Mariana Mesa: Seven Prehistoric Settlements in West-Central New Mexico

by Charles R. McGimsey III, J. O. Brew (Foreword by)

Overview

A detailed report on the excavations of, and a comprehensive account and analysis of artifacts and materials from, seven settlements that varied in size from units of one or two families to small communities of several dozen individual houses.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780873651981
Publisher:	Harvard University Press
Publication date:	06/13/1980
Series:	Papers of the Peabody Museum , #72
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	7.60(w) x 10.50(h) x 0.90(d)

Table of Contents

• Foreword J.O. Brew
• Acknowledgments
• Environmental Setting
• Field and Analytic Procedures
• Mariana Mesa, A.D. 850-1300
• A Methodological Approach to the Past: The Descriptive Type
• Prefatory Note
• Archaeological Data

• Site 616
  
  • Description
  • History of the Site
  • Trade Relations and Final Abandonment
  • Dating Considerations
  • Architecture
  • Pottery-Making at Site 616
  • Stone Artifacts
  • Bone Artifacts
  • Minor Crafts
  • Other Contexts and Activities
  • Living and Excavation Units
  • Subsistence Materials
  • Pottery—Descriptive Typology
  • Pottery—Problem Types
  • Other Objects of Clay
  • Stone Artifacts
  • Bone Artifacts
  • Antler Artifacts
  • Shell Artifacts
  • Other Organic Artifacts
  • Raw Materials
  • Human Skeletal Remains from Site 616
  
  
  
  
• Site 143
  
  • Dating Considerations
  • Architecture
  • Subsistence Materials
  • Pottery
  • Other Objects of Clay
  • Stone Artifacts
  • Bone Artifacts
  • Antler Artifact
  • Shell Artifacts
  • Raw Materials
  • Human Skeletal Remains
  
  
  
  
• Site 481
  
  • History
  • Dating Considerations
  • Architecture
  • Living and Excavation Units
  • Subsistence Materials
  • Pottery—Descriptive Typology
  • Pottery—Problem Types
  • Other Objects of Clay
  • Stone Artifacts
  • Bone Artifacts
  • Antler Flaker
  • Shell Artifacts
  • Raw Materials
  • Human Skeletal Remains
  
  
  
  
• Site 494
  
  • Description and History
  • Dating Considerations
  • Living and Excavation Units
  • Subsistence Materials
  • Pottery—Descriptive Typology
  • Pottery—Problem Types
  • Other Objects of Clay
  • Stone Artifacts
  • Bone Artifacts
  • Antler Flaker
  • Shell Artifacts
  • Raw Materials
  • Human Skeletal Remains
  
  
  
  
• Site 188
  
  • The House
  • Dating Considerations
  • Living and Excavation Units
  • Subsistence Materials
  • Pottery—Descriptive Typology
  • Pottery—Problem Types
  • Stone Artifacts
  • Bone Artifacts
  • Shell Artifacts
  • Organic Artifacts and Raw Materials
  
  
  
  
• Site 486
  
  • Dating Considerations
  • Living and Excavation Units
  • Subsistence Materials
  • Pottery—Descriptive Typology
  • Pottery—Problem Types
  • Stone Artifacts
  • Antler Flaker(?)
  
  
  
  

• Sandstone Hill Pueblo
• Appendix A: Pottery Description for All Sites
• Appendix B: Tree-Ring Specimens
• Appendix C: Corn
• References