T'aitona (Pot Creek) Pueblo
T'aitona (also call Pot Creek) Pueblo was inhabited between 1100 and 1350 CE by Northern Tiwa speaking people. After 200 years of habitation and growth, the pueblo was destroyed in a fire, and, a schism developed among the residents. They split into 2 groups and built Picuris Pueblo and Taos Pueblo, several miles and in diferent directions from T'aitona; they live in these two pueblos today. The Northern Tiwas people speak the same language as the Southern Tiwa, who are centered in Isletta Pueble, just south of Albuquerque, NM.
Elevation is 2286 meters (7500 feet) above sea level.
Coordinates: 36°16'33.0"N 105°34'28.7"W
36.275831, -105.574651
Materials of Construction: Walls of adobe mud, log roof support structure, brush over split cedar purlins, and mud/clay roofing.
Data for CG model:
1. Wetherington, Ronald K., 1968."Excavations at Pot Creek Pueblo", Fort Burgwin Research Center, Number 6, 1968.
2. Fowles, Severin M., and Ford, Richard I., 2004. The Making of made people: The prehistoric evolution of hierocracy among the Northern Tiwa of New Mexico, PhD Dissertation, University of Michigan 1968.
3. Fowles, Severin M. 2005. Historical Contingency and the Prehistoric Foundations of Moiety Organization among the Eastern Pueblos. Article in Journal of Anthropological Research · March 2005.
4. Adler, Michael, 1992. Archaeological Investigations at Pot Creek Pueblo (LA260, TA-1) and the Archuleta Site (TA-25, PC 58) Taos County, New Mexico: 1992 Field Season, ARMS, NM HPD Office of Cultural Affairs Collection, National Archeological Database (NADB)