Leaving Mesa Verde

Author : Timothy A. Kohler,Mark D. Varien,Aaron M. Wright
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816599684

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Leaving Mesa Verde by Timothy A. Kohler,Mark D. Varien,Aaron M. Wright Pdf

It is one of the great mysteries in the archaeology of the Americas: the depopulation of the northern Southwest in the late thirteenth-century AD. Considering the numbers of people affected, the distances moved, the permanence of the departures, the severity of the surrounding conditions, and the human suffering and culture change that accompanied them, the abrupt conclusion to the farming way of life in this region is one of the greatest disruptions in recorded history. Much new paleoenvironmental data, and a great deal of archaeological survey and excavation, permit the fifteen scientists represented here much greater precision in determining the timing of the depopulation, the number of people affected, and the ways in which northern Pueblo peoples coped—and failed to cope—with the rapidly changing environmental and demographic conditions they encountered throughout the 1200s. In addition, some of the scientists in this volume use models to provide insights into the processes behind the patterns they find, helping to narrow the range of plausible explanations. What emerges from these investigations is a highly pertinent story of conflict and disruption as a result of climate change, environmental degradation, social rigidity, and conflict. Taken as a whole, these contributions recognize this era as having witnessed a competition between differing social and economic organizations, in which selective migration was considerably hastened by severe climatic, environmental, and social upheaval. Moreover, the chapters show that it is at least as true that emigration led to the collapse of the northern Southwest as it is that collapse led to emigration.

Author : Timothy A. Kohler,Mark D. Varien,Aaron M. Wright
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0816519129

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Leaving Mesa Verde by Timothy A. Kohler,Mark D. Varien,Aaron M. Wright Pdf

It is one of the great mysteries in the archaeology of the Americas: the depopulation of the northern Southwest in the late thirteenth-century AD. Considering the numbers of people affected, the distances moved, the permanence of the departures, the severity of the surrounding conditions, and the human suffering and culture change that accompanied them, the abrupt conclusion to the farming way of life in this region is one of the greatest disruptions in recorded history. Much new paleoenvironmental data, and a great deal of archaeological survey and excavation, permit the fifteen scientists represented here much greater precision in determining the timing of the depopulation, the number of people affected, and the ways in which northern Pueblo peoples coped—and failed to cope—with the rapidly changing environmental and demographic conditions they encountered throughout the 1200s. In addition, some of the scientists in this volume use models to provide insights into the processes behind the patterns they find, helping to narrow the range of plausible explanations. What emerges from these investigations is a highly pertinent story of conflict and disruption as a result of climate change, environmental degradation, social rigidity, and conflict. Taken as a whole, these contributions recognize this era as having witnessed a competition between differing social and economic organizations, in which selective migration was considerably hastened by severe climatic, environmental, and social upheaval. Moreover, the chapters show that it is at least as true that emigration led to the collapse of the northern Southwest as it is that collapse led to emigration.

Author : Donna M. Glowacki
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816531332

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Living and Leaving by Donna M. Glowacki Pdf

The Mesa Verde migrations in the thirteenth century were an integral part of a transformative period that forever changed the course of Pueblo history. For more than seven hundred years, Pueblo people lived in the Northern San Juan region of the U.S. Southwest. Yet by the end of the 1200s, tens of thousands of Pueblo people had left the region. Understanding how it happened and where they went are enduring questions central to Southwestern archaeology. Much of the focus on this topic has been directed at understanding the role of climate change, drought, violence, and population pressure. The role of social factors, particularly religious change and sociopolitical organization, are less well understood. Bringing together multiple lines of evidence, including settlement patterns, pottery exchange networks, and changes in ceremonial and civic architecture, this book takes a historical perspective that naturally forefronts the social factors underlying the depopulation of Mesa Verde. Author Donna M. Glowacki shows how “living and leaving” were experienced across the region and what role differing stressors and enablers had in causing emigration. The author’s analysis explains how different histories and contingencies—which were shaped by deeply rooted eastern and western identities, a broad-reaching Aztec-Chaco ideology, and the McElmo Intensification—converged, prompting everyone to leave the region. This book will be of interest to southwestern specialists and anyone interested in societal collapse, transformation, and resilience.

Author : Gary McCarthy
Publisher : Canyon Country Books
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781460915455

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Mesa Verde Thunder by Gary McCarthy Pdf

