EXAMINING ORTHODOXY IN THE UPPER SAN JUAN REGION OF THE NORTHERN SOUTHWEST

摘要: Conventional interpretations of architecture and artifacts have concluded that the Ancestral Puebloans Upper San Juan (or uplands Eastern Mesa Verde) region were slow to respond cultural changes occurring in Central Verde west Chaco/Cibola South. Rather than being a “cultural backwater,” this paper examines idea these groups practiced an orthodox form Puebloan lifeway, rejecting elsewhere northern Southwest. During Pueblo II period (A.D. 900–1150), orthodoxy is evident retention material culture reminiscent earlier time periods, such as plain gray ceramics pit structures. The rejection change significant because it argues for socially diverse landscape inhabited by both progressive accepting had more conservative attitude toward over time.