Great House Architectural Variability Across Time and Space
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7897263 |
|---|---|
| Authors | R M Van Dyke (0000-0002-4839-7962, Colorado College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 69 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 117-139 |
| Publication date | 2003-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | KIVA (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0023-1940 • E-ISSN: 2051-6177 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00231940.2003.11758488 |
| OpenAlex | W2479821048 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 22 |
| References cited | 14 |
The broad similarities that allow for the definition and recognition of great house architecture at sites throughout the greater San Juan Basin strongly suggest the form is not the product of independent invention. How and why were great houses built in outlier communities? What does the appearance of great house architecture suggest for relationships between outliers and Chaco Canyon, and for the social structure of the outlier communities themselves? As part of my dissertation research (Van Dyke 1998, 1999) I conducted a comparative architectural study designed to address these questions. In this paper, I revisit the original study, using 188 cases from an expanded database developed by participants in the Chaco World meeting. Variables compared among the outlier cases include geographic location, distance from Chaco Canyon, size, room count, kiva/room ratio, and presence/absence of great kivas, roads, earthworks, core-and-veneer masonry, and elevated kivas. Not surprisingly, Bonito style architectural attributes are found to co-occur in the Chacoan core area during the Late Pueblo II period. Landscape modifications and multiple great kivas represent the Chacoan package later in time and further afield. Most interestingly, core-and-veneer masonry and kiva/room ratios are found to exhibit significant, patterned distributions in both time and space. An absence of core-and-veneer masonry, together with a high kiva/room ratio, emerge here as a useful way to set boundaries on the geographic scope of Chacoan influence
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The wrong Middle Places? Chaco Canyon and the Mimbres Mogollon
The Great Abandonment
“The Daylight World”
The ancient Puebloan Southwest
The migrations continue
Finding Posi
The AD 1200s
Agriculture and community in Chaco Canyon
Lidar-Derived Road Profiles
Ancestral Pueblo Archaeology
Archaeological aerial thermography
Ancient Puebloan Southwest
Processing Into the Past
From great kivas to great houses
Pilgrimage as costly signal
How Many People Lived in the Chaco Regional System, and Why It Matters
Local or Distant
The case for schismogenesis between Late Developmental Northern Rio Grande and Chacoan communities in Northern New Mexico
History and Process in Village Formation
Crossing Comb Ridge
Great Houses, Shrines, and High Places
Chaco & Hohokam
Great Pueblo architecture of Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
Chacoan and Local Inftuences in Three Great House Communities in the Northern San Juan Region
The study of material culture today
The Chaco Connection
The Chacoan Great Kiva in Outlier Communities
The Family Tree of Chaco Canyon Masonry
Ritual and Mound Formation during the Bonito Phase in Chaco Canyon
Sacred Earthen Architecture in the Northern Southwest
| Unique citing works | 22 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2004 - 2025 (22) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |