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