Catrina Banks Whitley presents Ongoing investigations at the BaahKu Archaeological Site

ZOOM Lecture

March 9 at 5:30 pm MST

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Southern Methodist University, RPA Bioarchaeology Support 

Research Associate, Office of Archaeological Studies, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe

Ongoing investigations at the BaahKu Archaeological Site 

Occupation of the Taos Valley was one of the latest areas inhabited by Ancestral Puebloans and is interpreted as a frontier area.  Recent excavations at the BaahKu archaeological site provide an example of an architectural construction unique to the Taos Valley along with unusual abandonment processes.  This research presents a comparison between two pit houses in close proximity to each other, to highlight the differences present in the Valley providing evidence for the frontier hypothesis. We will also present a greater geographic architectural analysis for the Taos Valley through time.