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Show FHR-8-300 (11-78) United States Department off the Interior Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service National Register off Historic Places Inventory-Nomination Form Continuation sheet_____________________Item number 8____________page 1 Architecture. Because of the variation in architectural types and function and the length of occupation at Nancy Patterson, changes in architecture through time can be studied. The determination of room or area function, of building sequences, of the number of habitation rooms in use at one time, or of the frequency of rooms relative to kivas should all be possible. Research Problems: All of the data categories, of course, are interrelated and, taken together, can address several general research problems. Dr. Donald Forsyth of BYU has outlined several specific questions relevant to his research proposal for work at Nancy Patterson. Although the list below is not exhaustive, it is indicative of the research potential at Nancy Patterson. Materials from Nancy Patterson would yield information concerning: 1. the effect of increasing dependence on cultigens on population size and settlement location; 2. changes in tool technology as hunting and gathering decline in importance; 3. the effect of population growth on timber and wild floral and faunal resources; 4. the effect of extensive timber-cutting on the environment; 5. cultural responses to environmental degradation which results from other cultural activities (such as timber-cutting and farming); and 6. deforestation, erosion, overpopulation, drought or all of these as factors in the abandonment of the canyon by Pueblo peoples. Not all of these problems can be approached at the Nancy Patterson Site alone, but excavation at Nancy Patterson would provide the stratigraphic and chronological control necessary to test hypotheses in the rest of the canyon. The Nancy Patterson Nomination: Montezuma Canyon as a whole certainly warrants nomination as an archeological district and research for such a nomination is proceeding. However, the Nancy Patterson Site also warrants nomination as an individual site. Due to its size and artifactual richness, the site is in imminent danger and needs present protection. Its owner has been deeply concerned with preserving the site for archeological investigation and has invited BYU to begin such investigations. If the site is not protected or investigated, whole-scale looting may quickly destroy all scientific information at the site, The site's size, location and composition make it unique among all the sites in Montezuma Canyon. Its need for protection is immediate and real. Therefore, the Nancy Patterson Site is nominated by itself. |
