Prehistoric Adaptation in the American Southwest
Prehistoric Adaptation in the American Southwest

Author: Rosalind L. Hunter-Anderson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1986-10-30

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 9780521307512

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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.

Environmental Change and Human Adaptation in the Ancient American Southwest
Environmental Change and Human Adaptation in the Ancient American Southwest

Author: David Elmond Doyel

Publisher:

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13:

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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.

Becoming Villagers
Becoming Villagers

Author: Matthew S. Bandy

Publisher: University of Arizona Press

Published: 2010-12-15

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 9780816529018

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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
Agricultural Beginnings in the American Southwest

Author: Barbara J. Roth

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2016-10-12

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 0759121737

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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
Stylistic Variation in Prehistoric Ceramics

Author: Stephen Plog

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1980-11-28

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 9780521225816

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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.

The Sociopolitical Structure Of Prehistoric Southwestern Societies
The Sociopolitical Structure Of Prehistoric Southwestern Societies

Author: Steadman Upham

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-06-26

Total Pages: 447

ISBN-13: 1000305554

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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.

The Iron Age Community of Osteria Dell'Osa
The Iron Age Community of Osteria Dell'Osa

Author: Anna Maria Bietti Sestieri

Publisher: CUP Archive

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 9780521326285

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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
Histories of Maize

Author: John Staller

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-12-05

Total Pages: 1129

ISBN-13: 1315427311

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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.