Ancestral Landscapes of the Pueblo World
Author: James Elliott Snead
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Published: 2008
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780816549641
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Ancestral Landscapes of the Pueblo World
Author: James Elliot Snead
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780816523085
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe eastern Pueblo heartland, located in the northern Rio Grande country of New Mexico, has fascinated archaeologists since the 1870s. In Ancestral Landscapes of the Pueblo World, James Snead uses an exciting new approachÑ landscape archaeologyÑto understand ancestral Pueblo communities and the way the people consciously or unconsciously shaped the land around them. Snead provides detailed insight into ancestral Puebloan cultures and societies using an approach he calls Òcontextual experience,Ó employing deep mapping and community-scale analysis. This strategy goes far beyond the standard archaeological approaches, using historical ethnography and contemporary Puebloan perspectives to better understand how past and present Pueblo worldviews and meanings are imbedded in the land. Snead focuses on five communities in the Pueblo heartlandÑBurnt Corn, TÕobimpaenge, Tsikwaiye, Los Aguajes, and TsankawiÑusing the results of intensive archaeological surveys to discuss the changes that occurred in these communities between AD 1250 and 1500. He examines the history of each area, comparing and contrasting them via the themes of Òprovision,Ó Òidentity,Ó and Òmovement,Ó before turning to questions regarding social, political, and economic organization. This revolutionary study thus makes an important contribution to landscape archaeology and explains how the Precolumbian Pueblo landscape was formed.
Canyon Gardens
Author: V. B. Price
Publisher: UNM Press
Published: 2008-04
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780826338600
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA new look at Puebloan landscaping techniques and uses of plants and how they can influence modern architects in the Southwest.
Wild Plants of the Pueblo Province
Author: William W. Dunmire
Publisher:
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIllustrates the importance of the people-plant relationship that has existed throughout the ages among Native peoples.
Landscapes of Social Transformation in the Salinas Province and the Eastern Pueblo World
Author: Katherine A. Spielmann
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2017-10-31
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 0816537518
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the 1100s most Pueblo peoples lived in small, dispersed settlements and moved frequently, but by the mid-1400s they had aggregated into large villages. The majority of these villages were still occupied at Spanish contact and conquest, by which time most Pueblo peoples had completely transformed their perception and experience of village life. Other changes were taking place on a broader regional scale, and the migrations from the Colorado Plateau and the transformation of Chaco initiated myriad changes in ritual organization and practice. Landscapes of Social Transformation in the Salinas Province and the Eastern Pueblo World investigates relationships between diverse regional and local changes in the Rio Grande and Salinas areas from 1100 to 1500 C.E. The contributing authors draw on the results of sixteen seasons of archaeological survey and excavation in the Salinas Province of central New Mexico. The chapters offer cross-scale analyses to compare broad perspectives in well-researched southwestern culture changes to the finer details of stability and transformation in Salinas. This stability—which was unusual in the Pueblo Southwest—from the 1100s until its abandonment in the 1670s provides an interesting contrast to migration-based transformations studied elsewhere in the Rio Grande region. CONTRIBUTORS Patricia Capone Matthew Chamberlin Tiffany C. Clark William M. Graves Cynthia L. Herhahn Deborah Huntley Keith Kintigh Ann Kinzig Jeannette L. Mobley-Tanaka Alison E. Rautman Jonathan Sandor Grant Snitker Julie Solometo Katherine A. Spielmann Colleen Strawhacker Maryann Wasiolek
Least Cost Analysis of Social Landscapes
Author: Devin A. White
Publisher: University of Utah Press
Published: 2012-03-13
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 1607811995
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCase studies that act as a guidebook to archeologists on the uses of least cost analysis using GIS methodologies
Landscapes of Movement
Author: James E. Snead
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2011-09-01
Total Pages: 383
ISBN-13: 1934536539
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe essays in this volume document trails, paths, and roads across different times and cultures, from those built by hunter-gatherers in the Great Basin of North America to causeway builders in the Bolivian Amazon to Bronze Age farms in the Near East, through aerial and satellite photography, surface survey, historical records, and excavation.
Highways, Byways, and Road Systems in the Pre-Modern World
Author: Susan E. Alcock
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2012-03-20
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 1118244303
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHighways, Byways, and Road Systems in the Pre-Modern World reveals the significance and interconnectedness of early civilizations’ pathways. This international collection of readings providing a description and comparative analysis of several sophisticated systems of transport and communication across pre-modern cultures. Offers a comparative analysis of several sophisticated systems of overland transport and communication networks across pre-modern cultures Addresses the burgeoning interest in connectivity and globalization in ancient history, archaeology, anthropology, and recent work in network analysis Explores the societal, cultural, and religious implications of various transportation networks around the globe Includes contributions from an international team of scholars with expertise on pre-modern India, China, Japan, the Americas, North Africa, Europe, and the Near East Structured to encourage comparative thinking across case studies
Emergence and Collapse of Early Villages
Author: Timothy A. Kohler
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2012-04-10
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 0520270142
DOWNLOAD EBOOKComparing simulations from agent-based models with the precisely dated archaeological record from this area, this text will interest archaeologists working in the Southwest and in Neolithic studies as well as anyone applying modeling techniques to understanding how human societies shapes, and are shaped by the environment.
Tewa Worlds
Author: Samuel Duwe
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2020-05-05
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 0816541418
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTewa Worlds tells a history of eight centuries of the Tewa people, set among their ancestral homeland in northern New Mexico. Bounded by four sacred peaks and bisected by the Rio Grande, this is where the Tewa, after centuries of living across a vast territory, reunited and forged a unique type of village life. It later became an epicenter of colonialism, for within its boundaries are both the ruins of the first Spanish colonial capital and the birthplace of the atomic bomb. Yet through this dramatic change the Tewa have endured and today maintain deep connections with their villages and a landscape imbued with memory and meaning. Anthropologists have long trekked through Tewa country, but the literature remains deeply fractured among the present and the past, nuanced ethnographic description, and a growing body of archaeological research. Samuel Duwe bridges this divide by drawing from contemporary Pueblo philosophical and historical discourse to view the long arc of Tewa history as a continuous journey. The result is a unique history that gives weight to the deep past, colonial encounters, and modern challenges, with the understanding that the same concepts of continuity and change have guided the people in the past and present, and will continue to do so in the future. Focusing on a decade of fieldwork in the northern portion of the Tewa world—the Rio Chama Valley—Duwe explores how incorporating Pueblo concepts of time and space in archaeological interpretation critically reframes ideas of origins, ethnogenesis, and abandonment. It also allows archaeologists to appreciate something that the Tewa have always known: that there are strong and deep ties that extend beyond modern reservation boundaries.
