Deadly Landscapes: Case Studies in Prehistoric Southwestern Warfare

Description

Editors: Rice, Glen E. and LeBlanc, Stephen A.

Publisher: University of Utah Press

Pub Date: 2001

Binding: Hardcover  (without dust jacket, as issued)

Condition: Very Good.  As new.

Notes: Conflict in the Hohokam, Sinagua, Mogollon, Anasazi, Mesa Verde, Colorado Plateau and the Rio Grande valley regions.  “These studies all focus on a narrow time frame, from the A.D. 1200s to the early 1400s.  It is in this time span that evidence for warfare is most pervasive in the Southwest.  In several regions this period was preceded by about a century of gradually increasing hostility: By the early 1200s there was a noticeable increase in the level of warfare, and by the early 1300s war was ubiquitous throughout the Southwest.” (Chapter 1, page 2)