Prehistoric Culture Change on the Colorado Plateau


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A collection of writings by participants in the Black Mesa Archaeological Project offers a synthesis of Kayenta-area archaeology, examining the ancestral Puebloan and Navajo occupation of the Four Corners region, and analysing faunal, lithic, ceramic, chronometric, and human osteological data, to construct an account of the prehistory and ethnohistory of northern Arizona that demonstrates how organizational variation and other aspects of culture change are largely a response to a changing natural environment.










Archaeological Chronometry


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All archaeologists face chronometric interpretive problems in developing and refining chronology. This volume addresses such problems in terms of radiocarbon and tree rings, providing both data sets and models for the interpretation of information. It is designed to serve at various levels as a guide for interpreting chronological data from archaeological contexts. It presents the results of almost 20 years of field research on Black Mesa, Arizona, that involved both chronometry and chronology.










Excavations on Black Mesa, 1981


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