Leaving Mesa Verde: Peril and Change in the Thirteenth-Century Southwest

by Timothy A. Kohler

Book Overview

It is one of the great mysteries in the archaeology of the Americas: the depopulation of the northern Southwest in the late thirteenth-century AD. Considering the numbers of people affected, the distances moved, the permanence of the departures, the severity of the surrounding conditions, and the human suffering and culture change that accompanied them, the abrupt conclusion to the farming way of life in this region is one of the greatest disruptions...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816528853
• ISBN13: 9780816528851
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago Behalf of U of Arizona Press
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 1.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.2"