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Growth and Aggregation at Canyon Creek Ruin: Implications for Evolutionary Change in East-Central Arizona

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Michael W. Graves
Michael W. Graves*
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Department of Anthropology, University of Guam, Mangilao, Guam 96913
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Abstract

Tree-ring data from the Canyon Creek Ruin, east-central Arizona, are analyzed to evaluate two competing interpretations of pueblo growth at this well-preserved cliff dwelling. Despite an anomalous dating pattern, a logistic model best describes pueblo growth. Room construction activity is linked to population increase, which, in turn, may be divided into two varieties: natural increase, and immigration of households into the settlement. Logistic growth also accounts for population increase within the larger area of the Grasshopper region. I review the processes promoting both local and regional population increase, as well as subsequent abandonment of the mountains of Arizona. I suggest that rapid depopulation may have occurred after A.D. 1375 because late prehistoric communities lost access to nonlocal goods that had previously allowed populations to increase beyond local resource constraints.

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American Antiquity , Volume 48 , Issue 2 , April 1983 , pp. 290 - 315
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1983

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