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News from the Northern American Southwest: Prehistory on the edge of chaos

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Recent developments in the study of the prehistory of the northern Mogollon and Anasazi areas of the North American Southwest are reviewed, with emphasis on the pre-A.D. 1150 period, in an attempt to identify key empirical results and incipient interpretive directions.

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Kohler, T.A. News from the Northern American Southwest: Prehistory on the edge of chaos. J Archaeol Res 1, 267–321 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01418108

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