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Population Dislocation in the Navaho Reservoir District, New Mexico and Colorado

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Frank W. Eddy
Frank W. Eddy*
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Department of Anthropology,University of Colorado
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Abstract

The Navaho Reservoir District is an arbitrarily defined unit of salvage archaeological research located in northwestern New Mexico and adjacent portions of Colorado. As such, it is used here as a data source for the study of ninth and tenth century population dislocations due to climatic change and river erosion. The affected Pueblo farming peoples migrated by means of slow, steady upstream drift. Violent land competition between the agrarian communities is offered as an explanation for the use of the leap-frog rather than wave strategy in population relocation.

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American Antiquity , Volume 39 , Issue 1 , January 1974 , pp. 75 - 84
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1974

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