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Leaving Mesa Verde: Peril and Change in the Thirteenth-Century Southwest (Amerind Studies in Archaeology)
Varien & Wri Kohler
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Description for Leaving Mesa Verde: Peril and Change in the Thirteenth-Century Southwest (Amerind Studies in Archaeology)
Paperback. Editor(s): Kohler, Timothy A.; Varien, Mark D.; Wright, Aaron M. Num Pages: 456 pages. BIC Classification: HD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 456.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Arizona Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
456
Place of Publication
Tucson, United States
ISBN
9780816519125
SKU
V9780816519125
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