TY - JOUR
T1 - The Dendrochronology of Palluche Canyon, Dinétah
AU - Ababneh, Linah N.
AU - Towner, Ronald H.
AU - Prasciunas, Mary M.
AU - Porter, Karen T.
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Acknowledgments. The authors thank Dennie Bowden Ill for his help in confirming the tree-ring dates, Sus an Stinson for providing the photographs and slides for the seminar talk, and Dave Grow, Cindy Baker, Pat Baird, and Jim Parks for their field help. Our thanks also to James Copeland of the New Mexico Bureau of Land Management, Hugh Rogers of Farmington, New Mexico, and Sara Schlanger of the Museum ofNew Mexico, Santa Fe, for their generous help in locating the sites and their enlightening conversations on the trip. Malcolm Hughes and the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research at the University of Arizona provided financial support for the class field trip, and their belief in the value of research-based education is much appreciated. Finally, the comments and editorial suggestions of JeffDean, Steve Nash, and Jim Copeland are much appreciated. Any errors of fact or interpretation, however, are the sole responsibility of the authors.
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PY - 2000/12/1
Y1 - 2000/12/1
N2 - The ancestral Navajo homeland of Dinétah in northwestern New Mexico contains hundreds, if not thousands, of Navajo archaeological sites that date from the A.D. 1500S through the late 1700s. A subset of these sites, known as pueblitos, are masonry structures located in defensible positions on boulder tops, mesa rims, and other topographically isolated settings. This paper presents dendrochronological data from the newly discovered site of Twine House (Kin T'łooł), confirms the provenance of samples collected in the 1950s from the site of 42 Pueblito, and re-evaluates all tree-ring data from every sampled pueblito site in Palluche Canyon, a major tributary of Cañon Largo in the heart of Dinétah. The spatial and temporal aspects of the pueblito sites suggest that Palluche Canyon was colonized, depopulated, and re-occupied by a kin-based group of eighteenth-century Navajos, possibly similar to the ethnographically documented Navajo “outfit.”.
AB - The ancestral Navajo homeland of Dinétah in northwestern New Mexico contains hundreds, if not thousands, of Navajo archaeological sites that date from the A.D. 1500S through the late 1700s. A subset of these sites, known as pueblitos, are masonry structures located in defensible positions on boulder tops, mesa rims, and other topographically isolated settings. This paper presents dendrochronological data from the newly discovered site of Twine House (Kin T'łooł), confirms the provenance of samples collected in the 1950s from the site of 42 Pueblito, and re-evaluates all tree-ring data from every sampled pueblito site in Palluche Canyon, a major tributary of Cañon Largo in the heart of Dinétah. The spatial and temporal aspects of the pueblito sites suggest that Palluche Canyon was colonized, depopulated, and re-occupied by a kin-based group of eighteenth-century Navajos, possibly similar to the ethnographically documented Navajo “outfit.”.
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U2 - 10.1080/00231940.2000.11758432
DO - 10.1080/00231940.2000.11758432
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0009876280
VL - 66
SP - 267
EP - 289
JO - The Kiva
JF - The Kiva
SN - 0023-1940
IS - 2
ER -