Defensive architecture and the depopulation of the Mesa Verde Region, Utah-Colorado in the thirteenth century A.D. /

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 m...

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Main Author: Palonka, Radosław (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Krakow : Jagiellonian University Press, 2011.
Edition:First edition.
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