Settlement pattern studies in the Americas : fifty years since Virú

Author(s)

• Billman, Brian R.
• Feinman, Gary M.

Bibliographic Information

Settlement pattern studies in the Americas : fifty years since Virú

edited by Brian R. Billman and Gary M. Feinman

（Smithsonian series in archaeological inquiry）

Smithsonian Institution Press, c1999

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-240) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Seventeen distinguished scholars recount the history of settlement pattern archaeology and detail case studies ranging from Alaska to Oaxaca to Peru. The chapters grow out of papers prepared for a symposium at the 61st annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, held in New Orleans in April 1996, commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the start of the Virú Valley survey.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations List of tables Contributors Preface 1. Settlement Pattern Research in the Americas: Past, Present, and Future   Brian R. Billman Part One: The Development of Settlement Pattern Archaeology in the New World 2. The Viru Valley Project and Settlement Archaeology: Some Reminiscences and Contemporary Comments   Gordon R. Willey 3. Three Valleys: Twenty-Five Years of Settlement Archaeology in Mesoamerica   William T. Sanders 4. Spatial Scales and Process: In and around the Valley of Oaxaca   Laura Finsten and Stephen A. Kowalewski Part Two: Settlement Pattern Studies and the Origins of Sedentism 5. From Traveler to Processor: Regional Trajectories of Hunter-Gatherer Sedentism in the Inoy-Mono Region, California   Robert L. Bettinger 6. Sedentism, Settlement, and Village Organization on the Lower Alaska Peninsula: A Preliminary Assessment   Herbert D.G. Maschner Part Three: Settlement Pattern Studies and the Origins of Ranked Societies 7. Late Prehistoric Settlements and Wetlands in the Central Mississippi Valley   George R. Milner and James S. Oliver 8. The Settlement Pattern of Mississippian Chiefdoms in Northern Georgia   David J. Hally 9. Settlement Pattern Shifts and Political Ranking in the Lake Titicaca Basin, Peru   Charles Stanish Part Four: Settlement Pattern Studies and States and Empires 10. Reconstructing Prehistoric Political Economies and Cycles of Political Power in the Moche Valley, Peru   Brian R. Billman 11. Regional Approaches to the Study of Prehistoric Empires: Examples from Ayacucho and Masca, Peru   Katharina J. Schreiber 12. Reflections  on Regional Survey: Perspectives from the Guirin Area, Oaxaca, Mexico   Gary M. Feinman and Linda M. Nicholas 13. Settlement Pattern Studies in the Mixteca Alta, Oaxaca, 1966-1996   Andrew Balkansky 14. Conclusions: The Settlement Pattern Concept from an Americanist Perspective   Suzanne K. Fish References Index

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Details

• NCID: BA50523762
• ISBN:
  • 1560988266
• LCCN: 98039513
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Washington [D.C.]
• Pages/Volumes: xviii, 246 p.
• Size: 29 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : E61
  • DC21 : 307.1/4/08997
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Indians -- Antiquities
  • LCSH : Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric -- America
  • LCSH : Indians -- Land tenure
  • LCSH : Indians -- Politics and government
  • LCSH : Chiefdoms -- America
  • LCSH : Social archaeology -- America
  • LCSH : Demographic archaeology -- America
  • LCSH : America -- Antiquities
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA03430156