THE RAVEN CLAN...450 A.D. Animus Valley, Northwestern New Mexico...in a time of starvation The People set out upon a perilous journey to find a mystical mesa where hope can be reborn but also where death and deep snows lay silent in waiting.ECHATA...a bold and desperate Anasazi leader, sees a vision of RAVEN and must take his starving people north knowing that they can never return to a brother that has sworn to kill him.LI-TIA...a fierce Chacoan medicine woman risks everything to save a banished mother and deformed infant from a terrible stoning...but by so doing, is forever branded as an enemy and a...witch.LISA CANNADAY...married to a dreamer and archaeologist who must race to the fabulous new Mesa Verde discovery and unlock its treasures before it is plundered and its secrets are forever lost. But it is she who is destined to ignite the world with her fabulous stories of the Ancient Ones based on one magnificent petroglyph.STORYTELLER ...who only wanted to be a prosperous jeweler and trader of silver, gold and turquoise but who is forced to become the one who writes the story of his Ancient People with his blood and tears in stone.From sacred Chaco Canyon to Cliff Palace to a sprawling National Park...from a prehistoric people to the mystics and builders of Mesa Verde and finally to those that would plunder its ancient artifacts for fabulous wealth...comes an epic tale of love, hope, sacrifice and courage told in MESA VERDE THUNDER.Multiple award-winning author, Gary McCarthy has now written perhaps his most unforgettable saga of a never to be forgotten people...the Anasazi.

Author : Amber M. VanDerwarker,Gregory D. Wilson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319185064

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The Archaeology of Food and Warfare by Amber M. VanDerwarker,Gregory D. Wilson Pdf

The archaeologies of food and warfare have independently developed over the past several decades. This volume aims to provide concrete linkages between these research topics through the examination of case studies worldwide. Topics considered within the book include: the impacts of warfare on the daily food quest, warfare and nutritional health, ritual foodways and violence, the provisioning of warriors and armies, status-based changes in diet during times of war, logistical constraints on military campaigns, and violent competition over subsistence resources. The diversity of perspectives included in this volume may be a product of new ways of conceptualizing violence—not simply as an isolated component of a society, nor as an attribute of a particular societal type—but instead as a transformative process that is lived and irrevocably alters social, economic, and political organization and relationships. This book highlights this transformative process by presenting a cross-cultural perspective on the connection between war and food through the inclusion of case studies from several continents.

Author : Debra L. Martin,Ryan P. Harrod
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813043630

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The Bioarchaeology of Violence by Debra L. Martin,Ryan P. Harrod Pdf

Human violence is an inescapable aspect of our society and culture. As the archaeological record clearly shows, this has always been true. What is its origin? What role does it play in shaping our behavior? How do ritual acts and cultural sanctions make violence acceptable? These and other questions are addressed by the contributors to The Bioarchaeology of Violence. Organized thematically, the volume opens by laying the groundwork for new theoretical approaches that move beyond interpretation; it then examines case studies from small-scale conflict to warfare to ritualized violence. Experts on a wide range of ancient societies highlight the meaning and motivation of past uses of violence, revealing how violence often plays an important role in maintaining and suppressing the challenges to the status quo, and how it is frequently a performance meant to be witnessed by others. The interesting and nuanced insights offered in this volume explore both the costs and the benefits of violence throughout human prehistory.

Author : Maxime Lamoureux-St-Hilaire,Scott Macrae
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781646420087

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Detachment from Place by Maxime Lamoureux-St-Hilaire,Scott Macrae Pdf

Detachment from Place is the first comparative and interdisciplinary volume on the archaeology of settlement abandonment, with contributions focusing on materiality, ideology, the environment, and social construction of space. The volume sheds new light on an important but underexamined aspect of settlement abandonment wherein sedentary groups undergoing the process of abandonment leave behind many meaningful elements of their inhabited landscape. The process of detaching from place—which could last centuries—transformed inhabitants into migrants and transformed settled, constructed, and agricultural landscapes into imagined ones that continued to figure significantly in the identities of migrant groups. Drawing on case studies from the Americas, Africa, and Asia, the volume explores how relationships between ancient peoples and the places they lived were transformed as they migrated elsewhere. Contributors focus on social structure, ecology, and ideology to study how people and places both disentangled from each other and remained tied together during this process. From Huron-Wendat villages and Classic Maya palaces to historical villages in Togo and the great Southeast Asian Medieval capital of Bagan, specific cultural, historical, and environmental factors led ancient peoples to detach from their homes and embark on migrations that altered social memory and cultural identity—as evidenced in the archaeological record. Detachment from Place provides new insights into transfigurations of community identity, political organization, social and economic relations, religion, warfare, and agricultural practices and will be of interest to landscape archaeologists as well as researchers focused on collective memory, population movement, migratory patterns, and interaction. Contributors: Tomas Q. Barrientos, Jennifer Birch, Eduardo José Bustamante Luna, Catherine M. Cameron, Marcello A. Canuto, Jeffrey H. Cohen, Michael D. Danti, Phillip de Barros, Pete Demarte, Donna M. Glowacki, Gyles Iannone, Louis Lesage, Patricia A. McAnany, Asa R. Randall, Kenneth E. Sassaman

Author : Gustaf Nordenskiöld
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Cliff-dwellers
ISBN : MSU:31293106893393

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The Cliff Dwellers of the Mesa Verde, Southwestern Colorado by Gustaf Nordenskiöld Pdf

Author : Susan C. Ryan
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781646424597

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Research, Education and American Indian Partnerships at the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center by Susan C. Ryan Pdf

