Chaco's Northern Prodigies

by Reed, Paul F.

• ISBN13: 9780874809251
• ISBN10: 0874809258
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-06-28
• Publisher: Univ of Utah Pr

Summary

In the late eleventh and early twelfth centuries, the ancient pueblo sites of Aztec and Salmon in the Middle San Juan region rapidly emerged as population and political centers during the closing stages of Chacors"s ascendancy. Some archaeologists have attributed the development of these centers to migration and colonization by people from Chaco Canyon. Others have suggested that the so-called Chacoan 'system' was largely the result of emulation of Chacoan characteristics by local groups in outlying areas. Research over the last five years in the Middle San Juan suggests that both of these processes were operating. Work by two groups of contributors resulted in this synthetic volume, which interprets thirty-five years of research at Salmon Ruins. Chacors"s Northern Prodigies also puts recent work at Salmon Ruins in the context of Middle San Juan archaeological research. It is a timely synopsis of the archaeology of this region of the Southwest.

Table of Contents

List of Figures
List of Tables
Introduction
Setting the Stage: A Reconsideration of Salmon, Aztec, and the Middle San Juan Region in Chacoan and Post-Chacoan Puebloan History	p. 3
Salmon Pueblo
Salmon Ruins: Architecture and Development of a Chacoan Satellite on the Sanjuan River	p. 29
Salmon Pueblo as a Ritual and Residential Chaco an Great House	p. 42
Material Culture Analyses: Salmon Pueblo
Subsistence and Plant Use During the Chacoan and Secondary Occupations at Salmon Ruin	p. 65
Parasite Pathoecology of Salmon Pueblo and Other Chaco an Great Houses: The Healthiest and Wormiest Ancestral Puebloans	p. 86
Animal Bone from Salmon Ruins and Other Great Houses: Faunal Exploitation in the Chaco World	p. 96
Sighting Along the Grain: Differential Structural Wood Use at the Salmon Ruin	p. 113
Human Remains Recovered from the Tower Kiva at Salmon Ruins	p. 140
Material Culture Analyses: Across the Middle San Juan
An Initial Assessment of Perishable Relationships Among Salmon, Aztec, and Chaco Canyon	p. 167
Ceramics of the Middle San Juan Region: Potters, Recipes, and Varieties	p. 190
New Research in the Middle San Juan Region
Puebloan Communities on the South Side of the Middle San Juan River	p. 209
Animas Anamnesis: Aztec Ruins or Anasazi Capital?	p. 231
Comparing Great House Architecture: Perspectives from the Bluff Great House	p. 251
Synthetic Views of the Middle San Juan Region
Chacoan Society: The View from Salmon Ruins	p. 273
The Position of Salmon Ruins in the Middle San Juan, AD 1000-1300: A Perspective from Ceramic Design Structure	p. 284
The La Plata, the Torah, and the Chaco: Variations on a Theme	p. 309
Sacred Landscapes: The Chaco-Torah Connection	p. 334
From the Outside: Salmon and the Middle San Juan Region in a Larger Context
Population Dynamics among Salmon's Northern Neighbors in the Central Mesa Verde Region	p. 351
The Middle San Juan and Chaco Canyon	p. 366
Conclusion
Prodigy, Rebel, or Stepchild? The Middle San Juan Region vis-a-vis Chaco Canyon	p. 379
References	p. 389
Index	p. 431
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