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Scientists chart a baby boom--in southwestern Native Americans from 500 to 1300 A.D.
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![illustration of reconstructed Hohokam platform mound in the Sonoran Desert in the 13th century A.D.](/news/mmg/media/images/6-Hohokam platform mound_f.jpg)
Reconstruction of life on a Hohokam platform mound in the Sonoran Desert in the 13th century A.D.
Credit: Pueblo Grande Museum, City of Phoenix
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![Montezuma Valley in Colorado with view of the sunset](/news/mmg/media/images/1-Montezuma Valley_f.jpg)
Montezuma Valley in Colorado, a fertile area with high population growth in the distant past.
Credit: Tim Kohler, WSU
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![Pueblo Bonito site in northern New Mexico](/news/mmg/media/images/5-Pueblo Bonito Nate Crabtree_f.jpg)
Sites like Pueblo Bonito in northern New Mexico reached their maximum size in the early 1100s A.D.
Credit: Nate Crabtree Photography
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![Pottery from the Southwest around A.D. 600](/news/mmg/media/images/4-BMIII ceramics_f.jpg)
Pottery became common across the Southwest around A.D. 600; many vessels stored corn.
Credit: Bureau of Land Management/Anasazi Heritage Center Collections/Mark Montgomery
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![Corn-grinding equipment from Southwest Colorado, circa 600 AD](/news/mmg/media/images/3-trough metate and one-hand mano_f.jpg)
Corn-grinding equipment from Southwest Colorado, ca. A.D. 600.
Credit: Bureau of Land Management/Anasazi Heritage Center Collections/Mark Montgomery
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![Ears of corn from a](/news/mmg/media/images/2-Chapalote Cottonwood from Adams_f.jpg)
Ears of corn from a "Basketmaker II period" cache in Colorado, dating to the third century B.C.
Credit: Karen Adams, Crow Canyon Archaeological Center
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