Howiri: Excavation at a Northern Rio Grande Biscuit Ware Site

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Authors: Fallon, Denise and Wening, Karen

Publisher: Laboratory of Anthropology

Pub Date: 1987

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair to Good.  Binding tight.  No marks, tears, bends or folds.  Includes two fold-outs.  Smudging to bottom text block.  Light edge and corner wear.  Appears unused.

Notes: Laboratory of Anthropology Notes 261b.  “Howiri, a large Pueblo IV site, is located along Ojo Caliente Creek about 2 mi. north of the town of Ojo Caliente.  Across the river from Howiri is Hupobi, another large PIII-PIV site.  Howiri covers approximately 19.3 acres (7.8 ha)….3600 sq. m., or about 2% was stripped or excavated.  Excavation and analysis indicated a short, continuous occupation of the site near the end of the Pueblo IV period.”  (From the Administrative Summary).  Biscuit Wares are distinctive pottery types, their name suggested by their resemblance to porcelain in its preliminary or “biscuit” stage of manufacturing.  “The center of Biscuit Ware area is the confluence of the Rio Grande and the Rio Chama…a ‘total of but fifty-eight sites is included in this area, showing, as measured by general standards of the southwestern field, a strikingly restricted cultural group.’ “( A Survey of the Biscuit Ware Area in Northern New Mexico, Mera, H.P., 1934, Laboratory of Anthropology, Technical Series Bulletin No. 6)  (Pages 9-10)