New Perspectives on the Pottery Mound Pueblo

Ancestral Puebloan peoples inhabited the Pottery Mound site on New Mexico's Rio Puerco River from the late fourteenth to the late fifteenth centuries. Archaeologist Frank C. Hibben began excavating Pottery Mound fifty years ago, when archaeologists were paying relatively little attention to Ancestral Pueblo sites. Pottery Mound remains poorly studied, under published, and largely neglected. Hibben found that Pottery Mound was home to diverse Puebloan characteristics evident in both Rio Grande Pueblos and the Western Pueblos. Hibben also discovered an abundance of pottery styles and layers of murals in eleven kivas that are a magnificent archive of religious iconography of the period. "In New Perspectives on the Pottery Mound Pueblo," renowned Southwestern archaeologist Polly Schaafsma presents essays by contemporary scholars on the site's murals, rock art, pottery, textiles, and archaeofaunal remains. Contributors revisit Pottery Mound for new insights into inhabitants' regional interactions, migrations, and trade during the Pueblo IV period--a time of dynamic change in Puebloan culture.Contributors: Michael Adler--associate professor of anthropology, Southern Methodist University Tiffany Clark--zooarchaeologist, Arizona State University, Tempe Helen K. Crotty--research associate, Museum of Indian Arts and Culture Laboratory of Anthropology, Santa Fe, New Mexico Suzanne Eckert--assistant professor of anthropology, Texas A&M University Kelley Hays-Gilpin--associate professor of anthropology, Northern Arizona University Steven LeBlanc--director of collections, Peabody Museum, Harvard University Patricia Vivian--anthropologist, Witch Well, Arizona R.Gwinn Vivian--professor emeritus of anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson Laurie Webster--visiting scholar in anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson David R. Wilcox--curator of anthropology, Museum of Northern Arizona, FlagstaffSchaafsma, Polly is the author of 'New Perspectives on the Pottery Mound Pueblo ', published 2007 under ISBN 9780826339065 and ISBN 0826339069.