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Deep contestations of essentialized identity categories are a contemporary reality for communities for whom cultural patrimony of land and water resources play a crucial role. Yet, archaeology has not been able to adequately recognize the dynamics of the changing nature of ident…

The community of the Merced del Pueblo de Abiquiú in northern New Mexico has strong connections to their heritage and identity to their land grant and surrounding landscape. Abiquiuseños request an examination of the material culture found atop their most prominent land grant la…