Migrations in the Southwest: Pinnacle Ruin, Southwestern New Mexico

2002/12/01 by Stephen H. Lekson, Curtis P. Nepstad-Thornberry, Curtis Nepstad-Thornberry +4 · 2 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Social Sciences · #Archaeology and Natural History #Archaeology and ancient environmental studies #Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies

paper · doi:10.1080/00231940.2002.11758469

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Abstract

Ceramic assemblages from Pinnacle Ruin (LA 2292) at Cañada Alamosa, southwestern New Mexico, contain significant proportions of Magdalena Black-on-white, which resembles McElmo and Mesa Verde black-on-white pottery. The 150-room site sits atop a defensible butte. Excavations in a midden, a room, and a possible subterranean structure indicate Pinnacle Ruin dates to the late thirteenth through the late fourteenth centuries. Pinnacle Ruin may have been a migrant community from the Mesa Verde region of the Four Corners area.

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