Author: Rosalind L. Hunter-Anderson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521307512
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
This book is about post-Pleistocene adaptive change among the aboriginal cultures of the mountains and deserts of Arizona and New Mexico. Conceived essentially as a natural science alternative to the prevailing culture history paradigm, it offers both a general theoretical framework for interpreting the archaeological record of the American South-West and a persuasive evolutionary model for the shift from a hunter-gatherer economy to horticulture at the Mogollon/Anasazi interface. Technical, architectural and settlement adaptations are examined and the rise of matrilineality, ethnic groupings and clans are modelled using ecological and ethnographic data and the innovative idea of anticipated cultural response. In the last part of the book, Dr Hunter-Anderson evaluates the 'fit' between her model and the archaeological record and argues vigorously for research into the evolution of ethnicity in the adaptive context of regional competition.
Prehistoric Adaptation in the American Southwest
Author: Rosalind L. Hunter-Anderson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521307512
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
This book is about post-Pleistocene adaptive change among the aboriginal cultures of the mountains and deserts of Arizona and New Mexico. Conceived essentially as a natural science alternative to the prevailing culture history paradigm, it offers both a general theoretical framework for interpreting the archaeological record of the American South-West and a persuasive evolutionary model for the shift from a hunter-gatherer economy to horticulture at the Mogollon/Anasazi interface. Technical, architectural and settlement adaptations are examined and the rise of matrilineality, ethnic groupings and clans are modelled using ecological and ethnographic data and the innovative idea of anticipated cultural response. In the last part of the book, Dr Hunter-Anderson evaluates the 'fit' between her model and the archaeological record and argues vigorously for research into the evolution of ethnicity in the adaptive context of regional competition.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521307512
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
This book is about post-Pleistocene adaptive change among the aboriginal cultures of the mountains and deserts of Arizona and New Mexico. Conceived essentially as a natural science alternative to the prevailing culture history paradigm, it offers both a general theoretical framework for interpreting the archaeological record of the American South-West and a persuasive evolutionary model for the shift from a hunter-gatherer economy to horticulture at the Mogollon/Anasazi interface. Technical, architectural and settlement adaptations are examined and the rise of matrilineality, ethnic groupings and clans are modelled using ecological and ethnographic data and the innovative idea of anticipated cultural response. In the last part of the book, Dr Hunter-Anderson evaluates the 'fit' between her model and the archaeological record and argues vigorously for research into the evolution of ethnicity in the adaptive context of regional competition.
Becoming Villagers
Author: Matthew S. Bandy
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816529018
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Outgrowth of a symposium at the 2006 Society for American Archaeology meetings in San Juan, and of a seminar at the Amerind Foundation. Cf. pref.
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816529018
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Outgrowth of a symposium at the 2006 Society for American Archaeology meetings in San Juan, and of a seminar at the Amerind Foundation. Cf. pref.
Agricultural Beginnings in the American Southwest
Author: Barbara J. Roth
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0759121737
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
How did agriculture come about in the American Southwest? What environmental and social factors led to the cultivation of plants? How, in turn, did the use of these new agricultural products affect the ancient peoples living in the region? In pursuit of answers to these questions, Barbara Roth synthesizes data from both CRM and academic research to explore the emergence and impact of Southwestern agriculture. Roth examines agricultural beginnings across the entire Southwest, both northern and southern, and across culture groups residing there. Beyond simply addressing the arrival and widespread adoption of specific cultigens, she pays particular attention to human factors such as patterns of production andvariability in agricultural developments. Her consideration of broad social and environmental dynamics affecting forager diets and adaptive strategies sheds new light on what we know—and what we should ask—about the transition fromforaging to farming.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0759121737
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
How did agriculture come about in the American Southwest? What environmental and social factors led to the cultivation of plants? How, in turn, did the use of these new agricultural products affect the ancient peoples living in the region? In pursuit of answers to these questions, Barbara Roth synthesizes data from both CRM and academic research to explore the emergence and impact of Southwestern agriculture. Roth examines agricultural beginnings across the entire Southwest, both northern and southern, and across culture groups residing there. Beyond simply addressing the arrival and widespread adoption of specific cultigens, she pays particular attention to human factors such as patterns of production andvariability in agricultural developments. Her consideration of broad social and environmental dynamics affecting forager diets and adaptive strategies sheds new light on what we know—and what we should ask—about the transition fromforaging to farming.
