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Alfred Vincent Kidder

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Description:In 1915 the Trustees of Phillips Academy, at the suggestion of Dr. Roland B. Dixon of Harvard University, and Dr. Hiram Bingham of Yale University, acting as Advisory Committee to the Trustees, for the Department of Archaeology of the Academy, on the foundation of the late Robert Singleton Peabody, determined to undertake excavations in the Pueblo area. It was desired to select a field of operations large enough, and of sufficient scientific importance, to justify work upon it for a number of years. The author was invited to carry out the investigation and to submit proposals as to a site. After the consideration of a number of ruins, Pecos was recommended.The Pecos ruins lie on the headwaters of the Pecos river in San Miguel County, New Mexico (see map, fig. 4, p. 38); they are the remains of a large Pueblo Indian town, whose people figured prominently in New Mexican history from the time of the first arrival of the Spaniards in 1540, down to the final abandonment of the place in 1838. There was thus a recorded occupation of practically three centuries; and the archaic type of much of the broken pottery that lay scattered about the mounds indicated that Pecos had been inhabited for a great many years before the coming of Europeans. There is, indeed, no known ruin in the Southwest which seems to have been lived in continuously for so long a period. This was a most important consideration, because it gave rise to the hope that remains would there be found so stratified as to make clear the development of the various Pueblo arts, and thus enable us to place in their proper chronological order many other Southwestern ruins whose culture had long been known, but whose time-relations one to another were still problematical. Furthermore, Pecos had been a very large pueblo, and had occupied a commercially strategic position near the edge of the buffalo plains; for this reason it might be expected to have attracted to itself a part at least of any trade which entered the Southwest from other areas, and objects characteristic of those areas were likely to be found in the graves or in the stratified rubbish _ heaps at Pecos, thus providing evidence as to the chronology of cultures well outside the Pueblo region. From the point of view of specimens also the site was a favorable one, because its large cemeteries had never been despoiled, and the graves promised a rich harvest of skeletal material and mortuary offerings. Lastly, the survivors of Pecos had taken refuge at the pueblo of Jemez, where their immediate descendants were still living; and investigations among these people could hardly fail to reveal much of value as to the language, customs, and ceremonies of the old town.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF SOUTHWESTERN ARCHAEOLOGY. To get started finding AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF SOUTHWESTERN ARCHAEOLOGY, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: In 1915 the Trustees of Phillips Academy, at the suggestion of Dr. Roland B. Dixon of Harvard University, and Dr. Hiram Bingham of Yale University, acting as Advisory Committee to the Trustees, for the Department of Archaeology of the Academy, on the foundation of the late Robert Singleton Peabody, determined to undertake excavations in the Pueblo area. It was desired to select a field of operations large enough, and of sufficient scientific importance, to justify work upon it for a number of years. The author was invited to carry out the investigation and to submit proposals as to a site. After the consideration of a number of ruins, Pecos was recommended.The Pecos ruins lie on the headwaters of the Pecos river in San Miguel County, New Mexico (see map, fig. 4, p. 38); they are the remains of a large Pueblo Indian town, whose people figured prominently in New Mexican history from the time of the first arrival of the Spaniards in 1540, down to the final abandonment of the place in 1838. There was thus a recorded occupation of practically three centuries; and the archaic type of much of the broken pottery that lay scattered about the mounds indicated that Pecos had been inhabited for a great many years before the coming of Europeans. There is, indeed, no known ruin in the Southwest which seems to have been lived in continuously for so long a period. This was a most important consideration, because it gave rise to the hope that remains would there be found so stratified as to make clear the development of the various Pueblo arts, and thus enable us to place in their proper chronological order many other Southwestern ruins whose culture had long been known, but whose time-relations one to another were still problematical. Furthermore, Pecos had been a very large pueblo, and had occupied a commercially strategic position near the edge of the buffalo plains; for this reason it might be expected to have attracted to itself a part at least of any trade which entered the Southwest from other areas, and objects characteristic of those areas were likely to be found in the graves or in the stratified rubbish _ heaps at Pecos, thus providing evidence as to the chronology of cultures well outside the Pueblo region. From the point of view of specimens also the site was a favorable one, because its large cemeteries had never been despoiled, and the graves promised a rich harvest of skeletal material and mortuary offerings. Lastly, the survivors of Pecos had taken refuge at the pueblo of Jemez, where their immediate descendants were still living; and investigations among these people could hardly fail to reveal much of value as to the language, customs, and ceremonies of the old town.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF SOUTHWESTERN ARCHAEOLOGY. To get started finding AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF SOUTHWESTERN ARCHAEOLOGY, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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