Pottery Mound is a large Ancestral Puebloan site situated within the Middle Rio Grande (MRG) region of New Mexico. This article adds to our understanding of relationships between Pottery Mound, the Western Pueblos, and Mexico through use of biological distance analysis based on dental nonmetric traits. Extensive material and cultural influences, as well as migration events from Western Pueblos to Pottery Mound, have been proposed by several scholars, while others have highlighted parallels to Mexico, especially Paquimé. A total of 1,528 individuals from the U.S. Southwest and Mexico were used to examine relationships between Pottery Mound and these areas. We find no evidence of close biological similarity between Pottery Mound and the Western Pueblos or northern Mexico. Instead, the results indicate biological affinity between Pottery Mound and sites in the MRG region and Mogollon areas. This similarity suggests that although there is evidence for trade between Pottery Mound and other sites in the southwestern United States and Mesoamerica, trade may not have been accompanied by significant gene flow from those areas from which the trade goods originated. It is possible that neighboring regions, such as the Mogollon, served as intermediaries for trade between Pottery Mound and distant regions.

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新墨西哥州Pottery Mound Pueblo 的贸易关系和基因流动

Pottery Mound 是位于新墨西哥州中里奥格兰德 (MRG) 地区的一个大型祖先普韦布洛遗址。本文通过使用基于牙齿非度量特征的生物距离分析，加深了我们对 Pottery Mound、Western Pueblos 和墨西哥之间关系的理解。一些学者提出了广泛的物质和文化影响，以及从西部普韦布洛到陶土丘的迁移事件，而其他学者则强调了与墨西哥的相似之处，尤其是帕奎梅。来自美国西南部和墨西哥的总共 1,528 个人被用来检查陶土丘与这些地区之间的关系。我们没有发现Pottery Mound 与西部普韦布罗斯或墨西哥北部之间存在密切生物学相似性的证据。反而，结果表明陶土丘与 MRG 地区和 Mogollon 地区的遗址之间具有生物学亲和力。这种相似性表明，虽然有证据表明陶丘与美国西南部和中美洲的其他地点之间存在贸易，但贸易可能并未伴随着来自贸易商品起源地的大量基因流动。邻近地区，例如莫戈隆地区，可能是陶丘与遥远地区之间贸易的中介。