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News Release 14-082
Scientists chart a baby boom--in southwestern Native Americans from 500 to 1300 A.D.
Southwest U.S. experience holds lesson in over-population
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Reconstruction of life on a Hohokam platform mound in the Sonoran Desert in the 13th century A.D.
Credit: Pueblo Grande Museum, City of Phoenix
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Montezuma Valley in Colorado, a fertile area with high population growth in the distant past.
Credit: Tim Kohler, WSU
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Sites like Pueblo Bonito in northern New Mexico reached their maximum size in the early 1100s A.D.
Credit: Nate Crabtree Photography
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Pottery became common across the Southwest around A.D. 600; many vessels stored corn.
Credit: Bureau of Land Management/Anasazi Heritage Center Collections/Mark Montgomery
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Corn-grinding equipment from Southwest Colorado, ca. A.D. 600.
Credit: Bureau of Land Management/Anasazi Heritage Center Collections/Mark Montgomery
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Ears of corn from a "Basketmaker II period" cache in Colorado, dating to the third century B.C.
Credit: Karen Adams, Crow Canyon Archaeological Center
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