The findings from these projects suggest that early farmers moved into the Zuni region some 3,000 to 4,000 years ago, bringing with them irrigation agriculture and living in communities laid out along the riverine environments. Damp, Jonathan E. (2008). "The Economic Origins of Zuni"(PDF). Archaeology Southwest. 22 (2): 8. Archived(PDF) from the original on September 12, 2014.; see also Damp, Jonathan E. (2010). "Zuni emergent agriculture: economic strategies and the origins of Zuni". In Gregory, David A.; Wilcox, David R. (eds.). Zuni Origins: Toward a new synthesis of Southwestern archaeology. Tucson, Arizona: University of Arizona Press. pp. 118–132. ISBN978-0-8165-2893-6.
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Dodge, William A. (2010). Black Rock: A Zuni Cultural Landscape and the Meaning of Place. Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi. p. 181–182. ISBN978-1-57806-993-4.
The findings from these projects suggest that early farmers moved into the Zuni region some 3,000 to 4,000 years ago, bringing with them irrigation agriculture and living in communities laid out along the riverine environments. Damp, Jonathan E. (2008). "The Economic Origins of Zuni"(PDF). Archaeology Southwest. 22 (2): 8. Archived(PDF) from the original on September 12, 2014.; see also Damp, Jonathan E. (2010). "Zuni emergent agriculture: economic strategies and the origins of Zuni". In Gregory, David A.; Wilcox, David R. (eds.). Zuni Origins: Toward a new synthesis of Southwestern archaeology. Tucson, Arizona: University of Arizona Press. pp. 118–132. ISBN978-0-8165-2893-6.