Site Information
• Notes
• References
• List of Contributors
• Index