Papers by Jamie Merewether
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2015
Conference Presentations by Jamie Merewether
In this paper, we explore temporal and spatial patterns present in the material culture of the Go... more In this paper, we explore temporal and spatial patterns present in the material culture of the Goodman Point Community. The Goodman Point area of southwestern Colorado was home to ancestral Pueblo peoples from the A.D. 600s until depopulation of the broader region around A.D. 1280. Recent laboratory analyses by the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center have produced a large data set for the later Goodman Point Community, including data on over 150,000 sherds and 50,000 lithic artifacts primarily dating from the A.D. 1000s through A.D. 1280. In this paper, we discuss this robust assemblage focusing on types of artifacts, including pottery, pottery tempering materials, stone tools, and exotic materials. We then evaluate both contemporaneous and diachronic artifact patterns to assess social connections within the community and to other peoples further afield. These patterns are compared to other material signatures recorded for contemporary communities in the region, including the Sand Canyon Community.
In 2016, the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center (Crow Canyon) began a new multiyear project—the No... more In 2016, the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center (Crow Canyon) began a new multiyear project—the Northern Chaco Outliers Project (NCOP)—which focuses on the Haynie site, a Chaco outlier in the central Mesa Verde region of southwestern Colorado (Ryan 2016).
During the first field season, our goal was to assess specific characteristics of the Haynie site through surface archaeology, which included analysis of pottery and chipped-stone artifacts from systematic “dog-leash” collection units across the 5-acre site as well as from specific contexts disturbed by previous, nonsystematic investigations. We used pottery data to assess site-wide temporal and spatial patterning, and we also examined the proportions of local vs. nonlocal lithic raw materials as well as origin locations for nonlocal lithic materials.
Although the visible architecture is characteristic of the Pueblo II period (A.D. 900 ̶ 1150), our surface-based pottery analysis indicates much greater time depth; the pottery types present suggest continuous occupation of the site from the Basketmaker III (A.D. 500 ̶ 750) through the Pueblo III (A.D. 1150 ̶ 1300) periods.
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Papers by Jamie Merewether
Conference Presentations by Jamie Merewether
During the first field season, our goal was to assess specific characteristics of the Haynie site through surface archaeology, which included analysis of pottery and chipped-stone artifacts from systematic “dog-leash” collection units across the 5-acre site as well as from specific contexts disturbed by previous, nonsystematic investigations. We used pottery data to assess site-wide temporal and spatial patterning, and we also examined the proportions of local vs. nonlocal lithic raw materials as well as origin locations for nonlocal lithic materials.
Although the visible architecture is characteristic of the Pueblo II period (A.D. 900 ̶ 1150), our surface-based pottery analysis indicates much greater time depth; the pottery types present suggest continuous occupation of the site from the Basketmaker III (A.D. 500 ̶ 750) through the Pueblo III (A.D. 1150 ̶ 1300) periods.
During the first field season, our goal was to assess specific characteristics of the Haynie site through surface archaeology, which included analysis of pottery and chipped-stone artifacts from systematic “dog-leash” collection units across the 5-acre site as well as from specific contexts disturbed by previous, nonsystematic investigations. We used pottery data to assess site-wide temporal and spatial patterning, and we also examined the proportions of local vs. nonlocal lithic raw materials as well as origin locations for nonlocal lithic materials.
Although the visible architecture is characteristic of the Pueblo II period (A.D. 900 ̶ 1150), our surface-based pottery analysis indicates much greater time depth; the pottery types present suggest continuous occupation of the site from the Basketmaker III (A.D. 500 ̶ 750) through the Pueblo III (A.D. 1150 ̶ 1300) periods.