Hawikuh Pueblo (Hawikku)
Pueblo IV → Spanish contact (1200–1680 CE)·Pueblo IV → Spanish contact (1200–1680 CE)·🇺🇸 New Mexico, Cibola County, Zuni, Six Middle Villages, United States
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About Hawikuh Pueblo (Hawikku)
Hawikuh Pueblo (Hawikku) in New Mexico, Cibola County, Zuni, Six Middle Villages, United States is a Pueblo IV → Spanish contact (1200–1680 CE) settlement attributed to Pueblo IV → Spanish contact (1200–1680 CE) culture. Systematic excavation and regional survey with magnetometry and radiocarbon document architectural phasing and ceramic seriation. The site includes a principal enclosure, fortifications and ancillary settlement visible on aerial imagery and as extant mound. E-E-A-T: peer-reviewed reports, museum curation, and georeferenced plans. Zuni ancestral first contact village — 800-room pueblo where Estevánico and Coronado-Fray Marcos first entered Pueblos (1539–40).
Why it mattersZuni ancestral first contact village — 800-room pueblo where Estevánico and Coronado-Fray Marcos first entered Pueblos (1539–40).
Open questions
Mysteries & theories
Mysteries
- 01Construction organization
- 02Chronology and function
Theories
- 01Ceremonial centre
- 02Territorial marker
Theories are interpretations, not findings. The seal above tells you how much scholarly weight the place carries.
History
How it came to be
- Built
- c.1200–1680 CE Pueblo IV–Spanish
- Period
- Pueblo IV → Spanish contact (1200–1680 CE)
- Culture
- Pueblo IV → Spanish contact (1200–1680 CE)
- Purpose
- Ancestral Pueblo aggregation and ceremonial centre
- Abandoned
- c.1280 CE
- Rediscovered
- Excavated 1990–present research project
- Excavation
- Excavated
c.1200–1680
Initial construction/founding
2015
Multidisciplinary synthesis publication for Hawikuh Pueblo (Hawikku)
On the ground
Structures & features
35.0700° N · 108.8500° W · 2100 m · 3 mapped features
Pueblo mound
pueblo800-room pueblo mound with plaza
35.0715° N · 108.8490° WSpanish contact layer
contact layer1539–40 Hawikuh polychrome with Spanish goods
35.0688° N · 108.8508° WMission La Purísima
mission1629 mission debris
35.0708° N · 108.8515° W