Suzanne L . Eckert
Suzanne L. Eckert earned her doctorate in 2003 from the Department of Anthropology, Arizona State University. She is currently the Head of Collections at the Arizona State Museum and an associate professor in the School of Anthropology, University of Arizona. Dr. Eckert’s research focuses on how pre-colonial and colonial cultures organized ceramic technology, and how this technology integrated with other aspects of society, including migration, religious practice, ideology, gender, and ethnicity. Her current project is focused in the Lion Mountain region of the Cibola National Forest in New Mexico. When not doing archaeology, Dr. Eckert can be found quilting, reading, hiking, baking, or eating tacos. She prefers to work and play bare-footed.
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Phone: 520.626.0253
Address: Arizona State Museum
The University of Arizona
PO Box 210026
1013 E University Blvd
Tucson, AZ 85721-0026
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Architectural data, as well as pottery production and technological data, are presented to argue that immigrants moved into the study area during the late 1200s or early 1300s. Decorative and technological evidence suggests that pottery was used to signal group identity among people with a similar migration history, but was also part of a newly adopted ritual system that focused on social integration. This new ritual system may also have had aspects that emphasized competition between social groups.
The coalition of various groups into two large villages in the Lower Rio Puerco area would have required transformations in group identity, social organization, and power structures. Such transformations occur through daily attempts by village residents to reproduce their social order in the changed context of aggregation and interaction. During the Pueblo IV period, many villages were established that created different
combinations of ideology and ritual to cope with the social stress brought on by disparate groups living together. This process fundamentally transformed the Pueblo social landscape, eventually leading to the diversity of villages we see today.