Rock Art, Architecture, and Social Groups at the Basketmaker III–Pueblo I Transition: Evidence from the Procession Panel, Southeast Utah

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Abstract

This paper draws on iconographic style, social psychology research, and architectural evidence to suggest that the Procession Panel on Comb Ridge, southeast Utah, provides an accurate depiction of the households within an early Mesa Verde community ca. A.D. 760–800. It argues that the Procession Panel depicts a community in transition, when some households began to reorganize as members of lineages and materialized this relationship by constructing large, multihousehold surface dwellings. However, not all households organized into lineage-scale groups, and these differences between these two kinds of social organization created fault lines where social inequalities could later develop.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)137-161
Number of pages25
JournalKIVA
Volume83
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 3 2017
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Architecture
  • Demography
  • Household archaeology
  • Rock art
  • US Southwest
  • Village formation

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Archaeology
  • Anthropology
  • History
  • Archaeology

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