Standing Fall House: An Early Puebloan Storage and Redistribution Center in Northeastern Arizona

ABSTRACT

Standing Fall House is a 55-room cliff ruin located on the north end of Black Mesa in northeastern Arizona. The ruin has been analyzed in terms of functional room categories, chronology and building sequences, artifactual and nonartifactual remains, and duration and seasonality of occupation. All data were gathered by surface collection and mapping; no excavation took place. All analyses suggest, independently, that Standing Fall House was not used primarily as a year-round habitation site. It is hypothesized that the site was the seasonal locus for a system of storage and redistribution of maize involving an integrated network of otherwise spatially distinct communities. Further, this economic network apparently existed during Pueblo I and continued until early Pueblo II at the site.