Defensive Architecture and the Depopulation of the Mesa Verde Region, Utah-Colorado in the Thirteenth Century A.D

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Defensive Architecture and the Depopulation of the Mesa Verde Region, Utah-Colorado in the Thirteenth Century A.D

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• Defensive Architecture and the Depopulation of the Mesa Verde Region, Utah-Colorado in the Thirteenth Century A.D

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• Kraków, Jagiellonian University Press, 2011

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-208)

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• LIST OF FIGURES; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; Chapter I. INTRODUCTION; Chapter II. MESA VERDE REGION -- DEFINITION, NATURAL ENVIRONMENT, HISTORY AND METHODOLOGY OF RESEARCH; II. 1. DEFINITION AND BORDERS OF THE CENTRAL MESA VERDE REGION; II. 2. NATURAL ENVIRONMENT; II. 3. HISTORY AND METHODOLOGY OF RESEARCH; II. 4. PUEBLO CULTURE IN THE MESA VERDE REGION AND BEYOND -- AN OUTLINE; Chapter III. DEFINING AND INTERPRETING DEFENSIVE ARCHITECTURE; III. 1. THEORY AND DIFFERENT VIEWS ON DEFENSIVE ARCHITECTURE IN NON-STATE SOCIETIES; III. 1.1. Defensive architecture as a response to threat
• III. 1.2. Defensive architecture as evidence of social changes and economic powerIII. 2. DEFINING MESA VERDEAN DEFENSIVE ARCHITECTURE; III. 3. EXAMPLES OF DEFENSIVE ARCHITECTURE IN DIFFERENT NON-STATE SOCIETIES; III. 3.1. Defensive sites in other parts of the Southwest; III. 3.2. Defensive architecture in other parts of North America; III. 3.3. Defensive sites in prehistoric and early historic central-eastern and southern Europe; Chapter IV. ETHNOGRAPHY, ETHNOHISTORY, AND NATIVE AMERICAN ORAL TRADITIONS CONCERNING DEFENSIVE ARCHITECTURE AND CONFLICTS IN THE SOUTHWEST; IV. 1. ETHNOHISTORIC RECORDS
• IV. 1.1. Location of sitesIV. 1.2. Evidence of defensive architecture; IV. 1.3. Information on confl icts and warfare; IV. 2. ETHNOGRAPHY; IV. 2.1. Location of sites; IV. 2.2. Evidence of defensive architecture; IV. 2.3. Information on confl icts and warfare; IV. 3. ORAL TRADITIONS; IV. 3.1. Location of sites; IV. 3.2. Evidence of defensive architecture; IV. 3.3. Information on conflicts and warfare; IV. 3.4. Migrations and depopulation of the Mesa Verde region; Chapter V. ANALYSIS OF THE CENTRAL MESA VERDE REGION ARCHITECTURE IN THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY A.D
• V.1. ANALYSIS OF LARGE SITES AND COMMUNITY CENTERS IN THE CENTRAL MESA VERDE REGIONV. 1.1. Mesa Verde Proper (Mesa Verde National Park): Chapin Mesa; V.1.2. Mesa Verde Proper (Mesa Verde National Park): Wetherill Mesa; V.1.3. McElmo-Monument; V.2. ANALYSIS OF SITES IN LOWER SAND CANYON LOCALITY (CASTLE ROCK COMMUNITY); V.2.1. Site 5MT1825 (Castle Rock Pueblo); V.2.2. Small sites in Lower Sand Canyon locality; Chapter VI. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS; VI. 1. LOCATION OF SITES AND THEIR ACCESSIBILITY; VI. 2. DEFENSIVE ARCHITECTURE AND SITE LAYOUT; VI. 2.1. Walls; VI. 2.2. Towers; VI. 2.3. Loopholes
• VI. 2.4. Underground tunnelsVI. 3. ACCESS TO WATER; VI. 4. SETTLEMENT PATTERN IN THE CASTLE ROCK COMMUNITY; VI. 5. WHO WERE THE ATTACKERS?; VI. 6. IMPLICATIONS OF DEFENSIVE ARCHITECTURE FOR THE DEPOPULATION OF THE MESA VERDE REGION; REFERENCES; PHOTOGRAPHS

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