Defensive Architecture and the Depopulation of the Mesa Verde Region, Utah-Colorado in the Thirteenth Century A.D.

Radosław Palonka

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Palonka, Radosław. Defensive Architecture and the Depopulation of the Mesa Verde Region, Utah-Colorado in the Thirteenth Century A.D.. Red. . Kraków: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, 2011, 240 s. ISBN 978-83-233-3184-1

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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 regi...

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LIST OF FIGURES 10
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS13
CHAPTER I: Introduction 15
CHAPTER II: Mesa Verde region – definition, natural environment history and methodology of research 19
II.1. Defi nition and borders of the central Mesa Verde region19
II.2. Natural environment 21
II.3. History and methodology of research 25
II.4. Pueblo culture in the Mesa Verde region and beyond – An outline 32
CHAPTER III: Defi ning and interpreting defensive architecture 38
III.1. Theory and different views on defensive architecture in non-state societies 38
III.1.1. Defensive architecture as a response to threat 40
III.1.2. Defensive architecture as evidence of social changes and economic power 42
III.2. Defi ning Mesa Verdean defensive architecture 43
III.3. Examples of defensive architecture in different non-state societies 45
III.3.1. Defensive sites in other parts of the Southwest 45
III.3.1.a. West-Central Colorado 45
III.3.1.b. Kayenta region, northeastern Arizona 46
III.3.1.c. Perry Mesa, central Arizona 46
III.3.1.d. New Mexico 47
III.3.1.e. Sites on the US-Mexico borderland 48
III.3.1.f. Apache breastworks and Navajo Pueblitos of New Mexico 49
III.3.2. Defensive architecture in other parts of North America50
III.3.3. Defensive sites in prehistoric and early historic central-eastern and southern Europe51
III.3.3.a. Neolithic, Bronze Age and Early Iron Age strongholds and defensive sites 51
III.3.3.b. Early Medieval defensive sites54
CHAPTER IV: Ethnography, ethnohistory, and Native American oral traditions concerning defensive architecture and confl icts in the Southwest 57
IV.1. Ethnohistoric records 58
IV.1.1. Location of sites 60
IV.1.2. Evidence of defensive architecture62
IV.1.3. Information on confl icts and warfare 63

abilityaffectedtheexistenceofprehistoricPueblosocietieslivingthere(Glowacki2006:

15).However,therearesomegeneraltendenciesinthenaturalenvironmentthatare

representedby,forexample,similarﬂoraandfauna,geology,andgeomorphology.Of

course,thedistributionofthesefeaturesdoesvaryacrosstheregion(Glowacki2006).

Generally,theMesaVerderegionisnotasdryastheotherareasoftheSouthwest,pri-

marilybecauseitliesatarelativelyhighelevationandisfarthernorththantherestofthe

Southwest(Cordell1997).TheMesaVerderegionislocatedin"acold,middlelatitude,

semiaridclimate,inwhichpotentialatmosphericevaporationregularlyexceedsthe

amountsofprecipitationavailable”(AdamsandPetersen1999:23;seealsoVanWest

andDean2000:20–21afterTrewartha1954:267).

Geologically,theMesaVerderegionincludesmainlyDakotaSandstone,Mancos

Shale,Summerville,Dolores,Entrada,andMorrisonformations,althoughthereisvari-

abilitywithintheregionintermsofthedistributionandexposureofthoseformations.

DakotaSandstonewasagoodsourceofbuildingstoneusedcommonlyfortheconstruc-

tionofdwellingsbyancientPueblopeople,andtheMorrisonFormationprovidedraw

materialformakingstonetools(AdamsandPetersen1999:21).

WithinthemorerestrictedareathatconstitutesthecentralMesaVerderegion,the

naturalenvironmentisgenerallyhomogeneous,althoughtherearesomeimportantvari-

ations.Differencesinelevationaffectedprecipitation,angleandavailabilityofsunlight,

lengthofthegrowingandharvestingseasons,distributionofﬂoraandfauna,andother

characteristicsoftheenvironment.Thisregionhasarelativelyhighelevation,roughly

from1500to3200m(4500–9600ft.)abovesealevel.Thehighestelevationsoccurin

thewesternpartoftheregionandalsointheeasternpartinMesaVerdeproper(ap-

proximatelytheareaofMesaVerdeNationalParkandUteMountainUteTribalPark).

MostoftheprehistorichumanhabitationinthecentralMesaVerderegionoccurredbe-

low2500m;maizeagriculturewouldnothavebeenpossibleathigherelevations(Adams

andPetersen1999;Erdmanetal.1969:57).

InmanyplacesinthecentralMesaVerderegiontherearecanyonswithsteeptalus

slopes.Manyrockoverhangsoralcovesarepresentinthesandstoneclifffacesofthe

canyons.Long-termerosionalprocessescreateduniquegeographicfeaturessuchascan-

yonsandmesas(Grifﬁtts1990).AlcoveswerechosenfordwellingbyancientPuebloans

overavastperiodoftimebutespeciallyduringthethirteenthcenturyA.D.(Varienetal.

1996:98).CliffdwellingsarelocatedinMesaVerdeNationalParkaswellasinother

areasofthecentralMesaVerderegion,forexample,intheSandCanyonlocalityandin

JohnsonCanyonontheUteMountainUteReservation.

Thedistributionofsoilsthathavepotentialforagriculturealsovariesacrossthearea.

Theirsuitabilityofaparticularsoilforagriculturedependsonfactorssuchastopogra-

phy,elevation,aspect,precipitation,availabilityofwater,temperature,andlengthofthe

growingseason(VanWestandDean2000:22).Theloamysoilsofferingthebestpoten-

tialforthecultivationofmaizeandothercrops,aswellasforforaging,areconcentrated

in,butnotlimitedto,theMcElmo-MonumentandtheMesaVerdeproperareas(Adams

andPetersen1999:33).Evidenceindicatesthatdry-landfarmingwouldbefavoredbe-

tween1824/1829and2195m(6000–7200ft.)elevation,whereasbelowabout1829m

(ca.6000ft.)thereisaneedforartiﬁcialwatermanagement(AdamsandPetersen1999:

33).Also,ﬂoodplainagriculturewouldhavebeenpossible,mostlyindrainagebottoms

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