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Astialakwa
Astialakwa Archeological District
Native names

Jemez Pueblo.
TypePrehistoric/historic aboriginal
LocationSanta Fe National Forest
Nearest cityJemez Springs, Sandoval County, New Mexico, USA
CoordinatesLocation restricted
Elevation6,975 feet
Builtprior to 1500 AD
Built forhabitation, agriculture, fortification, refuge
Demolished1694
ArchitectAncestral Puebloans
Architectural style(s)Linear plaza ladder-type construction

Astialakwa (

Jemez Springs area of Northern New Mexico
. The archeological area is on the National Register of Historic Places (ID# 84003010). The location is restricted from access.

Description

Astialakwa was a fortified pueblo village near

Tanoan language
. Astialaka shares architectural similarities with the former pueblos of
petroglyphs and other rock art, defensive walls, and agricultural areas.[1][3][4][5] The periods of significance were 1500-1599 and between 1600 and 1649.[1]

History

Ground plan of Astialakwa pueblo (area b. in drawing) by Hewitt (1906)

Historically, the Jemez people lived in seven or more pueblos before the conquest of

don Diego de Vargas reconquered Nuevo Mexico and in 1694 stormed the fortress of Astialakwa in a siege.[6]

Battle of Astialakwa

The

Keresan-speaking allied militia from the Zia, Santa Ana and San Felipe pueblos, waged war against the Jemez Pueblo indigenous peoples. Eighty-four Jemez people died in the battle, while 81 people escaped. Over three hundred and sixty Native women and children were taken prisoner by the Spanish soldiers. Seven people leapt to their death instead of being captured.[7] After the battle, Vargas ordered the village to be “burned and reduced to ashes”[8] after giving the sheep, goats, cattle and maize to his Keres allies.[7] Some who escaped were taken in by the Diné peoples to the west.[9]

The battle was in part retaliation for the Pueblo Revolt, when over 30 Pueblo villages made up of peoples speaking six languages banded together in a unified uprising against the Spanish colonialist forces; culminating in the death of 401 Spanish on August 10, 1680.[7]

Descendants of the survivors of Astialakwa continue to dwell and share their culture at

Jemez Pueblo
not far from Guadalupe Mesa.

Gallery

Astialakwa Archeological District is located near Jemez Pueblo, NM, USA. Access to the site is restricted.

See also

References

  1. ^
    ISBN 9780826342461
    . Retrieved October 23, 2020.
  2. ^ Hewett, Edgar Lee (1906). "Antiquities of the Jemez Plateau, New Mexico". Bulletin of the Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology. 32. Retrieved October 23, 2020.
  3. doi:10.1006/jaar.1999.0336
    .
  4. ^ Liebmann, Matthew (2006). "Burn the Churches, Break up the Bells: The Archaeology of the Pueblo Revolt Revitalization Movement in New Mexico, AD 1680–1696". PhD Dissertation, University of Pennsylvania.
  5. ^ Hendricks, Rick; Preucel, Robert W. (2002). Pueblo-Spanish Warfare in Seventeenth-Century New Mexico: The Battles of Black Mesa, Kotyiti, and Astialakwa Archaeologies of the Pueblo Revolt. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. pp. 181–197.
  6. ^ Bowden, J.J. "Pueblo of Jemez Grant". New Mexico History. Retrieved October 23, 2020.
  7. ^ a b c Liebmann, Matt (September 2010). "The Battle of Astialakwa: Conflict Archaeology of the Spanish Reconquest in Northern New Mexico" (PDF). The SAA Archeological Record: 40–42. Retrieved October 23, 2020.
  8. ISBN 978-0826318671
    .
  9. ISBN 978-0-87358-724-2
    .

Further reading

Cordell, Linda S. Before Pecos: Settlement Aggregation at Rowe, New Mexico. Maxwell Museum of Anthropology Anthropologica Papers No. 6. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque. 1998

Creamer, Winifred. The Architecture of Arroyo Hondo Pueblo, New Mexico. Arroyo Hondo Archaeological Series 7. 1993

Kidder, Alfred Vincent. Pecos, New Mexico: Archaeological Notes. Papers of the Peabody Foundation for Archaeology 5. Phillips Academy, Andover. 1958

LeBlanc, Steven A. Prehistoric Warfare in the American Southwest. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City. 1999

Noel Hume, Ivor. Archaeology: Handmaiden to History. North Carolina Historical Review Volume 41, No.2), pages 214-225. 1964

Sando, Joe S. Pueblo Nations: Eight Centuries of Pueblo Indian History. Clear Light Publishers, Santa Fe, pages 297. 1998

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