Migration and Change IV: The Edge of Salado What slows or halts
the geographic spread of an ideology—especially an ideology that
brings people together? In our previous work, we focused on
detecting Kayenta immigrants and determining their impacts in
communities across the southern Southwest. Kayenta immigrants
were a powerful minority with a strong identity and contagious
ideology. Salado ideology developed as local groups and these
influential immigrants lived together over generations. We have
identified communities that adopted these new ideas. Now, we
wonder, why did some local groups say “no” to Salado? In the
next phase of Archaeology Southwest’s research, we examine local
groups outside of the southern margin of Salado. At least some
of these groups continued to practice older traditions. They
were, apparently, less affected by the dramatic social changes
of the early 1300s that led to the transformation we call
Salado. We are conducting a few limited test excavations and
looking at existing artifact