ANTHROP 3401 Lecture 8: Chaco Canyon Case Study
16 Feb 2017
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February: chaco canyon, pueblo archaeology of the 11th and 12th centuries, maize, beans, squash and locally available flora, deer, rabbits, hares, rodents and turkey, peak population = 5 10,000, fewer residents ritual contexts. Pueblo bonito: 700 rooms and 40 kivas, 4 5 stories, 300 years (ad 850 1125, population, origin of food for the builders. Lagomorpha natural history: black-tailed and white-tailed jackrabbits; snowshoe hare, home range: < 2 km2, dispersals: < 2 km, non-obligate drinker, desert, mountain and eastern cottontails, home range: < 1 km2, dispersals: < 1 km, non-obligate drinker. Pueblo bonito archaeofauna: 15 deer, 10 rabbits/hares, 10 prairie dogs, material dates to ad 850 1150, materials provided by w. wills, unm and chaco museum. 18o sourcing: in teeth and bone reflect the elevation where the animal foraged, methods, sample prep, all material pretreated with clean column chemistry for sr, gas ratio mass spectrometer.
