Tsama Pueblo

Tsama Pueblo
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Tsama bowl, an example of Rio Grande White Ware
Nearest city	Abiquiu, New Mexico
Area	24.3 acres (9.8 ha)
NRHP Reference #	83004158[1]
Added to NRHP	November 17, 1983

The Tsama Pueblo is a Tewa Pueblo ancestral site in an address-restricted area of Abiquiú, New Mexico. It was occupied from around 1250 until around 1500 and contained 1100 rooms.^[2] The site and others in the area were explored by Florence Hawley Ellis in the 1960s and 1970s.^[3] In 1983, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places listings in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico.^[4] Tsama is located 3 miles (4.8 km) from the Poshuouinge site.^[5] The Sapawe site is closely related.^[6] In December 2008, The Archaeological Conservancy extended the Tsama Archaeological Preserve by 11.6523 acres, mostly cobble mulch garden plots which were likely once constructed by the residents of Tsama Pueblo.^[7]

References

1. National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
2. Killion, Thomas W. (1992). Gardens of prehistory: the archaeology of settlement agriculture in Greater Mesoamerica. Society for American Archaeology. Meeting, University of Alabama Press. p. 56. ISBN 978-0-8173-0565-9. Retrieved 27 September 2011.
3. Kass-Simon, Gabriele (February 1993). Women of science: righting the record. Indiana University Press. p. 24. ISBN 978-0-253-20813-2. Retrieved 27 September 2011.
4. Capace, Nancy. Encyclopedia of New Mexico. North American Book Dist LLC. pp. 322–. ISBN 978-0-403-09607-7. Retrieved 27 September 2011.
5. Koenig, Harriet (March 2005). Acculturation in the Navajo Eden: New Mexico, 1550-1750, Archaeology, Language, Religion of the Peoples of the Southwest. YBK Publishers, Inc. pp. 90–. ISBN 978-0-9764359-1-4. Retrieved 26 September 2011.
6. Baker, Lee A.; Sundt, William M. (1990). Clues to the past: papers in honor of William M. Sundt. Archaeological Society of New Mexico. p. 89. Retrieved 27 September 2011.
7. "The Archaeological Conservancy 2008 Annual Report" (PDF). Archaeological Conservancy. Retrieved 27 September 2011.

Coordinates: 36°11′43″N 106°12′52″W / 36.1953174°N 106.2145758°W