Chaco-Era Site Clustering and the Concept of Communities

Gilpin, Dennis

doi:10.1080/00231940.2003.11758490

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“…What were Chacoan (sometimes Great House) communities (Kantner and Mahoney 2000)? Data from 217 Chacoan communities show that they were quite variable internally, not especially bounded spatially, and that they changed quite a bit over the 300 years of their existence (Gilpin 2003). In the Mesa Verde area it is now clear that ''communities'' changed in scale and organization over time .…”

Section: From the Neolithic To The Modern World Systemmentioning

confidence: 98%

Regional Settlement Pattern Studies

Kowalewski

2008

J Archaeol Res

108

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This is a critical review of regional settlement pattern archaeology published in the last decade. The regional approach proves to be highly productive of new ideas and lasting results. Cultural resource/heritage databases are increasingly important. Notable advances have been made in regional studies of Paleolithic and Holocene foragers, the reciprocal relations between Neolithic communities and their regional societies, and in understanding states and empires. There are new research potentials in comparisons, macroregional analysis, long-term change, and alternative pathways. Research designs should specify systematic coverage at the regional scale and carry out spatial analysis in which social groups are the primary focus.

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Section: From the Neolithic To The Modern World Systemmentioning

confidence: 98%

Regional Settlement Pattern Studies

Kowalewski

2008

J Archaeol Res

108

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“…Mahoney (2000, pp. 19-20) demonstrated that although Chaco communities are typically defined as all residential structures within a 1-2 km radius of a great house, few of these appear to have been demographically viable for any length of time based on inferred population size, implying more extensive geographic relationships (also Durand and Durand, 2000;Gilpin, 2003). Moreover, excavations nearly always reveal complex and punctuated occupational histories that are not evident in surface features (McKenna et al, 1986;Windes, 1987;Reed, 2006), meaning that static settlement pattern models conflate an unknown amount of temporal variation and historical ambiguity, including skewing toward the most intensive and/or latest periods of occupation.…”

Section: Regional Settlement Patterns and Communitiesmentioning

confidence: 96%

Agriculture and community in Chaco Canyon: Revisiting Pueblo Alto

Wills

Dorshow

2012

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology

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“…This research has documented marked variation among the outlying great houses communities. For example, Gilpin's (2003) comparison of 217 Chaco-period settlement clusters in the southwest San Juan Basin quantified significant variation in their histories, configurations, size, and organization. Not every cluster contained a great house and/or great kiva, some contained more than one great house or great kiva, and some great houses lacked nearby residential settlement.…”

Section: Great House Communities and Interactionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Powers et al 1983). Despite these similarities, as distance from Chaco Canyon increases, so does local variation in how these buildings are constructed and integrated into their surrounding community (Gilpin 2003;Van Dyke 2003). The Chacoan regional system was one of the most influential developments in the prehispanic Southwest, yet we know relatively little about the relationships among the people and groups who participated in its networks.…”

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Crossing Comb Ridge: Pottery Production and Procurement Among Southeast Utah Great House Communities

Glowacki¹,

Ferguson²,

Hurst³

et al. 2015

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Understanding how the Chaco regional system operated requires examining the social networks maintained by great house communities during both the peak and decline ofChaco's influence. We used neutron activation analysis (NAA) of pottery, kiln wasters, and clays from three great house communities in southeast Utah (Bluff, Cottonwood Wash, and Comb Wash) to examine pottery production and the interaction networks of their residents. West of Comb Ridge, most gray ware jars or the materials they were made from were imported from east of Comb Ridge in both Chaco and post-Chaco times, while importation of painted white wares changed in the post-Chaco era as local production increased. This counters the expectation that painted pots are more likely to be exchanged than cooking jars. Kiln sherds and prepared clays are shown to be better identifiers of production area than raw clays, and paste color is confirmed as a useful clay source indicator in the Comb Ridge vicinity. Great house communities in the Comb Ridge area continued to exchange pots and/or ceramic raw materials in the post-Chaco era, but there is evidence for shifting social networks and intensified local production of white ware.

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Chaco-Era Site Clustering and the Concept of Communities

Cited by 16 publications

References 8 publications

Regional Settlement Pattern Studies

Regional Settlement Pattern Studies

Agriculture and community in Chaco Canyon: Revisiting Pueblo Alto

Crossing Comb Ridge: Pottery Production and Procurement Among Southeast Utah Great House Communities

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