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Climate change is today’s news, but it isn’t a new phenomenon. Centuries-long cycles of heating and cooling are well documented for Europe and the North Atlantic. These variations in climate, including the Medieval Warm Period (MWP), AD 900 to 1300, and the early centuries of the Little Ice Age (LIA), AD 1300 to 1600, had a substantial impact on the cultural history of Europe. In this pathfinding volume, William C. Foster marshals extensive evidence that the heating and cooling of the MWP and LIA also occurred in North America and significantly affected the cultural history of Native peoples of the American Southwest, Southern Plains, and Southeast. Correlating climate change data with studies of archaeological sites across the Southwest, Southern Plains, and Southeast, Foster presents the first comprehensive overview of how Native American societies responded to climate variations over seven centuries. He describes how, as in Europe, the MWP ushered in a cultural renaissance, during which population levels surged and Native peoples substantially intensified agriculture, constructed monumental architecture, and produced sophisticated works of art. Foster follows the rise of three dominant cultural centers—Chaco Canyon in New Mexico, Cahokia on the middle Mississippi River, and Casas Grandes in northwestern Chihuahua, Mexico—that reached population levels comparable to those of London and Paris. Then he shows how the LIA reversed the gains of the MWP as population levels and agricultural production sharply declined; Chaco Canyon, Cahokia, and Casas Grandes collapsed; and dozens of smaller villages also collapsed or became fortresses.

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"At the height of their power in the late eleventh century, the Chaco Anasazi dominated a territory in the American Southwest larger than any European principality of the time. Developed over the course of centuries and thriving for over two hundred years, the Chacoans' society collapsed dramatically in the twelfth century in a mere forty years. David E. Stuart incorporates extensive new research findings through groundbreaking archaeology to explore the rise and fall of the Chaco Anasazi and how it parallels patterns throughout modern societies in this new edition. Adding new research findings on caloric flows in prehistoric times and investigating the evolutionary dynamics induced by these forces as well as exploring the consequences of an increasingly detached central Chacoan decision-making structure, Stuart argues that Chaco's failure was a failure to adapt to the consequences of rapid growth--including problems with the misuse of farmland, malnutrition, loss of community, and inability to deal with climatic catastrophe. Have modern societies learned from the experience and fate of the Chaco Anasazi, or are we risking a similar cultural collapse?"--

Pueblo Indians --- Chaco culture. --- Human ecology --- Social change --- Ecology --- Environment, Human --- Human beings --- Human environment --- Ecological engineering --- Human geography --- Nature --- Chaco phase --- Chacoan culture --- Chacoan phase --- Ancestral Pueblo culture --- Antiquities. --- Social life and customs. --- Social aspects --- Effect of environment on --- Effect of human beings on --- Chaco Canyon (N.M.) --- Social change. --- Human ecology. --- HISTORY --- Annals --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Archaeological specimens --- Artefacts (Antiquities) --- Artifacts (Antiquities) --- Specimens, Archaeological --- Material culture --- Archaeology --- Change, Social --- Cultural change --- Cultural transformation --- Societal change --- Socio-cultural change --- Social history --- Social evolution --- State & Local --- West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) --- Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX) --- New Mexico --- Nuevo México --- Nuevo Méjico

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"Since mid-1970s, government agencies, scholars, tribes, and private industries have attempted to navigate conflicts involving energy development, Chacoan archaeological study, and preservation across the San Juan Basin. Examines both the imminent threat by energy extraction and ways of understanding Chaco Canyon--and Chaco-era great houses and associated communities"--

Pueblo Indians --- Mineral industries. --- Landscapes. --- Chaco culture. --- Chaco architecture. --- Antiquities. --- Mineral industries --- Landscapes --- Chaco culture --- Chaco architecture --- Dwellings. --- Dwellings --- New Mexico --- Chaco Canyon (N.M.) --- Architecture, Chaco --- Architecture --- Chaco phase --- Chacoan culture --- Chacoan phase --- Ancestral Pueblo culture --- Indians of North America --- Countryside --- Landscape --- Natural scenery --- Scenery --- Scenic landscapes --- Nature --- Extractive industries --- Extractive industry --- Metal industries --- Mines and mining --- Mining --- Mining industry --- Mining industry and finance --- Industries --- Archaeological specimens --- Artefacts (Antiquities) --- Artifacts (Antiquities) --- Specimens, Archaeological --- Material culture --- Archaeology --- Nuevo México --- Nuevo Méjico --- Nuebo México --- Departamento del Nuevo Mejico --- Antiquities