Drought, Frost, and Migration in the 1200s

Drought, Frost, and Migration in the 1200s. . Drought, shortened growing seasons, and late and early frosts caused tough times for Pueblo farmers, especially in southeastern Utah. In the early 1200s, villagers in Utah, including Edge of the Cedars Pueblo, probably moved short distances east to places like Hovenweep and Mesa Verde., By the mid-1200s, those settlements became stressed by the increased demands for resources by larger populations. A pair of multi-year droughts in the 1250s and 1270s compelled Ancestral Pueblo villagers to make big moves south. They probably joined family and allies who lived in successful towns along the Rio Grande in modern-day New Mexico and along the Little Colorado drainages at the communities of Zuni and Hopi., Modern Pueblo Communities , Over 20 Pueblo communities in Arizona and New Mexico can trace their ancestry to the corn-growing Ancestral Pueblo people who left the Four Corners region in the 1,200s., Pueblo Language Group/Community Key , Tiwa - Taos, Sandia, Picuris, Isleta (Tanoan languages) , Tewa - Santa Clara, San Ildefonso, Ohkay Owingeh, Pojoaque Nambe, Tesuque (Tanoan languages) , Towa - Walatowa (Tanoan languages) , Keres - Cochiti, Zia, Santo Domingo, San Felipe, Santa Ana, Laguna, Acoma , Zuni - Zuni , Hopi - Third Mesa, Second Mesa, First Mesa , prehistoric site - Mesa Verde, Chaco Canyon, Hovenweep, Edge of the Cedars , modern town - Albuquerque, Kayenta