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Journal of Southwestern Anthropology and History
Volume 64, 1998 - Issue 1
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Assessing Room Function Using Unmodified Faunal Bone: A Case Study from East-Central Arizona

Pages 27-51 | Published online: 25 Jul 2016
 

ABSTRACT

Researchers in Southwestern archaeology have long sought to reconstruct social organization through the analysis of Puebloan room use and function. Though numerous variables have been used to classify room types, unworked animal bone has consistently been overlooked as an applicable data set with which to determine the function of prehistoric pueblo rooms. An analysis of floor assemblages from Rattlesnake Point Pueblo (AZ Q:11:118 [ASM]) suggests that basic differences exist in the distribution of fauna among room types. These differences form relatively distinct “faunal signatures” that may be used to assign room function in the absence of diagnostic architectural or artifactual data.

RESUMEN

Los investigadores en arqueología al sudoeste han intentado de reconstruir la organización social con el analisis del uso y de la función del sitio de Puebloan. Aunque las variables numerosas se han utilizado para clasificar tipos de cuartos, el hueso animal desacostumbrado se ha pasado por alto constantemente como modem aplicable con el cual determinar la función de los cuartos prehistóricos del pueblo. Un análisis de las ensambladuras del suelo de Rattlesnake Point Pueblo (AZ Q:11:118 [ASM]) sugiere que las diferencias básicas existan en la distribución de la fauna entre cuartos. Estas diferencias forman las “firmas relativamente distintas del faunal” que se pueden utilizar para asignar la función del cuarto en ausencia de los datos arquitectónicos y del artefactos de diagnósticos.

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