Seeking the Center Place: Archaeology and Ancient Communities in the Mesa Verde Region

Author:   Mark D. Varien ,  Richard H. Wilshusen
Publisher:   University of Utah Press,U.S.
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Pages:   344
Publication Date:   30 August 2016
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Author:   Mark D. Varien ,  Richard H. Wilshusen
Publisher:   University of Utah Press,U.S.
Imprint:   University of Utah Press,U.S.
Weight:   0.640kg
ISBN:  

9780874808544


ISBN 10:   0874808545
Pages:   344
Publication Date:   30 August 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
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Table of Contents: Figures Acknowledgments Part I. 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 ~ Mark D. Varien and Richard H. Wilshusen 2. The Ancestral Pueblo Community as Structure and Strategy ~ Michael A. Adler 3. Sand Canyon Pueblo: The Container in the Center ~ Scott G. Ortman and Bruce A. Bradley Part II. Environment and Population: The Foundation for Inquiry 4. Environment-Behavior Relationships in Southwestern Colorado ~ Jeffrey S. Dean and Carla R. Van West 5. Estimating Population in the Central Mesa Verde Region ~ Richard H. Wilshusen Part 3. Plants and Animals: Subsistence and Sustainability 6. Sustainable Landscape: Thirteenth-Century Food and Fuel Use in the Sand Canyon Locality ~ Karen R. Adams and Vandy E. Bowyer 7. Faunal Variation and Change in the Northern San Juan Region ~ Jonathan C. Driver 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. 950-1290 ~ Mark D. Varien 9. Measuring Community Interaction: Pueblo III Pottery Production and Distribution in the Central Mesa Verde Region ~ Christopher Pierce, Donna M. Glowacki, and Margaret M. Thurs 10. Social Power in the Central Mesa Verde Region, A.D. 1150-1290 ~ William D. Lipe 11. Thirteenth-Century Warfare in the Central Mesa Verde Region ~ Kristin A. Kuckelman Part 5. Community: The Past in the Present 12. Native American Perspectives on Sand Canyon Pueblo and Other Ancestral Sites ~ Ian Thompson 13. Concepts of Community in Archaeological Research ~ Michelle Hegmon References Contributors Index

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"""This broad-based research effort will provide a model for other projects, in and outside of archaeology.""--David Breternitz, emeritus professor of anthropology, University of Colorado"


This broad-based research effort will provide a model for other projects, in and outside of archaeology. --David Breternitz, emeritus professor of anthropology, University of Colorado


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