Archaeology of Bandelier National Monument: Village Formation on the Pajarito Plateau, New MexicoTimothy A. Kohler The pre-Hispanic pueblo settlements of the Pajarito Plateau, whose ruins can be seen today at Bandelier National Monument, date to the late 1100s and were already dying out when the Spanish arrived in the sixteenth century. Until recently, little modern scientific data on these sites was available. The essays in this volume summarize the results of new excavation and survey research in Bandelier, with special attention to determining why larger sites appear when and where they do, and how life in these later villages and towns differed from life in the earlier small hamlets that first dotted the Pajarito in the mid-1100s. Drawing on sources from archaeology, paleoethnobotany, geology, climate history, rock art, and oral history, the authors weave together the history of archaeology on the Plateau and the natural and cultural history of its Puebloan peoples for the four centuries of its pre-Hispanic occupation. Contributors include Craig Allen (U. S. Geological Survey, Los Alamos, New Mexico), Sarah Herr (Desert Archaeology, Inc., Tucson, Arizona), F. Joan Mathien (National Park Service), Matthew J. Root (Rain Shadow Research and Department of Anthropology, Washington Sate University), Nancy H. Olsen (Anthropology Department and Intercultural Studies Division, De Anza College, Cupertino, California), Janet D. Orcutt (National Park Service), and Robert P. Powers (National Park Service). |
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... area 23 2.2 . Mean stream flow , Rito de los Frijoles , near park ... Mesa de la Media 85 3.7 . Photograph of the caves on the Mesa de las Trampas ... pueblo in the Rito de los Frijoles 81 3.4 . Tyuonyi in 1912 82 Pre - 1937 photograph of ...
... Mesa Pueblo Area 1 183 5.2 . Sarah Cohen ( right ) and Susan Blakely profiling in Room 11 185 5.3 . Smoothed vertical proportions of late ceramics in Room 11 , Burnt Mesa Pueblo Area 1 187 5.4 . Smoothed vertical proportions of late ...
... Pueblo ( Towa ) , and Sandia Pueblo ( Tiwa ) 3 1.2 . General locations of ... area 110 4.1 . Sites with earliest ceramic types 119 4.2 . Local setting ... Mesa Pueblo ( LA 60372 ) in its local setting 151 4.7 . Composite map of 1988-1990 ...
... Area and Headquarters Area 23 2.2 . Elevational Distribution of Vegetation Types Surveyed in 1987 in the Frijoles ... Mesa Pueblo Area 2 156 4.11 . Comparative Statistics on the Three Excavated Burnt Mesa Pueblo Area 2 Rooms 158 4.12 ...
... Mesa Pueblo Area 2 165 4.18 . Flaked Stones from Burnt Mesa Pueblo Area 2 : Function by Use - Life Classes 166 4.19 . Summary of Ground Stone Tools by Site Subarea , Burnt Mesa Pueblo Area 2 166 4.20 . Debitage from Burnt Mesa Pueblo ...