Current Interpretations

By 1300 the Victorio Site was no longer occupied while Pinnacle Ruin remained a viable, thriving community. In other areas of the Tularosa region, sites like Victorio were abandoned and there was a general retreat toward Zuni. The Victorio Site population either joined this movement or was incorporated by the newcomers whose carbon paint tradition was soon extinguished in favor of the Zuni glaze ware sequence. Thus, both populations had become a part of the Zuni system by the middle 1300s. Simultaneously, populations to the south, including many that must have been Mimbres descendents were thoroughly enmeshed in a system revolving around the prosperous trading center of Casas Grandes. There is little material evidence that this extensive southern trade network of large adobe pueblos interacted to any great extent with the Zuni system. By 1400, the Cañada Alamosa was abandoned by pueblo populations and its long sequence as a pueblo frontier came to an end.

 

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