Chase Orchard: A Poñil Phase Pueblo in the Cimarron District, Northeastern New Mexico, with a Suggested Reconstruction of Tanoan Origins and Migrations

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Author: Gunnerson, James H.  (1922-2009)

Publisher: Oklahoma Anthropological Society

Pub Date: 2007

Binding: Paperback

Condition: 2 copies.  Copy 1 (LLL):  Fair. Pasted on label with author’s (corrected) name on cover. Bumping to upper cover corner. No marks, tears, bends. Binding tight.  Signed by the author on title page.  Copy 2 (PC25): Good.  Binding tight.  No marks, tears, bends or folds.  Very light edge and corner wear.  Appears unused.

Notes: Memoir 11 of the Oklahoma Anthropological Society, Robert E. Bell Monographs in Anthropology 4 of the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History.  “Little known to most Plains archaeologists, and perhaps underappreciated by some Southwesternists, is the fact that small, unstudied or unreported, pueblo sites occur in many of the canyon draining the east slopes of the Southern Rocky Mountains.  The Chase Orchard Pueblo site reported herein is one such location.  Tucked away near the mouth of Poñil Canyon, this site bears witness to an early (12th century)) occupation of people with a material culture somewhat like that at comparable aged sites around present-day Taos.  Poñil Creek drains into the Cimarron River of New Mexico, which, in turn, is a tributary to the South Canadian River, the southernmost of the four major rivers with headwaters in the Rocky Mountains  and with courses that flow east across the High Plains and, eventually, to rivers draining into the Mississippi.  Being in the South Canadian’s basin, the little pueblo site at Poñil Canyon’s mouth was far closer to Southern Plains villager sites along the North Canadian, Wolf Creek, and the South Canadian than was Pecos.”  (From the Preface)