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1 online resource (240 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9788323384939
Content:
Thirteenth century A.D. was a time of many changes and reorganization in the ancient Pueblo world in the Mesa Verde region. Still unresolved are the causes of the migration of Pueblo people from the Mesa Verde region to the south and southeast in the end of the century. The theories most cited and most supported by scientific data include environmental changes, increasing conflict and violence, social changes, and the attraction of a new cult or ideologies from the south. However, it seems that none of these theories can fully explain the total depopulation of the region. One reason often cited for the depopulation of the area is increasing conflict and violence. Evidence of conflict is clearly visible archaeologically: sites located in places difficult to access; defensive buildings, and settlement layouts; human remains with evidence of a violent death; and rock art depicting violent interactions. During the thirteenth century A.D. many types of defensive architecture including towers, underground tunnels connecting structures in a settlement, loopholes, and massive stone walls that partly or fully enclosed villages were constructed in the central Mesa Verde region. These architectural changes were associated with population aggregation and relocation; during the thirteenth century, most people probably lived in large settlements situated such that they were difficult to access and easy to defend. In many villages, water sources were secured within the boundary of the settlement or were at least nearby. However, it is difficult to determine whether the defensive architecture and defensible locations were not enough of an obstacle against possible attackers as Pueblo Indians emigrated from the Mesa Verde region near the end of the thirteenth century A.D. into what are now northern and central Arizona and New Mexico.
Content:
Intro -- CONTENTS -- 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 power -- III.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 sites -- IV.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.
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ISBN 9788323331841
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9788323331841
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English
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