title: Pecos, New Mexico: Archaeological Notes
author: Alfred Vincent Kidder
description: The archaeological work of Phillips Academy in the upper Pecos Valley was carried on between 1915 and 1929, a total of ten field seasons having been devoted to the ruins of the great Pueblo of Pecos and to various smaller, earlier sites in the vicinity. The Pecos project was planned at a time when so little was known of Southwestern archaeology that I believed it possible that the work might throw light on the origin of Pueblo culture. The early years of the investigation proved, however, that the Pecos region did not come to be inhabited by people of that culture until it had not only passed through its formative stages elsewhere, but was reaching, in the San Juan drainage, its highest efflorescence during the period that has been called Great Pueblo or Pueblo III.
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  Historical Introduction to Studies Among the Sedentary Indians of New Mexico
  
  
    
  
  
    
  [I. HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION.  
  
  
    
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  [II. A VISIT TO THE ABORIGINAL RUINS IN THE VALLEY OF THE RIO PECOS.  
  
  
    
  [GRANT OF 1689 TO THE PUEBLO OF PECOS.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # Historical Introduction to Studies Among the Sedentary Indians of New Mexico
  
  
  ### Adolphus Bandelier
  
  
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  [I. HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION.
  
  
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  [II. A VISIT TO THE ABORIGINAL RUINS IN THE VALLEY OF THE RIO PECOS.
  
  
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  [GRANT OF 1689 TO THE PUEBLO OF PECOS.
  
  
  
  
  
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  Papers of the Archæological Institute of America.
  
  AMERICAN SERIES.
  
  
  Volume I
  
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