Pinenut Site: Virgin Anasazi Archaeology on the Kanab Plateau of Northwestern Arizona

摘要

The report describes the results of a joint excavation project. Excavation revealed a semi-subterranean pit structure; a room block consisting of a living room, three storage rooms and an activity room; a storage-heating pit; and an isolated slab-lined cist complex. The site was occupied from A.D. 1050-1100 and from A.D. 1200-1250/1275. Each occupation was probably restricted to the summer season, with inhabitants practicing a mixed horticulture-foraging subsistence strategy. Group interaction was largely internal within the Virgin Anasazi cultural tradition, and there was apparently little interaction with the Kayenta Anasazi. Results of the excavation are evaluated in the context of Anasazi adaptational strategies on the southern Colorado Plateau.