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DRINKING PERFORMANCE AND POLITICS IN PUEBLO BONITO, CHACO CANYON

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Crown, Patricia L.·2018·American Antiquity
DOI 10.1017/aaq.2018.12
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Drinking vessels provide information on changes in drinking practices, crafting, exchange patterns, rituals, and the creation of status differences in Chacoan society. They reveal a gradual sequence of change in vessel forms, followed by dramatic intensification of drinking activity in the AD 1000s that provided opportunities for differentiation among Chaco residents, particularly at Pueblo Bonito. Termination of the most iconic drinking vessel form, the cylinder vessel, and the rituals surrounding it around AD 1100 was followed by the introduction of a northern drinking vessel form. Careful reconstruction of the production, consumption, and discard practices associated with drinking vessels provides the means for understanding broader processes in the Chaco world.

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  • These fires were probably part of termination or retirement rituals, which closed the rooms from further use and removed the power from objects accorded animacy as spiritual beings.

    “These were probably part of termination or retirement rituals, which closed the rooms from further use and removed the power from objects accorded animacy as spiritual beings (Mills 2008: 103;Mills & Ferguson 2008;Crown 2018).”

    From The complex history of Pueblo Bonito and its interpretation (2018) · cites this paper as Crown 2018

    In “Archaeological Evidence in Chaco” (page unavailable), Crown describes burning vessels to deactivate their power and a fire in Room 28 after which its doors were sealed and the room collapsed. This supports the proposed ritual termination, but the paper does not explicitly describe the objects as spiritual beings or establish that fires closed multiple rooms from further use. (LLM, conf=0.83)

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Authors
Crown, P. L.
Affiliations
University of New Mexico (US)
Corresponding author
Crown, Patricia L.
ORCID
Crown, Patricia L.
Venue
American Antiquity
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Published
2018-04-26
Volume
83
Issue
3
Pages
387-406
ISSN
  • 0002-7316 (ISSN-L)
  • 2325-5064
DOI
10.1017/aaq.2018.12
OpenAlex
W2801496660
Cited by
21
References
88
Citations by year
2026: 3 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 7 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 2
FWCI
2.21
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
www.cambridge.org/core/terms (unspecified)
Locations
American Antiquity (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • National Endowment for the Humanities (RZ-51417-13)
  • National Geographic Society (9276-13)
  • National Park Service
  • Advanced Research Projects Agency
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Paleontology › Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Archeology › Archaeological and Geological Studies
  • Social Sciences › Anthropology › Archaeology and Natural History
Keywords
drinking vessels, Pueblo Bonito, Chaco Canyon, drinking rituals, status differentiation, drinking practices

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