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{"title":"The Colorado Delta, 1771–1776: Rereading Francisco Garcés","authors":"Peter M. Whiteley","doi":"10.1080/00231940.2023.2267943","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00231940.2023.2267943","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractThe ethnohistory of the Colorado River delta has been substantively misunderstood, owing to the widespread neglect and/or misinterpretations of the writings of Francisco Garcés. In 1771, 1774, and 1775–1776, Garcés undertook three entradas into the delta, and wrote a series of valuable ethnographic accounts. Not only have Garcés’s locations and routes frequently been misidentified by earlier scholars, his observations on agricultural production and population size have been ignored or marginalized, enabling misconceptions about delta historical demography and adaptation to flourish. The present paper seeks to restore Garcés’s accounts, making his locations and ethnographic observation intelligible and interpretable, and to show how these can help resolve extant misconceptions. Part I focuses on some key texts, tying his locations to a master map. Part II focuses on ethnolinguistic groups and settlement sites, discusses the implications for a better understanding of historical demography and agricultural adaptation in the delta.La etnohistoria del delta del río Colorado ha sido sustancialmente malinterpretada, debido al descuido generalizado y/o malas interpretaciones de los escritos de Francisco Garcés. En 1771, 1774 y 1775-76, Garcés realizó tres entradas al delta y escribió una serie de valiosos relatos etnográficos. No solo las ubicaciones y rutas de Garcés han sido identificadas erróneamente con frecuencia por académicos anteriores, sino que sus observaciones sobre la producción agrícola y el tamaño de la población han sido ignoradas o marginadas, lo que permite que florezcan conceptos erróneos sobre la demografía histórica del delta y la adaptación. El presente artículo busca restaurar los relatos de Garcés, haciendo inteligibles e interpretables sus ubicaciones y observaciones etnográficas, y mostrar cómo estas pueden ayudar a resolver conceptos erróneos existentes. La Parte I se enfoca en algunos textos clave, vinculando sus ubicaciones a un mapa maestro. La Parte II se centra en los grupos etnolingüísticos y los sitios de asentamiento, analiza las implicaciones para una mejor comprensión de la demografía histórica y la adaptación agrícola en el delta.KEYWORDS: Colorado deltaYumanethnohistorydemographyadaptationSpanish explorationindigenous interrelationsAnza expedition AcknowledgmentsArchival and field research into Garcés’s writings since 2010 has been supported by the Ogden Mills Fund, Division of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History. I am most grateful to archivists at the following institutions: Bancroft Library (Berkeley), University of Arizona Special Collections Library (Tucson), Office of Ethnohistorical Research, Arizona State Museum (Tucson), Newberry Library (Chicago), Huntington Library (San Marino, CA), University of New Mexico Library Center for Southwest Research (Albuquerque), Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas (Austin), Library of Congress Manuscript Division (Washington D.C","PeriodicalId":44778,"journal":{"name":"Kiva-Journal of Southwestern Anthropology and History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135267613","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"No Place for a Lady: The Life Story of Archaeologist Marjorie F. Lambert <i>No Place for a Lady: The Life Story of Archaeologist Marjorie F. Lambert</i> by Shelby Tisdale, 229 pp., 29 illustrations, Acknowledgments, Abbreviations, Appendices, Notes, Bibliography, Index. The University of Arizona Press, Tucson. 2023. $30.00(Paperback). ISBN 978-0-8165-4971-9","authors":"Michelle M. Ensey","doi":"10.1080/00231940.2023.2255964","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00231940.2023.2255964","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44778,"journal":{"name":"Kiva-Journal of Southwestern Anthropology and History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136063810","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Colorado Delta, 1771–1776: Rereading Francisco Garcés","authors":"Peter M. Whiteley","doi":"10.1080/00231940.2023.2259258","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00231940.2023.2259258","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractThe ethnohistory of the Colorado River delta has been substantively misunderstood, owing to the widespread neglect and/or misinterpretations of the writings of Francisco Garcés. In 1771, 1774, and 1775–76, Garcés undertook three entradas into the delta, and wrote a series of valuable ethnographic accounts. Not only have Garcés’s locations and routes frequently been misidentified by earlier scholars, his observations on agricultural production and population size have been ignored or marginalized, enabling misconceptions about delta historical demography and adaptation to flourish. The