Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Figures xi
4. Tables xv
5. 1 Forty Years of Integrating American Indian Knowledge, Public Education, and Archaeological Research in the Central Mesa Verde Region 3
6. Part I History of the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center
7. 2 The Early History of Crow Canyon’s Archaeology, Education, and American Indian Programs 15
8. 3 From DAP Roots to Crow Canyon and VEP Shoots 26
9. Part II Indigenous Archaeology
10. 4 The Pueblo Farming Project 53
11. 5 Place of the Songs 72
12. 6 What the Old Ones Can Teach Us 83
13. 7 The Knowledge Keepers 105
14. Part III Archaeology and Public Education
15. 8 Conceptualizing the Past 119
16. 9 Making a Place for Archaeology in K–12 Education 132
17. Part IV Community and Regional Studies
18. 10 Community Development and Practice in the Basketmaker III Period 147
19. 11 Bridging the Long Tenth Century 165
20. 12 Community Centers 183
21. 13 Community Organization on the Edge of the Mesa Verde Region 204
22. 14 Formation and Composition of Communities 222
23. 15 Lithic Analyses and Sociopolitical Organization 239
24. 16 Leaving Town 256
25. 17 Bi-Walls, Tri-Walls, and the Aztec Regional System 268
26. 18 Revisiting the Depopulation of the Northern Southwest with Dendrochronology 282
27. 19 Thirteenth-Century Villages and the Depopulation of the Northern San Juan Region by Pueblo Peoples 307
28. Part V Human-Environment Relationship Research
29. 20 The Exploitation of Rodents in the Mesa Verde Region 325
30. 21 Fine-Grained Chronology Reveals Human Impacts on Animal Populations in the Mesa Verde Region of the American Southwestn 335
31. 22 Forty Years of Archaeobotany at Crow Canyon and 850 Years of Plant Use in the Central Mesa Verde Region 347
32. 23 “Old Pots Make Me Think New Thoughts” 359
33. Index 367
34. Contributors 377