Arroyo Hondo Pueblo

In the Northern Rio Grande, Arroyo Hondo was a major settlement that ushered in a new configuration of large, aggregated villages during the fourteenth century. Archaeologists believe Arroyo Hondo Pueblo (LA-12) was founded by villagers who occupied the small Upper Arroyo Hondo Pueblo settlement (LA-76) about a mile upstream. Established as a de novo village, Arroyo Hondo’s rapid construction was a planned coordinated effort that incorporated dualistic notions of Tewa cosmology. The village’s panoptic architecture was a material manifestation of dualism that structured and codified the practical inequalities of everyday life.