Research on the Pueblo culture settlement system from the North American Southwest: Results of the Sand Canyon-Castle Rock Community Archaeological Project
Research on the Pueblo culture settlement system from the North American Southwest: Results of the Sand Canyon-Castle Rock Community Archaeological Project

Summary/Abstract: investigating ancient Pueblo culture from the North American Southwest is challenging task involving coopera- tion of scientists from different disciplines, mainly archaeology, history, anthropology, and linguistics. There is also a large body of information in native oral tradition that has enormous potential for enriching our knowledge of the past and our understanding of how Pueblo societies functioned. the paper focuses on one of the most intriguing periods of Pueblo indians culture, the thirteenth century A.d., in the central mesa Verde region on present Utah-Colorado border. it was the time of great development of Pueblo societies and close to the century fall of the settlement system and total migration from the area to what is present-day Arizona and New Mexico. One of the projects in the area is Sand Canyon-Castle Rock Community Archaeological Project. The project focuses on analysis and reconstruction of the settlement structure and socio-cultural changes that took place in Pueblo culture during the thirteenth century A.d. in Sand Canyon, rock Creek Canyon and several other small canyons located in one subarea within the mesa Verde region, Colorado.

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