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From Mountain Top to Valley Bottom: Understanding Past Land Use in the Northern Rio Grande Valley, New Mexico
Bradley J. Vierra (Ed.)
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Description for From Mountain Top to Valley Bottom: Understanding Past Land Use in the Northern Rio Grande Valley, New Mexico
Hardcover. The essays in this collection are unified by three specific themes: landscape, movement, and technology. This volume provides both a cross section of current research from expert scholars and a broad perspective that seeks to integrate new data from lowland and upland contexts. Editor(s): Vierra, Bradley J. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, maps, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HDL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 680.
The American Southwest is characterised by environmentally and culturally diverse landscapes, which include the northern Rio Grande valley as it cuts through north-central New Mexico from Taos to Albuquerque. The region has a long and rich history of anthropological research primarily focused on the archaeological remains found along this valley corridor. Only recently has research involving large-scale surveys and excavations been conducted on the nearby mesas and mountains that form the rugged margins of the river valley. From Mountain Top to Valley Bottom incorporates this new research into a perspective that links the ever-changing and complementary nature of lowland and ... Read more
The American Southwest is characterised by environmentally and culturally diverse landscapes, which include the northern Rio Grande valley as it cuts through north-central New Mexico from Taos to Albuquerque. The region has a long and rich history of anthropological research primarily focused on the archaeological remains found along this valley corridor. Only recently has research involving large-scale surveys and excavations been conducted on the nearby mesas and mountains that form the rugged margins of the river valley. From Mountain Top to Valley Bottom incorporates this new research into a perspective that links the ever-changing and complementary nature of lowland and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Utah Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
656g
Number of Pages
268
Place of Publication
Salt Lake City, United States
ISBN
9781607812661
SKU
V9781607812661
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99-15
About Bradley J. Vierra (Ed.)
Bradley J. Vierra received his PhD from the University of New Mexico and is principal investigator and director of the material studies programme at Statistical Research Inc.
Reviews for From Mountain Top to Valley Bottom: Understanding Past Land Use in the Northern Rio Grande Valley, New Mexico
“Brings a wide range of specialties commenting on a single region into a single volume. It covers thousands of years of human occupation in the Northern Rio Grande and spans an array of specialties.”—Michael Adler, author of The Prehistoric Pueblo World, A.D. 1150–1350 “This volume illustrates the richness of the Northern Rio Grande archaeological record, the rapidly expanding ... Read more