美国西南部是皮埃布罗(Pueblo)印第安人的故乡,主要分布在阿利桑那州、新墨西哥州、克罗拉多州和犹他州等地。这些印第安人的文化自公元前700年到20世纪初,变化速度缓慢,文化结构稳定,又有大量的民族学资料作参考,是了解史前文化社会结构的理想地区。这里的考古工作从本世纪初一直在全美洲处于领先地位:地层学、序列排队法、地区性年代序列的建立等等,均出自这一地区①。这些工作使得某些时段的编年可以通过地层 The home of the Pueblo Indians in the southwestern United States is home to Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Utah. From 700 BC to the early 20th century, the cultures of these Indians are slow to change and have a stable cultural structure. There are also a large number of ethnographic materials for reference. They are ideal areas for understanding the social and cultural prehistoric cultures. Archeology here has been a leader throughout the Americas from the turn of the century: stratigraphy, sequential queuing, the establishment of regional chronological sequences, etc., all from this region. These efforts have allowed chronological passage of some periods through the strata