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Pushing Boundaries in Southwestern Archaeology

Author : Stephen E. Nash,Erin L. Baxter
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781646423620

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Pushing Boundaries in Southwestern Archaeology by Stephen E. Nash,Erin L. Baxter Pdf

Pushing Boundaries in Southwestern Archaeology draws together the proceedings from the sixteenth biennial Southwest Symposium. In exploring the conference theme, contributors consider topics ranging from the resuscitation of archaeomagnetic dating to the issue of Athapaskan origins, from collections-based studies of social identity, foodways, and obsidian trade to the origins of a rock art tradition and the challenges of a deeply buried archaeological record. The first of the volume’s four sections examines the status, history, and prospects of Bears Ears National Monument, the broader regulatory and political boundaries that complicate the nature and integrity of the archaeological record, and the cultural contexts and legal stakes of archaeological inquiry. The second section focuses on chronological “big data” in the context of pre-Columbian history and the potential and limits of what can be empirically derived from chronometric analysis of the past. The chapters in the third section advocate for advancing collections-based research, focusing on the vast and often untapped research potential of archives, previously excavated museum collections, and legacy data. The final section examines the permeable boundaries involved in Plains-Pueblo interactions, obvious in the archaeological record but long in need of analysis, interpretation, and explanation. Contributors: James R. Allison, Erin Baxter, Benjamin A. Bellorado, Katelyn J. Bishop, Eric Blinman, J. Royce Cox, J. Andrew Darling, Kaitlyn E. Davis, William H. Doelle, B. Sunday Eiselt, Leigh Anne Ellison, Josh Ewing, Samantha G. Fladd, Gary M. Feinman, Jeffrey R. Ferguson, Severin Fowles, Willie Grayeyes, Matthew Guebard, Saul L. Hedquist, Greg Hodgins, Lucas Hoedl, John W. Ives, Nicholas Kessler, Terry Knight, Michael W. Lindeman, Hannah V. Mattson, Myles R. Miller, Lindsay Montgomery, Stephen E. Nash, Sarah Oas, Jill Onken, Scott G. Ortman, Danielle J. Riebe, John Ruple, Will G. Russell, Octavius Seowtewa, Deni J. Seymour, James M. Vint, Adam S. Watson

Contemporary Archaeologies of the Southwest

Author : William Walker,Kathryn R. Venzor
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781457111563

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Contemporary Archaeologies of the Southwest by William Walker,Kathryn R. Venzor Pdf

Organized by the theme of place and place-making in the Southwest, Contemporary Archaeologies of the Southwest emphasizes the method and theory for the study of radical changes in religion, settlement patterns, and material culture associated with population migration, colonialism, and climate change during the last 1,000 years. Chapters address place-making in Chaco Canyon, recent trends in landscape archaeology, the formation of identities, landscape boundaries, and the movement associated with these aspects of place-making. They address how interaction of peoples with objects brings landscapes to life. Representing a diverse cross section of Southwestern archaeologists, the authors of this volume push the boundaries of archaeological method and theory, building a strong foundation for future Southwest studies. This book will be of interest to professional and academic archaeologists, as well as students working in the American Southwest.

The Oxford Handbook of Southwest Archaeology

Author : Barbara J. Mills,Severin M. Fowles
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 929 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199978427

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The Oxford Handbook of Southwest Archaeology by Barbara J. Mills,Severin M. Fowles Pdf

This volume takes stock of the empirical evidence, theoretical orientations, and historical reconstructions of archaeology of the American Southwest. Themed chapters on method and theory are accompanied by comprehensive overviews of all major cultural traditions in the region, from the Paleoindians, to Chaco Canyon, to the onset of Euro-American imperialism.