present paper seeks to restore Garcés’s accounts, making his locations and ethnographic observations intelligible and interpretable, and to show how these can help resolve extant misconceptions. Part I focuses on some key texts, tying his locations to a master map. Part II focuses on ethnolinguistic groups and settlement sites, and discusses the implications for a better understanding of historical demography and agricultural adaptation in the delta.La etnohistoria del delta del río Colorado ha sido mal entendida debido al descuido generalizado y/o malas interpretaciones de los escritos de Francisco Garcés. En 1771-1776, Garcés emprendió tres entradas al delta y escribió varios relatos valiosos. Pero las ubicaciones y rutas de Garcés han sido frecuentemente identificadas erróneamente por estudiosos anteriores, y sus observaciones sobre la agricultura y la población han sido ignoradas o marginadas, lo que ha permitido que florezcan conceptos erróneos sobre la demografía histórica y la adaptación del delta. Este artículo busca restaurar los relatos de Garcés, hacer inteligibles sus ubicaciones y observaciones, y mostrar cómo estos pueden ayudar a resolver conceptos erróneos existentes. La parte I se centra en algunos textos clave. La Parte II se centra en los grupos etnolingüísticos y los sitios de asentamiento, y analiza las implicaciones para una mejor comprensión de la demografía histórica y la adaptación agrícola en el delta.KEYWORDS: EthnohistoryYumanColorado deltapopulationagricultureSpanish explorationIndigenous interrelationsAnza expedition AcknowledgmentsArchival and field research into Garcés’s writings since 2010 has been supported by the Ogden Mills Fund, Division of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History. I am most grateful to archivists at the following institutions: Bancroft Library (Berkeley), University of Arizona Special Collections Library (Tucson), Office of Ethnohistorical Research, Arizona State Museum (Tucson), Newberry Library (Chicago), Huntington Library (San Marino, CA), University of New Mexico Library Center for Southwest Research (Albuquerque), Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas (Austin), Library of Congress Manuscript Division (Washington D.C.), National Anthropological Archives (Suitland, MD), Archivo General de Indias (Seville), Real Biblioteca (Madrid), Historical Archives, OFM (Rome), Bri","PeriodicalId":44778,"journal":{"name":"Kiva-Journal of Southwestern Anthropology and History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135590845","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Bonito Paleochannel in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico: Recent Research and Implications for Causality and Effects","authors":"W. H. Wills, Katharine Williams, Patricia L. Crown, Wetherbee Dorshow","doi":"10.1080/00231940.2023.2258322","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00231940.2023.2258322","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractDuring the late eleventh century AD, a episode of erosion in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, threatened to destroy portions of the Pueblo Bonito great house and possibly other large buildings. Known as the Bonito Paleochannel, this large arroyo meant the loss of significant amounts of surface water from valley-wide flooding originating in upstream and tributary sources. We believe that erosion was probably the result of an increasing size and frequency of floods. There is no compelling evidence that agriculture was affected by the paleochannel but we hypothesize that great house construction became extremely difficult. Consequently, the impact of the Bonito Paleochannel cycle may have been felt most in the political economy.A fines del siglo XI d. C., un episodio de erosión en el Cañón del Chaco, Nuevo México, amenazó con destruir partes de la gran casa de Pueblo Bonito y posiblemente otros edificios grandes. Conocido como el Paleocanal Bonito, este gran arroyo significó la pérdida de cantidades significativas de agua superficial debido a las inundaciones en todo el valle que se originaron en las fuentes río arriba y tributarias. Creemos que la erosión fue probablemente el resultado de un aumento en el tamaño y la frecuencia de las inundaciones. No hay evidencia convincente de que la agricultura se haya visto afectada por el paleocanal, pero planteamos la hipótesis de que la construcción de grandes casas se volvió extremadamente difícil. En consecuencia, el impacto del ciclo Bonito Paleochannel puede haberse sentido más en la economía política.KEYWORDS: Chaco CanyonBonito phasegreat housesBonito Palecochannelarroyo cyclepluvial periodmegadroughtpolitical economy AcknowledgementsField investigations and laboratory analyses were conducted under permits from Chaco Culture National Historical Park, United States National Park Service with funding from the National Science Foundation (BCS 1523224). David W. Love has provided critical geological insight throughout our research program and we have included some of his own original research in our Supplemental Material, but he is in no way responsible for any errors or misunderstandings in this article. Our deepest appreciation to Dabney Ford, Roger Moore and Wendy Bustard, as well as the many students who participated in the fieldwork. The authors are especially grateful to Gary Huckleberry and two anonymous reviewers for exceptionally close readings of the original manuscript and providing important insights and corrections.Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).University of New Mexico People’s Land and Territory AcknowledgementFounded in 1889, the University of New Mexico sits on the traditional lands of the Pueblo of Sandia. Since time immemorial, the original peoples of New Mexico – Pueblo, Navajo and Apache – have deep connections to the land and have made significant contributions to the broader community statewide. We honor the land throughout the g","PeriodicalId":44778,"journal":{"name":"Kiva-Journal of Southwestern Anthropology and History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135592750","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Linda S. Cordell: Innovating Southwest Archaeology <i>Linda S. Cordell: Innovating Southwest Archaeology</i> , edited by Maxine E. McBrinn and Deborah L. Huntley. 176 pp., 112 illustrations, 11 maps, Acknowledgements, Suggested Readings, Contributors Index. Museum of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 2022. $45.00(Jacketed Hardcover). ISBN 978-0-89013-669-0.","authors":"Sandra Arazi-Coambs","doi":"10.1080/00231940.2023.2252172","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00231940.2023.2252172","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44778,"journal":{"name":"Kiva-Journal of Southwestern Anthropology and History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135902772","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Western Ceramic Traditions: Prehistoric and Historic Native American Ceramics of the Western U.S. <i>Western Ceramic Traditions: Prehistoric and Historic Native American Ceramics of the Western U.S.</i> , edited by Suzanne Griset. 224 pp., 19 maps, 25 photographs, 14 charts, 3 drawings, 46 tables, Preface, References, List of Contributors. University of Utah Anthropological Papers Number 135, University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City, 2022, $40.00(Paper). ISBN 9781647690427. eBook available.","authors":"Lori Stephens Reed","doi":"10.1080/00231940.2023.2252171","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00231940.2023.2252171","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44778,"journal":{"name":"Kiva-Journal of Southwestern Anthropology and History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135901557","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Sonora: The Elusive Site, the Debated Name, and Various Designations","authors":"William E. Doolittle, William Steen, José Omar Montoya Ballesteros","doi":"10.1080/00231940.2023.2258305","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00231940.2023.2258305","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractA place named Sonora appears in seventeenth and eighteenth century documents and on later maps. Two sources place this site north of the present-day town of Huépac. Other sources place the site south of Huèpac. All of these sources place it on the east side of the Río Sonora, but use various designations. This paper analyzes documentary, cartographic, and geographic evidence and concludes that there were actually two places named Sonora. One was a relatively late Spanish mining settlement south of Huépac, but on the west side of the river, and known today as San Felipe de Jesús. The other place named Sonora was an ancient Ópata settlement called Sonota located at a spring on the east side of the Río Sonora north of Huépac. Correcting misunderstandings, mispronunciations, misspellings, and differences in Spaniards’ native language fluency over a century point to the river, valley, and state being named after this early site.Un lugar llamado Sonora aparece en documentos de los siglos XVII y XVIII y en mapas posteriores. Dos fuentes ubican este sitio al norte del actual pueblo de Huépac. Otras fuentes sitúan el sitio al sur de Huèpac. Todas estas fuentes lo sitúan en el lado este del Río Sonora, pero usan varias designaciones. Este artículo analiza evidencia documental, cartográfica y geográfica y concluye que en realidad existieron dos lugares denominados Sonora. Uno fue un asentamiento minero español relativamente tardío al sur de Huépac, pero en el lado oeste del río, y conocido hoy como San Felipe de Jesús. El otro lugar llamado Sonora era un antiguo asentamiento Ópata llamado Sonota ubicado en un manantial en el lado este del Río Sonora al norte de Huépac. La corrección de malentendidos, malas pronunciaciones, faltas de ortografía y diferencias en la fluidez del idioma nativo de los españoles durante más de un siglo apunta a que el río, el valle y el estado llevan el nombre de este sitio primitivo.KEYWORDS: SonoraSonotaReal de SonoraSeñoraOjo de AguaHuépacSan Felipe de JesúsRío Sonora Valley AcknowledgmentsWe thank Richard Flint and Adán Benavides for providing valuable translations of, and insights into sixteenth and seventeenth century Spanish documents; Dale Brenneman who helped retrieve a few documents from the Documentary Relations of the Southwest, The University of Arizona; the faculty and staff of the Escuela Secondaria Technica #17 for their gracious hospitality and guidance around the campus; Gayle Hartmann for commenting on an earlier version of this paper; and the reviewers whose insightful comments improved this manuscript.Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 Historical documents contain many different spellings of place names (e.g., Guepaca, Huepaca). Present-day place names are used throughout this article.2 Use of “digo” was standard scribal procedure of the day. It was used for correcting an error at the time of composition in order to guard against falsification (Fl","PeriodicalId":44778,"journal":{"name":"Kiva-Journal of Southwestern Anthropology and History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135581326","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Fuelwood Collection and Women’s Work in Ancestral Puebloan Societies on the Colorado Plateau","authors":"Alan J. Osborn","doi":"10.1080/00231940.2023.2259250","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00231940.2023.2259250","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractAnthropologists have recently paid greater attention to gender and the division of labor in subsistence societies around the world. These studies have included Ancestral Puebloan societies in the United States Southwest, particularly on the Colorado Plateau. Based on ethnographic literature, women in this region have been responsible traditionally for a wide range of domestic activities, including child-rearing, farming, food preparation, cooking, pottery making, basket weaving, and collecting and transporting firewood and water. The present study presents a predictive model for prehistoric cooking energy systems on the Colorado Plateau. This model examines the causal links between environmental variables and fuelwood demand, acquisition, and use. These causal relationships have been delineated in contemporary cross-cultural research as well as studies of high-altitude cooking. Fuelwood collection, transport, and use form the core of women’s workload. This preliminary study serves to predict women’s annual workload based on the relationship between the number of fuelwood collecting trips and the elevation of Ancestral Puebloan settlements.Los antropólogos y arqueólogos han prestado recientemente mayor atención al género y la división del trabajo en las sociedades de subsistencia de todo el mundo. Estos estudios han incluido sociedades ancestrales Puebloan en el suroeste de Estados Unidos, particularmente en la meseta de Colorado. Según la literatura etnográfica, las mujeres de esta región han sido responsables de una amplia gama de actividades domésticas, incluida la crianza de los hijos, la agricultura, la preparación de alimentos, la cocina, la fabricación de cerámica, el tejido de cestas y la recolección y transporte de leña y agua. El presente estudio presenta un modelo explicativo para los sistemas prehistóricos de energía para cocinar en la meseta de Colorado. Este modelo examina los vínculos causales entre la demanda, adquisición y uso de leña basándose en investigaciones interculturales contemporáneas y las exigencias de la cocina a gran altitud.KEYWORDS: Ancestral PuebloColorado Plateauwomenworkloaddivision of laborfuelwoodaltitudecooking time AcknowledgementsI greatly appreciate the support of the following individuals: Melinda Kelly, Ralph J. Hartley, Matt G. Hill, Robert K. Hitchcock, Beth R. Ritter, and Richard L. Taylor. I benefited greatly from the instructive comments of two anonymous reviewers. Special thanks go to Dr. Tom Rocek, Kiva editor, for his diligence, insight, and patience.Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 “In areas of low woody biomass, such as some areas of the Southwest, the availability of wood may have been a significant limiting factor on human behavior. For example, Whiting (Citation1939) suggests that, before the introduction of the mule and wagon, the Hopi had to make do with shrubby wood-producing plants, such as greasewood. With the introduction","PeriodicalId":44778,"journal":{"name":"Kiva-Journal of Southwestern Anthropology and History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135579904","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Cremated Animal Bone Piles in the Western Papaguería","authors":"Richard Martynec, Sandra Martynec","doi":"10.1080/00231940.2023.2258314","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00231940.2023.2258314","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractIn 1985 Julian Hayden reported 95 heaps of cremated animal bones in the Sierra Pinacate. For a variety of reasons, he concluded that the practice was long-lived and unique to that area. He attributed it to the Pinacateño Areneños, an isolated band of Areneños (also known as