2nd Edition

Archaeology of the Southwest, Second Edition

536 Pages

by Routledge

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The second edition of this well-known textbook on Southwestern archaeology provides a coherent and comprehensive summary of the major themes and topics central to modern interpretation and practice. This edition offers a readable and accurate representation of current debates and research in the American Southwest. It challenges readers to integrate the structure and meaning of various broad... Read more

PREFACE, CHAPTER 1 Introduction: The Place and Its Peoples: Present-Day Peoples, Cultures of the Past, CHAPTER 2 The Natural Environment: The Modern Environment, Paloenvironmental Reconstruction, Establishing Measures of Time and Writing Culture Histories: 1920to1965, The Pecos Classification: The First Framework, Gladwin, Haury, and the Hohokam: The Second Framework, I Hohokam Origins and the Mogollon: The Third Framework, Harold S. Colton, Quantitative Methods: The Patayan and the Sinagua, Cultural Ecological Frameworks: 1965 to 2000, The Context of Public Archaeology from the 1970s, CHAPTER 7 New Frameworks, Elaboration, and Current Chronologies: The Anasazi, The Hohokam, The Aiogollon, The Patayan, The Fremont, The International Four Corners and Northwest Mexico, Athapaskan Speakers: Navajos, Southwestern Archaeology for the Twenty-First Century, Summary and Conclusions , CHAPTER 8 Southwestern Communities to AD 800: Settling Down and Settling In, Settlements, 'fools, and Subsistence , A Consideration of Pithouses , Settlement Size, Settings, Layout, and Nonresidential Structures, Social Organization, Evidence of Ancient Beliefs, The Pithouse-to-Pueblo Transition, CHAPTER 9 Expansion (AD 800 to 1000): The Low Deserts: Colonial and Sedentary Hohokam Organization , The Colorado Plateaus: Anasazi Community Organization, Agriculture in the Mountains, CHAPTER 10 Integration (AD 1000 to 1250): Regionally Integrated Systems, Aggregated Systems, Dispersed Systems, CHAPTER 11Abandonment: A Complex Social Phenomenon: Variety of Abandonment Processes, Cultural Push Factors, Environmental Push Factors, Pull Factors CHAPTER 12 Reorganization: Distributions and Patterns of Settlements, Paquime, Salado, Hierarchies, Elites, or Just Big Sites? Katcina Ceremony, Europeans, Apacheans, and Change, History, Legend, and Archaeology at Awatovi and Walpi, Archaeology and Traditional History of the O'Odham and Hopi, Southern Athapaskans: Apache and Navajo, Spaniards, Pueblos, and Buffalo Hunters, Discussion, Conclusion, REFERENCES, INDEX.