Author: Gordon BronitskyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeological surveying
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
The Archaeology of Southeast Arizona
Author: Gordon BronitskyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeological surveying
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
Central Arizona Project Water Allocation
Author: The Kiva
Author: Expanding the View of Hohokam Platform Mounds
Author: Mark D. ElsonPublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816536597
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
For more than a hundred years, archaeologists have investigated the function of earthen platform mounds in the American Southwest. Built by the Hohokam groups between A.D. 1150 and 1350, these mounds are among the few monumental structures in the Southwest, yet their use and the nature of the groups who built them remain unresolved. Mark Elson now takes a fresh look at these monuments and sheds new light on their significance. He goes beyond previous studies by examining platform mound function and social group organization through a cross-cultural study of historic mound-using groups in the Pacific Ocean region, South America, and the southeastern United States. Using this information, he develops a number of important new generalizations about how people used mounds. Elson then applies these data to the study of a prehistoric settlement system in the eastern Tonto Basin of Arizona that contained five platform mounds. He argues that the mounds were used variously as residences and ceremonial facilities by competing descent groups and were an indication of hereditary leadership. They were important in group integration and resource management; after abandonment they served as ancestral shrines. Elson's study provides a fresh approach to an old puzzle and offers new suggestions regarding variability among Hohokam populations. Its innovative use of comparative data and analyses enriches our understanding of both Hohokam culture and other ancient societies.
Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory
Author: Michael B SchifferPublisher: Academic Press
ISBN: 1483214826
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 493
Book Description
Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory, Volume 5 presents the progressive explorations in methods and theory in archeology. This book provides information pertinent to the developments in urban archeology. Organized into nine chapters, this volume begins with an overview of cultural resource management developed to assess the significance of, and to manage the cultural resources on public lands. This text then explores the basic aspects of natural and human-caused changes on the portion of the archaeological resource base consisting of archaeological sites. Other chapters consider the practice of urban archeology in the United States, with emphasis on the relationships between human behavior and material culture in an urban setting. This book discusses as well the applications of computer graphics in archeology. The final chapter deals with the types of skeletal and population changes that accompany malnutrition. This book is a valuable resource for anthropologist, archaeologists, urban planners, and graduate students.
Legislative Environmental Impact Statement
Author: United States. Air ForcePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Environmental impact statements
Languages : en
Pages : 888
Book Description
Archaeological Series
Author: Allocation of Water Supply and Long-term Contract Execution, Central Arizona Project
Author: Ancient Burial Practices in the American Southwest
Author: Douglas R. MitchellPublisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826334619
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Prehistoric burial practices provide an unparalleled opportunity for understanding and reconstructing ancient civilizations and for identifying the influences that helped shape them.
From Prehistoric Villages to Cities
Author: Jennifer BirchPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135045119
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Archaeologists have focused a great deal of attention on explaining the evolution of village societies and the transition to a ‘Neolithic’ way of life. Considerable interest has also concentrated on urbanism and the rise of the earliest cities. Between these two landmarks in human cultural development lies a critical stage in social and political evolution. Throughout world, at various points in time, people living in small, dispersed village communities have come together into larger and more complex social formations. These community aggregates were, essentially, middle-range; situated between the earliest villages and emergent chiefdoms and states. This volume explores the social processes involved in the creation and maintenance of aggregated communities and how they brought about revolutionary transformations that affected virtually every aspect of a society and its culture. While there have been a number of studies that address coalescence from a regional perspective, less is understood about how aggregated communities functioned internally. The key premise explored in this volume is that large-scale, long-term cultural transformations were ultimately enacted in the context of daily practices, interactions, and what might be otherwise considered the mundane aspects of everyday life. How did these processes play out "on the ground" in diverse and historically contingent settings? What are the strategies and mechanisms that people adopt in order to facilitate living in larger social formations? What changes in social relations occur when people come together? This volume employs a broadly cross-cultural approach to interrogating these questions, employing case studies which span four continents and more than 10,000 years of human history.