Culture and Ecology of Chaco Canyon and the San Juan Basin

342 Chaco Project Synthesisgroups, in tum, condition investment inand organization of ceremonial orgamzation.(A. Johnson 1997:70-71)To link her results with archaeological evidence,A. Johnson evaluated integrative structures (i.e.,men's houses, society houses, rehearsal halls, andstructures reserved for ceremonial purposes) againstthe total population of historic pueblos (A. Johnson1997:71). A relationship was found. She also linkedthe divergence in the scale of integrative architecturewith that on the scale of labor organization. "Puebloswith a more-diverse, predominantly dry-farminghorticultural adaptation with both land tenure andperiodic work parties organized by relatively largeeconomically cooperative units--