The Cliff Valley in the Fourteenth Century

Each summer, students and professional archaeologists at the Upper Gila Preservation Archaeology Field School work together near Cliff, New Mexico, to understand what life was like in the region in the 1300s. A collaboration of Archaeology Southwest and the University of Arizona, this project is focused on how people formed the communities we are studying, which were long-lived and incorporated residents of different origins and ethnicities. This talk summarizes our latest research on these topics, including findings from this summer’s excavations.