Keywords

Pueblo, agriculture, settlements

Abstract

Between A.D. 650 and 950, there was a near total reorganization of society in the northern Southwest. In some areas, intensive agriculture, high population growth rates, and large villages appeared. In others, diverse mixes of subsistence strategies enabled the creation of aggregated communities and semi-sedentary settlements within the same landscape. A third pattern of high mobility and seasonal use of smaller settlements defined much of the periphery. In many areas, people pursuing more than one of these patterns resided simultaneously. We propose that the patterns established by A.D. 800 were integral in the shaping of later Pueblo history.

Original Publication Citation

Richard Wilshusen, Gregson Schachner, and James R. Allison 2012 Social Variability in the Emergence of the Pueblo World. Poster presented at the 77th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Memphis, Tennessee.