Timothy A. Kohler
Ten Thousand Years of Inequality
The Archaeology of Wealth Differences
- Copyright year: 2018
Leaving Mesa Verde
Peril and Change in the Thirteenth-Century Southwest
A great mystery in the archaeology of the Southwest is the depopulation of the northern San Juan in the late thirteenth-century AD. Leaving Mesa Verde confronts this mystery with new paleoenvironmental data and much archaeological research. What arises is a story of conflict and disruption as a result of climate change, environmental degradation, social rigidity, and conflict.
- Copyright year: 2012
The Model-Based Archaeology of Socionatural Systems
How should archaeologists and other social scientists tackle the big and little questions about change in socionatural systems? Although fieldwork is certainly the place to start, it alone is not enough to answer troublesome "how" or "why" questions. To make sense of what they find in the field, archaeologists build models-possible explanations for the data.
- Copyright year: 2007
Archaeology of Bandelier National Monument
Village Formation on the Pajarito Plateau, New Mexico
These essays summarize the results of new excavation and survey research at Bandelier National Monument, with special attention to determining why larger sites appear when and where they do, and how life in these later villages and towns differed from life in the earlier small hamlets that first dotted the Pajarito in the mid-1100s.
- Copyright year: 2004