Book
Emergence and collapse of early villages: models of central mesa verde archaeology
Origins of human behavior and culture, University of California Press
2012
Abstract
Ancestral Pueblo farmers encountered the deep, well watered, and productive soils of the central Mesa Verde region of Southwest Colorado around A.D. 600, and within two centuries built some of the largest villages known up to that time in the U.S. Southwest. But one hundred years later, those villages were empty, and most people had gone. This cycle repeated itself from the mid-A.D. 1000s until 1280, when Puebloan farmers permanently abandoned the entire northern Southwest. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this book examines how climate change, population size, interpersonal conflict, res
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- Title
- Emergence and collapse of early villages
- Creators
- Timothy A Kohler (Editor) - Washington State University, Anthropology, Department ofMark D Varien (Editor) - Crow Canyon Archaeological Center
- Academic Unit
- Anthropology, Department of
- Series
- Origins of human behavior and culture
- Publisher
- University of California Press; Berkeley
- Number of pages
- 1 online resource (373 p.)
- Identifiers
- 9786613520845; 9780520951990; 0520951999; 6613520845; 9781280116551; 1280116552; 9780520270145; 0520270142; 99900590462501842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book