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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... Puebloan peoples still living along the Rio Grande , the Keres and the Tewa , is contained within the ruins of the Pajarito , the remainder being in their oral traditions . More gen- erally , between 1150 and 1450 , the ancient ...
... Puebloan site densities known to exist in the monument below 7,100 ft ( 2,165 m ) and suggested a stratification of the area by vegetation , topography , and elevation . After a hiatus in 1986 , the sur- vey members spent five long ...
... Puebloan case , with reference to some previous work - including that in Dolores - exam- ining the strength of each factor in some particular set- ting . In a general way , if we have correctly identified the relative factors , the ...
... Puebloan , although they are apparently absent among the northern Tiwa ( Taos and Picuris ) ; in our area they are rel- atively less emphasized by the Tewa than by the Keres . The masked dances are generally closed to non - Puebloan peo ...
... puebloans were so different from any other natives the Spanish had seen on their trip through northern Mexico and during their misguided foray onto the buffalo plains that Castañeda believed they came " from that region of greater India ...