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The Gallina Phase104

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

Frank C. Hibben
Frank C. Hibben*
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico
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Following a recent recrudescence of interest in the archaeology of Athabascan-speaking peoples in the Southwest, and in Navaho archaeology in particular, numerous students have entered upon various projects in this field. North central New Mexico has seemed to offer the most fertile center for such studies, inasmuch as early historic records place the Navahos in this area and the archaeological remains seem to corroborate this testimony.

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Research Article
Information
American Antiquity , Volume 4 , Issue 2 , October 1938 , pp. 131 - 136
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1938

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Footnotes

104

“Phase” is used in this sense according to the McKern classification. This would correspond perhaps to the designation “branch” in the Gila Pueblo system. That it is a distinct cultural manifestation seems evident from the data here presented.

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106 Material which is apparently affiliated with the Gallina Phase appeared in American Antiquity, Vol. 3, No. 3, January, 1938, in an article entitled, Some Aspects of the Largo Phase, by H. P. Mera. Although undoubtedly connected with the Gallina problem, the Largo is on the other side of the Continental Divide from and peripheral to the Gallina country.

107 This is especially interesting in the light of the Hopi terraced gardens.

108 Subsequent research has demonstrated that part at least of this slag is due to pottery vessels fused into a froth structure. This raises many interesting questions concerning the chemical constituents of the ceramics in question, and intense heat caused by burning maize.

109 An interesting series of Gallina pottery pieces in the collection from the excavations at Aztec, New Mexico, are ample evidence of connection.