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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Sep 29.
Published in final edited form as: J Archaeol Method Theory. 2014 Dec 28;23(1):95–126. doi: 10.1007/s10816-014-9227-6

Table 7.

Population estimates for the Tewa Basin/VEP II New Mexico study area

Period: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17
Dates: 900–1050 1050–1150 1150–1200 1200–1250 1250–1280 1280–1315 1315–1350 1350–1400 1400–1425 1425–1450 1450–1515 1515–1550 1550–1600 1600–1625 1625–1650 1650–1700 1700–1760
Use-life: 150 100 30 30 30 30 30 30 25 25 65 35 50 25 25 50 60

Houses and hamlets in the database
Velarde 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Chama 43 4 12 29 52 62 88 110 78 77 61 29 31 3 23 34 27
Santa Fe 159 160 175 133 128 154 114 93 51 51 48 37 7 0 0 0 0
Cochiti 45 317 738 1088 1187 1035 889 473 246 127 174 57 33 24 24 51 16
Pajarito 60 286 557 2281 2747 2458 914 604 355 307 189 176 83 12 11 18 18
Extrapolated momentary population of houses and hamlets
Velarde 258 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Chama 517 50 88 208 629 637 903 791 942 925 730 351 370 30 280 403 327
Santa Fe 797 804 527 402 642 661 492 280 255 255 240 186 34 0 0 0 0
Cochiti 144 1021 1428 2104 3827 2862 2457 914 792 410 562 185 106 77 77 164 53
Pajarito 147 698 814 3335 6695 5134 1910 882 865 749 461 429 201 29 27 43 43
Villages and towns in the database
Velarde 0 0 24 36 399 524 598 994 875 854 1157 1289 1029 1105 1409 2783 1532
Chama 0 33 209 206 853 1951 2606 9369 12386 10493 12414 8786 9799 718 0 0 0
Santa Fe 109 1435 2000 1580 3106 5671 6342 5980 3799 1745 1338 1462 1557 1539 3045 6033 2588
Cochiti 0 69 961 1020 4549 5522 5936 4217 3237 1880 1525 1218 1059 843 870 338 660
Pajarito 102 251 1057 1686 4816 6070 5759 4529 4947 4790 3750 2735 3180 1884 1792 864 210
Total momentary population
Velarde 258 0 24 36 399 524 598 994 875 854 1157 1289 1029 1105 1409 2783 1532
Chama 517 83 297 414 1483 2588 3509 10160 13328 11417 13144 9138 10169 748 280 403 327
Santa Fe 906 2239 2527 1981 3748 6331 6834 6260 4054 2000 1578 1649 1592 1539 3045 6033 2588
Cochiti 144 1090 2389 3124 8376 8384 8393 5132 4030 2290 2088 1403 1165 920 946 502 713
Pajarito 249 949 1871 5021 11511 11204 7668 5412 5813 5538 4211 3164 3382 1913 1819 907 253
Total 2074 4360 7107 10577 25517 29031 27003 27959 28099 22100 22177 16642 17336 6225 7499 10627 5413

Note: Due to concerns over the surface visibility of sites, no use-life correction is made for Developmental Period sites. Stratum hectares (and portions surveyed) are: Velarde, 544.5 (.0349); Chama, 2057.7 (.0382); Santa Fe, 1474.5 (.1993); Cochiti, 448.0 (.3101); Pajarito, 513.3 (.4104).