The first phase of this project, VEP I, was focused on an 1800-sq-km window of the central Mesa Verde region in Colorado. We are currently working on a final report on that project, to be submitted to the University of California Press, and all of our publications through 2009 result from VEP I research.

In January 2009 we began the Village Ecodynamics Project II, which more than doubles the area under examination in southwestern Colorado and adds a comparative window in the northern Rio Grande region of New Mexico that stretches from the southern border of Bandelier National Monument north to the Chama valley. Fieldwork for this project begins in summer 2009 in Mesa Verde National Park. Some early results from this new round of research were reported at the 75th Society for American Archaeology meetings in St. Louis in 2010 and can be seen under the Presentations tab of this page.