Leaving Mesa Verde [electronic resource] : peril and change in the thirteenth-century Southwest / edited by Timothy A. Kohler, Mark D. Varien, and Aaron M. Wright.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [365]-419) and index.

Depopulation of the northern San Juan region : historical review and archaeological context / Mark D. Varien -- Depopulation of the northern Southwest : a macroregional perspective / J. Brett Hill ... [et al.] -- Tree-ring dates and demographic change in the southern Colorado Plateau and Rio Grande regions / Michael S. Berry and Larry V. Benson -- The climate of the depopulation of the northern Southwest / Aaron M. Wright -- A new paleoproductivity reconstruction for southwestern Colorado, and its implications for understanding thirteenth-century depopulation / Timothy A. Kohler -- The end of farming in the "northern periphery" of the Southwest / James R. Allison -- The impact of long-term residential occupation of community centers on local plant and animal resources / Andrew I. Duff, Karen R. Adams, and Susan C. Ryan -- Catalysts of the thirteenth-century depopulation of Sand Canyon Pueblo and the central Mesa Verde region / Kristin A. Kuckelman -- The social and cultural contexts of the central Mesa Verde region during the thirteenth-century migrations / Donna M. Glowacki -- Evidence of a Mesa Verde homeland for the Tewa Pueblos / Scott G. Ortman -- Lost in transit : the central Mesa Verde archaeological complex / William D. Lipe -- Remodeling immigration : a northern Rio Grande perspective on depopulation, migration, and donation-side models / Jeffrey L. Boyer ... [et al.] -- The environmental, demographic, and behavioral context of the thirteenth-century depopulation of the northern Southwest / Jeffrey S. Dean -- Advances in understanding the thirteenth-century depopulation of the northern Southwest / Catherine M. Cameron.

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