Abstract
ABSTRACT This article investigates the context, dating, and character of Ancestral Pueblo building murals at multiple scales in one of the least-studied areas of the northern US Southwest. The study focuses on developing a diachronic seriation of Ancestral Pueblo mural styles in the Cedar Mesa area of the Bears Ears and Natural Bridges National Monuments in southeastern Utah. In this process, I evaluate prior discussions of the function and dating of murals in the region during the recent and ancient past. This seriation is built using a combination of newly developed methods for dating mural creation and use with dendrochronology and augmented with previously published data. Using the Cedar Mesa area as a case study, I demonstrate the methods used to create the mural seriation, using aspects of technological style to identify communities of building mural practice shared at the site and subregional scales over the 12th and 13th centuries a.d.
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