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The Southwest Athapaskan Equation. Enclave Ideology in the Colonization of New Mexico by the Jicarilla Apaches.

Paper Presented at the SAA 73^rd Annual Meeting
Vancouver, British Columbia
March 26 - 30, 2007

Jicarilla Apache movement from the Plains into the northern Rio Grande after 1730 is marked by changes in settlement, economy, and landscape connections. This process of “enclavement” was facilitated by the occupation of open ecological niches created by the Spanish land grant system and expansion of trade to include new ethnic groups on the frontier of Colonial settlement. Micaceous clay source utilization and archaeological site distributions map the personified universe of the Jicarilla and reveal the essential underpinnings of the enclave ideology supporting colonization. Similar strategies may have conditioned prehistoric population movements on the plains and Athapaskan migration more generally.

Enclave Economy and Ceramic Exchange: Historic and Archaeological Evidence from the Northern Rio Grande of New Mexico

Paper Presented at the SAA 72^nd Annual Meeting
Austin, Texas
April 25 - 29, 2007

Sunday Eiselt

Starting in the mid-1700s, the Jicarilla Apaches established an enclave community in the northern Rio Grande of New Mexico. Enclavement was accompanied by a reorganization of settlement pattern and female labor as the result of decreased access to large bison herds, meat, and hides for exchange. Ceramic manufacturing was elevated to fill this gap in Jicarilla economy and perpetuate mutualistic trade with Hispanic villagers. Archaeological evidence from the Rio del Oso Valley, a tributary of the Chama, provides a rare glimpse into the process of ethnic specialization and the nature of forager-farmer relations in state and frontier economies.

Recent Advances in Provenance Research Along the Middle Gila River Valley Using Time of Flight Laser Ablation-Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS)

Poster Presented at the SAA 72^nd Annual Meeting
Austin, Texas
April 25 - 29, 2007

J. Andrew Darling, Hector Neff, B. Sunday Eiselt, Linda Newman

Chemical-based provenance research is new to Hohokam ceramic studies, which have long been dominated by petrographic techniques. One of the challenges of the petrographic approach is our inability to characterize mica schist-tempered pottery and assign it to source. A second involves the effects of raw clay selection on provenance assignments. Recent research in the Gila River Indian Community utilizes oral history and consultation with Native potters to refine source sampling and interpret trace element patterns using LA-ICP-MS. The study is unique for its location and for its potential contribution as an adjunct to long-standing, labor intensive petrographic analyses.

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