Dynamics of Southwest Prehistory

Foreword

viii List ofIllustrations 13. Local traditions in the Western Anasazi region 104 14. Major sites in the vicinity of Black Mesa 106 15. Environmental and demographic trends in Hopi Country 108 16. Stages and phases for the Western Anasazi 110 17. Northern San Juan cultural-historical stages in relation to the periods used in this volume 152 18. Southern Mogollon sequence based on Mimbres sequence 181 19. The San Juan Basin 211 20. Summer and annual precipitation: northwest New Mexico 213 21. Comparative chronologies and sequences 215 22. Early Pueblo II Chacoan outliers 236 23. Late Pueblo II communities with Chacoan structures 239 24. Early Pueblo mChacoan outliers 244 25. Variability in the presence of tree-ring dated sites 270 26. The Northern and Central Rio Grande area 294 27. Archaeological districts and major sites in the Northern and Central Rio Grande 296 28. Temporal frameworks used in the Rio Grande area 303 29. The Cibola sequence 339 List of Tables 1. Population estimates for the Mimbres Valley 190 2. Percentage of the number of sites and number of rooms located on three classes of arable land 191 3. Proportion of total site floor area for five time periods occurring on sites of different sizes 191 4. Site frequencies by time period, San Juan Basin 216 5. Room frequencies by time period, San Juan Basin 221 6. Ceramic dates, Flagstaffarea 269 7. Corrected population densities: Apache-Sitgreaves study area 273 8. Archaeological status of Northern Rio Grande components 297 9. Precipitation and growing season variability: Rio Grande area 299 10. Upland agricultural features: Northern Rio Grande area 300 11. Archaeological components in the Northern Rio Grande 309 ix Contributors Linda S. Cordell, Irvine Curator, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco , California. Jeffrey S. Dean, Professor, Laboratory of Tree-ring Research, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona. Paul R. Fish, Curator of Archaeology, Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona. George J. Gumennan, Professor, Department of Anthropology, and Director , Center for Archaeological Investigations, Southern illinois University, Carbondale, illinois. Gregory A. Johnson, Professor, Department of Anthropology, Hunter College , City University of New York, New York. W. James Judge, Director, Fort Burgwin Research Center, SouthernMethodist University, Taos, New Mexico. Steven A. LeBlanc, Director, Mimbres Foundation, Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Curator of Archaeology, Southwest Museum, Los Angeles, California. xi ...