Arroyo Hondo Pueblo

Arroyo Hondo Pueblo
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
NM State Register of Cultural Properties
Nearest city	Santa Fe, New Mexico
Area	12 acres (4.9 ha)
Built	1300 (1300)
NRHP reference No.	07000950
NMSRCP No.	1901
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	September 13, 2007
Designated NMSRCP	October 13, 2006

Arroyo Hondo Pueblo was a pueblo in the upper Rio Grande valley, New Mexico. First occupied in the 13th century, the complex grew rapidly, and at its peak in the 14th century contained up to a thousand rooms; it has been called a "pueblo boomtown". However, it was short-lived, and the site was abandoned by about 1425.

The pueblo has been the subject of a major archaeological research project since the 1970s, directed by Douglas W. Schwartz. It was listed in the United States National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

Location and environment

Arroyo Hondo Pueblo is situated atop the Arroyo Hondo gorge, a tributary of the Santa Fe River, about 8 km southeast of the city of Santa Fe, New Mexico. It is on the northeastern edge of the upper Rio Grande river basin, in the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains.

See also

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Santa Fe County, New Mexico

Further reading

• Dickson, D. Bruce (1979). Prehistoric Pueblo Settlement Patterns: The Arroyo Hondo New Mexico Site Survey (PDF). Arroyo Hondo Archeological Series, Volume 2. Santa Fe New Mexico: School of American Research Press.
• Kelley, N. Edmund (1980). The Contemporary Ecology of Arroyo Hondo, New Mexico (PDF). Arroyo Hondo Archeological Series, Volume 1. Santa Fe, New Mexico: School of American Research Press.
• Palkovich, Ann M. (1980). Pueblo Population and Society: The Arroyo Hondo Skeletal and Mortuary Remains (PDF). Arroyo Hondo Archeological Series, Volume 3. Santa Fe, New Mexico: School of American Research Press.
• Rose, Martin R.; Dean, Jeffrey S.; Robinson, William J. (1983). The Past Climate of Arroyo Hondo New Mexico Reconstructed From Tree Rings (PDF). Arroyo Hondo Archeological Series, Volume 4. Santa Fe, New Mexico: School of American Research Press.
• Lang, Richard W.; Harris, Arthur H. (1984). The Faunal Remains from Arroyo Hondo Pueblo, New Mexico (PDF). Arroyo Hondo Archeological Series, Volume 5. Santa Fe, New: School of American Research Press.
• Wetterstrom, Wilma (1986). Food, Diet and Population at Prehistoric Arroyo Hondo Pueblo, New Mexico (PDF). Arroyo Hondo Archeological Series, Volume 6. Santa Fe, New Mexico: School of American Research Press.
• Creamer, Winifred (1993). The Architecture of Arroyo Hondo Pueblo, New Mexico (PDF). Arroyo Hondo Archeological Series, Volume 7. Santa Fe, New Mexico: School of American Research Press.
• Habicht-Mauche, Judith (1993). The Pottery From Arroyo Hondo Pueblo, New Mexico (PDF). Arroyo Hondo Archeological Series, Volume 8. Santa Fe, New Mexico: School of American Research Press.
• Shapiro, Jason S. (2005). A Space Syntax Analysis of Arroyo Hondo Pueblo, New Mexico (PDF). Arroyo Hondo Archeological Series, Volume 9. Santa Fe, New Mexico: School of American Research Press.

External links

• Arroyo Hondo Pueblo Project