The Cedar Mesa Project in SE Utah was inspired by Binford's classic 1964 research design paper. From 1971 to 1975, a stratified probabilistic sampling design guided regional survey, site recording, and site testing in an 800 km2 study area. Population and settlement systems were characterized through time, and their variation related to broad regional climatic and adaptive patterns. Subsequent fieldwork (1984, 1991-92, 2009-2011) and analyses have built on this Binfordian research base to focus on aspects of Cedar Mesa cultural systems, including agricultural dependence, community organization, cultural landscape construction, external relationships (e.g., with Chaco Canyon) and regional depopulation processes
