The Mesa Verde world : explorations in ancestral Pueblo archaeology /

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Edition:1st ed.
Imprint:Santa Fe, N.M. : School of American Research Press, 2006.
Description:xviii, 182 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 29 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6100585
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Other authors / contributors:Noble, David Grant.
ISBN:1930618743 (cl : alk. paper)
1930618751 (pa : alk. paper)
9781930618749
Notes:"A School of American Research popular southwestern archaeology book."
Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-174) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • A short archaeological chronology for the Mesa Verde region
  • 1. Through the looking glass : the environment of the ancient Mesa Verdeans / Karen R. Adams
  • 2. The earliest Mesa Verdeans : hunters, foragers, and first farmers / Mona Charles
  • 3. The genesis of pueblos : innovations between 500 and 900 C.E. / Richard H. Wilshusen
  • 4. The Mesa Verde region during Chaco times / William D. Lipe
  • 5. Turbulent times in the Mesa Verde world / Mark D. Varien
  • 6. "We came from the South, we came from the North" : some Tewa origin stories / Tessie Naranjo
  • 7. Craft arts of the Mesa Verde / Richard W. Lang
  • 8. Simulation and imagination fistfight in the Mesa Verde / Timothy A. Kohler
  • 9. Mesa Verdean sacred landscapes / Winston Hurst and Jonathan Till
  • 10. The cosmic and the sacred at Yellow Jacket Pueblo and Mesa Verde / J. McKim Malville
  • 11. Imagery and tradition : murals of the Mesa Verde region / Sally J. Cole
  • 12. Ancient pottery of the Mesa Verde country : how ancestral pueblo people made it, used it, and thought about it / Scott Ortmau
  • 13. Understanding Mesa Verde's cliff dwelling architecture / Larry V. Nordby
  • 14. Fire and archaeology on Mesa Verde / Julie Bell
  • 15. Water for the Mesa Verdeans / Kenneth R. Wright
  • 16. Ancient violence in the Mesa Verde region / Kristin A. Kuckelman
  • 17. A Hopi story about Castle Rock / Ernest Ingersoll
  • 18. Leaving Mesa Verde / Catherine M. Cameron
  • 19. Mesa Verde : a century of research / Alden C. Hayes
  • 20. Mesa Verdean archaeology since the mid-1960s / David A. Breternitz.