Landscape and Social Scale at Goodman Point, Hovenweep National Monument, Southwestern Colorado

Coffey, Grant

doi:10.1179/kiv.2010.76.1.003

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“…Varien (1999) examined the spatial relationship of contemporaneous large, aggregated community centers and defined three cost km catchments: (1) a 2 cost km radius to capture “intensive cultivation and regular interaction among community members” (155), (2) a 7 cost km radius used to procure wild food and nonfood resources, and (3) an 18 cost km radius identifying the maximum extent of regular round trip travel by a household to a community center for religious and economic activity. Recent literature has primarily focused on the 2 cost km extent to assess social relationships in the upland U.S. Southwest (Bernardini and Peeples 2015; Coffey 2010; Crabtree 2015; Hill et al 2015; Lipe and Ortman 2000; Mahoney et al 2000; Murrell and Unruh 2016; Varien and Potter 2008). This catchment size is useful for understanding potential social relationships that existed between clusters of households, but the measurement is a necessarily static number representing what was inevitably a dynamic process (Schachner 2015).…”

Section: Community In the Mesa Verde Regionmentioning

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Dynamic Communities on the Mesa Verde Cuesta

2019

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This article systematically and quantitatively characterizes interaction dynamics and community formation based on changes in spatial patterns of contemporaneous households. We develop and apply a geospatial routine to measure changing extents of household interaction and community formation from AD 600 to 1280 on the Mesa Verde cuesta in southwestern Colorado. Results suggest that household spatial organization was shaped simultaneously by the maintenance of regular social interaction that sustained communities and the need for physical space among households. Between AD 600 and 1200, households balanced these factors by forming an increased number of dispersed communities in response to population growth and variable environmental stressors. However, as population rebounded after the megadrought of the mid-1100s, communities became increasingly compact, disrupting a long-standing equilibrium between household interaction and subsistence space within each community. The vulnerabilities created by this change in community spatial organization were compounded by a cooler climate, drought, violence, and changes in political and ritual organization in the mid-1200s, which ultimately culminated in the complete depopulation of the Mesa Verde cuesta by the end of the thirteenth century.

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Section: Community In the Mesa Verde Regionmentioning

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2019

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“…The average Theissen polygon area for great kivas was 80 km², less than half of the same area for great kivas constructed during the Pueblo I period. This is likely due, in part, to an increased population concentrating in parts of the study area near productive agricultural land; however the close spacing of great kivas likely also reflects increased inter-community ties that were historically and/or opportunistically situated (Coffey, 2010;Lipe, 2002;Varien et al, 2007). The reduction in space between structures during the early Pueblo II period indicates groups and local leaders were coming into close contact, perhaps expressing the need to compete with others for influence at the local level.…”

Section: Late Pueblo II (Ad 1060 To 1140)mentioning

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A spatial analysis of civic-ceremonial architecture in the central Mesa Verde Region, United States

Coffey

Ryan

2017

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology

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This study analyzes the spatial and temporal patterning of civic-ceremonial structures in the central Mesa Verde region of the northern Southwest to assess changing patterns of leadership in Pueblo society. Great kivas, as the most ubiquitous and persistent form of Pueblo public architecture in the area prior to A.D. 1280, provide a durable means of assessing community membership and for analyzing how the introduction of other civic-ceremonial buildings may reflect shifts in public space and leadership strategies over time. It is suggested here that great kivas represent a fundamental and enduring symbol of community group assembly that underwent changes over time, the most profound of which occurred in the final decades prior to migration from the area in the late A.D. 1200s. The overall constellation of civic-ceremonial structures over time indicates altering leadership strategies just prior to the depopulation of the region.

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“…Adler and Varien (1994) and Coffey et al (2011) have identified this vicinity as a small community, integrated through the Harlan Great Kiva. However, more recent research by Coffey andCopeland (2009, 2011) have suggested that prior to A.D. 1250, the Harlan Great Kiva may have actually been a smaller structure, possibly a pit structure. This would not suggest that there was no organization within the area.…”

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Chacoan Roadways in the Goodman Point Region in Southwest Colorado

Davis

2017

KIVA

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Landscape and Social Scale at Goodman Point, Hovenweep National Monument, Southwestern Colorado

Cited by 6 publications

References 5 publications

Dynamic Communities on the Mesa Verde Cuesta

Dynamic Communities on the Mesa Verde Cuesta

A spatial analysis of civic-ceremonial architecture in the central Mesa Verde Region, United States

Chacoan Roadways in the Goodman Point Region in Southwest Colorado

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