The archaeofaunal remains left by the Ancestral Puebloan people of Goodman Point Unit provides a valuable, yet underutilized resource into pit structure function. This thesis explores temporal changes in pit structure use and evaluates if a final feast occurred during a kiva decommissioning. The results from zooarchaeological analyses of a pithouse and two great kivas suggest that changes in pit structures at Goodman Point mimic the regional trend toward specialization until late Pueblo III. Cross-cultural studies on feasts, southwest ethnographies and previous zooarchaeological work established methods for identifying a feast. The analysis of differences in faunal remains from a great kiva and multiple room block middens imply that the remains in the kiva were from a final feast prior to a decommissioning ceremony and were not fill. Spatially and temporally the great kiva appears to be a unique, specialized structure in the cultural development of the Goodman Point community.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc804909 |
| Date | 08 1900 |
| Creators | Winstead, Christy |
| Contributors | Wolverton, Steve, Nagaoka, Lisa Ann, Ferring, Reid |
| Publisher | University of North Texas |
| Source Sets | University of North Texas |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | vi, 100 pages : illustrations (some color), 1 map, Text |
| Coverage | United States - Colorado - Montezuma County |
| Rights | Public, Winstead, Christy, Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights Reserved. |
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