Life as Migration: The Mesa Verde Pueblo People

Co-sponsored by New World Archaeology Council

Explore the Mesa Verde region of Colorado, first settled by a mix of immigrants and natives, and inhabited by the Pueblo people for 700 years. Learn about the migration episodes which were a constant factor in the formation of the Pueblo society, and how the final migration left the region depopulated by about A.D. 1300.

Mark Varien, Ph.D. is the vice president of programs at the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center. He has conducted research in Guatemala, New Zealand, Australia, and throughout the western United States. He earned a Ph.D. from Arizona State University and won a Society for American Archaeology award for the best dissertation in archaeology in the United States. From 1997 to 2007, he served as director of research at Crow Canyon. The author of many books and articles, his primary research focus is the Pueblo occupation of the Mesa Verde region.