Contents

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1. Forty Years of Integrating American Indian Knowledge, Public Education, and Archaeological Research in the Central Mesa Verde Region

Susan C. Ryan

Part I: History of the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

2. The Early History of Crow Canyon’s Archaeology, Education, and American Indian Programs

Ricky R. Lightfoot and William D. Lipe

3. From DAP Roots to Crow Canyon and VEP Shoots: Some Recollections

Timothy A. Kohler, Ricky R. Lightfoot, Mark D. Varien, and William D. Lipe

Part II: Indigenous Archaeology

4. The Pueblo Farming Project: Research, Education, and Native American Collaboration

Paul Ermigiotti, Mark D. Varien, Grant D. Coffey, R. Kyle Bocinsky, Leigh Kuwanwisiwma, and Stewart B. Koyiyumptewa

5. Place of the Songs: Hopi Connections to the Mesa Verde Region

Leigh Kuwanwisiwma and Wesley Bernardini

6. What the Old Ones Can Teach Us

Scott Ortman

7. The Knowledge Keepers: Protecting Pueblo Culture from the Western World

Joseph H. Suina

Part III: Archaeology and Public Education

8. Conceptualizing the Past: The Thoughtful Engagement of Hearts and Minds

M. Elaine Franklin

9. Making a Place for Archaeology in K–12 Education

Winona J. Patterson, M. Elaine Franklin, and Rebecca Hammond

Part IV: Community and Regional Studies

10. Community Development and Practice in the Basketmaker III Period: A Case Study from Southwestern Colorado

Kari Schleher, Shanna Diederichs, Kate Hughes, and Robin Lyle

11. Bridging the Long Tenth Century: From Villages to Great Houses in the Central Mesa Verde Region

Kellam Throgmorton, Richard Wilshusen, and Grant D. Coffey

12. Community Centers: Forty Years of Sustained Research in the Central Mesa Verde Region

Donna M. Glowacki, Grant D. Coffey, and Mark D. Varien

13. Community Organization on the Edge of the Mesa Verde Region: Recent Investigations at Cowboy Wash Pueblo, Moqui Springs Pueblo, and Yucca House

James M. Potter, Mark D. Varien, Grant D. Coffey, and R. Kyle Bocinsky

14. Formation and Composition of Communities: Material Culture and Demographics in the Goodman Point and Sand Canyon Communities

Kari Schleher, Samantha Linford, Grant D. Coffey, Kristin Kuckelman, Scott Ortman, Jonathan Till, Mark D. Varien, and Jamie Merewether

15. Lithic Analyses and Sociopolitical Organization: Mobility, Territoriality, and Trade in the Central Mesa Verde Region

Fumi Arakawa, Jamie Merewether, and Kate Hughes

16. Leaving Town: Similarities and Differences in Ancestral Pueblo Community Dissolution Practices in the Mesa Verde and Northern Rio Grande Regions

Michael Adler and Michelle Hegmon

17. Bi-Walls, Tri-Walls, and the Aztec Regional System

Stephen H. Lekson

18. Revisiting the Depopulation of the Northern Southwest with Dendrochronology: A Changing Perspective with New Dates from Cedar Mesa

Benjamin A. Bellorado and Thomas C. Windes

19. Thirteenth-Century Villages and the Depopulation of the Northern San Juan Region by Pueblo Peoples

Kristin Kuckelman

Part V: Human-Environment Relationship Research

20. The Exploitation of Rodents in the Mesa Verde Region

Shaw Badenhorst, Jonathan C. Driver, and Steve Wolverton

21. Fine-Grained Chronology Reveals Human Impacts on Animal Populations in the Mesa Verde Region of the American Southwest

Karen Gust Schollmeyer and Jonathan C. Driver

22. Forty Years of Archaeobotany at Crow Canyon and 850 Years of Plant Use in the Central Mesa Verde Region

Sarah E. Oas and Karen R. Adams

23. “Old Pots Make Me Think New Thoughts”: Reciprocity, Privilege, and the Practice of Southwestern Archaeology

Elizabeth Perry

Index

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