In the 1100s most Pueblo peoples lived in small, dispersed settlements
and moved frequently, but by the mid-1400s they had aggregated into
large villages. The majority of these villages were still occupied at
Spanish contact and conquest, by which time most Pueblo peoples had
completely transformed their perception and experience of village life.
Other changes were taking place on a broader regional scale, and the
migrations from the Colorado Plateau and the transformation of Chaco
initiated myriad changes in ritual organization and practice.
Landscapes of Social Transformation in the Salinas Province and the
Eastern Pueblo World investigates relationships between diverse
regional and local changes in the Rio Grande and Salinas areas from 1100
to 1500 C.E. The contributing authors draw on the results of sixteen
seasons of archaeological survey and excavation in the Salinas Province
of central New Mexico. The chapters offer cross-scale analyses to
compare broad perspectives in well-researched southwestern culture
changes to the finer details of stability and transformation in Salinas.
This stability--which was unusual in the Pueblo Southwest--from the
1100s until its abandonment in the 1670s provides an interesting
contrast to migration-based transformations studied elsewhere in the Rio
Grande region.
CONTRIBUTORS
Patricia Capone
Matthew Chamberlin
Tiffany C. Clark
William M. Graves
Cynthia L. Herhahn
Deborah Huntley
Keith Kintigh
Ann Kinzig
Jeannette L. Mobley-Tanaka
Alison E. Rautman
Jonathan Sandor
Grant Snitker
Julie Solometo
Katherine A. Spielmann
Colleen Strawhacker
Maryann Wasiolek