Hia-Ced O’odham or “Sand Papagos”). Fieldwork in Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge, Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument and the Barry M. Goldwater Range East and West over the last 30 years has located an additional 34 piles of cremated animal bones exactly like those described by Hayden (Figure 1). It is suggested that this practice is indeed long-lived and unique throughout Areneño (Hia-Ced O’odham) territory.En 1985 Julian Hayden reportó 95 montones de huesos de animales cremados en Sierra Pinacate. Por una variedad de razones, concluyó que la práctica era de larga duración y exclusiva de esa área. Lo atribuyó a los Pinacateños Areneños, una banda aislada de Areneños (también conocida como Hia-Ced O'odham o Sand Papagos). El trabajo de campo en el Refugio Nacional de Vida Silvestre Cabeza Prieta, el Monumento Nacional Organ Pipe Cactus y Barry M. Goldwater Range East durante los últimos 30 años ha localizado 34 pilas adicionales de huesos de animales cremados exactamente como los descritos por Hayden. Se sugiere que esta práctica es de hecho longeva y única en todo el territorio areneño (Hia-Ced O'odham o Sand Papago).KEYWORDS: Cremated animal bonesHia-Ced O'odhamSierra PinacateCabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge AcknowledgmentsMany people are responsible for the successful outcome of this project, an unexpected spin off from the general field recording on Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge in Ajo, Arizona. Whereas Assistant Managers Alfredo Soto and Mary Kralovec greatly aided facilitation of the field work and analysis, major credit should go to now retired Manager Sid Slone who “made things happen” when needed. This paper would never have been possible without them. And, extra thanks to Gayle Hartmann and three reviewers whose thoughtful editing made this far more readable.Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).","PeriodicalId":44778,"journal":{"name":"Kiva-Journal of Southwestern Anthropology and History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135858259","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Children in Mimbres Pithouse Society","authors":"Barbara J. Roth, Danielle Romero","doi":"10.1080/00231940.2023.2258317","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00231940.2023.2258317","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractChildren were active participants in past village life and reconstructing their activities and social roles can provide important insights into domestic and economic dynamics at archaeological sites. In this paper, we use data from two excavated pithouse sites in the Mimbres region of southwestern New Mexico and data from cross-cultural studies of children’s activities to explore children’s roles and contributions to Mimbres pithouse society. This work seeks to build on work being done on children and childhood in other regions. Our data show that children were active and productive participants at these sites and their roles extended beyond just economic production.Los niños participaron activamente en la vida antigua de la aldea y la reconstrucción de sus actividades y roles sociales puede proporcionar información importante sobre la dinámica doméstica y económica dentro de los sitios arqueológicos. En este documento, utilizamos la información de dos sitios pithouses (con casas semi-subterraneas) excavados en la región de Mimbres en el suroeste de Nuevo México y datos de estudios interculturales de las actividades infantiles para explorar los roles y las contribuciones que los niños tuvieron dentro de la sociedad pithouse en la región Mimbres. Este trabajo busca adicionar sobre el trabajo que se está realizando sobre los niños y la infancia en otras regiones. Nuestros datos muestran que los niños eran participantes activos y productivos en estos sitios y que sus roles se extendían más allá de solo una producción económica.KEYWORDS: Mimbreschildrenlearning frameworksUS southwest AcknowledgmentsWe thank the many students and volunteers who helped with these projects, especially volunteers from the Grant County Archaeological Society. We thank the Nature Conservancy for granting permission to excavate at La Gila Encantada. Finally, thanks to three anonymous reviewers for their very helpful comments on a previous draft of this article.Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 Many of the pottery vessels with depictions of children are from private collections with limited to no provenience information, so only general inferences can be made from them.2 Burials examined as part of UNLV’s work at the site were done under a burial permit from the State of New Mexico with engagement of relevant tribal groups.Additional informationFundingFunding for fieldwork at the Harris site was provided in part by a grant from the National Science Foundation [#1049434].","PeriodicalId":44778,"journal":{"name":"Kiva-Journal of Southwestern Anthropology and History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135816391","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}