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Eleventh-century shift in timber procurement areas for the great houses of Chaco Canyon

Christopher H. Guiterman, Thomas W. Swetnam, Jeffrey S. Dean, 2016. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113(5): 1186-1190.

Sources 170 timbers from seven great houses by matching their ring-width series against regional chronologies: the Chuska and Zuni mountains supplied 70 percent; nearly all timbers before 1020 came from the Zunis, and by 1060 the Chuskas dominated, at the onset of the eleventh-century florescence.

MYS0D9KTB707Q8J · mystery · click to copyMGreat houses of Chaco CanyonArticledoi: 10.1073/pnas.1514272112Checked against the original0

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The tree-ring provenance result and the timing of the shift.

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Guiterman, C. H., Swetnam, T. W., & Dean, J. S. (2016). Eleventh-century shift in timber procurement areas for the great houses of Chaco Canyon. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113(5): 1186-1190. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1514272112
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