Tijeras Ceramic Project NAA data

NAA Data used in the article "COALESCENCE AND THE SPREAD OF GLAZE PAINTED POTTERY IN THE CENTRAL RIO GRANDE: THE VIEW FROM TIJERAS PUEBLO (LA 581), NEW MEXICO" by Judith A. Habicht-Mauche and Suzanne L. Eckert. English abstract. The concept of “coalescent communities” has been widely used by North American archaeologists and ethnohistorians as a framework for understanding cultural responses to social upheaval. In this article we explore how the concept of coalescence helps us to understand the processes that led to the emergence of aggregated settlements and communities in the Central Rio Grande district of the Eastern Pueblo region around the turn of the fourteenth century. We argue that such communities emerged as strategic local responses to increasingly stressful and disruptive social and demographic trends on a macroregional scale. Specifically, we use NAA and petrographic sourcing of Western Pueblo- and Rio Grande-style glaze-painted pottery in conjunction with settlement data from the site of Tijeras Pueblo (LA 581) as a way to explore how the amalgamation of immigrant and autochthonous people, technology, knowledge, and ritual creatively and radically transformed local and regional practices of community and identity formation.