Archaeology Southwest Magazine Vol. 34, No. 4

Issue editor: Paul F. Reed

The Middle San Juan region lies midway between Chaco Canyon and the Greater Mesa Verde region. Compared to Mesa Verde and Chaco, the Middle San Juan was very well watered for much of the last 2,000 years, with three major drainages and more than half of the Four Corners’ water moving across the region from east to west.

As the region developed through the Pueblo era, it became a cultural middle ground, as well. At present, much of our understanding of the region in its heyday—the Chaco and post-Chaco eras—is anchored in the great house communities known as Salmon Ruins (Salmon Pueblo) and Aztec Ruins (Aztec Community).

Footprints in the Middle San Juan, Paul F. Reed

Archaeology Southwest Magazine Vol. 24, No. 3, Social Identity in the Northern San Juan, edited by Paul F. Reed. (Opens as a PDF)

Reed, Paul F.

2011  Chacoan Immigration or Emulation of the Chacoan System? The Emergence of Aztec, Salmon, and Other Great House Communities in the Middle San Juan. Kiva 77(2):119–138.

Reed, Paul F. (editor)

2006  Thirty-Five Years of Archaeological Research at Salmon Ruins, New Mexico, 3 vols. Center for Desert Archaeology, Tucson, and Salmon Ruins Museum, Bloomfield, New Mexico.

2008  Chaco’s Northern Prodigies: Salmon Aztec, and the Ascendancy of the Middle San Juan Region after AD 1100. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.

Spotlight: Chaco’s Legacy, Paul F. Reed

Pueblo Perspectives on the Middle San Juan Region, Ben Chavarria, Adam Duran, Stewart Koyiyumptewa, Fermin Lopez, Octavius Seowtewa, and Paul F. Reed

Hopi Tribe

Pueblo of Acoma

Pueblo of Pojoaque

Pueblo of Santa Clara

Pueblo of Zuni

Patterns of Migration and Emulation in the Middle San Juan, Paul F. Reed

Reed, Paul F.

2011  Middle San Juan Settlement Patterns: Searching for Chacoan Immigrants and Evidence of Local Emulation on the Landscape. Kiva 77(2):225–249.

Spotlight: Chacoan-Built vs. Locally Built Great Houses, Paul F. Reed

Salmon Pueblo, a Residential Town on the San Juan River, Paul F. Reed

Salmon Ruins Museum

Salmon Pueblo Archaeological Research Collection

Archaeology Southwest Magazine Vol. 20, No. 3 — Salmon Pueblo: Chacoan Outlier and Thirteenth-Century Middle San Juan Community Center, edited by Paul F. Reed (opens as a PDF)

Reed, Paul F. (editor)

2006  Thirty-Five Years of Archaeological Research at Salmon Ruins, New Mexico, 3 vols. Center for Desert Archaeology, Tucson, and Salmon Ruins Museum, Bloomfield, New Mexico.

Spotlight: Cynthia Irwin-Williams, Paul F. Reed

Video about Irwin-Williams produced by Eastern New Mexico University

Spotlight: Larry Baker, Paul F. Reed

The Aztec Community: A Chacoan Legacy, Aron Adams and Lori Stephens Reed

Aztec Ruins National Monument

Spotlight: Earl Halstead Morris, Kate Sarther

Lister, Florence C., and Robert H. Lister
1968  Earl Morris & Southwestern Archaeology. The University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque.

University of Colorado Museum
1985  Among Ancient Ruins: The Legacy of Earl H. Morris. Introduction by Joe Ben Wheat. Johnson Books, Boulder.

Spotlight: Earl Morris’s Aztec Files, Erin L. Baxter

Earl Morris Archive

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Enigma on the Animas: Aztec North, Michelle I. Turner and Ruth Van Dyke

Spotlight: Stewarding Aztec, Denise Robertson

Great House Architecture at Aztec West and East, Gary M. Brown

Brown, Gary M., and Cheryl I. Paddock

2011  Chacoan and Vernacular Architecture at Aztec Ruins: Putting Chaco in Its Place. Kiva 77(2):203–224.

Identifying Local and Immigrant Potters in the Middle San Juan, Lori Stephens Reed

Washburn, Dorothy K., and Lori Stephens Reed

2011  A Design and Technological Study of Hatched Ceramics: Tracking Chacoan Migrants in the Middle San Juan. Kiva 77(2):173–201.

Clothing Traditions of the Middle San Juan, Laurie D. Webster

Erratum: “…the Kayenta area, which was known to be an important cotton-textile production location in the 1600s” should read 1200s.

Spotlight: Ritual Wooden Artifacts from Aztec West, Laurie D. Webster

This article is abridged and updated from an earlier article published in Archaeology Southwest Magazine Vol. 28, No. 1, Chaco’s Legacy (opens as a PDF).

Webster, Laurie D.

2011  Perishable Ritual Artifacts at the West Ruin of Aztec, New Mexico: Evidence for a Chacoan Migration. Kiva 77(2):139–171.

Sandals, Symbols, and Social Identities in the Middle San Juan and Beyond, Benjamin A. Bellorado and Edward A. Jolie

American Museum of Natural History, Division of Anthropology, Collections Database

Preservation Spotlight: The Walls Do Speak, Fred M. Blackburn

Farmington Daily Times article on the project (2020)

Back Sight, William H. Doelle