Dynamics of Southwest Prehistory

Dynamics of Southwest Prehistory
Author: Linda S. Cordell
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Total Pages: 419
Release: 2006-05-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 0817353518

Emerging from a School of American Research, this work reviews the general status of archaeological knowledge in 9 key regions of the Southwest to examine broader questions of cultural development, which affected the Southwest as a whole, and to consider an overall conceptual model of the prehistoric Southwest after the advent of sedentism.

DYNAMICS OF SW PREHIST

DYNAMICS OF SW PREHIST
Author: Linda S. Cordell
Publisher: Smithsonian Books (DC)
Total Pages: 428
Release: 1989-10-17
Genre: History
ISBN:

A collection of scholarly essays on the prehistoric Southwest reviews the status of archaeological knowledge in eleven key regions, examines broad questions concerning ancient cultural development, and presents a conceptual model of prehistoric life in the region after sedentary adaptations were initiated.

Dynamics and Developments of Social Structures and Networks in Prehistoric and Protohistoric Cyprus

Dynamics and Developments of Social Structures and Networks in Prehistoric and Protohistoric Cyprus
Author: Teresa Bürge
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2023-12-18
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1003833616

This volume substantiates the island of Cyprus as an important player in the history of the ancient Eastern Mediterranean and Near East, and presents new theoretical and analytical approaches. The Cypriot Neolithic, Chalcolithic, and Bronze Age are characterised by an increasing complexity of social and political organisation, economic systems and networks. The book discusses and defines how specific types of material datasets and assemblages, such as architecture, artefacts, and ecofacts, and their contextualisation can form the basis of interpretative models of social structures and networks in ancient Cyprus. This is explored through four main themes: approaches to social dynamics; social and economic networks and connectivity; adaptability and agency; and social dynamics and inequality. The variety and transition of social structures on the island are discussed on multiple scales, from the local and relatively short-term to island-wide and eastern Mediterranean-wide and the longue durée. The focus of study ranges from urban to non-urban contexts, and are reflected in settlement, funerary, and other ritual contexts. Connections, both within the island and to the broader Eastern Mediterranean, and how these impact social and economic developments on the island, are explored. Discussions revolve around the potential of consolidating the models based on specialised studies into a cohesive interpretation of society on ancient Cyprus and its strategic connections with surrounding regions in a diachronic perspective from the Neolithic through the end of the Bronze Age, i.e. from roughly the seventh millennium to the eleventh century BCE. Prehistoric and Protohistoric Cyprus is intended for researchers and students of the archaeology and history of ancient Cyprus, the Aegean, and the Eastern Mediterranean.

Perspectives On Southwestern Prehistory

Perspectives On Southwestern Prehistory
Author: Paul Minnis
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2019-05-28
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000301478

Recent archaeoglogical work in the American Southwest and Northern Mexico has fueled a great deal of regionally specific research: archaeologists, faced with an avalanche of new and unassimilated data, tend to foucs on their own areas to the exclusion of the broader, panregional view. "Perspectives on Southwestern Prehistory" advocates the larger f

Hinterlands and Regional Dynamics in the Ancient Southwest

Hinterlands and Regional Dynamics in the Ancient Southwest
Author: Alan P. Sullivan
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2007-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780816525140

Hinterlands and Regional Dynamics in the Ancient Southwest is the first volume dedicated to understanding the nature of and changes in regional social autonomy, political hegemony, and organizational complexity across the entire prehistoric American Southwest. With geographic coverage extending from the Great Plains to the Colorado River, and from Mesa Verde to the international border, the volumeÕs ten case studies synthesize research that enhances our understanding of the ancient SouthwestÕs highly variable demographic, land use, and economic histories. For this volume, ÒhinterlandsÓ are those areas whose archaeological records do not disclose the ceramic, architectural, and network evidence that initially led to the establishment of the Hohokam, Chaco, and Casas Grandes regional systems. Employing a variety of perspectives, such as the cultural landscapes approach, heterarchy, and the common-pool resource model, as well as technical methods, such as petrographic and stylistic-attribute analyses, the volumeÕs contributors explore variation in hinterland identities, subsistence ecology, and sociopolitical organization as regional systems expanded and contracted between the 9th and 14th centuries AD. The hinterlands of the prehistoric Southwest were home to a substantial number of people and were often used as resource catchments by the inhabitants of regional systems. Importantly, hinterlands also influenced developments of nearby regional systems, under whose footprint they managed to retain considerable autonomy. By considering the dynamics between hinterlands and regional systems, the volume reveals unappreciated aspects of the ancient SouthwestÕs peoples and their lives, thereby deepening our awareness of the regionÕs rich and complicated cultural past.

The Sociopolitical Structure Of Prehistoric Southwestern Societies

The Sociopolitical Structure Of Prehistoric Southwestern Societies
Author: Steadman Upham
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 473
Release: 2019-06-26
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000305554

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.