Prehistoric Indians of the Southwest

Once we pass on to a time which is separated from our own by hundreds instead of thousands of years we are on firmer ground. Two main _basic cultures_ have been differentiated b...

The prehistoric people who lived in the valley of the Colorado River below the Grand Canyon are the least well known in the Southwest, for most information about them has been d...

While the inhabitants of the Plateau were developing the culture described in the previous section, other groups in other parts of the Southwest were evolving along somewhat dif...

Writing about the Mogollon Culture is rather like dealing with a time bomb. It is impossible to ignore it, but one has the uncomfortable feeling that whatever one does about it...

Before beginning any discussion of the Southwest it is best to decide exactly what we mean by the word, for it means many things to many people. For the geographer it has one me...

At least 25,000 years ago there were men in New Mexico who lived in caves and hunted animals, many of which no longer exist. Over 10,000 years ago there were already distinct gr...

In northern Arizona have been found many remains of prehistoric people who were contemporaneous with and had certain traits in common with the Anasazi, and it was originally tho...

PAGE 1. Diagram to illustrate chronology-building with tree-rings 15 2. Map showing sites referred to in Chapter II 21 3. Projectile points of the most ancient cultures 23 4. Fo...

General Remarks 27 The Basketmaker Period 27 The Modified-Basketmaker Period 49 Summary 56 The Developmental-Pueblo Period 57 Peripheral Areas 72 Summary 75 The Great Pueblo Per...

General Remarks 148 Bluff Ruin 150 The Pine Lawn Phase 151 The Georgetown Phase 152 The San Francisco Phase 153 Bear Ruin 155 The Three Circle Phase 157 The Mimbres Phase 158 Su...