Great House Communities Across the Chacoan Landscape

by Kantner, John

• ISBN13: 9780816520725
• ISBN10: 0816520720
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-04-01
• Publisher: Univ of Arizona Pr

Summary

Offers new insight into what a Chacoan community is and sheds light on the nature of interactions among prehistoric communities.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Acknowledgments	viii
Chacoan Archaeology and Great House Communities	1	(16)
Nancy M. Mahoney
John Kantner
Archaeology in Chaco Canyon	3	(2)
Outlying Chacoan Communities	5	(1)
The Regional System Concept	6	(1)
Unresolved Issues in Chacoan Archaeology	7	(4)
Chronology	7	(1)
Hierarchy	8	(1)
Economic and Material Distribution	9	(1)
Roads	10	(1)
Scale and System Definition	10	(1)
A New Focus on Great House Communities	11	(4)
Defining Great House Communities	11	(2)
Great House Communities and Chaco Canyon	13	(1)
Relationships Within and Among Great House Communities	14	(1)
Future Directions	15	(2)
PART 1: DEFINING THE CHACOAN GREAT HOUSE COMMUNITY	17	(44)
Redefining the Scale of Chacoan Communities	19	(9)
Nancy M. Mahoney
Defining Community	19	(1)
Geographic and Demographic Scales of Sustainable Communities	20	(1)
Sustainable Chacoan Communities	21	(2)
Bis sa'ani	21	(1)
Cottonwood Falls	21	(1)
H-Spear	22	(1)
Guadalupe	22	(1)
Demographic Scale of Sustainable Chacoan Communities	23	(2)
Evaluating the Scale of Sustainable Communities	25	(1)
Implications for the Organization of Chacoan Communities	26	(2)
Peach Springs Revisited: Surface Recording and Excavation on the South Chaco Slope, New Mexico	28	(11)
Dennis Gilpin
David E. Purcell
The Community Core	30	(3)
Community Core and Periphery	33	(1)
Excavations Outside the Core Community	34	(4)
Site NM--Q--13--58	34	(2)
Site NM--Q--12--72	36	(2)
Community Development	38	(1)
Sunrise, Sunset: Sedentism and Mobility in the Chaco East Community	39	(22)
Thomas C. Windes
Rachel M. Anderson
Brian K. Johnson
Cheryl A. Ford
The Chaco East Community	41	(9)
The Setting	42	(1)
Communication Links	42	(1)
Dating the Community Sites	43	(1)
Shifting House Locations Through Time	43	(2)
Esoteric Features and Community Structures	45	(1)
Community Integration	45	(5)
Settlement Permanency	50	(2)
Canyon Landform	50	(1)
House Orientation	50	(1)
The Skyline	51	(1)
Community Dynamics	52	(4)
Community Origins	56	(1)
Reinterpreting Communities in Chaco Canyon	56	(5)
PART 2: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GREAT HOUSE COMMUNITIES AND CHACO CANYON	61	(50)
Chaco Outlier or Backwoods Pretender? A Provincial Great House at Edge of the Cedars Ruin, Utah	63	(16)
Winston B. Hurst
What Makes a Great House?	63	(2)
Edge of the Cedars Pueblo: ``You Call This a Great House?''	65	(11)
Multiple-Storied Core Room Block	67	(1)
Blocked-in, Above-grade Kivas with Chacoesque Floor Features	68	(1)
Core-and-Veneer Walls	68	(1)
Tabular Sandstone Wall Facing	68	(1)
Foundation Trenches	69	(2)
Intramural Beams	71	(1)
Great Kiva	72	(1)
Large Rooms	73	(1)
Late Modifications and Intrusive Burial	73	(1)
Mound or Berm	73	(1)
Road?	74	(1)
The Surrounding Community	75	(1)
Some Words About Trade	75	(1)
The Chacoan Quiddity at Edge of the Cedars Ruin	76	(3)
Chacoan and Local Influences in Three Great House Communities in the Northern San Juan Region	79	(12)
Joseph Peter Jalbert
Catherine Cameron
The Bluff Great House	80	(3)
Great House Communities in the Northern San Juan Region	83	(6)
The Bluff Great House Community	83	(2)
The Chimney Rock Great House Community	85	(2)
The Far View Great House Community	87	(2)
Intra- and Intercommunity Comparisons	89	(2)
Chacoan versus Local Influences	90	(1)
Chacoan Ritual Landscapes: The View From Red Mesa Valley	91	(10)
Ruth M. Van Dyke
Red Mesa Valley Great Houses as Local Phenomena	91	(4)
Early Dates	92	(2)
Architecture	94	(1)
Artifacts	95	(1)
Locally Constructed Great Houses as Ritual Landscape	95	(2)
The Andrews Great House as Ritual Setting	96	(1)
Architectural Emulation	97	(4)
Notes From the Edge: Settlement Pattern Changes at the Guadalupe Community	101	(10)
Stephen R. Durand
Kathy Roler Durand
Previous Work on the Chaco ``Phenomenon''	101	(1)
The Guadalupe Community	102	(4)
Community Patterns	106	(1)
Community History	107	(1)
Way Out on a Limb	108	(3)
PART 3: ECONOMIC AND SOCIOPOLITICAL RELATIONSHIPS OUTSIDE OF CHACO CANYON	111	(36)
Household Economic Autonomy and Great House Development in the Lowry Area	113	(17)
James W. Kendrick
W. James Judge
Archaeology of the Lowry Area	114	(1)
Household, Great House, and Community Dynamics	114	(12)
Definitions and Scales of Analysis	114	(2)
Pre-Chaco Era	116	(3)
Chaco Era, Late Pueblo II	119	(5)
Post-Chaco Era, Pueblo III	124	(2)
Economic Production and Integration	126	(1)
Household Economic Autonomy	127	(3)
A Tentative Model	128	(1)
The Implication for Great House Models	129	(1)
Interaction Among Great House Communities: An Elemental Analysis of Cibolan Ceramics	130	(17)
John Kantner
Nathan Bower
Jeffrey Ladwig
Jacob Perlitz
Steve Hata
Darren Greve
Research on Great House Community Exchange	130	(2)
Ceramic Exchange in the Southern San Juan Basin	132	(10)
Ceramic Compositional Analysis	132	(1)
Methods	132	(4)
X-Ray Fluorescence Analyses	136	(6)
Reconstruction of Ceramic Production	142	(1)
Reconstruction of Ceramic Exchange	143	(3)
Community Interaction	146	(1)
PART 4: GREAT HOUSE COMMUNITIES IN THE PREHISTORY OF THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST	147	(18)
Communities and the Chacoan Regional System	149	(8)
Mark D. Varien
Geographic and Demographic Scales	150	(1)
Interaction	151	(1)
Variation	152	(1)
Time and History	153	(1)
Great Houses and Great Kivas	154	(3)
Local Communities and the Chacoan Regional System	155	(2)
Great!	157	(8)
Stephen H. Lekson
References	165	(18)
Index	183	(8)
Abstract, Resumen	191