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Constructing Community
In central New Mexico, tourists admire the majestic ruins of old Spanish churches and historic pueblos at Abo, Quarai, and Gran Quivira in Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument. The less-imposing remains of the earliest Indian farming settlements, however, have not attracted nearly as much notice from visitors or from professional archaeologists. InConstructing Community, Alison E. Rautman synthesizes over twenty years of research about this little-known period of early sedentary villages in the Salinas region.Rautman tackles a very broad topic: how archaeologists use material evidence to infer and imagine how people lived in the past, how they coped with everyday decisions and tensions, and how they created a sense of themselves and their place in the world. Using several different lines of evidence, she reconstructs what life was like for the ancestral Pueblo Indian people of Salinas, and identifies some of the specific strategies that they used to develop and sustain their villages over time.Examining evidence of each site's construction and developing spatial layout, Rautman traces changes in community organization across the architectural transitions from pithouses to jacal structures to unit pueblos, and finally to plaza-oriented pueblos. She finds that, in contrast to some other areas of the American Southwest, early villagers in Salinas repeatedly managed their built environment to emphasize the coherence and unity of the village as a whole. In this way, she argues, people in early farming villages across the Salinas region actively constructed and sustained a sense of social community.
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Emergence and collapse of early villages
Ancestral Pueblo farmers encountered the deep, well watered, and productive soils of the central Mesa Verde region of Southwest Colorado around A.D. 600, and within two centuries built some of the largest villages known up to that time in the U.S. Southwest. But one hundred years later, those villages were empty, and most people had gone. This cycle repeated itself from the mid-A.D. 1000s until 1280, when Puebloan farmers permanently abandoned the entire northern Southwest. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this book examines how climate change, population size, interpersonal conflict, resource depression, and changing social organization contribute to explaining these dramatic shifts. Comparing the simulations from agent-based models with the precisely dated archaeological record from this area, this text will interest archaeologists working in the Southwest and in Neolithic societies around the world as well as anyone applying modeling techniques to understanding how human societies shape, and are shaped by the environments we inhabit.
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Revolt
Published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University.The Pueblo Revolt of 1680 is the most renowned colonial uprisings in the history of the American Southwest. Traditional text-based accounts tend to focus on the revolt and the Spaniards' reconquest in 1692--completely skipping over the years of indigenous independence that occurred in between.Revoltboldly breaks out of this mold and examines the aftermath of the uprising in colonial New Mexico, focusing on the radical changes it instigated in Pueblo culture and society.In addition to being the first book-length history of the revolt that incorporates archaeological evidence as a primary source of data, this volume is one of a kind in its attempt to put these events into the larger context of Native American cultural revitalization. Despite the fact that the only surviving records of the revolt were written by Spanish witnesses and contain certain biases, author Matthew Liebmann finds unique ways to bring a fresh perspective toRevolt.
Most notably, he uses his hands-on experience at Ancestral Pueblo archaeological sites--four Pueblo villages constructed between 1680 and 1696 in the Jemez province of New Mexico--to provide an understanding of this period that other treatments have yet to accomplish. By analyzing ceramics, architecture, and rock art of the Pueblo Revolt era, he sheds new light on a period often portrayed as one of unvarying degradation and dissention among Pueblos. A compelling read,Revolt's \"blood-and-thunder\" story successfully ties together archaeology, history, and ethnohistory to add a new dimension to this uprising and its aftermath.
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We Have a Religion
For Native Americans, religious freedom has been an elusive goal. From nineteenth-century bans on indigenous ceremonial practices to twenty-first-century legal battles over sacred lands, peyote use, and hunting practices, the U.S. government has often acted as if Indian traditions were somehow not truly religious and therefore not eligible for the constitutional protections of the First Amendment. In this book, Tisa Wenger shows that cultural notions about what constitutes \"religion\" are crucial to public debates over religious freedom.In the 1920s, Pueblo Indian leaders in New Mexico and a sympathetic coalition of non-Indian reformers successfully challenged government and missionary attempts to suppress Indian dances by convincing a skeptical public that these ceremonies counted as religion. This struggle for religious freedom forced the Pueblos to employ Euro-American notions of religion, a conceptual shift with complex consequences within Pueblo life. Long after the dance controversy, Wenger demonstrates, dominant concepts of religion and religious freedom have continued to marginalize indigenous traditions within the United States.
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Chaco's Northern Prodigies
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 Chaco's ascendancy.
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Seeking the center place : archaeology and ancient communities in the Mesa Verde region
The continuing work of the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center has focused on community life in the northern Southwest during the Great Pueblo period (AD 1150– 1300). Researchers have been able to demonstrate that during the last Puebloan occupation of the area the majority of the population lived in dispersed communities and large villages of the Great Sage Plain, rather than at nearby Mesa Verde. The work at Sand Canyon Pueblo and more than sixty other large contemporary pueblos has examined reasons for population aggregation and why this strategy was ultimately forsaken in favor of a migration south of the San Juan River, leaving the area depopulated by 1290.