Stylistic Variation in Prehistoric Ceramics
Author: Stephen Plog
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521225816
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Plog argues that there are many more factors that cause design or stylistic variations on prehistoric artifacts than have been previously acknowledged. Using data primarily from the American Southwest, he shows why the methods of design analysis that have been used are often inappropriate, and presents a new framework of explanation.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521225816
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Plog argues that there are many more factors that cause design or stylistic variations on prehistoric artifacts than have been previously acknowledged. Using data primarily from the American Southwest, he shows why the methods of design analysis that have been used are often inappropriate, and presents a new framework of explanation.
Environmental Change and Human Adaptation in the Ancient American Southwest
Author: David Elmond Doyel
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
This volume contains a varied and instructive set of studies of human behavioral adaptation to environmental change in the ancient Southwest making significant contributions to southwestern prehistory, settlement pattern studies, agriculture, behavioral ecology, paleo-environmental reconstruction, and statistical and computer-aided modeling.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
This volume contains a varied and instructive set of studies of human behavioral adaptation to environmental change in the ancient Southwest making significant contributions to southwestern prehistory, settlement pattern studies, agriculture, behavioral ecology, paleo-environmental reconstruction, and statistical and computer-aided modeling.
The Sociopolitical Structure Of Prehistoric Southwestern Societies
Author: Steadman Upham
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000305554
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 447
Book Description
This book examines current archaeological approaches for studying the organizational structure of prehistoric societies in the American Southwest. It presents the historical background of the divergent theoretical models that have been used to interpret Southwestern socio-political organizations.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000305554
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 447
Book Description
This book examines current archaeological approaches for studying the organizational structure of prehistoric societies in the American Southwest. It presents the historical background of the divergent theoretical models that have been used to interpret Southwestern socio-political organizations.
Agriculture and the Onset of Political Inequality Before the Inka
Author: Christine A. Hastorf
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521402729
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
The nature of power and political diversity is examined in the Andean region of central Peru.
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521402729
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
The nature of power and political diversity is examined in the Andean region of central Peru.
The Iron Age Community of Osteria Dell'Osa
Author: Anna Maria Bietti Sestieri
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521326285
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Anna Maria Bietti Sestieri deals in this monograph with a major archaeological site, the Iron Age cemetery of Osteria dell'Osa, near Rome.
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521326285
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Anna Maria Bietti Sestieri deals in this monograph with a major archaeological site, the Iron Age cemetery of Osteria dell'Osa, near Rome.
Histories of Maize
Author: John Staller
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315427311
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1129
Book Description
Maize has been described as a primary catalyst to complex sociocultural development in the Americas. State of the art research on maize chronology, molecular biology, and stable carbon isotope research on ancient human diets have provided additional lines of evidence on the changing role of maize through time and space and its spread throughout the Americas. The multidisciplinary evidence from the social and biological sciences presented in this volume have generated a much more complex picture of the economic, political, and religious significance of maize. The volume also includes ethnographic research on the uses and roles of maize in indigenous cultures and a linguistic section that includes chapters on indigenous folk taxonomies and the role and meaning of maize to the development of civilization. Histories of Maize is the most comprehensive reference source on the botanical, genetic, archaeological, and anthropological aspects of ancient maize published to date. This book will appeal to a varied audience, and have no titles competiting with it because of its breadth and scope. The volume offers a single source of high quality summary information unavailable elsewhere.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315427311
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1129
Book Description
Maize has been described as a primary catalyst to complex sociocultural development in the Americas. State of the art research on maize chronology, molecular biology, and stable carbon isotope research on ancient human diets have provided additional lines of evidence on the changing role of maize through time and space and its spread throughout the Americas. The multidisciplinary evidence from the social and biological sciences presented in this volume have generated a much more complex picture of the economic, political, and religious significance of maize. The volume also includes ethnographic research on the uses and roles of maize in indigenous cultures and a linguistic section that includes chapters on indigenous folk taxonomies and the role and meaning of maize to the development of civilization. Histories of Maize is the most comprehensive reference source on the botanical, genetic, archaeological, and anthropological aspects of ancient maize published to date. This book will appeal to a varied audience, and have no titles competiting with it because of its breadth and scope. The volume offers a single source of high quality summary information unavailable elsewhere.
Human Sacrifice, Militarism, and Rulership
Author: Saburo Sugiyama
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521780568
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
An archaeological examination of the Feathered Serpent Pyramid as a symbol of power in Teotihuacan.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521780568
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
An archaeological examination of the Feathered Serpent Pyramid as a symbol of power in Teotihuacan.