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The Immediate History of Zia Pueblo as Derived from Excavation in Refuse Deposits

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Florence Hawley Ellis*
Affiliation:
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Abstract

Excavations to investigate stratigraphy at Zia Pueblo indicate that the mesa now occupied by the tribe was first settled by their ancestors during the fourteenth century, when a neighboring site also was established by others of the same people. Except for a short period in the late seventeenth century when the group moved to a refugee site, occupation was continuous. In the east dump, sterile soil was encountered on the bottom of level 36 (each level of 25 cm. thickness); above this, five sloping zones with sherd complexes differing in proportions, if not always in types, could be traced.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1966

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