Mimbres Mogollon Archaeology: Charles C. Di Peso's Excavations at Wind Mountain (Amerind Foundation Archaeology)

1289 Pages·1996·16.36 MB·English

by  Anne I. Woosley

Mimbres Mogollon Archaeology : Charles
C. Di Peso's Excavations At Wind Mountain
title:
Amerind Foundation, Inc. Archaeology
Series ; No. 10
author: Woosley, Anne I.; McIntyre, Allan J.
publisher: University of New Mexico
isbn10 | asin: 0826316743
print isbn13: 9780826316745
ebook isbn13: 9780585256795
language: English
Wind Mountain Site (N.M.) , Mimbres
culture--Gila River Region (N.M. and Ariz.)
, Indians of North America--Commerce--
subject Gila River Region (N.M. and Ariz.) ,
Indians of North America--Gila River
Region (N.M. and Ariz.)--Antiquities,
Excavations (Archaeology)
1995
1995
publication date:
lcc: E99.M76W66 1996eb
ddc: 979.1/7
Wind Mountain Site (N.M.) , Mimbres
culture--Gila River Region (N.M. and Ariz.)
, Indians of North America--Commerce--
subject: Gila River Region (N.M. and Ariz.) ,
Indians of North America--Gila River
Region (N.M. and Ariz.)--Antiquities,
Excavations (Archaeology)
Page i
NUMBER TEN IN THE
Amerind Foundation, Inc.
Archaeology Series
Page v
Mimbres Mogollon Archaeology
Charles C. Di Peso's Excavations at Wind Mountain
Anne I. Woosley and Allan J. Mcintyre
Page vii
Contributors
Madeleine J.M. Hinkes
Gerald K. Kelso
Charmion R. McKusick
Charles H. Miksicek and Patricia L. Fall
Sandra J. Olsen and John W. Olsen
Edward J. Pasahow
Robert S. Sternberg and Randall H. McGuire
James B. Stoltman
Illustrations by Ronald J. Beckwith
Photographs by Robin Stancliff
© 1996 by the Amerind Foundation, Inc.
All rights reserved.
First edition
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Woosley, Anne I.
Mimbres mogollon archaeology: Charles C. Di Peso's excavations at Wind Mountain / Anne
I. Woosley and Allan J. McIntyre. 1st ed.
p. cm. (Amerind Foundation, Inc. archaeology series; no. 10)
1. Wind Mountain Site (N.M.).
2. Mimbres culture Gila River Region (N.M. and Ariz.).
3. Indians of North America Commerce Gila River Region (N.M. and Ariz.).
4. Indians of North America Gila River Region (N.M. and Ariz.) Antiquities.
5. Excavations (Archaeology) Gila River Region (N.M. and Ariz.).
6. Gila River Region (N.M. and Ariz.) Antiquities.
I. McIntyre, Allan J. II. Title. III. Series.
E99.M76W66 1996
979.1'7 dc20 95 4395
CIP
Page ix
Our understanding is not an illusion: it is ambiguous. This ambiguity is
present in all our views of works from other civilizations and even when we
contemplate works from our own past. We are not Greeks, Chinese, or Arabs;
yet neither can we say that we fully comprehend Romanesque or Byzantine
sculpture. We are condemned to translate, and each of these translations,
whether it be of Gothic or Egyptian art, is a metaphor, a transmutation of the
original.
OCTAVIO PAZ, The Art of Mexico: Material and Meaning
Page xi
Contents
List of Figures xiii
List of Tables xvii
Acknowledgments xix
Introduction 1
Wind Mountain and the Gran Chichimeca 1
Cultural Dynamics in an Economic Framework 2
History of Work 4
Volume Organization 4
Chapter I 7
Background to Research: Explorations and
Archaeological Investigations
Early Explorations 7
Archaeological Work of the Upper Gila Region 8
The Upper Gila in Relation to Nearby Regions 9
Wind Mountain and Mogollon Archaeology 10
Chapter 2 11
Wind Mountain and Its Environs
Geology 11
Soils 11
Climate 12
Water Resources 15
Vegetation 17
Fauna 17
Chapter 3 19
Chronological Considerations
Tree-Ring Analysis 19
Obsidian Hydration Results 20
Radiocarbon Dating 21
Archaeomagnetic Date Ranges 21
Evaluating the Temporal Placement of Structures 23
Period and Phase Designations 29
Regional Mogollon Chronologies 34
Summary Remarks 39
Chapter 4 41
Wind Mountain Architecture
Part 1: Definition and Detail
Secular Domestic Structures 41
Community Structures 48
Secondary Architectural Features 56
Discussion and Interpretations 63
Architectural Development and Donor-Recipient 74
Contact
Part 2: Architectural Units of the Wind Mountain Site 75
Descriptions and Primary Internal Stratigraphy 75
Organization of Data 75
Pit Structures of the Wind Mountain Locus 76
Surface (And Semisubterranean) Rooms of the Wind 128
Mountain Locus
Pit Structures of the Ridout Locus 143
Chapter 5 151
Introduction to Material Culture: Approach to Typology
Chapter 6 155
Ceramics
Origin of Mogollon Ceramics 155
Wind Mountain Pottery 156
The Wind Mountain Sherd Assemblage 186
Whole and Fragmentary Vessels from Wind Mountain 192
Miscellaneous Ceramic Objects 194
Exogenous Ceramics 199
Wind Mountain Ceramic Assemblage Discussion 204
Wind Mountain Ceramics in Regional Perspective 207
Chapter 7 211
The Lithic Assemblage: Ground and Chipped Stone
Ground Stone 211
Chipped Stone 225
Discussion and Summary Remarks 228
Chapter 8 245