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Largo-Gallina Towers: An Explanation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

James Mackey and
R. C. Green
James Mackey
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106
R. C. Green
Affiliation:
Anthropology Department, The University of Auckland, New Zealand
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Abstract

Excavation in Largo-Gallina phase sites supports the interpretation that towers were primarily defensive structures. There is some evidence that towers also had a storage use. It is interesting to note that the use of defensive and specialized, village-wide storage structures coincides temporally with a period of environmental deterioration in the American Southwest.

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American Antiquity , Volume 44 , Issue 1 , January 1979, pp. 144 - 154
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1979

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