Dating Fill Deposits and Pithouses in the Mimbres Area Through Two Ceramic Seriation Techniques

An Example from the Lake Roberts Vista Site

Bibliographic Data

ID5982304
AuthorsRobert J Stokes (University of Oklahoma, corresponding author)
Year2000
Volume65
Issue3
Pages235-251
Publication date2000-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueKIVA (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0023-1940 • E-ISSN: 2051-6177
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00231940.2000.11758410
OpenAlexW2476907877
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited11

This paper discusses the results of analysis conducted on Mimbres ceramics from the Lake Roberts Vista site, LA 71877, Gila National Forest, New Mexico. Two related Mimbres pottery seriation techniques, one broad-scale and the other fine-scale, were used to date pithouse fill deposits in the absence of radiometric dates. The study found that the two seriation techniques were useful for placing fill deposits and pit structures into period and phase categories, and that the fine-scale seriation apparently delineated smaller units of time within these broader categories. The benefits and potential problems of such an approach to dating archaeological fill deposits are discussed. I suggest that the microseriation technique is useful because it provides a way to date pit structures when chronometric dates are not available and delineates possible clusters of contemporaneously occupied structures at pithouse villages

Archaeology · Art · Cartography · Geography · Period (music · Pottery · Radiometric dating · Scale (ratio · Seriation (archaeology · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies · Geology · Paleontology · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology

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