Culture and Ecology of Chaco Canyon and the San Juan Basin

Indexabandonment, and dispersion, 296, 333; closureactivities, 143, 218-219, 291; Chaco collapse,231,241,262, and earlier, 242, and final, 263;Marcia's Rincon, 208; reasons for, 6, 24, 58,128Abel, Leland J., 226Acoma-Laguna area, 243; Rio San Jose subregion,262activities, specialized, community-wide ceramic, 218;labor pool for, 274; mealing/milling facilities,138, 141, 196-198, 215, 257, 26Q, as spaceintegration, 293; workshops for c~ramic -andlithic, 118, 134, 138, 141, 211-216, 270-271.See also kivasAdams, E. Charles, 296Adams, Richard N., 98agriculture: acres per person, 183, and land availablefor, 28, 37, 115, 120, 180-185, 188,252-253,257, 273; environmental parameters, 177; fields,115, 171, 173-174, and test plots, 36, 58-59,179; garden types, 122, 173, 181-182,263, andfallowing, 115, 182, 183; growing season,31-34, 127, 179,333, 334, 342; historic, 179,340-342; household size for, 333; microregionalshifts, 130, and other shifts, 243; options forincreasing, 123; surplus, 179, and surplusvariable, 277-279. See also horticulture;subsistence strategies; water, availability of;water control featuresAkins, Nancy J., on burial populations, 208, 214,216, 223, 235, 277, 290, and craniometricstudies, 134, 268, 281; on abraders, 118; onfauna, 114, 115, 119, 156, 175, 238, andattitude toward fauna, 122, and ritual, 218, 219,291-292; on popUlation estimates, 183-184, andhuman health, 192-195Akins, Nancy J., and William B. Gillespie, 157, 163Aldenderfer, Mark, 283-284Alemita Coal Lease, 68Allan, William c., and John B. Broster, 272alluviation, 24-31, and burial of sites, 46, 98, 99,100, in cross-section, 29; and channel cuttingevents, 6, 58, 128, 287; facies for, 25; rate forChaco Wash, 99; reconstructions of paleoenvironmentsbased on, 45-47, 51, and soilformation, 36-37, 182Altschul, Jeffrey H., 245, 272American Southwest, 264Anasazi, North and South, 98; Eastern, 264Al1asazi Origins Project, 61Anasazi period. See divisions separatelyAnasazi World, 123Anglo-American components, 303, 308, 309Anglo-American encounters, 322, 323, 329Animas River Valley, 241-242, 258, 274Ant Hill Dune, 70, 84-88, 358Antevs, E., 28, 47, 55Apache comparison, 343Archaeological Society of New Mexico Rock ArtField School, 14, 220archaeology, records for, 269, 329, 343; fieldschools, 14Archaic period: alluviation during, 24, 45, andenvironment, 56, 93; Oshara phases, 62-63, RioGrande phases, 63, and discussion, 64-88;shelters and sites, 90, 93, and use of com,95-96; burned bone, 70, 82; distinctpopulations, 280-281, 343; problems with theterm, 95, and Late Archaic, 91Archaic-Basketmaker II period, 67, 70, 88; LateArchaic-Basketmaker II period, 78, 94-95. Seealso Basketmaker II periodarchitecture: alignments, 221-222; Chaco style, 245;continuity, 106, 141; expedient, 241; functions,154, 201, 242-243, 275; great/small housecomparison, 196-205, 208, 293; orientation,191; interconnected rooms, 293; interiordecoration, 154, 198, 223, 292; McElmo style,6, 128, 157, 204, 205, 225-235, 273, 287;Navajo, 301-303, 308, 322, 324; public, 201,252, 257, 286, 287, 292, 293; reviewed,106-113; ritual, 156-157,219; ritual landscapeand, 270; room ratios, 199; room relationships,191,205,293; suites, 134, 143, 152, 198,199, 205; surface structures appear, 100; unitpatterns, 111, 196, 199; unusual features,204-208, 257, 270. See also construction;masonry; alld see features separately