From mountaintop to valley bottom : understanding past land use in the northern Rio Grande Valley, New Mexico /

From mountaintop to valley bottom : understanding past land use in the northern Rio Grande Valley, New Mexico / edited by Bradley J. Vierra. - Salt Lake City : The University of Utah Press, (c)2013. - 1 online resource (xvi, 248 pages) : illustrations, maps, charts.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Foreword / Introduction / The geochemistry and archaeological petrology of volcanic raw materials in northern New Mexico : obsidian and dacite sources in upland and lowland contexts / Surficial processes and preservation of ancestral Puebloan archaeological sites on the Pajarito Plateau, New Mexico / Dendroclimatic reconstructions of precipitation for the northern Rio Grande / The cultural ecology of Jemez Cave / Transitional archaic and emergent agricultural settlement in the lowland/upland settings of the northern Rio Grande, New Mexico / Ecological uncertainly and organizational flexibility on the prehistoric Tewa landscape : notes from the northern frontier / Living it up : upland adaptation and high-altitude occupation by ancestral Pueblo people during the gallina phase along the Continental Divide / Upland/lowland corridors and historic Jicarilla Apache settlement in the northern Rio Grande / Archaic foraging technology and land use in the northern Rio Grande, New Mexico / The gradual development of systems of pottery production and distribution across northern Rio Grande landscapes / From the land of the little birds to the valleys of the white rock, Tewa, Galisteo, Rio Grande, and Santa Fe rivers : diet and subsistence meet the challenges of a changing environment / Northern Rio Grande faunal exploitation : a view from the Pajarito Plateau, the tewa Basin, and beyond / Discussion : landscape, movement, and technology in the northern Rio Grande / Severin M. Fowles -- Bradley J. Vierra -- M. Steven Shackley -- Paul G. Drakos and Steven L. Reneau -- Ronald H. Towner and Mathew W. Salzer -- Richard I. Ford -- Stephen S. Post -- Samuel Duwe and Kurt F. Anschuetz -- J. Michael Bremer and Denver Burns -- B. Sunday Eiselt -- Bradley J. Vierra -- C. Dean Wilson -- Pamela J. McBride and Mollie S. Toll -- Nancy J. Akins -- Timothy A. Kohler.



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Land use--History.--Rio Grande Valley (Colo.-Mexico and Tex.)
Human ecology--History.--Rio Grande Valley (Colo.-Mexico and Tex.)
Indians of North America--Antiquities.--Rio Grande Valley (Colo.-Mexico and Tex.)
Excavations (Archaeology)--Rio Grande Valley (Colo.-Mexico and Tex.)


Electronic Books.

F802 / .F766 2013