Tijeras Pueblo at the Crossroads: A Review of Previous Research and Site Significance

Abstract

This paper provides an overview of the Tijeras Pueblo archaeological site. Highlighting Tijeras Pueblo as a community located at a cultural, geographical, and temporal crossroad, the paper attempts to place Tijeras Pueblo within a broader academic and social context. The excavation history of the site will be discussed, along with previous research, and past and modern significance. In its current context, Tijeras Pueblo has become of center of archaeological and cultural education and a place where knowledge is both created and disseminated. Occupying a very public space in the community, the site and its collections have become teaching tools for a new generation of professional and avocational archaeologists and for the greater Albuquerque community.