Prehistoric Adaptation In The American Southwest
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| Author | : Rosalind L. Hunter-Anderson |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 168 |
| Release | : 1986-10-30 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780521307512 |
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.
| Author | : David Elmond Doyel |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 368 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
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.
| Author | : Alan H. Simmons |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 348 |
| Release | : 1989 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Matthew S. Bandy |
| Publisher | : University of Arizona Press |
| Total Pages | : 376 |
| Release | : 2010-12-15 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9780816529018 |
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.
| Author | : Steven A. LeBlanc |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 424 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
Most people today, including many archaeologists, view the Pueblo people of the Southwest as historically peaceful, sedentary corn farmers. In Prehistoric Warfare in the American Southwest Steven LeBlanc demonstrates how the prevailing picture of the ancient Puebloans is highly romanticized. Taking a pan-Southwestern view of the entire prehistoric and early historic time range and considering archaeological and ethnohistorical evidence and oral traditions, he presents a different picture. Objectively sought, evidence of war and its consequences is abundant. The people of the region fought for their survival and evolved their societies to meet the demands of conflict.
| Author | : Barbara J. Roth |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 201 |
| Release | : 2016-10-12 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0759121737 |
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.
| Author | : John Staller |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 1129 |
| Release | : 2016-12-05 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1315427311 |
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.
| Author | : Saburo Sugiyama |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 308 |
| Release | : 2005-03-10 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780521780568 |
An archaeological examination of the Feathered Serpent Pyramid as a symbol of power in Teotihuacan.
| Author | : Jack Salzman |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 1124 |
| Release | : 1990-05-25 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780521365598 |
This volume supplements the acclaimed three volume set published in 1986 and consists of an annotated listing of American Studies monographs published between 1984 and 1988. There are more than 6,000 descriptive entries in a wide range of categories: anthropology and folklore, art and architecture, history, literature, music, political science, popular culture, psychology, religion, science and technology, and sociology.
| Author | : John Staller |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 281 |
| Release | : 2016-06-16 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1315427281 |
Abridged and updated version of the basic work on the development of maize, including 20 chapters of interest to Mesoamerican specialists, updated with recent findings and interpretations.
