The Protohistoric Pueblo World, A.D. 1275-1600
229 pages, 8 1/2 x 11
66 halftones, 32 tables (13 in appendix)
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Release Date:01 Apr 2016
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Release Date:01 Jul 2004
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The Protohistoric Pueblo World, A.D. 1275-1600

The University of Arizona Press
In the centuries before the arrival of Europeans, the Pueblo world underwent nearly continuous reorganization. Populations moved from Chaco Canyon and the great centers of the Mesa Verde region to areas along the Rio Grande, the Little Colorado River, and the Mogollon Rim, where they began constructing larger and differently organized villages, many with more than 500 rooms. Villages also tended to occur in clusters that have been interpreted in a number of different ways.
 
This book describes and interprets this period of southwestern history immediately before and after initial European contact, A.D. 1275-1600—a span of time during which Pueblo peoples and culture were dramatically transformed. It summarizes one hundred years of research and archaeological data for the Pueblo IV period as it explores the nature of the organization of village clusters and what they meant in behavioral and political terms.
 
 Twelve of the chapters individually examine the northern and eastern portions of the Southwest and the groups who settled there during the protohistoric period. The authors develop histories for settlement clusters that offer insights into their unique development and the variety of ways that villages formed these clusters. These analyses show the extent to which spatial clusters of large settlements may have formed regionally organized alliances, and in some cases they reveal a connection between protohistoric villages and indigenous or migratory groups from the preceding period. This volume is distinct from other recent syntheses of Pueblo IV research in that it treats the settlement cluster as the analytic unit. By analyzing how members of clusters of villages interacted with one another, it offers a clearer understanding of the value of this level of analysis and suggests possibilities for future research. In addition to offering new insights on the Pueblo IV world, the volume serves as a compendium of information on more than 400 known villages larger than 50 rooms. It will be of lasting interest not only to archaeologists but also to geographers, land managers, and general readers interested in Pueblo culture.
E. Charles Adams is associate curator of archaeology for the Arizona State Museum and the author of The Origin and Development of the Pueblo Katsina Cult.

Andrew I. Duff is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Washington State University and Research Associate at the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center in Cortez, Colorado. His articles have appeared in the Cambridge Archaeological Journal and American Antiquity.
Acknowledgments
1 Settlement Clusters and the Pueblo IV Period
E. Charles Adams and Andrew I. Duff
2 Tewa versus Tiwa: Northern Rio Grande Settlement Patterns and Social History, a.d. 1275 to 1540
Severin M. Fowles
3 ‘‘Ruins of Our Forefathers’’: Large Sites and Site Clusters in the Northern Rio Grande
James E. Snead,Winifred Creamer, and Tineke Van Zandt
4 Pueblo IV Community Formation in the Central Rio Grande Valley: The Albuquerque, Cochiti, and Lower Rio Puerco Districts
Suzanne L. Eckert and Linda S. Cordell
5 Social Identity and the Internal Organization of the Jumanos Pueblos Settlement Cluster in the Salinas District, Central New Mexico
William M. Graves
6 Pueblo IV in the Chihuahuan Desert
Stephen H. Lekson, Michael Bletzer, and A. C. MacWilliams
7 Archaeological Patterning and Organizational Scale of Late Prehistoric Settlement Clusters in the Zuni Region of New Mexico
Deborah L. Huntley and KeithW. Kintigh
8 Settlement Clustering and Village Interaction in the Upper Little Colorado Region
Andrew I. Duff
9 Migration, Factionalism, and the Trajectories of Pueblo IV Period Clusters in the Mogollon Rim
Region Eric J. Kaldahl, Scott Van Keuren, and Barbara J. Mills
10 The Political Geography and Territoriality of 14th-Century Settlements in the Mogollon Highlands of East-Central Arizona
Daniela Triadan and M. Nieves Zedeño
11 The Formation of Settlement Clusters on Anderson Mesa
Wesley Bernardini and Gary M. Brown
12 Homol’ovi: A 13th–14th-Century Settlement Cluster in Northeastern Arizona
E. Charles Adams
13 Hopi Settlement Clusters Past and Present
E. Charles Adams,Vincent M. LaMotta, and Kurt Dongoske
14 Clusters Revisited Katherine A. Spielmann
15 Social Formations in the Pueblo IV Southwest: An Ethnological View
Peter Whiteley

Appendix: Site Information
Notes
References
List of Contributors
Index
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