Mountains, Shrines, and Rock Art: Landscape in Ancestral Pueblo culture from the Colorado Plateau, North American Southwest by Radosław Palonka, Kathleen M. O’Meara, Katarzyna M. Ciomek, Zi Xu, Brianna Gooch, Claire Moriarty, Bartosz Foryś

“… Since 2011, the Sand Canyon–Castle Rock Community Archaeological Project has been conducted in several canyons of the central Mesa Verde region, southwestern Colorado in the North American Southwest. One of the project’s aims is to reconstruct the relationships between Ancestral Pueblo culture settlements and rock art vs. environment and surrounding landscape. …”
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Michael D. Mathiowetz et Andrew D. Turner (eds), Flower Worlds. Religion, Aesthetics, and Ideology in Mesoamerica and the American Southwest by Anath Ariel de Vidas

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Geometric morphometric analysis of projectile points from the Southwest United States by Bischoff, Robert J.

Subjects: “…American Southwest; Hohokam; Arizona; projectile points; lithics; computational archaeology; geometric morphometrics…”
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Mitchell Douglas R. and Judy L. Brunson-Hadley (eds), Ancient Burial Practices in the American Southwest. Archaeology, Physical Anthropology and Native American Perspectives, University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 2001, 264 p., ill., index by Grégory Pereira

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Coccidioidomycosis of the Vocal Cords Presenting in Sepsis: A Case Report and Literature Review by Curtis Converse, Atish Dey, Samuel Decker, Sarkis Arabian, Michael Neeki

“…Coccidioidomycosis is a predominantly pulmonary disease caused by species of Coccidioides, a fungus endemic to the American Southwest. Most cases involve exclusively pulmonary manifestations while less than one percent present with disseminated infection, usually with meningeal or skin involvement. …”
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"[T]hings among the ruins" : les choses contre le roc dans The Song of the Lark et The Professor’s House de Willa Cather by Céline Manresa

“…In The Song of the Lark (1915) and The Professor’s House (1925), Cather evokes the hostile yet mesmerizing canyons and mesas of the American Southwest. In order to face the alienating immensity of the landscape, Cather draws on the mediating power of material things and objects harboured in the cliff-dwellings. …”
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Managing agricultural water use in the Western United States: A search for efficient climate adaptation institutions by Frank A. Ward, Nicholas A. Potter, R. Aaron Hrozencik

“…Department of Agriculture data on irrigation water use patterns in the central part of the Rio Grande Basin of the American Southwest to support formulation of a mathematical model predicting water use patterns to assess impacts on farm income associated with a range of water shortages and water trading arrangements for adapting to these shortages. …”
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