Title Constructing community : the archaeology of early villages in central New Mexico / Alison E. Rautman

Published Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource Contents Interpreting Archaeological Village Sites -- Village and Community -- Pithouse Period -- Jacal Period -- Early Pueblo Period -- The Glaze A Pueblos -- Pueblo Communities and Regional Interaction -- Constructing Community in Early Salinas Villages Summary "In central New Mexico, tourists admire the majestic ruins of old Spanish churches and historic pueblos at Abo, Quarai, and Gran Quivira in Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument. The less-imposing remains of the earliest Indian farming settlements, however, have not attracted nearly as much notice from visitors or from professional archaeologists. In Constructing Community, Alison E. Rautman synthesizes over twenty years of research about this little-known period of early sedentary villages in the Salinas region. Rautman tackles a very broad topic: how archaeologists use material evidence to infer and imagine how people lived in the past, how they coped with everyday decisions and tensions, and how they created a sense of themselves and their place in the world. Using several different lines of evidence, she reconstructs what life was like for the ancestral Pueblo Indian people of Salinas, and identifies some of the specific strategies that they used to develop and sustain their villages over time. Examining evidence of each site's construction and developing spatial layout, Rautman traces changes in community organization across the architectural transitions from pithouses to jacal structures to unit pueblos, and finally to plaza-oriented pueblos. She finds that, in contrast to some other areas of the American Southwest, early villagers in Salinas repeatedly managed their built environment to emphasize the coherence and unity of the village as a whole. In this way, she argues, people in early farming villages across the Salinas region actively constructed and sustained a sense of social community"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Pueblo Indians -- New Mexico -- Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument Region -- Antiquities Pueblo Indians -- Dwellings -- New Mexico -- Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument Region -- History Pueblo Indians -- New Mexico -- Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument Region -- Social life and customs Farmers -- New Mexico -- Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument Region -- History Excavations (Archaeology) -- New Mexico -- Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument Region Villages -- New Mexico -- Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument Region -- History Community life -- New Mexico -- Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument Region -- History Architecture, Domestic -- New Mexico -- Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument Region -- History Social archaeology -- New Mexico -- Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument Region SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Archaeology. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General. Antiquities Architecture, Domestic Community life Excavations (Archaeology) Farmers Pueblo Indians -- Antiquities Pueblo Indians -- Dwellings Pueblo Indians -- Social life and customs Social archaeology Villages SUBJECT Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument Region (N.M.) -- Antiquities Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 0816598657 9780816598656

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