ARCH 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Social Complexity, Style Guide, Social Stratification
3 Nov 2016
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Although many of the great pueblos were abandoned by the early 1300s, some continued to be occupied. These took on a different appearance, and in many cases were carved into cliffs, rather than built onto them. It was once thought that the pueblo societies of the northern southwest all collapsed at once, and a single cause was sought. We now know that there were multiple collapse events, all triggered by local conditions, although over-population and prolonged drought seem to be a common theme. Puebloan peoples did not disappear; rather, they appear to have moved to different regions. Modern puebloan cultures in places like zuni and hopi. Some modern southwest groups, such as the navajo and apache, only migrated into the area after about ad 1400. Much like the ancestral puebloan, the mogollon began to live in pueblos during this time. Regional variation in size of pueblos, with larger structures present in new mexico prior to arizona.
