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Examines the organization of ancestral Puebloan (Anasazi) communities in the Mesa Verde region of the American Southwest. Focuses on thirteenth-century settlement in the Sand Canyon locality of southwestern Colorado. Provides a detailed case study of community organization and change in the decades preceding the abandonment of the Mesa Verde region. Includes descriptions of excavated sites and comparative studies. Covers artifacts, pollen, and macrobotanical,...