A Basketmaker III Site in Canyon Largo, New Mexico

1944 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 381-385 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank C. Hibben ◽  
Herbert W. Dick
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
Chaco Canyon ◽  
San Juan ◽  
The Past ◽  
Field School ◽  
Mesa Verde ◽  
Four Seasons ◽  
Basketmaker Iii ◽  
Cultural Connections ◽  
The University

One of the activities of the University of New Mexico's 1939 field school at Chaco Canyon was a reconnaissance excavation in the vicinity of Largo Canyon, to the northeast of the Chaco, proper. This was a continuation of the survey and excavations of the past four seasons, as a part of the project for outlining chronologically and geographically the culture known as Gallina. The extent of the Gallina manifestation to the east and south has already been fairly accurately delineated, but its western and northwestern boundaries are unknown. Since the San Juan and Mesa Verde centers lie to the northwest, it was deemed imperative that the cultural connections in that direction be determined. Typical Gallina unit houses are common on the headwaters of the Largo and in the Llegua Canyon area which heads in the same region. The extremely rugged area lying between this district and the San Juan and Mesa Verde region, however, is not only difficult of access, but is practically unknown archaeologically.

Evidence for Population Aggregation and Dispersal during the Basketmaker III Period in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico

1989 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 347-369 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. H. Wills ◽  
Thomas C. Windes
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
Social Organization ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Great Part ◽  
American Southwest ◽  
Chaco Canyon ◽  
Social Unit ◽  
Population Aggregation ◽  
Basketmaker Iii

The appearance of pithouse settlements in the American Southwest that have multihabitation structures has been considered evidence for the emergence of "village" social organization. The interpretation that village systems are reflected in pithouse architecture rests in great part on the assumption that large sites correspond to large, temporally stable social groups. In this article we examine one of the best known pithouse settlements in the Southwest—Shabik’eschee Village in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico—and argue that the site may represent episodic aggregation of local groups rather than a sedentary occupation by a single coherent social unit.

Prehistoric Vegetation and Environment at Chaco Canyon

1988 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 582-592 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen A. Hall
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
Pollen Analysis ◽  
Pollen Grains ◽  
Plant Macrofossils ◽  
Chaco Canyon ◽  
San Juan ◽  
The Holocene ◽  
San Juan Basin ◽  
Pine Trees ◽  
Pinyon Pine

Pollen analysis of woodrat (Neotoma) middens indicates that the local vegetation at Chaco Canyon and the regional vegetation of the San Juan Basin, northwestern New Mexico, have been shrub grassland since at least 10,600 years ago. Plant macrofossils in the same woodrat middens indicate that pinyon pine trees were present in the canyon during much of the Holocene, but low percentages of their pollen grains in both the middens and in adjacent alluvium suggest the trees were few, occurring as small stands or isolated individuals along canyon escarpments. The vegetation at Chaco Canyon during Anasazi times was an arid shrub grassland with a sparse escarpment population of pinyon and juniper. A climate-caused regional increase in pinyon at higher elevation sites occurred approximately at the time of Puebloan abandonment.

Corn Goddesses or Phalli?

1944 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 448-449 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ripley P. Bullen
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
Cross Section ◽  
Chaco Canyon ◽  
Small Unit ◽  
University Of New Mexico ◽  
The University

While attending the 1941 summer field session of the University of New Mexico at Chaco Canyon, the author hired four Navahos and partially excavated a small pueblo site on the talus about one-third of a mile up the valley from Chetro Ketl and on the same side of the wash. A small unit of at least four rooms and two kivas of middle Pueblo III time was indicated.Standing upright on the bottom of the ventilator opening in one of the kivas was found a sandstone phallus measuring 9J inches in height. It was oval in cross-section and measured 8X7 inches at the base. The bottom was irregular, but the rest had been carefully carved and smoothed to represent most realistically the end of a phallus when erect. The specimen is now at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.

Squash-Blossom Headdress in Basket Maker III

1940 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Florence Hawley
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
Chaco Canyon ◽  
La Plata ◽  
University Of New Mexico ◽  
New Information ◽  
Human Figure ◽  
Field Season ◽  
Basket Maker ◽  
The University

Notations on the discovery of a figure of Kokopelli, the hunch-backed flute player, on a Pueblo I sherd in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, and speculations on the place of this figure in the prehistoric pantheon, brought forth a series of items of hitherto unpublished and illuminating data. It is hoped that this note on a second find of a human figure on a sherd in Chaco Canyon may likewise lead to some controversy and new information.This new figure, discovered during the 1937 field season of the University of New Mexico, was that of a woman with squash-blossom headdress, the old fertility symbol of the Hopi maidens. The potsherd was of La Plata Black-on-white, a typical Basket Maker III type, dating probably some time before 700 A.D. Similar figures with the squash-blossom headdress have been noted from time to time as petroglyphs on boulders or on cliff walls in the northern part of the Southwest; but the Chaco sherd provides the best opportunity that I know of for dating this interesting coiffure.

The Rio Rancho Phase: A Preliminary Report on Early Basketmaker Culture in the Middle Rio Grande Valley, New Mexico

1967 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 458-470 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theodore R. Reinhart
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
Preliminary Report ◽  
Rio Grande Valley ◽  
Rio Grande ◽  
San Juan ◽  
Open Site ◽  
Basketmaker Iii ◽  
Middle Rio Grande ◽  
Middle Rio Grande Valley

AbstractA Basketmaker II manifestation is defined from the excavation of an open site northwest of Albuquerque, New Mexico, containing two surface dwellings and a large outside cooking pit. Designated the Rio Rancho phase, this culture is found to have had had affinities to Basketmaker II cultures in the San Juan area and to late Cochise and early Mogollon cultures in southwestern New Mexico and southeastern Arizona. The Alameda phase, an early Basketmaker III manifestation in the same area, is believed to have developed out of the Rio Rancho phase with accretions coming primarily from the San Juan area.

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