Education Publications

The diverse publications listed below include materials that will introduce you to the history, archaeology, and ecology of the Four Corners area. Teachers interested specifically in study guides and lesson plans should refer to the list of teacher resources, and young archaeologists are invited to visit the student resources page.

Peoples of the Mesa Verde Region
From mammoth hunters to Pueblo farmers, this illustrated chronology covers more than 11,000 years of American Indian history in the Mesa Verde region.

Mother Earth’s Mercantile
Mother Nature is the ultimate superstore! This unique guidebook features plants found in the Four Corners area and describes how American Indians have used them for food, shelter, clothing, and other purposes.

Goodman Point Historic Land-Use Study
Hundreds of years after the ancestral Pueblo people left, Euro-Americans began settling in the Mesa Verde region. This work reports the results of an oral history study focused on homesteading and farming practices in the area surrounding Goodman Point Pueblo in the early twentieth century.

Glossary
For those new to Southwestern archaeology, this online glossary provides definitions of many archaeological and anthropological terms used in Crow Canyon’s publications and programs.