Contemporary Archaeologies of the Southwest

Author : Kathryn R Venzor
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781607320913

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Contemporary Archaeologies of the Southwest by Kathryn R Venzor Pdf

Organized by the theme of place and place-making in the Southwest, Contemporary Archaeologies of the Southwest emphasizes the method and theory for the study of radical changes in religion, settlement patterns, and material culture associated with population migration, colonialism, and climate change during the last 1,000 years. Chapters address place-making in Chaco Canyon, recent trends in landscape archaeology, the formation of identities, landscape boundaries, and the movement associated with these aspects of place-making. They address how interaction of peoples with objects brings landscapes to life. Representing a diverse cross section of Southwestern archaeologists, the authors of this volume push the boundaries of archaeological method and theory, building a strong foundation for future Southwest studies. This book will be of interest to professional and academic archaeologists, as well as students working in the American Southwest.

Personal Adornment and the Construction of Identity

Author : Hannah V. Mattson
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789255980

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Personal Adornment and the Construction of Identity by Hannah V. Mattson Pdf

Objects of adornment have been a subject of archaeological, historical, and ethnographic study for well over a century. Within archaeology, personal ornaments have traditionally been viewed as decorative embellishments associated with status and wealth, materializations of power relations and social strategies, or markers of underlying social categories such as those related to gender, class, and ethnic affiliation. Personal Adornment and the Construction of Identity seeks to understand these artefacts not as signals of steady, pre-existing cultural units and relations, but as important components in the active and contingent constitution of identities. Drawing on contemporary scholarship on materiality and relationality in archaeological and social theory, this book uses one genre of material culture - items of bodily adornment - to illustrate how humans and objects construct one another. Providing case studies spanning 10 countries, three continents, and more than 9,000 years of human history, the authors demonstrate the myriad and dynamic ways personal ornaments were intertwined with embodied practice and identity performativity, the creation and remaking of social memories, and relational collections of persons, materials, and practices in the past. The authors’ careful analyses of production methods and composition, curation/heirlooming and reworking, decorative attributes and iconography, position within assemblages, and depositional context illuminate the varied material and relational axes along which objects of adornment contained social value and meaning. When paired with the broad temporal and geographic scope collectively represented by these studies, we gain a deeper appreciation for the subtle but vital roles these items played in human lives.

The Archaeology of Art in the American Southwest

Author : Marit K. Munson
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780759120259

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The Archaeology of Art in the American Southwest by Marit K. Munson Pdf

Archaeologists seldom study ancient art, even though art is fundamental to the human experience. The Archaeology of Art in the American Southwest argues that archaeologists should study ancient artifacts as artwork, as applying the term 'art' to the past raises new questions about artists, audiences, and the works of art themselves. Munson proposes that studies of ancient artwork be based on standard archaeological approaches to material culture, framed by theoretical insights of disciplines such as art history, visual studies, and psychology. Using examples drawn from the American Southwest, The Archaeology of Art in the American Southwest discusses artistic practice in ancestral Pueblo and Mimbres ceramics and the implications of context and accessibility for the audiences of painted murals and rock art. Studies of Hohokam figurines and rock art illustrate methods for studying ancient images, while the aesthetics of ancient art are suggested by work on ceramics and kivas from Chaco Canyon. This book will be of interest to archaeologists working in the Southwest who want to broaden their perspective on the past. It will also appeal to archaeologists in other parts of the world and to anthropologists, art historians, and those who are intrigued by the material world, aesthetics, and the visual.

Archaeology of the Southwest

Author : Maxine McBrinn,Linda S Cordell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781315433721

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Archaeology of the Southwest by Maxine McBrinn,Linda S Cordell Pdf

The long-awaited third edition of this well-known textbook continues to be the go-to text and reference for anyone interested in Southwestern archaeology. It provides a comprehensive summary of the major themes and topics central to modern interpretation and practice. More concise, accessible, and student-friendly, the Third Edition offers students the latest in current research, debates, and topical syntheses as well as increased coverage of Paleoindian and Archaic periods and the Casas Grandes phenomenon. It remains the perfect text for courses on Southwest archaeology at the advanced undergraduate and graduate levels and is an ideal resource book for the Southwest researchers? bookshelf and for interested general readers.

