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that has severely impacted surface water supplies in the Southwest (1999-
2006). Socioeconomically, the seventeenth-century Pueblo Drought caused
starvation, death, and the permanent abandonment of five Pueblo communities
and other villages in New Mexico.
—D.W. Stahle and E.R. Cook
Box Fig. 7.7 North American summer Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI), a time series
average of reconstructed PDSI from all 286 grid points over North America
Box Fig. 7.8 Reconstructed summer Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI) for the wettest
(1833) and driest (1864) single years in the 'North America summer PDSI' series (Box
Fig. 7.7 ) , showing the continental scale of these record moisture anomalies