Title From mountaintop to valley bottom : understanding past land use in the northern Rio Grande Valley, New Mexico / edited by Bradley J. Vierra

Published Salt Lake City : The University of Utah Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 248 pages) : illustrations, maps, charts Contents Foreword / Severin M. Fowles -- Introduction / Bradley J. Vierra -- The geochemistry and archaeological petrology of volcanic raw materials in northern New Mexico : obsidian and dacite sources in upland and lowland contexts / M. Steven Shackley -- Surficial processes and preservation of ancestral Puebloan archaeological sites on the Pajarito Plateau, New Mexico / Paul G. Drakos and Steven L. Reneau -- Dendroclimatic reconstructions of precipitation for the northern Rio Grande / Ronald H. Towner and Mathew W. Salzer -- The cultural ecology of Jemez Cave / Richard I. Ford -- Transitional archaic and emergent agricultural settlement in the lowland/upland settings of the northern Rio Grande, New Mexico / Stephen S. Post -- Ecological uncertainly and organizational flexibility on the prehistoric Tewa landscape : notes from the northern frontier / Samuel Duwe and Kurt F. Anschuetz -- Living it up : upland adaptation and high-altitude occupation by ancestral Pueblo people during the gallina phase along the Continental Divide / J. Michael Bremer and Denver Burns -- Upland/lowland corridors and historic Jicarilla Apache settlement in the northern Rio Grande / B. Sunday Eiselt -- Archaic foraging technology and land use in the northern Rio Grande, New Mexico / Bradley J. Vierra -- The gradual development of systems of pottery production and distribution across northern Rio Grande landscapes / C. Dean Wilson -- 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 / Pamela J. McBride and Mollie S. Toll -- Northern Rio Grande faunal exploitation : a view from the Pajarito Plateau, the tewa Basin, and beyond / Nancy J. Akins -- Discussion : landscape, movement, and technology in the northern Rio Grande / Timothy A. Kohler Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Land use -- Rio Grande Valley (Colo.-Mexico and Tex.) -- History Human ecology -- Rio Grande Valley (Colo.-Mexico and Tex.) -- History Indians of North America -- Rio Grande Valley (Colo.-Mexico and Tex.) -- Antiquities Excavations (Archaeology) -- Rio Grande Valley (Colo.-Mexico and Tex.) HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General. Antiquities Excavations (Archaeology) Human ecology Indians of North America -- Antiquities Land use SUBJECT Rio Grande Valley (Colo.-Mexico and Tex.) -- Antiquities Subject North America -- Rio Grande Valley Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Vierra, Bradley J., author, editor ISBN 9781607812678 1607812673

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