Documents, Ceramics, Tree Rings, and Luminescence: Estimating Final Native Abandonment of the Lower Rio Chama

Ramenofsky, Ann F.

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“…The site consists of multistoried adobe room blocks with as many as 1100 rooms arranged around a plaza (Duwe et al, 2016). The site was inhabited from roughly A.D. 1350 to 1550 (Fowles, 2004; Ramenofsky & Feathers, 2002), with the main period of occupation beginning in the early fifteenth century (Robinson & Warren, 1971).…”

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Base cation evidence for enhanced water infiltration in Ancestral Pueblo gravel mulch fields, Northern New Mexico, USA

Kessler

2022

Geoarchaeology

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In the Northern Rio Grande region of New Mexico, USA, Ancestral Pueblo villages experienced rapid demographic and economic growth in the late 14th and 15th centuries A.D. Recent research has proposed that this growth was underwritten by cotton production for exchange. Gravel mulch was an important component of cotton agriculture, but its function and soil legacies are not well understood. Since water management was likely a critical feature of gravel mulch, this study examines soil variables affected by changes to water supply. Gravel mulch analyzed in this study was found to have a substantial impact on the surface soil particle size distribution, but other aspects of soil quality were unaffected. The depth profiles of base cation ratios in mulched and unmodified locations suggest that gravel mulch continues to enhance water infiltration. Based on the timing of cotton development and inferred infiltration depths associated with gravel mulch soils, gravel mulch technology is well suited to the monsoonal precipitation regime of the region and the phenology of cotton.

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Base cation evidence for enhanced water infiltration in Ancestral Pueblo gravel mulch fields, Northern New Mexico, USA

Kessler

2022

Geoarchaeology

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“…It is also clear that the overall population of the VEP II study area declined gradually between the middle decades of the 1400s and 1600, by which time the first Spanish capital of New Mexico had been established at Yunge-owingeh (Ellis 1989). In the early decades of the seventeenth century, the population of Tewa settlements declined dramatically due to a variety of factors, including captive taking, the marriage of Pueblo women with Spaniard men, epidemic disease, and out-migration to areas beyond Spanish control (Barrett 2002;Kulisheck 2010;Ramenofsky and Feathers 2002;Trigg and Gold 2005). During the later seventeenth century, population increased again, most likely due to the movement of Southern Tewa populations into the study area during the Pueblo Revolt and Reconquest periods; however, it declined once again after 1700 due to the departure of several groups for the Hopi Mesas (Marshall and Walt 2007) and renewed intermarriage and acculturation with Spanish populations.…”

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Uniform Probability Density Analysis and Population History in the Northern Rio Grande

Ortman

2014

J Archaeol Method Theory

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One of the basic challenges facing archaeology is translating surface evidence into population estimates with sufficient chronological resolution for demographic analysis. The problem is especially acute when one is working with sites inhabited across multiple chronological periods and the production curves for pottery types are unknown. In this paper, I present a Bayesian statistical method which I call uniform probability density analysis that is tailored to this situation. This method combines uniform distributions derived from the local pottery chronology with pottery assemblage data to reconstruct the population history of individual settlements. I also illustrate applications of this method at the site and regional level using data from Cuyamungue and the surrounding Tewa Basin/VEP II New Mexico project area. The results allow one to identify a period of significant population movement corresponding to the period of Tewa ethnogenesis in the thirteenth century CE.The ability to estimate the number of people who lived in settlements and regions at various points in the past is critical for many areas of research in archaeology. This task can be relatively straightforward when one has extensive stratigraphic evidence and absolute dates from excavation or one is working with well-preserved architecture (

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“…In most cases these two methods enable exceptionally precise site-level and regional chronologies (e.g., Reed and Hensler 2001;Varien 1999). Many chronological tools could be updated, however, through more effective analytical and field methods (e.g., Ortman et al 2007;Ramenofsky and Feathers 2002;Ramenofsky et al 2009;Seymour 2010), collaborative reevaluation of the date ranges of pottery types, and greater use of alternative techniques precise enough to examine site use life or post-10 occupational activities, for which tree-ring dating is difficult or impractical (e.g., Ahlstrom 2008;Cordell et al 2008;Plog and Heitman 2010). The precision of Ancestral Pueblo chronologies enables research focused on changes at generational or even finer temporal scales, a goal of current research in many parts of the world (Beck et al 2007;Bolender 2010;Shennan 2013;Sherratt 2004;Whittle et al 2011).…”

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Ancestral Pueblo Archaeology: The Value of Synthesis

Schachner

2014

J Archaeol Res

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Archaeologists working in the Ancestral Pueblo region of the American Southwest have documented variability in sociopolitical and economic complexity, landscape use, community organization, mobility, and violence at a wide range of temporal and spatial scales from AD 500-1700. Recent studies have a strong synthetic orientation, employ methods that track material culture, mobility, and social networks at macroregional scales, and benefit from a renewed engagement with indigenous peoples. Much of this research relies on integrating vast amounts of data from numerous academic and cultural resource management projects and demonstrates the promise of an archaeology that relies on the cumulative acquisition and sharing of data. Given the scale and depth of this research, Ancestral Pueblo archaeology is an exceptional comparative case for archaeologists considering similar processes, especially at fine temporal and wide geographical scales, in ancient farming societies across the globe.

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Documents, Ceramics, Tree Rings, and Luminescence: Estimating Final Native Abandonment of the Lower Rio Chama

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Base cation evidence for enhanced water infiltration in Ancestral Pueblo gravel mulch fields, Northern New Mexico, USA

Base cation evidence for enhanced water infiltration in Ancestral Pueblo gravel mulch fields, Northern New Mexico, USA

Uniform Probability Density Analysis and Population History in the Northern Rio Grande

Ancestral Pueblo Archaeology: The Value of Synthesis

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