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Seeking the center place : archaeology and ancient communities in the Mesa Verde region / edited by Mark D. Varien and Richard H. Wilshusen.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pueblo Indians--Antiquities.
- Pueblo Indians.
- Pueblo architecture--Colorado--Sand Canyon Pueblo.
- Pueblo architecture.
- Land settlement patterns--Colorado--Sand Canyon Pueblo.
- Land settlement patterns.
- Excavations (Archaeology)--Colorado--Sand Canyon Pueblo.
- Excavations (Archaeology).
- Sand Canyon Pueblo (Colo.).
- San Juan Basin (N.M. and Colo.)--Antiquities.
- San Juan Basin (N.M. and Colo.).
- Mesa Verde National Park (Colo.)--Antiquities.
- Mesa Verde National Park (Colo.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (357 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, c2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The continuing work of the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center has focused on community life in the northern Southwest during the Great Pueblo period (AD 1150- 1300).Researchers have been able to demonstrate that during the last Puebloan occupation of the area the majority of the population lived in dispersed communities and large villages.
- Contents:
- ""Contents""; ""Figures and Tables""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Part 1. Localities, Regions, And Communities:Long-Term Research at Crow Canyon""; ""1. A Partnership for Understanding the Past: Crow Canyon Research in the Central Mesa Verde Region""; ""2. The Ancestral Pueblo Community as Structure and Strategy""; ""3. Sand Canyon Pueblo: The Container in the Center ""; ""Part 2. Environment And Population:The Foundation for Inquiry""; ""4. Environment-Behavior Relationships in Southwestern Colorado""; ""5. Estimating Population in the Central Mesa Verde Region""
- ""Part 3. Plants And Animals:Subsistence and Sustainability""""6. Sustainable Landscape: Thirteenth-Century Food and Fuel Use in the Sand Canyon Locality""; ""7. Faunal Variation and Change in the Northern San Juan Region""; ""Part 4. People And Their Communities:Movement, Interaction, Social Power, Conflict""; ""8. Persistent Communities and Mobile Households: Population Movement in the Central Mesa Verde Region, A.D. 950 to 1290""; ""9. Measuring Community Interaction: Pueblo III Pottery Production and Distribution in the Central Mesa Verde Region ""
- ""10. Social Power in the Central Mesa Verde Region, A.D. 1150-1290""""11. Thirteenth-Century Warfare in the Central Mesa Verde Region""; ""Part 5. Community: The Past in the Present""; ""12. Native American Perspectives on Sand Canyon Pueblo and Other Ancestral Sites""; ""13. Concepts of Community in Archaeological Research""; ""References""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-333) and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-60781-788-8
- OCLC:
- 646790303
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