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7 | (4) |
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11 | (8) |
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19 | (6) |
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The Ancient World of the Basin-Plateau |
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25 | (40) |
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Native Culture before the Horse |
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27 | (2) |
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29 | (3) |
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32 | (5) |
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37 | (9) |
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44 | (2) |
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Social and Political Organization |
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46 | (10) |
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56 | (4) |
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From Historic baseline to the Deep Past: A Spiral of Contexts |
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60 | (5) |
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Ancient Climate and Habitats |
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65 | (40) |
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The Great Basin and the Colorado Plateau |
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67 | (2) |
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69 | (2) |
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71 | (4) |
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Stepping into a Deeper Past |
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75 | (9) |
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Sidebar: How Do We Know about Past Environments and Climate? |
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78 | (3) |
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Sidebar: Dates of the Past and How to Read Them |
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81 | (3) |
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The Little Ice Age: A.D. 1300-1800 |
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84 | (4) |
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Warming, Variation, and the Medieval Warm Period A.D. 0-1300 |
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88 | (3) |
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Cooling and the Neoglacial Period: 4500-2000 B.P. (A.D. 0) |
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91 | (3) |
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Two Spikes of Warming: 8000-4500 B.P. |
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94 | (2) |
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The Early Holocene and Water in the Desert: 10,000-8000 B.P. |
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96 | (3) |
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The Wild Ride of the Pleistocene-Holocene Transition: 13,000-10,000 B.P. |
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99 | (2) |
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Lake Bonneville and the Pleistocene: 16,000-13,000 B.P. |
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101 | (4) |
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The First Explorers, Colonists, and Settlers |
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105 | (36) |
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Sidebar: Who Were the First Explorers and Colonists? |
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107 | (3) |
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An Ecological Moment and Why Paleoindian Life Was Different |
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110 | (2) |
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Paleoindian-Paleoarchaic Artifacts |
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112 | (4) |
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116 | (9) |
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Wetlands, Big Game, and a Dynamic Climate |
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125 | (1) |
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Sidebar: Did Humans Kill Off the Pleistocene Megafauna? |
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126 | (1) |
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Diet, Toolstone, Technology, and Mobility |
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126 | (7) |
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What Can We Say about Paleoindian Life and Society? |
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133 | (5) |
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Transition to Paleoarchaic Life and Society |
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138 | (3) |
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141 | (44) |
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A Long Time and Some Big Changes |
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142 | (2) |
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Settlers of the Early Archaic (9000-7000 B.P.) |
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144 | (7) |
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High Desert Foragers of the Middle Archaic (7000-3000 B.P.) |
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151 | (16) |
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Sidebar: The Built Environment |
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152 | (10) |
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Sidebar: Humans and the Pinyon Pine |
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162 | (5) |
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The Late Archaic and a Land Filled with Foragers (3000-1000 B.P.) |
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167 | (10) |
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A Cultural Sea Change: The Shift in Values from Public to Private Goods |
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177 | (3) |
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180 | (5) |
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185 | (44) |
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Fremont Places, Fremont Life, Fremont Place |
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187 | (8) |
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Sidebar: The Big Village at willard (by Mark E. Stuart) |
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191 | (4) |
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195 | (4) |
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Indigenes, Explorers, and Colonists: The Fremont Frontier |
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199 | (6) |
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Sidebar: Farming, Language, and Immigrants |
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200 | (5) |
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Language, Ethnicity, and a Sprinkling of Neolithic Communities |
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205 | (4) |
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The Bow and Arrow, Ceramics, and Maize |
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209 | (3) |
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212 | (5) |
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Big Villages, Inequality, and Hierarchy |
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217 | (5) |
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Family, Lineage, Connections, and Conflict |
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222 | (7) |
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The Late Prehistoric Millennium |
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229 | (42) |
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231 | (4) |
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Foragers to the West, People from the West |
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235 | (5) |
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240 | (4) |
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244 | (4) |
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The Spread of the Numic Languages and the Making of the Numic Cultures |
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248 | (8) |
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Sidebar: The Relationship of Modern Tribes to the Ancients |
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255 | (1) |
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Many into the New: The Late Prehistoric on the Wasatch Front |
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256 | (7) |
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263 | (3) |
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Widowed Continent: Disease, Depopulation, and History |
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266 | (5) |
| Epilogue |
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271 | (6) |
| Notes |
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277 | (52) |
| References |
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329 | (40) |
| Index |
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369 | (14) |
| About the Author |
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