The Archaeology and History of Pueblo San Marcos

Laboratory of Anthropology note, 1981

A Museum of New Mexico MNM Project ; no. 70.08 ; 2417008. San Juan Housing Project Archaeological testing revealed no significant cultural manifestations. Occupants are thought to have been involved in agriculture. LA 13812 is a Coalition-period site (A.D. 1300). Test excavations (Archaeology) Tewa Indians Cortical flakes Pedernal chert Pottery analysis Pottery types Corrugated pottery Rio Grande White ware pottery types Tewa Polychrome pottery Abiquiu Black-on-gray pottery Bandelier Black-on-gray pottery Glaze E pottery Glaze F pottery Potsuwi'i Incised pottery Sankawi Black-on-cream pottery Santa Fe Black-on-white pottery Sapawe Micaceous Washboard pottery Wiyo Black-on-white pottery Ironstone pottery Bottle glass Coalition period AD 1300 Historic period 19th century Rio Arriba County (N.M.) Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo (N.M.) LA 13812 LA 31877

2019

Over the past five years, the University of Colorado, along with the Pueblo of Pojoaque and the Colorado Archaeological Society, have been analyzing the ceramics collected by Fred Wendorf at Cuyamugue Pueblo (LA38) and Florence Hawley Ellis at Pojoaque Pueblo (LA61) in the 1950s. Just through visual macroscopic analyses and measurements, we have been able to learn about changes in occupation of these two pueblos, changes in standards of living or household wealth, incorporation of Spanish foods and products, food preparation and cooking practices, and changes in style over time. Specifically, we have been able to quantitatively assess changes in material conditions of life through tabulating changes in the ratio of fine-wares to cooking-wares, as well as identifying and tabulating trade wares. With regards to incorporation of Spanish products, we have been able to track the adoption and incorporation of wheat and other Spanish foods into the Pueblo diet, through analyzing and quantifying changes in vessel form and use-wear through time. This paper will present the methods and findings from these analyses, highlighting the potentials for gaining new knowledge by re-visiting and re-analyzing old collections with new questions.

KIVA, 2014

This paper traces migration and social adaptation in the northern Ancestral Pueblo Southwest during the thirteenth to sixteenth centuries from the perspective of continuities and changes in the structure of ceramic design. During the Coalition period cultural continuities are recorded in the patterns and structures between McElmo B/W and Santa Fe B/W and between Mesa Verde B/W and Galisteo B/W. Migrants from the Four Corners initially continued making their homeland decorative styles in their new homes on the Rio Grande. The designs, constructed by one-dimensional bifold rotation, are structural metaphors for the multiple reciprocities that organized kin relationships in the unit pueblo communities of their Four Corners homeland. Subsequently, during the Classic period coincident with the construction of large plaza-oriented towns there is a structural shift to finite design organization that, like designs in the earlier pithouse horizon, signals the adaptive role of the household as the self-sufficient mobile subsistence and social unit. This shift has also been observed in architecture and subsistence activities.

Laboratory of Anthropology note, 1983

Museum of New Mexico MNM Project ; no. 41.316 (70.22) La Bajada Excavation Project Excavation of a small agricultural fieldhouse of the Pueblo IV period. Evidence for seasonal, short-term use. Archaeological surveying Excavations (Archaeology) Pueblo Indians Keresan Indians Agriculture, Prehistoric Limited occupation sites Pueblo architecture Fieldhouses Lithic analysis Pottery analysis Temper (Pottery) analysis Pottery types Glaze A pottery Glaze E Polychrome pottery San Clemente Glaze Polychrome pottery Puaray Glaze Polychrome pottery Cieneguilla Glaze-on-yellow pottery Pueblo IV period AD 1300-1425 Santa Fe County (N.M.) La Bajada (N.M.) Mesita de Juana Lopez (N.M.) La Bajada Site (N.M.) La Cieneguilla Site (N.M.) LA 7 LA 16 LA 35281

Laboratory of Anthropology note, 1978

Museum of New Mexico MNM Project ; no. 64.04. Scanlon and Associates, Incorporated [sponsoring body] Santa Fe Land Wastewater Project "Five Historic sites consisting of two seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Spanish Colonial ranchos and three post-1900 Spanish homestead sites." Archaeological surveying Historical archaeology Waste disposal sites Ancestral Pueblo culture Pueblo Indians Lithic analysis Flaked stone artifacts Pottery types Kotyiti Glaze Red pottery Ogapoge Polychrome pottery Archaic period Pueblo III period Pueblo IV period Pueblo V period Spaniards Hispanic Americans Ranchos Homesteads Torreons Corrals Pottery Historic period Spanish Colonial period 17th century 18th century 20th century Cieneguilla Grant Santa Fe River (N.M.) Santa Fe County (N.M.) Cieneguilla (N.M.) LA 16691 LA 16692 LA 16693 LA 16769 LA 16773

Laboratory of Anthropology note, 1987

Buffalo Curve Project Museum of New Mexico MNM Project ; no. 41.378 New Mexico State Highway Department [sponsoring body] 2 maps are redacted Spanish Colonial trash dump site. Possible remains of the village of San Antonio de Los Poblanos and the history of the region and peoples settling the area is examined. Excavations (Archaeology) Historical archaeology Archival research Lithics Chipped stone artifacts Glass artifacts Metal artifacts Worked bone artifacts Pottery analysis Temper (Pottery) Animal remains (Archaeology) Faunal analysis Mexicans -- Mexico -- Puebla (State) Mexicans -- New Mexico -- Bernalillo County Land settlement patterns Plazas Plazas -- New Mexico -- Albuquerque -- History Pottery types Los Poblanos Polychrome pottery Ranchitos Polychrome pottery Los Ranchos Polychrome pottery Majolica Textile fabrics -- New Mexico -- History Acoma Indians Keresan Indians Keresan Indians -- New Mexico -- Santa Ana Pueblo Tewa Indians Pueblo pottery Cochiti pottery Puname pottery Tewa pottery Historic period Spanish Colonial period 18th century AD 1710-1770 Puebla (Mexico : State) -- History Bernalillo County (N.M.) Albuquerque (N.M.) San Antonio de Los Poblanos (N.M.) LA 46635

Laboratory of Anthropology note, 1973

Report on the excavation of Pueblo Alamo (LA 8), a single-story pueblo with three kivas dated through dendrochronology and pottery analysis. Dendrochronology dates the pueblo to 1200-1300 AD. Pueblo Alamo Project Excavations (Archaeology) Ancestral Pueblo culture Pueblo Indians Pueblos Pueblo architecture Surface architecture Kivas Adobe brick Plans Lithic analysis Projectile points Bone artifacts Pottery analysis Pueblo pottery Galisteo Black-on-white pottery Santa Fe Black-on-white pottery Kwahe'e Black-on-white pottery Archaeological dating Dendrochronology Coalition period AD 1200-1300 Santa Fe County (N.M.) Galisteo Basin (N.M.) Pueblo Alamo (N.M.) LA 8