Product Description: Archaeology provides an ideal avenue for examining long-term processes and interrelationships between human behavior and environmental stability, variation, and change. The American Southwest is particularly well suited for such 'deep-time' investigations because of its comprehensive archaeological record, rich ethnographic and historical data on its peoples, and unmatched reconstructions of multiple environmental variables across a broad range of spatial and temporal scales...read more

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Product Description: This two-volume set describes the first five years of the Silver Creek Archaeological Research Project, the University of Arizona's archaeological field school located just north of the Mogollon Rim in east-central Arizona. The 15 chapters describe the primary analyses and syntheses of research at 13th-14th century Bailey Ruin, 13th century Pottery Hill, and three 12th century great kiva sites: Hough's Great Kiva, Cothrun's Kiva, and AZ P:16:160 ASM...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This landmark study uses archaeological tree-ring chronologies in the first attempt to quantitatively reconstruct past climate variability. After a step-by-step explanation of the statistical methods the authors reconstruct in inches the annual and spring precipitation of the Arroyo Hondo area for each year from A...read more