• Contents 
• Figures
• Tables
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1. 
• Introduction
• History of Lost City Investigations
• Mark Raymond Harrington and Lost City
• Subsequent Study of Lost City
• Regional Chronology
• Main Ridge: The Site and Its Setting
• Sites and Houses
• Recent Work at Main Ridge
• A Framework for Analysis
• Chapter 2. 
• Site Layout and Architecture
• Site Layout
• The Houses
• Construction Materials and Techniques
• Interior Facilities
• House Layouts
• Rooms
• Room Sizes
• Fireplaces
• Floors
• A Functional Classification of Rooms
• The Composition of Houses
• Habitation/Storage Ratios
• Evidence of Social Organization and Integration
• Chronology and Superposition
• Summary and Discussion
• Chapter 3. 
• Ceramics: Questions of Contemporaneity of Structures and Burials
• Classification of the Pottery
• Tusayan Gray Ware, Virgin Series
• Tusayan White Ware, Virgin Series
• Logandale Gray Ware
• Moapa Gray Ware
• Shivwits Plain
• Red Wares
• Tsegi Orange Ware
• San Juan Red Ware
• Sand-Tempered Red Ware
• Ceramic Chronology
• Wares
• Surface Treatment (Corrugated)
• Jar Rim Form
• Design Styles and Elements
• Black Mesa Analogues (St. George Style)
• Sosi/Dogoszhi Analogues (North Creek Style)
• Outline of a Pueblo II Ceramic Chronology for the Moapa Valley
• Burial Chronology
• The Sherd Collections
• Summary and Discussion
• Chapter 4. 
• Variability in Main Ridge Ceramics
• Tusayan Gray and White Wares
• Implications for Ceramic Production
• Implications for Analytic Methods
• Moapa Gray Ware
• Shivwits Plain
• Shivwits Plain: Description
• Shivwits Plain Vessel Forms
• A Comparison of the Gray Ware Vessels Represented by Sherds
• Estimate Interior Orifice Diameters
• Rim Forms
• Differences between the Suites of Pottery Represented by the Three Wares
• A Comparison of Black-on-Gray Bowl Sherds of Tusayan White Ware and Moapa Gray Ware
• Paste Texture
• Firing Cores
• Size and Quantity of Temper
• Paste Colors
• Thickness
• Design Elements
• Rim Elements
• Other Elements
• Observations Regarding Black-on-Gray Jars.
• Explanations for Contrasts between Designs on Tusayan White Ware and Painted Moapa Gray Ware from Main Ridge
• Comparison of Design Elements, Main Ridge and Adam 2: Implications for Ceramic Chronology
• Black Mesa Black-on-White and the Problem of Other Black-on-White and Black-on-Gray Trade Wares
• Red Wares
• Painted Designs on Red Wares and Their Chronological Implications
• Dimensional Characteristics of Whole Vessels
• Summary
• Chapter 5. 
• The Burials and Their Associations
• Mortuary Practices
• Age and Gender of the Individuals
• Locations of the Burials
• Burial Position
• Burial Orientation
• Quantity and Kinds of Grave Goods
• Social Differentiation
• Burials and the Presence of Unused Rooms
• Summary and Discussion
• Chapter 6. 
• Local Products and Nonlocal Goods
• Materials with Extra-Local Origins
• Minerals and Artifacts Made from Minerals
• Selenite and Gypsum
• Magnesite and “Kaolinite”
• Turquoise
• Copper Ore
• Marine Shell Beads and Ornaments
• Ceramics
• Foods and Textiles
• Foods
• Cotton and Textiles
• Summary and Discussion
• Chapter 7. 
• A Summary of Main Ridge
• Chapter 8. 
• The Far Western Anasazi, a.d. 1050–1200
• The Moapa Valley in Mid-to-Late Pueblo II Times: Issues of Subsistence, Sedentism, and Settlement Pattern
• Subsistence
• Sedentism
• Settlement Patterns and Site Hierarchy in the Moapa Valley
• Issues in Organization and Interaction within and beyond the Virgin Anasazi in Mid-to-Late Pueblo II Times
• Moapa Valley Salt and Turquoise Production
• Regional Linkages
• Regional Settlement Pattern and Site Hierarchy
• Kivas and Kayenta-Style Architecture
• Change and Abandonment
• Literature Cited

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