A free online presentation by archaeologist Kathleen Barvick sponsored by the Amerind Museum, Dragoon, Arizona. 1-2pm MST (12-1 pm AZ MST). To register go to https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_99OyiTrrSg-eLyALuy5r8A#/registration or visit www.amerind.org/events.
In the late 1200s a massive drought hit the Southwest, causing political instability and sparking a massive migration as people left the Four Corners area and migrated south to settle along the rivers. This changed to social and political organization of the Southwest forever. One group of people, from the Kayenta region of northeastern Arizona, settled across a wide area of central and southern Arizona and western New Mexico, sometimes integrating into local settlements, sometimes setting up their own enclaves away from existing settlements. University of Arizona PhD candidate Kate Barvick’s research focuses on Salado Polychrome, a specific pottery ware that arose among these Kayenta immigrant communities and spread across Arizona and New Mexico. By looking at Salado Polychrome pots across the Southwest, and specifically at the variation in their shapes, she investigates how the Kayenta immigrant diaspora shared technological practices regarding pottery creation across far-flung communities in the 1300s and 1400s, how the use of Salado Polychrome spread, and how Kayenta immigrants negotiated their identities as Kayenta people and as immigrants in their new homes.