EXPLORING CULTURAL, ECONOMIC, AND SOCIAL DIVERSITY IN EARLY FIRST MILLENNIUM C.E. ANCESTRAL PUEBLO SOCIETIES
Crow Canyon Laboratory Manager Reuven Sinensky was invited to present some of the results of his recently completed dissertation research at the Southwest Symposium Biennial Archaeological Conference in January 2025. His presentation was part of a session titled Trajectories of Change and Transformation in the Northern U.S. Southwest , organized by former Crow Canyon staff Benjamin A. Bellorado and Kellam Throgmorton. Reuven discussed the background for his research in a recent blog post on Crow Canyon’s website.
You can also find Reuven’s dissertation research from UCLA, titled Early Agriculture and Indigenous Foodways in the U.S. Southwest and Mesoamerica: Cuisine and Social Change in Mobile Farming Societies at https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6gq0f0n5 . Comparison between C.E. 200–550 (top) and C.E. 550–700 (bottom) residential and communal architecture. Note the contrast between the informal site layout above, and the more organized site layout below.
From the blog:
“As our understanding of Ancestral Pueblo peoples across time and space has grown, and archaeological techniques have become more refined, a picture has emerged that is far more complex and better aligned with the perspectives of our descendant community partners—Pueblo Ancestors were diverse and had distinctive traditions that rarely fit into tidy boxes.” “But why were families and communities of Ancestors living in the same geographic regions during the same periods of time diverse if broad-scale changes spanning millennia are highly visible archaeologically? The answer lies in the lived experiences of Ancestral Pueblo people—the decisions made by individuals, families, and communities in the ancient past were informed not only by the environmental and technological constraints intrinsic to living in a particular place at a specific point in time, but by distinctive histories of movement and interactions between people, landscapes, plants, and animals experienced by community members and their ancestors.”
You can read Reuven’s full post on our News Blog at CrowCanyon.org/news .
WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT THE ANTIQUITIES ACT? With our country’s national parks and monuments making news headlines lately, Dr. Susan Ryan’s latest blog post, “Monumental Debate: The Antiquities Act of 1906,” is timely. While the Act has played a crucial role in conservation and preservation policies for almost 120 years, she explores both the purpose of the act and the controversy involved. Read the full post on our News Blog at CrowCanyon.org/news/monumental-debate-the-antiquities-act-of-1906 . Dr. Susan Ryan is Executive Vice President of the Crow Canyon Research Institute and she writes a monthly blog post on topics that demonstrate the relevance of archaeology to modern day challenges.
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