Prehistoric Pueblo Organization, Goodman Point Locality, Southwestern Colorado

在这个项目中，利普博士和布拉德利博士将继续他们的 在McElmo的Goodman Point地区的考古研究 科罗拉多南部的一个地区。除了众多的表面 分散和较小的网站，这个地区包含沙峡谷 普韦布洛，公元世纪的一个大型定居点。这显然 单组分单层围墙场地有250-300个表面 房间，约90个基瓦斯，至少14座塔楼，几个非正式广场 和至少一个相关联的贮存器。显然这是一个中央 专注于该地区。在一个季节的实地调查中， 调查人员将继续在沙峡谷遗址进行挖掘， 测量周围7.5公里的区域，并在两个较小的 这些遗址可以追溯到稍早的时期。 古德曼角地区，在此期间形成了一个离群值， 以新墨西哥州为中心的查科文化。这 统一了西南部大部分地区的文化 美国似乎发展得很快， 消失了虽然在这方面已经做了大量的工作， 查科地区的心脏地带，更不用说发生在 边远地区。这个项目应该提供洞察如何 这种复杂的、空间上延伸的文化产生了， 然后拒绝了它将提供一个社会政治和 经济组织。 人类学家感兴趣的是导致 发展我们这样的复杂社会。考古 数据，因为它们提供了长期的视角， 对这个问题的独特见解。

In this project Drs. Lipe and Bradley will continue their archaeological research in the Goodman Point region of the McElmo district in Southern Colorado. In addition to numerous surface scatters and smaller sites, this area contains the Sand Canyon Pueblo, a large 13th century A.D. settlement. This apparently single-component single-story walled site has 250-300 surface rooms, ca 90 kivas, at least 14 towers, several informal plazas and at least one associated reservoir. Clearly it was a central focus for the region. During one season of field research, the investigators will continue excavation at the Sand Canyon site, survey the 7.5 km surrounding area, and excavate at two smaller sites which date from a slightly earlier period in time. The Goodman Point region, during this period formed an outlier of the Chacoan culture which was centered in New Mexico. This culture which unified a large portion of the Southwest U.S.A. seems to have developed quickly and then rapidly disappeared. Although a great deal of work has been done in the heartland of the Chacoan region, much less has taken place in the outlying regions. This project should provide insight into how this complex, spatially extended culture arose, was maintained and then declined. It will provide a model of sociopolitical and economic organization. Anthropologists are interested in the process which leads to the development of complex societies such as our own. Archaeological data, because of the long term perspective they provide, offer a unique insight into this question.