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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910957653403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Salt Lake City, : University of Utah Press, c2002
• ISBN: 1-60781-788-8
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (357 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): VarienMark; WilshusenRichard H
• Disciplina: 978.8/27
• Soggetti: Pueblo Indians - Antiquities; Pueblo architecture - Colorado - Sand Canyon Pueblo; Land settlement patterns - Colorado - Sand Canyon Pueblo; Excavations (Archaeology) - Colorado - Sand Canyon Pueblo; Sand Canyon Pueblo (Colo.); San Juan Basin (N.M. and Colo.) Antiquities; Mesa Verde National Park (Colo.) Antiquities
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-333) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""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""
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.