Figures
2.1. Jo and Ed Berger.
2.2. Photo from 1984 of chuck wagon and newly constructed lodge in the background.
3.1. Map showing central Mesa Verde region, location of sites mentioned in this chapter, and the VEP I and VEP II north and south study areas.
4.1. Locations of Pueblo Farming Project Gardens.
4.2. Lee Wayne Lomayestewa speaks with students about the importance of maize in Hopi culture in an experimental garden on Crow Canyon’s campus.
4.3. Soil moisture measurements at the PFP gardens at 15, 30, and 45 cm depths.
7.1. Outdoor group portrait of seventeen unidentified American Indian girls in Native dress, upon arrival at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School.
7.2. A photo of the students and staff from 1884, Carlisle Indian Industrial School.
7.3. Highly visible signs remind guests to refrain from recording of any kind.
8.1. Students collecting data from field, Haynie site.
8.2. Students engaging with Crow Canyon educator Rebecca Hammond at the Pueblo Learning Center.
8.3. Crow Canyon educator Dan Simplicio teaching students about kiva architecture.
10.1. Distribution of Basketmaker III period habitations and an early habitation cluster with a great kiva (Dillard site) on the 1,200-acre Indian Camp Ranch in southwest Colorado.
10.2. Map of the Dillard site and Dillard great kiva (5MT10647).
11.1. Plan maps of mid-tenth-century AD components atop earlier ninth-century roomblocks.
11.2. Examples of vernacular residential structures dating ca. AD 975–1030.
11.3. Possible early great houses at Mitchell Springs, the Haynie site, and the Far View community, ca. AD 1020–1050.
12.1. Map showing central Mesa Verde region, McElmo subregion, Mesa Verde Proper, middle San Juan region, and locations of VEP I and II study areas.
12.2. Distribution of all community centers in the database associated with the projects listed in Table 12.1..
12.3. Distribution of the early centers (AD 600–900).
12.4. Distribution of the late centers (AD 900–1280).
12.5. Distribution of the terminal late centers (AD 1250–1280).
13.1. Location of key sites discussed in text.
13.2. Map of Yucca House.
13.3. Map of Moqui Springs Pueblo.
13.4. Map of Cowboy Wash Pueblo.
13.5. Moqui Springs Pueblo, Locus A.
13.6. Site locations and 7 km radius around each center.
13.7. Momentary population estimates based on number of households for the three community centers and surrounding small sites, 7 km radius.
14.1. Map of the central Mesa Verde region, showing the location of Goodman Point Pueblo and Sand Canyon Pueblo.
14.2. Sites in the Goodman Point and Sand Canyon communities, as identified in the Village Ecodynamics Project database.
14.3. Designs present on sherds at Sand Canyon and Goodman Point Pueblos.
15.1. Lithic assemblages used for this study.
15.2. The proportion of cores, peckingstones, and formal tools recovered from the CCAC excavated sites based on five different raw material types.
15.3. The proportion of debitage recovered from the CCAC excavated sites based on five different raw material types.
15.4. The proportion of debitage based on each raw material type.
16.1. Plan map, Pot Creek Pueblo.
17.1. The Hubbard Site, Aztec Ruins National Monument.
17.2. Locations of bi-walls, tri-walls, and quadri-walls.
17.3. “Great Tower” bi-wall structure at Yellow Jacket Pueblo.
17.4. Holmes Tower.
17.5. Chaco great house and great kiva networks, AD 1100–1150.
17.6. Same as figure 17.5 with distribution of bi- and tri-walls.
18.1. Map of the greater Cedar Mesa area in relation to cultural complexes in the greater San Juan River drainage.
18.2. Map of all the known sites in the greater Cedar Mesa (i.e., the Southern Bears Ears) area with tree-ring dates from the AD 1250s and 1260s.
18.3. Plan view of the kiva (Structure 12) at 42SA1763 showing wooden roof beams and available tree-ring dates.
18.4. Examples of (A) painted shield-like rock art above a habitation site tree-ring dated to the AD 1260s; (B) a bichrome mural with landscape elements in a kiva dated to the 1260s; (C) a second-story wall with entryway made with jacal construction tree-ring dated to the late 1240s; and (D) a bichrome mural functioning as a winter solstice marker.
22.1. Ubiquity of (a) top five ranked foods and (b) top three ranked fuelwoods from all sampled contexts during the Basketmaker III period–Pueblo III period and terminal Pueblo III period thermal features.