Description
Book SynopsisThe work of the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center has focused on community life in the northern Southwest during the Great Pueblo period (AD 1150-1300).
Seeking the Center Place is the most detailed view we have ever had of the last Pueblo communities in the Mesa Verde region and will provide a better understanding of the factors that precipitated the migration of thousands of people.
Table of ContentsTable of Contents:
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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
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