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Community Landscapes, Identity, and Practice: Ancestral Pueblos of the Lion Mountain Area, Central New Mexico, USA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 October 2021

Suzanne L. Eckert Open the ORCID record for Suzanne L. Eckert [Opens in a new window]  and
Deborah L. Huntley
Suzanne L. Eckert*
Affiliation:
Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona,Tucson, AZ, USA
Deborah L. Huntley
Affiliation:
Tetra Tech, Golden, CO, USA
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(sleckert@email.arizona.edu, corresponding author)
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Abstract

Landscape archaeology has been widely used as a framework for understanding the myriad ways in which people lived in their natural and built environments. In this study, we use systematic survey data in conjunction with ceramic chronology building to explore how residents of the Lion Mountain area in Central New Mexico created and sustained community landscapes over time as memories and stories became linked with specific places. We combine practice theory with the concept of social memory to show that these residents used their community landscape to both maintain and transform community identity over multiple generations. To strengthen our argument, we use a dual temporal approach, considering our data both by “looking back” and “looking forward” in time relative to the residents living on the landscape. Ultimately, we argue that residents of the Lion Mountain Community lived and died within a community landscape of their making. This community landscape, which was maintained and transformed through collective memory, included significant landmarks and entailed participation in specific networks, helping to reinforce community identity over time.

La arqueología del paisaje se ha utilizado ampliamente como marco para comprender las innumerables formas en que las personas vivían en sus entornos naturales y construidos. En este estudio, utilizamos datos de encuestas sistemáticas junto con la construcción de cronología de cerámica para explorar cómo los residentes del área de Lion Mountain en el centro de Nuevo México crearon y mantuvieron paisajes comunitarios a lo largo del tiempo a medida que los recuerdos y las historias se vinculaban con lugares específicos. Combinamos la teoría de la práctica con el concepto de memoria social para mostrar que estos residentes usaron el paisaje de su comunidad para mantener y transformar la identidad comunitaria a lo largo de varias generaciones. Para reforzar nuestro argumento, utilizamos un doble enfoque temporal, mirando y evaluando a la vez los datos “hacia atrás” y “hacia adelante” en relación con los residentes de este paisaje. En última instancia, planteamos que los residentes de la comunidad de Lion Mountain vivieron y murieron dentro de un paisaje comunitario de su propia creación. Entonces, este paisaje comunitario, el cual se mantuvo y se transformó a través de la memoria colectiva, incluyó tanto los hitos significativos como la participación en redes específicas, reforzando la identidad comunitaria a lo largo del tiempo.

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community landscapeidentitypractice theoryAncestral Pueblopaisajes comunitariosidentidad comunitariala teoría de la prácticaAncestral Pueblo
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American Antiquity , Volume 87 , Issue 1 , January 2022 , pp. 142 - 167
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Society for American Archaeology

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