Temporal variability in and among Chacoan Anasazi outlier communities may be successfully assessed using ceramic chronometric techniques. Ceramic group dating, mean ceramic dating, and multidimensional scaling were used to date sites in the Andrews Chacoan community in the Red Mesa Valley of northwest New Mexico. The Andrews community was found to have been occupied between the late A.D. 800s and the mid-A.D. 1000s. The Andrews great house appears to be a relatively early example of a Chacoan structure. The early dates for Andrews suggest that great house architecture in outlying communities need not signify an expansionist Chacoan presence.
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