Hinterlands and regional dynamics in the ancient Southwest
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Hinterlands and regional dynamics in the ancient Southwest
University of Arizona Press, c2007
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Available at 2 libraries
Note
Bibliography: p. [211]-273
Includes index
Contents of Works
- Conceptualizing regional dynamics in the ancient Southwest / Alan P. Sullivan III and James M. Bayman
- Not the northeastern periphery : the lower Verde Valley in regional context / Stephanie M. Whittlesey
- Rethinking the Hohokam periphery : the preclassic period Tonto Basin / Mark D. Elson and Jeffery J. Clark
- The Mescal Wash Site : a persistent place in southeastern Arizona / Rein Vanderpot and Jeffrey H. Altschul
- In sync, but barely in touch : relations between the Mimbres region and the Hohokam regional system / Michelle Hegmon and Margaret C. Nelson
- Making and breaking boundaries in the hinterlands : the social and settlement dynamics of far southeastern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico / John E. Douglas
- Papaguerian perspectives on economy and society in the Sonoran Desert / James M. Bayman
- No peripheral vision : a view of regional interactions from south-central New Mexico / Thomas R. Rocek and Alison E. Rautman
- Direct procurement of ceramics and ceramic materials, "index wares," and models of regional exchange and interaction : implications of petrographic and geological data from the Upper Basin and Coconino Plateau / Sidney W. Carter and Alan P. Sullivan III
- Poor Mesa Verde : so far from heaven, so close to Chaco / Sarah H. Schlanger
- Becoming central : organizational transformations in the emergence of Zuni / Andrew I. Duff and Gregson Schachner
- Reconceptualizing regional dynamics in the ancient Southwest : relational approaches / Ruth M. Van Dyke
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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 volume's ten case studies synthesize research that enhances our understanding of the ancient Southwest's highly variable demographic, land use, and economic histories. For this volume, ?hinterlands 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 volume's 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 Southwest's peoples and their lives, thereby deepening our awareness of the region's rich and complicated cultural past.
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