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Pattern and Variation in Northern San Juan Village Histories

ABSTRACT Crow Canyon's early excavations in the Sand Canyon locality suggested that late Pueblo III canyon-rim villages formed rapidly and according to a consistent pattern. The Village Testing Project was designed to test this and other settlement pattern models through surface mapping and test excavations at large, late sites in the central Mesa Verde area of the Northern San Juan region. Based on new data from Woods Canyon Pueblo, Yellow Jacket Pueblo, and the Hediey Site Complex, combined with existing data from Sand Canyon and Castle Rock pueblos, it is now apparent that the occupational histories of canyon-oriented villages were highly variable. But even though the history of each village was unique, all five came to possess similar architectural characteristics by the mid-A.D. 1200s, suggesting that both large-scale socioculturai developments and individual community histories are reconstructible from the regional archaeological record.