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Tasks, Knowledge, and Practice: Long-Distance Resource Acquisition at Goat Spring Pueblo (LA285), Central New Mexico

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 August 2024

Suzanne L. Eckert Open the ORCID record for Suzanne L. Eckert [Opens in a new window] ,
Deborah L. Huntley ,
Judith A. Habicht-Mauche Open the ORCID record for Judith A. Habicht-Mauche [Opens in a new window]  and
Jeffrey R. Ferguson
Suzanne L. Eckert*
Affiliation:
Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
Deborah L. Huntley
Affiliation:
Tetra Tech Inc., Golden, CO, USA
Judith A. Habicht-Mauche
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
Jeffrey R. Ferguson
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology and the Archaeometry Laboratory at MURR, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
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Corresponding author: Suzanne L. Eckert; Email: [email protected]
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Abstract

We examine provenance data collected from three types of geological resources recovered at Goat Spring Pueblo in central New Mexico. Our goal is to move beyond simply documenting patterns in compositional data; rather, we develop a narrative that explores how people's knowledge and preferences resulted in culturally and materially determined choices as revealed in those patterns. Our analyses provide evidence that residents of Goat Spring Pueblo did not rely primarily on local geological sources for the creation of their glaze paints or obsidian tools. They did, however, utilize a locally available blue-green mineral for creation of their ornaments. We argue that village artisans structured their use of raw materials at least in part according to multiple craft-specific and community-centered ethnomineralogies that likely constituted the sources of these materials as historically or cosmologically meaningful places through their persistent use. Consequently, the surviving material culture at Goat Spring Pueblo reflects day-to-day beliefs, practices, and social relationships that connected this village to a broader mosaic of interconnected Ancestral Pueblo taskscapes and knowledgescapes.

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Resumen

Examinamos datos de procedencia recopilados de tres tipos de recursos geológicos recuperados en Goat Spring Pueblo en el centro de Nuevo México. Además de documentar patrones en datos de composición nuestro objetivo es desarrollar una narrativa que explora cómo el conocimiento y las preferencias de las personas resultaron en elecciones determinadas por factores culturales y materiales. Nuestros análisis proporcionan evidencia de que los residentes de Goat Spring Pueblo no dependieron principalmente de fuentes geológicas locales para la creación de sus pinturas vidriadas o herramientas de obsidiana. Sin embargo, utilizaron un mineral azul verdoso disponible localmente para la creación de sus adornos. Proponemos que los artesanos de las aldeas estructuraron su uso de materias primas, al menos en parte, de acuerdo con múltiples etnomineralogías artesanales específicas y centradas en la comunidad que probablemente constituyeron las fuentes de estos materiales como lugares históricamente o cosmológicamente significativos a través de su uso persistente. Por lo tanto, los artefactos recuperados en Goat Spring Pueblo refleja creencias, prácticas y relaciones sociales cotidianas que conectaron esta aldea con un mosaico más amplio de paisajes de tareas y conocimientos interconectados de los Pueblos Ancestrales.

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American SouthwestAncestral Puebloarchaeometrypottery analysisobsidian XRFmineral XRFlead-isotopeSuroeste de Estados UnidosPueblo Ancestralarqueometríaanálisis de cerámicaXRF de obsidianaXRF de mineralesisótopo de plomo
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American Antiquity , Volume 89 , Issue 3 , July 2024 , pp. 475 - 494
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2024. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Society for American Archaeology

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