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Further Investigations at the Puerco Site, Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona
The report documents the results of archaeological excavations in 1967 undertaken at the Puerco Site in Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona. These excavations were designed to verify the determinations of previous excavations concerning the age and length of occupation of the site which consistes of a 125 room, trapezoidal pueblo made up of four connecting wings enclosing a courtyard or plaza. Previous excavations had been limited to 11 rooms in the southwestern corner of the ruin and a kiva near the western wing. The return to the Puerco site in 1967 led to the exposure of 15 more surface rooms and the excavation of a kiva and a pit house. Each room is individually described. The results of this work essentially corroborates the earlier determinations in placing the site no earlier than A. D. 1100 and no later than A. D. 1400. However, a hiatus in the use of the site is tentatively defined with two periods of occupation from A. D. 1100 to A. D. 1200 and between A. D. 1300 and A. D. 1400. A substantial number of restorable or potentially restorable vessels recovered in the new excavations are described in a detail ceramic analysis and form the basis of the chronological interpretation.
Further Investigations at the Puerco Site, Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona
The report documents the results of archaeological excavations in 1967 undertaken at the Puerco Site in Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona. These excavations were designed to verify the determinations of previous excavations concerning the age and length of occupation of the site which consistes of a 125 room, trapezoidal pueblo made up of four connecting wings enclosing a courtyard or plaza. Previous excavations had been limited to 11 rooms in the southwestern corner of the ruin and a kiva near the western wing. The return to the Puerco site in 1967 led to the exposure of 15 more surface rooms and the excavation of a kiva and a pit house. Each room is individually described. The results of this work essentially corroborates the earlier determinations in placing the site no earlier than A. D. 1100 and no later than A. D. 1400. However, a hiatus in the use of the site is tentatively defined with two periods of occupation from A. D. 1100 to A. D. 1200 and between A. D. 1300 and A. D. 1400. A substantial number of restorable or potentially restorable vessels recovered in the new excavations are described in a detail ceramic analysis and form the basis of the chronological interpretation.
Further Investigations at the Puerco Site, Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona
C. H. Jennings (author) / D. L. France (author)
1980
198 pages
Report
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English
El «Painted Desert & Petrified Forest», centro turístico, en Arizona (U. S. A.)
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