Largo-Gallina Towers: An Explanation
- 20 January 1979
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in American Antiquity
- Vol. 44 (1) , 144-154
- https://doi.org/10.2307/279196
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.Keywords
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