Book
The outlier survey: a regional view of settlement in the San Juan basin
Division of Cultural Research, National Park Service, U.S. Dept. of the Interior • Albuquerque, N.M. • Published In 1983 • Pages: xix, 437
By: Powers, Robert P., Gillespie, William B., Lekson, Stephen H..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Powers et al. conducted detailed surveys around three Chacoan outliers: Bis sa'ani, Peach Springs, and Pierre's. The focus of their investigation was to determine the relationship between the Chacoan outliers and the great house sites in Chaco Canyon. At the three surveyed sites they recorded the physical environment including the soils and how suitable they were for agriculture, the settlement pattern, ceramics, and lithics. Temporal placement was based on ceramic types. Details of the Chacoan structures such as size, room height, and masonry style were also recorded. The data from the outlier surveys is used to present a regional synthesis: 'examining outlier chronology, community settlement patterns, regional settlement patterns, and site organization, environment and resource variability, outlier site type variability and morphology, and outlier lithics and ceramics from a regional perspective. To the degree possible, change over time is documented or postulated, thereby presenting an evolutionary view of the outlier phenomenon.' (page 19). Powers et al. used communities to examine the Chacoan regional system and found that substantial communities with great kivas arise around AD 500 and by AD 900 these communities have great houses or Chacoan structures. Powers et al. propose a site hierarchy for the system with Pueblo Bonito and Chetro Ketl at the apex.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Archaeological survey methods
- Settlement patterns
- Geography
- Territorial hierarchy
- Ceramic technology
- Lithic industries
- Chronologies and culture sequences
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Early Anasazi
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2012
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southwest and Basin
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Sarah Berry; 2011
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1976
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1500-700 BP (AD 500-1300)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- San Juan Basin; Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah; United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Robert P. Powers, William B. Gillespie, Stephen H. Lekson
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 393-416)and index
- United States. National Park Service. Division of Cultural Research
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 83601356
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Chaco culture
- Chaco culture--New Mexico--Chaco Canyon
- Chaco culture--San Juan River Watershed (Colo.-Utah) Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric--San Juan River Watershed (Colo.-Utah) Chaco Canyon (N.M.)--Antiquities
- New Mexico--Antiquities
- San Juan River Watershed (Colo.-Utah)--Antiquities