Heartland of the Early Pueblos:

Wilshusen, Richard H.; Ortman, Scott G.; Diederichs, Shanna; Glowacki, Donna M.; Coffey, Grant

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“…Crucible of Pueblos offers a wide-ranging overview of the period, but the chapters most immediately useful for someone working in the Mesa Verde region are the summary chapters on the three Mesa Verde subregions, with the Eastern Mesa Verde covered by key ALP researchers (Potter et al 2012), the Central subregion synthesized by Wilshusen, Ortman, Diederichs, Glowacki, and Coffey (2012), and the Western subregion covered by Allison et al (2012). These chapters bring together comprehensive updates and pay even greater attention to the differences across the Mesa Verde region from the late Basketmaker through the early Pueblo period than was possible in the earlier context chapters (Wilshusen 1999a(Wilshusen , 1999b or in this update.…”

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“…With the widespread adoption of an agricultural lifeway sometime between A.D. 300 and 500, there was a demographic transition that led to a rapid rise in population both from the intrinsically higher population growth rates of early sedentary agricultural societies Wilshusen and Perry 2008) Wilshusen 2009). As population continued to grow and as competition and conflicts over resources increased (Wilshusen and Potter 2010), more and more dispersed communities experimented with gathering into villages of a hundred or more people (Wilshusen, Ortman, Diederichs, Glowacki, and Coffey 2012). In addition to shared security, villages appear to have offered other public goods such as shared leadership, powerful rituals, the redistribution of scarce commodities in times of need, and communal hunts (Kantner 2012;Kohler and Reed 2011;Kohler et al 2012).…”

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How Agriculture Took Hold in the Mesa Verde Region: A Review of Recent Research on the Late Basketmaker-Early Pueblo Periods (A.D. 500-920)

Wilshusen¹

2018

Reviews in Colorado Archaeology

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Major research projects and significant publications over the last two decades have fundamentally reframed our understanding of the Basketmaker III and Pueblo I periods in the Mesa Verde region. Whereas the last state historic context summaries for these periods, which were published in 1999, focused on the specifics of chronology building, site type definitions, settlement patterning, and other nuts and bolts issues, recent advances in database software and an increasing emphasis on regional research have turned our attention to the larger issues of how agriculture took hold and thereafter transformed the landscape north of the San Juan River. The relatively low populations and small-scale horticultural economies of the Basketmaker II period virtually disappeared between A.D. 500 and 600, to be replaced by a more intensive maize-dependent agricultural economy centered on large communities. The rapid expansion of early Pueblo agricultural settlements across the Mesa Verde region and the subsequent formation of large villages were in part fueled by the accelerating population growth that came with agricultural dependence. In turn, the late ninth-century breakup of these large villages contributed to population migration to the south of the San Juan River and the tenth-century emergence of what ultimately became the Chaco great house system. This review updates the 1999 Basketmaker III and Pueblo I overviews.

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How Agriculture Took Hold in the Mesa Verde Region: A Review of Recent Research on the Late Basketmaker-Early Pueblo Periods (A.D. 500-920)

Wilshusen¹

2018

Reviews in Colorado Archaeology

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“…By the early AD 700s, Upper San Juan groups were participating in panregional ceramic and architectural traditions similar to neighboring groups. This changed in the mid-AD 700s as dramatic organizational changes began west of the Upper San Juan-in the Mesa Verde region-that redefined households, communities, and social power across a vast area (Wilshusen et al 2012). Communities were transformed from scattered homesteads with residential pit structures, surface storage buildings, and accessible kivas to aggregated pueblo villages with surface level residential apartments and kivas with restricted access.…”

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“…This conflict eventually led to Upper San Juan populations moving east and south while groups in the La Plata and Dolores areas within the Mesa Verde region and closest to the Upper San Juan moved west (Eddy 1966(Eddy , 1974Potter et al 2012). People eventually left the Mesa Verde villages by the late AD 800s (Wilshusen et al 2012). Some stayed in the northern and western portions of the Mesa Verde region, but many went south (Coffey 2006;Windes and Van Dyke 2012).…”

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Identity is an Infinite Now: Being Instead of Becoming Gallina

Borck

Simpson

2017

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Archaeological research on the Gallina (AD 1100-1300) inhabitants of the region west of the Rio Chama and centered on the Llaves valley has focused on constructing a culture history and examining functional characteristics of artifacts and architecture. Limited research has attempted to understand who the residents of the Gallina heartland were. In this article, using new findings and historical contexts, we argue that the Gallina people had a complicated identity forged around resistance and a deep connection to their past. To better understand them we need to move past previous binary categories used to describe them and perceive them not as isolated or connected, aggressors or victims, traditionalists or innovators, but as an intersectional mix of these axes of identity. La investigación arqueológica sobre los habitantes Gallina (1100-1300 d. C.) de la región oeste del Río Chama, focalizada en el valle de Llaves, se orientó en la construcción de una historia cultural y el análisis de las características funcionales de los artefactos y la arquitectura. De hecho, han sido escasas las investigaciones que han intentado entender quiénes eran los residentes del Gallina. En este artículo, utilizando nuevos hallazgos y contextos históricos, argumentamos que los grupos Gallina tuvieron una identidad compleja, forjada en torno a la resistencia y a una profunda conexión con su historia. Asimismo, para entenderlas necesitamos movernos más allá de las tradicionales categorías binarias usadas para interpretarlos y percibirlos como aislados o conectados, violentos o víctimas, tradicionalistas o inventores, y en cambio, como una mezcla que abarca todos estos ejes de identidad.

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“…This expansion may reflect the evolution of maize varieties that were better-adapted to the colder and drier climate of the Colorado Plateau (Matson 1991). As a result, by AD 800 the regional population had increased to at least 5,000 (Schwindt, et al 2016; Varien, et al 2007; Wilshusen, et al 2012; Wilshusen and Ortman 1999).…”

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Demographic and Social Dimensions of the Neolithic Revolution in Southwest Colorado

Ortman

Diederichs

Schleher

et al. 2016

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Domesticated food production is widely acknowledged as a crucial innovation that led to significant transformations in human demography and social organization. Here, we address demographic and social dimensions of the Neolithic Revolution in the Mesa Verde region of Southwest Colorado. We first propose a new method of dating habitations to one of two phases of the Basketmaker III period (AD 600–725) using relative frequencies of vessel forms in pottery assemblages. Then we adapt this method to new survey and excavation data from Indian Camp Ranch to investigate demographic processes behind the formation of Mesa Verde Pueblo society. Finally, we investigate the distribution of agricultural storage space across Basketmaker III households to investigate the development of private property during this period. Our results indicate that both in-migration and intrinsic growth were involved in the formation of Mesa Verde pueblo society; that agricultural households initially clustered around public architecture but became increasingly dispersed over time; and that household agricultural outputs took the form of a log-normal distribution typical of societies with private property rights. Collectively, these findings provide evidence that private property rights co-evolved with the commitment to agriculture and settled communities in Southwest Colorado, as researchers have suggested for other world areas.

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Heartland of the Early Pueblos:

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How Agriculture Took Hold in the Mesa Verde Region: A Review of Recent Research on the Late Basketmaker-Early Pueblo Periods (A.D. 500-920)

How Agriculture Took Hold in the Mesa Verde Region: A Review of Recent Research on the Late Basketmaker-Early Pueblo Periods (A.D. 500-920)

Identity is an Infinite Now: Being Instead of Becoming Gallina

Demographic and Social Dimensions of the Neolithic Revolution in Southwest Colorado

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