Contributors to this volume, many of whom are distinguished southwestern researchers, draw from a common database derived from extensive investigations at the 530-room Sand Canyon Pueblo, intensive test excavations at thirteen small sites and four large villages, a twenty-five square kilometer full-coverage survey, and an inventory of all known villages in the region. Topics include the context within which people moved into villages, how they dealt with climatic changes and increasing social conflict, and how they became increasingly isolated from the rest of the Southwest.
Seeking the Center Place is the most detailed view we have ever had of the last Pueblo communities in the Mesa Verde region and will provide a better understanding of the factors that precipitated the migration of thousands of people.
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Religious Transformation in the Late Pre-Hispanic Pueblo World
The mid-thirteenth century AD marks the beginning of tremendous social change among Ancestral Pueblo peoples of the northern US Southwest that foreshadow the emergence of the modern Pueblo world. Regional depopulations, long-distance migrations, and widespread resettlement into large plaza-oriented villages forever altered community life. Archaeologists have tended to view these historical events as adaptive responses to climatic, environmental, and economic conditions. Recently, however, more attention is being given to the central role of religion during these transformative periods, and to how archaeological remains embody the complex social practices through which Ancestral Pueblo understandings of sacred concepts were expressed and transformed.The contributors to this volume employ a wide range of archaeological evidence to examine the origin and development of religious ideologies and the ways they shaped Pueblo societies across the Southwest in the centuries prior to European contact. With its fresh theoretical approach, it contributes to a better understanding of both the Pueblo past and the anthropological study of religion in ancient contexts This volume will be of interest to both regional specialists and to scholars who work with the broader dimensions of religion and ritual in the human experience.
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RECOMENDACIÓN 2. SALUD INTERCULTURAL: INCLUSIÓN DE LOS CONOCIMIENTOS, PRÁCTICAS Y SABERES ANCESTRALES DE LOS PUEBLOS INDÍGENAS Y COMUNIDADES LOCALES (PiCl)
Los pueblos indígenas y comunidades locales (PiCl) poseen conocimientos, prácticas y saberes ancestrales que incluyen una amplia variedad de dimensiones, entre las que se pueden destacar la espiritualidad, la biodiversidad territorial y cultural, la interdependencia y la reciprocidad. Estos valores relacionales vinculados a la naturaleza pueden integrarse a lo que hoy se denomina Una Salud, un enfoque integrador y comprensivo que articula la salud de las personas, los animales y los ecosistemas (Cediel-Becerra et al., 2022; Pollowitz et al., 2024; Riley et al., 2021). Estos conocimientos y prácticas de salud y conservación de la biodiversidad desarrollados por diferentes PiCl de todo el mundo han evolucionado a lo largo del tiempo, transmitiéndose de boca en boca y a través de prácticas comunitarias arraigadas en los territorios. Desafortunadamente, tales conocimientos están en peligro de extinción debido a los rápidos cambios que afectan a las PiCl, lo que supone una gran amenaza para su rescate, estudio y difusión. Con algunas excepciones, la mayoría de las políticas públicas, no solo no apoyan estos conocimientos, prácticas y saberes ancestrales, sino que impiden o dificultan su conservación. Las lenguas indígenas contienen conocimientos esenciales para la protección y conservación a largo plazo de ecosistemas clave. Además, expresan la identidad, diversidad y cosmovisión de sus pueblos, lo que es fundamental para la sostenibilidad y conservación de la biodiversidad, beneficiando a todas las formas de vida (UN, 2023). Indigenous peoples and local communities (IPLCs) possess ancestral knowledge, practices and wisdom that include a wide variety of dimensions, including spirituality, territorial and cultural biodiversity, interdependence and reciprocity. These relational values linked to nature can be integrated into what is now called One Health, an integrative and comprehensive approach that articulates the health of people, animals and ecosystems (Cediel-Becerra et al., 2022; Pollowitz et al., 2024; Riley et al., 2021). This knowledge and practices of health and biodiversity conservation developed by different PiCl around the world have evolved over time, being transmitted by word of mouth and through community practices rooted in the territories. Unfortunately, such knowledge is in danger of extinction due to the rapid changes affecting PiCl, which poses a great threat to their rescue, study and dissemination. With some exceptions, most public policies not only do not support these ancestral knowledge, practices and wisdoms, but also prevent or hinder their preservation. Indigenous languages contain essential knowledge for the long-term protection and conservation of key ecosystems. In addition, they express the identity, diversity and cosmovision of their peoples, which is fundamental for the sustainability and conservation of biodiversity, benefiting all forms of life (UN, 2023).
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Seashells and sound waves: modelling soundscapes in Chacoan great-house communities
Humans inhabit rich social and physical worlds and archaeology is increasingly engaging with the multi-sensory experience of life in the past. In this article, the authors model the soundscapes of five Chacoan communities on the Colorado Plateau, where habitation sites cluster around monumental great houses. The work demonstrates that the audible range of a conch-shell trumpet blown from atop these great houses consistently maps the distribution of associated habitation sites. Staying within the audible reach of great houses may have helped maintain the social cohesion of communities in the past which, the authors argue, also has implications for the management of archaeological landscapes in the modern world.
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