Ancient Puebloan SouthwestAncient Puebloan Southwest traces the evolution of Puebloan society in the American Southwest from the emergence of the Chaco and Mimbres traditions in the AD 1000s through the early decades of contact with the Spanish in the sixteenth century. The 2004 book focuses on the social and political changes that shaped Puebloan people over the centuries, emphasizing how factors internal to society impacted on cultural evolution, even in the face of the challenging environment that characterizes the American Southwest. The underlying argument is that while the physical environment both provides opportunities and sets limitations to social and political change, even more important evolutionary forces are the tensions between co-operation and competition for status and leadership. Although relying primarily on archaeological data, the book also includes oral histories, historical accounts, and ethnographic records as it introduces readers to the deep history of the Puebloan Southwest. |
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Page 284 - Gendered Tasks, Power, and Prestige in the Prehispanic American Southwest. In Women and Men in the Prehispanic Southwest: Labor, Power, and Prestige, edited by Patricia L. Crown, pp. 3-42. School of 2000b Women's Role in Changing Cuisine.
Page 291 - Glascock. 1997. Production of San Juan Red Ware in the Northern Southwest: Insights Into Regional Interaction in Early Puebloan Prehistory. American Antiquity 62:449-463.
Page 291 - Corrugated Pottery, Technological Style, and Population Movement in the Mimbres Region of the American Southwest, Journal of Anthropological Research, 2000, 56, 2, summer, 217-240.
Page 284 - Environmental Factors in the Evolution of the Chacoan Sociopolitical System," in DE Doyel, ed., Anasazi Regional Organization and the Chaco System, Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, Anthropological Papers No.