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Gallina Landscapes of History Project, USA - Institute for Field Research
Location: Gallina, New Mexico, United States
Season:
May 26, 2019 to July 6, 2019
Application Deadline:
Friday, April 5, 2019
Deadline Type:
Rolling
Flyer:
syllabus-us-nm-gallina-2019.pdf
Program Type
Field school
RPA certified
no
Affiliation:
University of Leiden, Connecticut College, Institute for Field Research
Project Director:
Dr. Lewis Borck
Project Description
This project investigates differences in political and social organization in the North American Southwest by exploring changing architectural patterns through time. The general architectural sequence in the northern Southwest is a transition from nomadism (and associated structures that leave minimal impact on the archaeological record), to pit houses, to small apartment-like roomblocks with specialized religious architecture, to large apartment-like roomblocks with specialized religious architecture. In the Southwest, communities that do not follow these paths are often called “out-of-phase.” In the Gallina region of northern New Mexico, researchers argue that the “out-of-phase” nature of Gallina archaeology (~A.D. 1100-1300) is actually evidence for a social movement aimed at contesting regional changes in religious and political power aggregation and centralization. Part of the material expression that may have created and supported this social movement was the re-unification of a previously split sacred and secular space in order to return religious and political power to communities at the household level and create more equitable organizational practices.
This project will explore whether there is evidence of this reunification in pit house architecture. This project will focus on sites in the Llaves Valley at approximately 7,000 feet above sea level. Excavation, survey and site assessments, artifact analysis and processing, community outreach and public blogs, and collaborative discussions with local communities about the nature of our fieldwork and its future directions will all be incorporated.
Period(s) of Occupation: North American Archaeology, ~A.D. 1100-1300
Project size:
1-24 participants
Minimum Length of Stay for Volunteers: Participants must stay entire duration of the field school.
Minimum age:
18
Experience required:
No prior experience required.
Room and Board Arrangements
Camp housing will be near Abiquiu, New Mexico at about 7,500 feet above sea level (~2300m) in an extremely arid environment, so a period of acclimation is included in the first week. Students will be living in tents, but will have access to indoor communal rooms. They will be at a site with a lot of outdoor space and will be able to find outdoor areas to relax as well as take advantage of many nearby trails for hiking and running. Conditions at the field house are basic and showers will be outdoors (but private). Camp chores will be shared amongst all of the field participants.
Meals are taken communally and will provide plenty of nutritious food. New Mexican cuisine is heavily based on a mix of American, Indigenous, and Mexican (primarily Chihuahuan) cuisine and is thus heavily based around meat, beans, and rice. Chile, both red and green, are an important part of the food experience and will be incorporated, but they will be kept to the side for those whose palettes may find them too spicy. It is possible to adjust based on vegetarian or vegan diets. Other food allergies, depending on the severity, can be adjusted for as well. Please check with the field director if you have severe reactions.
Cost:
Room and Board is included in the tuition for this program.
Academic Credit
Name of institution offering credit:
Connecticut College
Tuition:
$4,625
Location
Recommended Bibliography:
The reading list below will be available for the students to download prior to the start of the project.
Atalay, Sonya 2006 Indigenous Archaeology as Decolonizing Practice. American Indian Quarterly 30(3/4):280–310.
Borck, Lewis, and Erik Simpson 2017 Identity is an Infinite Now: Being Instead of Becoming Gallina. KIVA 83(4):471–493.
Constan, Connie I., and J. Michael Bremer 2017 From Discovery to Explanation: The History of Gallina Archaeology. KIVA 83(4):450–470.
Cordell, Linda S., and Maxine E. McBrinn 2012 Archaeology of the Southwest. Left Coast Press, Walnut Creek. (Ch. 1, 2, 3, 7, 8, 9)
Glassow, Michael 2005 Excavation. In Handbook of archaeological methods, edited by Herbert D. G Maschner and Christopher Chippindale, pp. 133–175. AltaMira Press, Lanham, MD.
Glowacki, Donna M. 2015a Leaving Mesa Verde. In Living and Leaving: A Social History of Regional Depopulation in Thirteenth-Century Mesa Verde, pp. 174–196. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
2015b Envisioning the Sociopolitical Landscape. In Living and Leaving: A Social History of Regional Depopulation in Thirteenth-Century Mesa Verde, pp. 174–196. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
Howard, Philip 2007 Basic Methods of Surveying. In Archaeological Surveying and Mapping: Recording and Depicting the Landscape, pp. 12-26 Routledge, New York.
Knappett, Carl 2005 Pottery. In Handbook of archaeological methods, edited by Herbert D. G Maschner and Christopher Chippindale, pp. 673–714. AltaMira Press, Lanham, MD.
Kocer, Jacqueline Marie, and Jeffrey R. Ferguson 2017 Investigating Projectile Point Raw Material Choices and Stylistic Variability in the Gallina Area of Northwestern New Mexico. KIVA 83(4):532–554.
RECOMMENDED READINGS
Bellorado, Benjamin A. 2017 The Context, Dating, and Role of Painted Building Murals in Gallina Society. KIVA 83(4):494–514.
Borck, Lewis 2017 Connected and Isolated: A Discussion About Gallina Archaeology with No Resolutions. KIV 83(4):443–449.
2018 Sophisticated Rebels: Meaning Maps and Settlement Structure as Evidence for a Social Movement in the Gallina Region of the North American Southwest. In Life Beyond the Boundaries: Constructing Identity in Edge Regions of the North American Southwest, edited by Karen G. Harry and Sarah Herr, pp. 88–121. University Press of Colorado, Boulder.
Lekson, Stephen H.
2009a Pace - Time. In A History of the Ancient Southwest, pp. 71–105. School for Advanced Research Press, Santa Fe.
2009b Post - Ends and Beginnings. In A History of the Ancient Southwest, pp. 217–253. School for Advanced Research Press, Santa Fe.
2009c Tale - History. In A History of the Ancient Southwest, pp. 179–217. School for Advanced Research Press, Santa Fe.
O’Donnell, Alexis, and Corey S. Ragsdale 2017 Biological Distance Analysis and the Fate of the Gallina in the American Southwest. KIV 83(4):515–531.
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