Networks of Ceramic Exchange: Comparing Homol'ovi Pueblo III Pithouse and Pueblo Communities

Abstract

In the northern Southwest, archaeologists generally examine the pithouse-to-pueblo transition as a sequential change, with pueblos replacing pithouses by A.D. 1000, and argue that it reflects a fundamental reorganization of farming communities. However, in some areas, such as Homol'ovi in northeastern Arizona, pithouses continued to be inhabited into the second millennium A.D. This article examines whether the differences in the organization of pithouse and pueblo communities identified during the earlier pithouse-to-pueblo transition also existed in twelfth- and early- thirteenth- century A.D. pithouse and pueblo sites in the Homol'ovi area by comparing networks of ceramic exchange.