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Inundation and Emergence at Pueblo Grande de Nevada, an Eleventh-Century Ancestral Puebloan Village

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2022

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Gregory M. Haynes*
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Division of Earth and Ecosystem Sciences, Desert Research Institute, Las Vegas, NV, USA (greg.haynes@dri.edu)
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Abstract

The development of large reservoirs in the western United States during the twentieth century inundated a diverse array of archaeological sites and other cultural resources. Land managers, cultural resource specialists, and other stakeholders have long been aware of the effects of inundation on archaeological sites, and they have sought to mitigate them by using various means at their disposal. In modern times, drought and climate change in the western United States have reduced the pool sizes of many reservoirs, including one of the largest, Lake Mead, which straddles the Arizona and Nevada border. This research presents the results of a two-year effort to study the direct and indirect effects of lacustrine-based processes at Lake Mead to a large eleventh-century prehistoric village, Pueblo Grande de Nevada. What are the processes that are most likely to damage archaeological sites and, conversely, what are those that may serve to preserve or protect them? The results of pedestrian inventory throughout the village, limited subsurface tests at certain loci, and intensive mapping at one habitation complex are used to evaluate and synthesize these effects.

El desarrollo de grandes embalses en el oeste de los Estados Unidos durante el siglo veinte inundó una amplia gama de sitios arqueológicos y otros recursos culturales. Los administradores de tierras, especialistas en recursos culturales y otros grupos interesados conocen desde hace mucho tiempo los efectos de las inundaciones en los sitios arqueológicos y han tratado de mitigarlos utilizando varios medios a su disposición. En los tiempos modernos, la sequía y el cambio climático en el oeste de los Estados Unidos han reducido el tamaño de las piscinas de muchos embalses, incluyendo uno de los más grandes, el Lago Mead, que se extiende a ambos lados de la frontera de Arizona y Nevada. Esta investigación presenta los resultados de un esfuerzo de dos años para estudiar los efectos directos e indirectos de los procesos lacustres en el Lago Mead en una gran aldea prehistórica del siglo once, Pueblo Grande de Nevada. Los resultados del inventario de peatones por todo el pueblo, las pruebas limitadas del subsuelo en ciertos lugares y el mapeo intensivo en un complejo habitacional se utilizan para evaluar y sintetizar estos efectos.

Keywords

submerged site archaeologyreservoirspostdepositional processescultural resource managementAncestral Puebloanarchaeología de sitios sumergidosembalsesprocesos post-depositacionalesgestión de recursos culturalesPuéblanos Ancestrales
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Advances in Archaeological Practice , Volume 10 , Issue 4 , November 2022 , pp. 414 - 427
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Society for American Archaeology

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