Wade Campbell Archaeology of Southwest Blog

  • By: Maria H. Sousa
Professor Wade Campbell wrote a post some of his summer work in New Mexico at Chaco Canyon. He writes” (November 8, 2022)—I am a Diné archaeologist whose research explores a variety of Navajo-focused archaeohistorical topics from across Diné Bikeyah—Navajoland—an area that extends beyond the borders of the modern Navajo Nation to include much of the greater Four Corners region. To date, much of my work has focused on the history of Dinétah—the ancestral Diné heartland along the Upper San Juan River in northwestern New Mexico and southwestern Colorado—while other projects consider the more recent history of reservation-era Navajo life in areas like Black Mesa and the Chuska Mountains. However, when Paul Reed approached me at the 2019 Pecos Conference to see if I’d be interested in participating in a planned Diné-focused cultural landscape inventory assessment (CLIS) of the Chaco Culture National Historical Park, I knew it was an offer I couldn’t refuse!”
To read the entire post please click on the following link, https://www.archaeologysouthwest.org/2022/11/08/the-dine-history-of-chaco-canyon/
“A shot of the other Archaeology Southwest project members surveying for sites along Chaco Wash, with the canyon’s iconic landmark Fajada Butte in the background.”
“The summer was a relatively wet one in the Southwest, and the fieldwork at Chaco was done with a close eye on the sky. The roads periodically washed out, however, and not every visitor to the park made it unscathed…”
“A beautiful rim sherd from a Gobernador Polychrome vessel. The style was typical of decorated Navajo pottery in northwest New Mexico from about AD 1630 to around AD 1775.”
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