Title Seeking the center place : archaeology and ancient communities in the Mesa Verde region / edited by Mark D. Varien and Richard H. Wilshusen

Published Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, ©2002

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 344 pages) : illustrations, maps Contents Part 1. Localities, Regions, And Communities: Long-Term Research at Crow Canyon -- Part 2. Environment And Population: The Foundation for Inquiry -- Part 3. Plants And Animals: Subsistence and Sustainability -- Part 4. People And Their Communities: Movement, Interaction, Social Power, Conflict -- Part 5. Community: The Past in the Present Summary "The continuing work of the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center has focused on community life in the central Mesa Verde region during the Great Pueblo period (A.D. 1150-1300). Researchers document the dramatic change in settlement that occurred during the last Puebloan occupation of the area, from communities of small, scattered farmsteads to large, aggregated villages. They also show that the largest villages and the majority of the population lived on the Great Sage Plain, rather than at nearby Mesa Verde. Their work examines the reasons for population aggregation, and why centuries of occupation ultimately ended with a migration south of the San Juan River, leaving the region depopulated by A.D. 1290." "Seeking the Center Place is the most detailed view we have ever had of the last Pueblo communities in the Mesa Verde region. It provides a deep appreciation for life in those ancient communities and a better understanding of the factors that precipitated the migration of thousands of people."--Jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-333) and index Notes Print version record Subject Pueblo Indians -- Antiquities. Pueblo architecture -- Colorado -- Sand Canyon Pueblo Land settlement patterns -- Colorado -- Sand Canyon Pueblo Excavations (Archaeology) -- Colorado -- Sand Canyon Pueblo HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX) HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) Antiquities Excavations (Archaeology) Land settlement patterns Pueblo architecture Pueblo Indians -- Antiquities Indigenes Volk Ausgrabung SUBJECT Sand Canyon Pueblo (Colo.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh93000810 San Juan Basin (N.M. and Colo.) -- Antiquities Mesa Verde National Park (Colo.) -- Antiquities Subject Colorado -- Mesa Verde National Park Colorado -- Sand Canyon Pueblo United States -- San Juan Basin Mesa-Verde-Gebiet Form Electronic book Author Varien, Mark Wilshusen, Richard H ISBN 9780874807356 0874807352 0874808545 9780874808544 9781607817888 1607817888

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