The Effects of Environment and Culture on the Distribution of Prehistoric Dwellings at Chimney Rock Mesa, Colorado
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5292560 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dale R Lightfoot (corresponding author), Frank W Eddy |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 159 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 291 |
| Publication date | 1993-11-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geographical Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-7398 • E-ISSN: 1475-4959 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3451279 |
| OpenAlex | W2313539007 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 3 |
This study examines the roles of cultural change, social status, and natural resources in influencing both the siting and occupance of prehistoric (10th-12th century) pit house and pueblo dwellings in the Chimney Rock Archaeological Area (CRAA) in south-western Colorado. The study first demonstrates a prominent bimodal clustering of riverine pit house and mesa-top pueblo settlements, and then presents a number of hypotheses to account for the eleventh century pit house to pueblo transition which resulted in these disparate dwelling distributions. It is concluded that: indigenous social factors (population growth and craft specialization) initiated the housing transition; on-going population increase and the arrival of colonists from nearby Chaco Canyon by the mid-eleventh century perpetuated the building of upland dwellings; and the thin soil layer of the mesa top restricted construction to only surface pueblos, which contrasted spatially with the older pit houses of the lower alluvial plain
Archaeology · Chimney (locomotive · Distribution (mathematics · Geography · Mesa · Meteorology · Mining engineering · Prehistory · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies · Geology · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies
| Citations per year | 0.08 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2013 - 2013 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |