Seeking the Center Place
Archaeology and Ancient Communities in the Mesa Verde Region
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9297311 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J Kantner (0000-0003-3491-9827, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 1/2 |
| Pages | 237-237 |
| Publication date | 2002-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | Seeking The Center Place: Archaeology and Ancient Communities in the Mesa Verde Region, Mark D Varien, 2011 |
| Venue | Journal of Field Archaeology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0093-4690 • E-ISSN: 2042-4582 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3181501 |
| OpenAlex | W2000110283 |
| Language | EN |
The continuing work of the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center has focused on community life in the northern Southwest during the Great Pueblo period (AD 1150- 1300). Researchers have been able to demonstrate that during the last Puebloan occupation of the area the majority of the population lived in dispersed communities and large villages of the Great Sage Plain, rather than at nearby Mesa Verde. The work at Sand Canyon Pueblo and more than sixty other large contemporary pueblos has examined reasons for population aggregation and why this strategy was ultimately forsaken in favor of a migration south of the San Juan River, leaving the area depopulated by 1290. Contributors to this volume, many of whom are distinguished southwestern researchers, draw from a common database derived from extensive investigations at the 530-room Sand Canyon Pueblo, intensive test excavations at thirteen small sites and four large villages, a twenty-five square kilometer full-coverage survey, and an inventory of all known villages in the region. Topics include the context within which people moved into villages, how they dealt with climatic changes and increasing social conflict, and how they became increasingly isolated from the rest of the Southwest. Seeking the Center Place is the most detailed view we have ever had of the last Pueblo communities in the Mesa Verde region and will provide a better understanding of the factors that precipitated the migration of thousands of people
Archaeology · Center (category theory · Geography · Mesa · American Environmental and Regional History · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Archaeology and Natural History · History
Turkey domestication and provisioning in the Mesa Verde Region (US Southwest), Pueblo I to Pueblo III (725-1280 CE)
Local or Distant
Reevaluating Regional Migration in the Northern San Juan During the Late Pueblo I Period
Ancestral Pueblo Settlement Dynamics
Cosmological Expressions and Medicine Stones in the Ancestral Pueblo World
Using Least Cost Pathways to Understand the Processes of Migration from the Mesa Verde Region during the Pueblo III Period
Fuelwood Collection and Women’s Work in Ancestral Puebloan Societies on the Colorado Plateau
Desirable Meat
Gendered Analysis of Lithics From the Central Mesa Verde Region
Recent Wildfires and Pueblo I Villages on Mesa Verde
Mesa Verde Settlement History and Relocation
One Hundred Years of Southwest Nonprofits
Life at Mesa Verde
Dynamics of the Thirteenth-century Depopulation of the Northern San Juan
Creating Symmetry
Chacoan and Post-Chaco Occupations in the Middle San Juan Region
Long-Term Interactions of People and Animals in the Mimbres Region, Southwest New Mexico AD 200-1450
Communities in Ancient Mesoamerica
Turkey
Status Competition in the Ancient Past?
Sedentism, Social Change, Warfare, and the Bow in the Ancient Pueblo Southwest
Analysis of adobe wall composition at the Chaves‐Hummingbird Site, New Mexico, by diffuse reflectance spectrophotometry
Settlement Patterns, Source–Sink Dynamics, and Artiodactyl Hunting in the Prehistoric U.S. Southwest
Pithouse Community Development at the Harris Site, Southwestern New Mexico
Figures of Moche Past
Houses, Public Architecture, and the Organization of Fremont Communities
Enduring Collapse
The Kiowa Odyssey
Ancestral Pueblo settlement structure and sacred landscape at Castle Rock Community, Colorado
Dynamic Communities on the Mesa Verde Cuesta
Community Landscapes, Identity, and Practice
Settlement Scaling in Middle-Range Societies
Positions of Power
Ethnoarchaeological and Archaeological Perspectives on Ceramic Vessels and Annual Accumulation Rates of Sherds
Ceramic variation and negotiated communities in the Late Valdivia phase of coastal Ecuador
Public architecture as performance space in the prehispanic central southwest
A spatial analysis of civic-ceremonial architecture in the central Mesa Verde Region, United States
Shabik'Eschee Village in Chaco Canyon
The Depopulation of Sand Canyon Pueblo, A Large Ancestral Pueblo Village in Southwestern Colorado
The Chaco Pilgrimage Model
Communities, Settlements, Sites, and Surveys
Historical Ecology in the Mesa Verde Region
Long-Term Settlement History and the Emergence of Towns in the Zuni Area
Performing the Feast
Empirical Bayesian Methods for Archaeological Survey Data
Large game, agricultural land, and settlement pattern change in the eastern Mimbres area, southwest New Mexico
Experiencing Social Change
Discourse and Human Securities in Tewa Origins
The pipette, the tiered cosmos, and the materialization of transcendence in the rock art of the North American Southwest
Interpretation of the “lagomorph index” in the American Southwest
The Marco Gonzalez Maya site, Ambergris Caye, Belize
The Community at the Crossroads
Exploring Archaeological Cultures in the Northern Southwest
Years of Cultural Adaptation to Climate Change in the Southwestern United States
Producing communities
New tree-ring-radiocarbon dates reveal drought-migration linkage for central Arizona cliff dwelling
Reconsidering archaeological garden hunting
Defining isotopic signatures of potential procurement sources
Check dam agriculture on the mesa verde cuesta
Intensive hunting during the Iron Age of Southern Africa
Cultural Identity and the Archaeological Construction of Historical Narratives
Ancestral Pueblo Archaeology
Regional Settlement Pattern Studies
A low-frequency summer temperature reconstruction for the United States Southwest, 3000 BC–AD 2000
Fire, vegetation, and Ancestral Puebloans
Cultural implications of architectural mortar selection at Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado
Eggshell and the archaeological record
A method for defining dispersed community territories
Deep learning artificial neural networks for non-destructive archaeological site dating
Who provided maize to Chaco Canyon after the mid-12th-century drought
Reconstructing Ancestral Pueblo food webs in the southwestern United States
Paleodiet of domestic turkey, Shields Pueblo (5MT3807), Colorado
Faunal changes in farming communities from Basketmaker II to Pueblo III (A.D. 1–1300) in the San Juan Basin of the American Southwest
The Premise and Promise of Indigenous Archaeology
Modeling Historical Ecology, Thinking about Contemporary Systems
How People Moved among Ancient Societies
Social Transformation and Its Human Costs in the Prehispanic U.S. Southwest
Interpreting and Reinterpreting Sacred Ridge
Rock Art from the Lower Sand Canyon in the Mesa Verde Region, Southwestern Colorado, USA
Women and Men in Warfare and Migration
History and Process in Village Formation
Geoarchaeological investigation of lithic resources in the central Mesa Verde region, Colorado, USA
Obsidian Evidence of Interaction and Migration from the Mesa Verde Region, Southwest Colorado
The Architecture of Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
Resolving the migrant paradox
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| Highly cited | No |