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Author
Pub. Date
2006
Description
Following in the wake of what one noted scientist called 'transients who neither revered nor cared for the ruins as symbols of the past, ' the Wetherill family became the earliest students of Mesa Verde. Their careful excavations and record-keeping helped preserve key information, leading to a deeper understanding of the people who built and occupied the cliff dwellings. As devout Quakers, they felt they were predestined to protect the historic sites...
Author
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Follows a group of eighth-graders from Hannibal, Missouri as they attempt to help archaeologists at Crow Canyon Archaeological Center in Colorado solve the mystery of why the Puebloan people who had lived in the area for over a thousand years suddenly left around A.D. 1300.
Series
Pub. Date
2003
Description
"A total of 221 new sites were discovered from the Bircher fire and were fully recorded. Besides a complete narrative of each of these 221 sites, the following report after summarizing the regional cultural history, Park environment, and previous work in the Park, addresses the specific fire effects abserved on archeological resources within the Bircher Fire" (from abstract p. iii)
Pub. Date
2006
Description
Archaeologists with field and laboratory experience explore the long history of human habitation throughout the Mesa Verde, Colorado area, discussing such topics as the environment, the earliest hunters and foragers, Tewa origin stories, sacred landscapes, fire and archaeology, ancient violence, and archaeology in the region over the past century
11) Mesa Verde
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Follow in the footsteps of the archaeologists who unearthed the secrets of Mesa Verde.
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
"The Mesa Verde region is one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world and is an area fraught with complexities, anomalies, and layers of histories. Sushi in Cortez is a collection of essays by an interdisciplinary group of academics, artists, and cultural observers that explores this diverse landscape and heritage by combining and sharing the differing perspectives provided by various disciplines. Poetry, film, environmental philosophy,...
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Description
One hot Colorado afternoon, physician-turned-archaeologist Sarah MacLeish unearths the skeleton of an Ancestral Puebloan girl with a deformed leg. Her efforts to understand something of the long-ago life of that girl confront her with the flaws in her own body and her marriage. Sarah struggles with multiple sclerosis, and she is increasingly persuaded that her husband, archaeologist Harry MacLeish, is profoundly discontented in their childless marriage....
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