This volume celebrates and examines the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center’s past, present, and future by providing a backdrop for the not-for-profit’s beginnings and highlighting key accomplishments in research, education, and American Indian initiatives over the past four decades. Specific themes include Crow Canyon’s contributions to projects focused on community and regional settlement patterns, human-environment relationships, public education pedagogy, and collaborative partnerships with Indigenous communities. Contributing authors, deeply familiar with the center and its surrounding central Mesa Verde region, include Crow Canyon researchers, educators, and Indigenous scholars inspired by the organization’s mission to further develop and share knowledge of the human past for the betterment of societies. Research, Education, and American Indian Partnerships at the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center guides Southwestern archaeology and public education beyond current practices—particularly regarding Indigenous partnerships—and provides a strategic handbook for readers into and through the mid-twenty-first century. Open access edition supported by the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center King Family Fund and subvention supported in part by the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center and the Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society.

Author : Alex Alvarez
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442265691

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Unstable Ground by Alex Alvarez Pdf

Unstable Ground looks at the human impact of climate change and its potential to provoke some of the most troubling crimes against humanity—ethnic conflict, war, and genocide. Alex Alvarez provides an essential overview of what science has shown to be true about climate change and examines how our warming world will challenge and stress societies and heighten the risk of mass violence. Drawing on a number of recent and historic examples, including Darfur, Syria, and the current migration crisis, this book illustrates the thorny intersections of climate change and violence. The author doesn’t claim causation but makes a compelling case that changing environmental circumstances can be a critical factor in facilitating violent conflict. As research suggests climate change will continue and accelerate, understanding how it might contribute to violence is essential in understanding how to prevent it.

Author : Harvey Weiss
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780199329212

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Megadrought and Collapse by Harvey Weiss Pdf

Megadrought and Collapse is the first book to treat in one volume the current paleoclimatic and archaeological evidence of megadrought events coincident with major prehistoric and historical examples of societal collapse. Previous works have offered multi-causal explanations for collapse, from overpopulation, overexploitation of resources, and warfare to poor leadership and failure to adapt to environmental changes. In earlier synthetic studies of major instances of collapse, the full force of climate change has often not been considered. This volume includes nine case studies that span the globe and stretch over fourteen thousand years, from the paleolithic hunter-gatherer collapse of the 12th millennium BC to the 15th century AD fall of the Khmer capital at Angkor. Together, the studies constitute a primary sourcebook in which principal investigators in archaeology and paleoclimatology present their original research. Each case study juxtaposes the latest paleoclimatic evidence of megadrought (so-called for its severity and its decades - to centuries-long duration) with available archaeological records of synchronous societal collapse. The megadrought data are derived from all five archival paleoclimate proxy sources: speleothems (cave stalagmites), tree rings, and lake, marine, and glacial cores. The archaeological records in each case are the most recently retrieved. With Megadrought and Collapse, Harvey Weiss and his team of expert contributors have assembled an authoritative investigation that is certain to engage environmental history readers across disciplines in the sciences and social sciences.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004251151

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Migration and Membership Regimes in Global and Historical Perspective by Anonim Pdf

Migration and Membership Regimes brings together ten essays on the history of settlement and migration in an analytical framework which reconceptualises the migrant-state relationship and explores the variety of membership regimes on five continents and over two millennia.

Author : H. Thomas Foster, II,Lisa M. Paciulli
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781611175875

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Viewing the Future in the Past by H. Thomas Foster, II,Lisa M. Paciulli Pdf

Viewing the Future in the Past is a collection of essays that represents a wide range of authors, loci, and subjects that together demonstrate the value and necessity of looking at environmental problems as a long-term process that involves humans as a causal factor. Editors H. Thomas Foster, II, Lisa M. Paciulli, and David J. Goldstein argue that it is increasingly apparent to environmental and earth sciences experts that humans have had a profound effect on the physical, climatological, and biological earth. Consequently, they suggest that understanding any aspect of the earth within the last ten thousand years means understanding the density and activities of Homo sapiens. The essays reveal the ways in which archaeologists and anthropologists have devised methodological and theoretical tools and applied them to pre-Columbian societies in the New World and ancient sites in the Middle East. Some of the authors demonstrate how these tools can be useful in examining modern societies. The contributors provide evidence that past and present ecosystems, economies, and landscapes must be understood through the study of human activity over millennia and across the globe.

Author : Caroline Arnold
Publisher : StarWalk Kids Media
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-30
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781630834203

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The Ancient Cliff Dwellers of Mesa Verde by Caroline Arnold Pdf

Discusses the Native Americans known as the Anasazi, who migrated to southwestern Colorado in the first century A.D.

Author : Timothy Pauketat
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 693 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190241094

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The Oxford Handbook of North American Archaeology by Timothy Pauketat Pdf

"The Oxford Handbook of North American Archaeology explores 15,000 years of indigenous human history on the North American continent, drawing on the latest archaeological theories, rich datasets, and time-honored methodologies. From the Arctic south to the Mexican border and east to the Atlantic Ocean, all of the major cultural developments are covered in fifty-three chapters"--Back cover