How Worlds Collapse

Author : Miguel Centeno,Peter W. Callahan,Paul Larcey,Thayer Patterson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000829587

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How Worlds Collapse by Miguel Centeno,Peter W. Callahan,Paul Larcey,Thayer Patterson Pdf

As our society confronts the impacts of globalization and global systemic risks—such as financial contagion, climate change, and epidemics—what can studies of the past tell us about our present and future? How Worlds Collapse offers case studies of societies that either collapsed or overcame cataclysmic adversity. The authors in this volume find commonalities between past civilizations and our current society, tracing patterns, strategies, and early warning signs that can inform decision-making today. While today’s world presents unique challenges, many mechanisms, dynamics, and fundamental challenges to the foundations of civilization have been consistent throughout history—highlighting essential lessons for the future.

Obsidian Across the Americas

Author : Gary M. Feinman,Danielle J. Riebe
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781803273617

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Obsidian Across the Americas by Gary M. Feinman,Danielle J. Riebe Pdf

This volume draws attention to recent obsidian studies in the Americas and acts as a reference for archaeologists and scholars interested in material culture and exchange. Moreover, it provides a wide range of case studies in obsidian characterization, material application, and theoretical interpretations in the Americas.

Southwest Archaeology in the Twentieth Century

Author : Linda S Cordell,Don D Fowler
Publisher : University of Utah Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2005-11-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780874808254

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Southwest Archaeology in the Twentieth Century by Linda S Cordell,Don D Fowler Pdf

Mesa Verde, Chaco Canyon, Canyon de Chelly, and Paquimé are well known to tourists and scholars alike as emblems of the American Southwest. This region has been the scene of intense archaeological investigations for more than a hundred years, with more research done here than in any other part of the United States. With contributions from well-known archaeologists, "Southwest Archaeology in the Twentieth Century" reviews the histories of major archaeological topics of the region during the twentieth century, giving particular attention to the vast changes in southwestern archaeology during the later decades of the century. Included are the huge influence of field schools, the rise of cultural resource management (CRM), the uses and abuses of ethnographic analogy, the intellectual contexts of archaeology in Mexico, and current debates on agriculture, sedentism, and political complexity. This book provides an authoritative retrospective of intellectual trends as well as a synthesis of current themes in the arena of the American Southwest. -- From publisher's description.

Earthen Construction Technology

Author : Annick Daneels,Maria Torras Freixa
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789697247

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Earthen Construction Technology by Annick Daneels,Maria Torras Freixa Pdf

Presents papers from Session IV-5 of the 18th UISPP World Congress (Paris, June 2018). The archaeological study of earthen construction has until now focused on typology and conservation; papers here instead consider their construction and anthropological importance.

The Archaeology of Ancient Arizona

Author : J. Jefferson Reid,Stephanie Michelle Whittlesey
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0816517096

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The Archaeology of Ancient Arizona by J. Jefferson Reid,Stephanie Michelle Whittlesey Pdf

Carved from cliffs and canyons, buried in desert rock and sand are pieces of the ancient past that beckon thousands of visitors every year to the American Southwest. Whether Montezuma Castle or a chunk of pottery, these traces of prehistory also bring archaeologists from all over the world, and their work gives us fresh insight and information on an almost day-to-day basis. Who hasn't dreamed of boarding a time machine for a trip into the past? This book invites us to step into a Hohokam village with its sounds of barking dogs, children's laughter, and the ever-present grinding of mano on metate to produce the daily bread. Here, too, readers will marvel at the skills of Clovis elephant hunters and touch the lives of other ancestral people known as Mogollon, Anasazi, Sinagua, and Salado. Descriptions of long-ago people are balanced with tales about the archaeologists who have devoted their lives to learning more about "those who came before." Trekking through the desert with the famed Emil Haury, readers will stumble upon Ventana Cave, his "answer to a prayer." With amateur archaeologist Richard Wetherill, they will sense the peril of crossing the flooded San Juan River on the way to Chaco Canyon. Others profiled in the book are A. V. Kidder, Andrew Ellicott Douglass, Julian Hayden, Harold S. Gladwin, and many more names synonymous with the continuing saga of southwestern archaeology. This book is an open invitation to general readers to join in solving the great archaeological puzzles of this part of the world. Moreover, it is the only up-to-date summary of a field advancing so rapidly that much of the material is new even to professional archaeologists. Lively and fast paced, the book will appeal to anyone who finds magic in a broken bowl or pueblo wall touched by human hands hundreds of years ago. For all readers, these pages offer a sense of adventure, that "you are there" stir of excitement that comes only with making new discoveries about the distant past.

