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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... Collection shape , Casa del Rito 141 4.8 . Basaltic andesite quarry on butte at mouth of Lummis Canyon 142 4.9 . Charred nonwoody plant materials from Casa del Rito 148 4.10 . Woody charcoal from Casa del Rito 149 4.11 . Tom Windes ...
... Collection shape , Burnt Mesa Pueblo Area 1 199 5.13 . Examples of stone tools , Burnt Mesa Pueblo Area 1 203 5.14 . Percentage of raw material classes from Area 2 and Area 1 of Burnt Mesa Pueblo 205 5.15 . Examples of non - awl bone ...
... Collections 244 6.10 . Minimum Number of Bowls in Onstott's Collections from Tyuonyi 245 6.11 . Minimum Number of Jars in Onstott's Collections from Tyuonyi 246 6.12 . Vessel Forms in Subterrene Test Pits A and B 247 6.13 . Ceramic ...
... collect as much information as possible rel- evant to examining these implications within the con- straints imposed by accessibility , time , and funding . Excavations had to take into account the Park Service orientation toward ...
... collect kinds of data unavailable from a survey examination of site surfaces . We put a priority on recovering ... collected on the dating of ceramics from tree - rings and archaeo- magnetic determinations during the first three years of ...