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Tewa Worlds: An Archaeological History of Being and Becoming in the Pueblo Southwest
University of Arizona Press, 2020
https://uapress.arizona.edu/book/tewa-worlds Tewa Worlds tells a history of eight centuries of the Tewa people, set among their ancestral homeland in northern New Mexico. Bounded by four sacred peaks and bisected by the Rio Grande, this is where the Tewa, after centuries of living across a vast territory, reunited and forged a unique type of village life. It later became an epicenter of colonialism, for within its boundaries are both the ruins of the first Spanish colonial capital and the birthplace of the atomic bomb. Yet through this dramatic change the Tewa have endured and today maintain deep connections with their villages and a landscape imbued with memory and meaning. Anthropologists have long trekked through Tewa country, but the literature remains deeply fractured among the present and the past, nuanced ethnographic description, and a growing body of archaeological research. Samuel Duwe bridges this divide by drawing from contemporary Pueblo philosophical and historical discourse to view the long arc of Tewa history as a continuous journey. The result is a unique history that gives weight to the deep past, colonial encounters, and modern challenges, with the understanding that the same concepts of continuity and change have guided the people in the past and present, and will continue to do so in the future. Focusing on a decade of fieldwork in the northern portion of the Tewa world—the Rio Chama Valley—Duwe explores how incorporating Pueblo concepts of time and space in archaeological interpretation critically reframes ideas of origins, ethnogenesis, and abandonment. It also allows archaeologists to appreciate something that the Tewa have always known: that there are strong and deep ties that extend beyond modern reservation boundaries.
The University of Arizona, 2013
This study analyzes the vernacular architecture of ancestral Pueblo kivas dating from the Pueblo II (A.D. 900-1150) and Pueblo III (A.D. 1150-1300) periods in the northern, middle, and southern San Juan regions in the American Southwest in order to shed light on communities of practice and their social, temporal, and spatial production practices. This research specifically examines kivas--or round rooms used for ritual and domestic activities--to address how architecture, as a symbolic system, emphasized the ways in which sign-objects were actively mediated by communities of practice and how their semiotic signatures can shed light on material expressions of ancestral Pueblo group identity. The theoretical perspectives used within this study are influenced by the work of educators and anthropologists analyzing the processes by which knowledge and skills are learned and transmitted from one generation to the next--these processes are responsible for the continuity of all material culture. This study adopts a community of practice approach to analyzing ancestral Pueblo kiva architecture for two primary reasons. First, the continuity of all material culture--including architecture--depends on the processes by which knowledge and skills are learned and transmitted from one generation to the next. Second, architectural production is an additive technology in which variations in learning frameworks are encoded as choices made by production groups during construction. The methodological applications used within this study are crucial to the identification and analysis of communities of practice in that additive vernacular architectural forms are encoded with learned production techniques. Learned production techniques were materially manifested as unique modes of fabrication and were recognized as the semiotic signatures of particular communities of practice. This study is the seedling from which larger research may germinate, providing insights into large-scale anthropological processes including identity formation and maintenance, population movement, the psychological effects of population aggregation, the nature and extent of social networks, the transmission and practice of learning, the production and movement of material culture, and the development and dissolution of political and ritual organization.
Laboratory of Anthropology note, 1972
This preliminary report is on the partial excavation of two sites: LA 10703, Basketmaker III, and LA 8243, a large Pueblo III site. The final report was published subsequently as follows: Peckham, Stewart and William C. Allen. Archaeological excavations at LA 8243 and LA 10703 near Mitten Rock, San Juan County, New Mexico (Laboratory of Anthropology note ; no. 448). Santa Fe, New Mexico : Laboratory of Anthropology, 1990. For this final report, see the Laboratory of Anthropology Library record: https://library.indianartsandculture.org/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=9569 Salvage archaeology Excavations (Archaeology) Pit houses Pueblo architecture Room blocks Quarries and quarrying Lithic analysis Flaked stone artifacts Ground stone artifacts Pottery analysis Chuska Gray ware pottery Bennett Gray pottery Blue Shale Corrugated pottery Brimhall Black-on-white pottery Burnham Black-on-white pottery Captain Tom Corrugated pottery Chuska Black-on-white pottery Crozier Black-on-white pottery Drolet Black-on-white pottery Gray Hills Banded pottery Hunter Corrugated pottery Naschitti Black-on-white pottery Nava Black-on-white pottery Newcomb Corrugated pottery Newcomb Black-on-white pottery Pena Black-on-white pottery Sheep Springs Gray ware pottery Taylor Black-on-white pottery Theodore Black-on-white pottery Toadlena Black-on-white pottery Tocito Gray ware pottery Tunicha Black-on-white pottery Utility ware pottery Trade ware pottery Prehistoric sandals Precontact period Basketmaker III period La Plata phase Pueblo III period Navajo Nation, Arizona, New Mexico & Utah San Juan County (N.M.) Mitten Rock Pueblo (N.M.) LA 8243 LA 10703