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

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AUTOR(ES) W.H. Wills , T.C. Windes
ANO 1989
TIPO Article
PERIÓDICO American Antiquity
ISSN 0002-7316
E-ISSN 2325-5064
EDITORA Cambridge University Press
DOI 10.2307/281711
CITAÇÕES 30
ADICIONADO EM 2025-08-18
MD5 8d402d6154006328b863a0380ada8653
FORMATO PDF

Resumo

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.

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