MESA VERDE SETTLEMENT HISTORY AND RELOCATION CLIMATE CHANGE, SOCIAL NETWORKS, AND ANCESTRAL PUEBLO MIGRATION

• Published in: The Kiva (Tucson, Ariz.) Vol. 72; no. 4; pp. 379 - 405
• Main Authors: CORDELL, LINDA S., VAN WEST, CARLA R., DEAN, JEFFREY S., MUENCHRATH, DEBORAH A.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Routledge 01.06.2007; AltaMira Press
• Subjects: Climate models; Communities; Growth rings; Highlands; Mesas; Paleoanthropology; Paleoclimatology; Precipitation; Rain; Social interaction

At the beginning of the thirteenth century A.D., the Mesa Verde region was densely inhabited by Ancestral Pueblo peoples. By the end of that century, Ancestral Pueblo peoples no longer permanently inhabited the region. We present detailed reconstructions of precipitation based on tree rings from fiv...