The Ancient Ones: Pueblos, Plazas, & The Rise of The Kachinas

This episode of the American Southwest Podcast is the 8th in the series about the original Native American inhabitants of the region and specifically about the Puebloans of the Rio Grande Valley, Zuni, Hopi Mesas, and others after the Anasazi Civil War and the Great Migration at the end of the 13th Century. The episode begins by defining the region as the Spanish would have seen it, despite the episode covering the time period spanning hundreds of years before that. It covers the migration of tens of thousands of Ancestral Puebloans out of the Mesa Verde Region and into the area around modern day Santa Fe, with a few stragglers heading to Jemez, Hopi, and Zuni. Expansion, starvation, war, art, migration, language, the boom and bust cycle of the pueblo, belief systems, and the Kachinas are all discussed. I hate to say this is an in-between episode… but it’s sort of a Epilogue to the Anasazi Civil War and Migration and Prologue to the coming Pueblo Revolt Episode. But I assure you there is enough exciting, interesting, intriguing, and engaging topics in this episode to be an over 2 hour standalone episode by itself. Again, calling it an in-between is really doing the piece a disservice. I know y’all will enjoy this in-depth study of the amazing people of the Puebloan world and their beliefs and history.

Selected Sources:

Winds from the North, Tewa Origins and Historical Anthropology by Scott Ortman

The Origin and Development of the Pueblo Kachina Cult by E Charles Adams

The Lost World of the Old Ones by David Roberts

The Pueblo Revolt by David Roberts

In Search of the Old Ones by David Roberts

House of Rain by Craig Childs

Atlas of a Lost World by Craig Childs

Ancient Peoples of the American Southwest by Steven Plog

A Study of Southwestern Archaeology by Stephen Lekson

Behind the Bears Ears by RL Burrillo

A Note on a Rare Cranial Vault Modification Shared by Ancestral Puebloans in the American Southwest, Mesoamericans on Mexico’s Gulf coast, and Peruvians from Norte Chico in the Context of Twisted Gourd Symbolism; the Gallina case by Kathryn Devereaux, PhD

Pope, Pose-yemu, and Naranjo: A New Look at Leadership in the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 by Stefanie Beninato

Ordinary, yet Distinct: The Allure of Gallina by J. Michael Bremer

Sandals as Icons: Representations in Ancestral Pueblo Rock Art and Effigies in Stone and Wood by Polly Schaafsma

The Abandonment of Chaco Canyon, the Mesa Verde Migrations, and the Reorganization of the Pueblo World by Stephen H Lekson and Catherine M Cameron

Authoritative Control and the Society System in Jemez Pueblo by Florence Hawley Ellis

The Zuni Scalp Ceremonial by Mrs. Matilda Coxe Stevenson

The 1992 Turtle Dance (Oekuu Shadeh) of San Juan Pueblo: Lessons with the Composer, Peter Garcia by Hao Huang

https://www.archaeologybulletin.org/articles/10.5334/bha.2123/print/

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/08/190805143527.htm

http://www.passportintime.com/gallina-site.html

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