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Preface | p. 7 |
Introduction: People and Landscape | p. 13 |
The Pueblos of the north and east | |
Rancherias of the south and west | |
'The snow and cold are unusually great': the environmental setting | |
Studying Southwestern archaeology: from Model T's to models of the past | |
Paleo-Indians: Early Hunters and Gatherers 9500 to 7000 BC | p. 37 |
The earliest periods: Clovis and Folsom | |
The vanishing ice age megafauna | |
The Archaic: Questions of Continuity and Change 7000 BC to AD 200 | p. 46 |
The gathering gourmets | |
Continuity or change: examining the evidence | |
Social groups and regional networks | |
Beginning the transition to agriculture | |
The first steps toward village life | |
The Rise of Village Life AD 200 to 700 | p. 56 |
Villages and the time lag: a millennium of change | |
Pithouses and houses in pits | |
Public buildings and collective ritual | |
More villages, more people | |
Diet, nutrition, and technological innovation | |
The emergence of Hohokam, Mogollon, and Anasazi groups | |
From Village to Town: Hohokam, Mogollon, and Anasazi AD 700 to 1130 | p. 71 |
The Hohokam | |
The Mogollon | |
The Anasazi | |
Hohokam communities in the Phoenix Basin | |
Art and aesthetics: the Mimbres of southwestern New Mexico | |
The burgeoning Anasazi of northern Black Mesa | |
The Great Houses of Chaco Canyon | |
Universal trends in the Southwest | |
Understanding the perspective of the ancient Southwesterners | |
Cliff dwellings, Cooperation, and Conflict AD 1130 to 1350 | p. 118 |
Emigration and oral histories | |
Regional variation and localized polities | |
Common threads but different fabrics | |
Denouement in the Four Corners region | |
Towns, Mounds, and Kachinas | p. 154 |
Community cycles: boom and bust in the Rio Grande Valley | |
Farming, food, and famine? | |
Warfare and defense | |
Ancestors, clouds, and kachina ritual | |
Green stones for red feathers: trade and elites in the Southwest | |
Conclusions | |
From Prehistory to History | p. 181 |
The transition to history in the Hohokam region | |
The transition in the Pueblo region | |
Epilogue | p. 194 |
Changing protagonists: the American intrusion | |
The late 19th and 20th centuries in the Southwest | |
Map of the Southwest | p. 200 |
Guide to the Southwest | p. 202 |
Notes to the Text | p. 207 |
Further Reading | p. 211 |
Sources of Illustrations | p. 220 |
Index | p. 222 |
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