The Final 400 Years of Prehispanic Agricultural Society in the Mesa Verde Region

ABSTRACT I attempt to summarize salient points in the preceding articles, with special attention to the causes and consequences of the compression of community territories noted for the Pueblo III period in the Mesa Verde region.

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