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Main Ridge Community At Lost City: Virgin Anazazi Architecture, Ceramics, and Burials

by Margaret Lyneis
University of Utah Press, 1992
Paper: 978-0-87480-411-9
Library of Congress Classification E99.P9L98 1992
Dewey Decimal Classification 979.313

TOC

  • Contents 
    • Figures
    • Tables
    • Acknowledgments
    • Chapter 1. 
    • Introduction
      • History of Lost City Investigations
        • Mark Raymond Harrington and Lost City
        • Subsequent Study of Lost City
      • Regional Chronology
      • Main Ridge: The Site and Its Setting
        • Sites and Houses
      • Recent Work at Main Ridge
      • A Framework for Analysis
    • Chapter 2. 
    • Site Layout and Architecture
      • Site Layout
      • The Houses
      • Construction Materials and Techniques
      • Interior Facilities
      • House Layouts
      • Rooms
        • Room Sizes
        • Fireplaces
        • Floors
      • A Functional Classification of Rooms
      • The Composition of Houses
      • Habitation/Storage Ratios
      • Evidence of Social Organization and Integration
      • Chronology and Superposition
      • Summary and Discussion
    • Chapter 3. 
    • Ceramics: Questions of Contemporaneity of Structures and Burials
      • Classification of the Pottery
        • Tusayan Gray Ware, Virgin Series
        • Tusayan White Ware, Virgin Series
        • Logandale Gray Ware
        • Moapa Gray Ware
        • Shivwits Plain
        • Red Wares
          • Tsegi Orange Ware
          • San Juan Red Ware
          • Sand-Tempered Red Ware
      • Ceramic Chronology
        • Wares
        • Surface Treatment (Corrugated)
        • Jar Rim Form
        • Design Styles and Elements
          • Black Mesa Analogues (St. George Style)
          • Sosi/Dogoszhi Analogues (North Creek Style)
        • Outline of a Pueblo II Ceramic Chronology for the Moapa Valley
      • Burial Chronology
      • The Sherd Collections
      • Summary and Discussion
    • Chapter 4. 
    • Variability in Main Ridge Ceramics
      • Tusayan Gray and White Wares
        • Implications for Ceramic Production
        • Implications for Analytic Methods
      • Moapa Gray Ware
      • Shivwits Plain
        • Shivwits Plain: Description
        • Shivwits Plain Vessel Forms
      • A Comparison of the Gray Ware Vessels Represented by Sherds
        • Estimate Interior Orifice Diameters
        • Rim Forms
        • Differences between the Suites of Pottery Represented by the Three Wares
      • A Comparison of Black-on-Gray Bowl Sherds of Tusayan White Ware and Moapa Gray Ware
        • Paste Texture
        • Firing Cores
        • Size and Quantity of Temper
        • Paste Colors
        • Thickness
        • Design Elements
          • Rim Elements
          • Other Elements
          • Observations Regarding Black-on-Gray Jars.
        • Explanations for Contrasts between Designs on Tusayan White Ware and Painted Moapa Gray Ware from Main Ridge
        • Comparison of Design Elements, Main Ridge and Adam 2: Implications for Ceramic Chronology
          • Black Mesa Black-on-White and the Problem of Other Black-on-White and Black-on-Gray Trade Wares
        • Red Wares
          • Painted Designs on Red Wares and Their Chronological Implications
      • Dimensional Characteristics of Whole Vessels
      • Summary
    • Chapter 5. 
    • The Burials and Their Associations
      • Mortuary Practices
      • Age and Gender of the Individuals
      • Locations of the Burials
      • Burial Position
      • Burial Orientation
      • Quantity and Kinds of Grave Goods
      • Social Differentiation
      • Burials and the Presence of Unused Rooms
      • Summary and Discussion
    • Chapter 6. 
    • Local Products and Nonlocal Goods
      • Materials with Extra-Local Origins
        • Minerals and Artifacts Made from Minerals
          • Selenite and Gypsum
          • Magnesite and “Kaolinite”
          • Turquoise
          • Copper Ore
        • Marine Shell Beads and Ornaments
          • Ceramics
      • Foods and Textiles
        • Foods
        • Cotton and Textiles
      • Summary and Discussion
    • Chapter 7. 
    • A Summary of Main Ridge
    • Chapter 8. 
    • The Far Western Anasazi, a.d. 1050–1200
      • The Moapa Valley in Mid-to-Late Pueblo II Times: Issues of Subsistence, Sedentism, and Settlement Pattern
        • Subsistence
        • Sedentism
        • Settlement Patterns and Site Hierarchy in the Moapa Valley
      • Issues in Organization and Interaction within and beyond the Virgin Anasazi in Mid-to-Late Pueblo II Times
        • Moapa Valley Salt and Turquoise Production
        • Regional Linkages
        • Regional Settlement Pattern and Site Hierarchy
        • Kivas and Kayenta-Style Architecture
        • Change and Abandonment
    • Literature Cited
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