An Introduction to the Study of Southwestern Archaeology

Author : Alfred Vincent Kidder,Douglas Wright Schwartz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1924
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0300083459

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An Introduction to the Study of Southwestern Archaeology by Alfred Vincent Kidder,Douglas Wright Schwartz Pdf

Alfred Vincent Kidder’s 'Introduction to the study of southwestern archaeology', a classic of New World archaeology, was the first regional synthesis and remains unsurpassed as a summary of Pueblo archaeology. It provides an excellent guide to historic and prehistoric sites of the Southwest, as they were known at the time, as well as a preliminary account of Kidder’s exemplary excavation at Pecos. Kidder was one of the pioneers of the technique of stratigraphy; he also broke new ground in approaches to the study of pottery and in the application of ethnological data to the interpretation of archaeological remains.

Exploring Cause and Explanation

Author : Cynthia L. Herhahn,Ann F. Ramenofsky
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781607324737

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Exploring Cause and Explanation by Cynthia L. Herhahn,Ann F. Ramenofsky Pdf

This 13th biennial volume of the Southwest Symposium highlights three distinct archaeological themes—historical ecology, demography, and movement—tied together through the consideration of the knowledge tools of cause and explanation. These tools focus discussion on how and why questions, facilitate assessing past and current knowledge of the Pueblo Southwest, and provide unexpected bridges across the three themes. For instance, people are ultimately the source of the movement of artifacts, but that statement is inadequate for explaining how artifact movement occurred or even why, at a regional scale, different kinds of movement are implicated at different times. Answering such questions can easily incorporate questions about changes in climate or in population density or size. Each thematic section is introduced by an established author who sets the framework for the chapters that follow. Some contributors adopt regional perspectives in which both classical regions (the central San Juan or lower Chama basins) and peripheral zones (the Alamosa basin or the upper San Juan) are represented. Chapters are also broad temporally, ranging from the Younger Dryas Climatic interval (the Clovis-Folsom transition) to the Protohistoric Pueblo world and the eighteenth-century ethnogenesis of a unique Hispanic identity in northern New Mexico. Others consider methodological issues, including the burden of chronic health afflictions at the level of the community and advances in estimating absolute population size. Whether emphasizing time, space, or methodology, the authors address the processes, steps, and interactions that affect current understanding of change or stability of cultural traditions. Exploring Cause and Explanation considers themes of perennial interest but demonstrates that archaeological knowledge in the Southwest continues to expand in directions that could not have been predicted fifty years ago. Contributors: Kirk C. Anderson, Jesse A. M. Ballenger, Jeffery Clark, J. Andrew Darling, B. Sunday Eiselt, Mark D. Elson, Mostafa Fayek, Jeffrey R. Ferguson, Severin Fowles, Cynthia Herhahn, Vance T. Holliday, Sharon Hull, Deborah L. Huntley, Emily Lena Jones, Kathryn Kamp, Jeremy Kulisheck, Karl W. Laumbach, Toni S. Laumbach, Stephen H. Lekson, Virginia T. McLemore, Frances Joan Mathien, Michael H. Ort, Scott G. Ortman, Mary Ownby, Mary M. Prasciunas, Ann F. Ramenofsky, Erik Simpson, Ann L. W. Stodder, Ronald H. Towner

An Introduction to the Study of Southwestern Archaeology with a Preliminary Account of the Excavations at Pecos

Author : Alfred Vincent Kidder
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1379264979

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An Introduction to the Study of Southwestern Archaeology with a Preliminary Account of the Excavations at Pecos by Alfred Vincent Kidder Pdf

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