Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Salt Lake City : The University of Utah Press, [2013]

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Details

Additional Authors

Vierra, Bradley J.

Description

xvi, 248 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

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.)
• Rio Grande Valley (Colo.-Mexico and Tex.) > Antiquities

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN

• 9781607812661 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 1607812665 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9781607812678 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

• 2013012749
• 40022951294

OCLC

• ocn841187014
• 841187014
• SCSB-5718894

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries