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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.
List of contents
- OXFORD HANDBOOK OF SOUTHWEST ARCHAEOLOGY
- Barbara J. Mills and Severin Fowles (editors)
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- List of Contributors
- PART I: INTRODUCTION
- On History in Southwest Archaeology
- Severin Fowles and Barbara J. Mills
- PART II: THE SHAPE OF HISTORY
- Conceptualizing the Past
- 1 Oral Traditions
- Chip Colwell
- 2 Narrative Histories
- Stephen H. Lekson
- 3 Direct Historical Approach
- John A. Ware
- 4 Historical Linguistics
- Jane H. Hill
- 5 Evolutionary and Complexity Theory
- Timothy A. Kohler
- 6 Path Dependency
- Michelle Hegmon
- Incorporating the Histories of Descendent Communities
- 7 Translating Tribal Values
- Theresa Pasqual
- 8 Traditional Cultural Properties
- T. J. Ferguson and Leigh Kuwanwisiwma
- 9 "History, Memory, and Querencia"
- Sylvia Rodriguez
- Archaeological Histories
- 10 The Earliest People in the Southwest
- Jesse Ballenger, Vance Holliday and Guadalupe Sanchez
- 11 The Southwest Archaic
- Maxine McBrinn and Bradley Vierra
- 12 The Early Agricultural Period
- James M. Vint and Jonathan B. Mabry
- 13 Mimbres Archaeology
- Margaret C. Nelson and Patricia A. Gilman
- 14 Key Dimensions of the Cultural Trajectories of Chaco Canyon
- Stephen Plog, Carrie C. Heitman, and Adam S. Watson
- 15 An Archaeological History of the Mesa Verde Region
- Richard H. Wilshusen and Donna Glowacki
- 16 Preclassic Hohokam
- Douglas B. Craig and M. Kyle Woodson
- 17 Classic Period Hohokam
- Jeffery J. Clark and David Abbott
- 18 Sonoran Prehispanic Traditions
- Elisa Villalpando and Randall H. McGuire
- 19 Chihuahuan Archaeology
- Michael E. Whalen and Paul E. Minnis
- 20 Eastern Pueblo Archaeology
- James E. Snead
- 21 Hopi History Prior to 1600
- Wesley Bernardini and E. Charles Adams
- 22 The Zuni/Cibola Region
- Matthew A. Peeples, Gregson Schachner, and Keith W. Kintigh
- 23 Mesoamerican Connections
- Ben A. Nelson, Paul R. Fish, and Suzanne K. Fish
- 24 Navajo Archaeology
- Kerry F. Thompson and Ronald H. Towner
- 25 Ndee (Apache) Archaeology
- John R. Welch, Sarah A. Herr, and Nicholas C. Laluk
- 26 "From Right In Front of The Sun:" Athapaskan Perspectives on
- Plains-Pueblo Exchange
- B. Sunday Eiselt and David Snow
- 27 Early Colonial Period
- Barnet Pavao-Zuckerman and Kelly L. Jenks
- 28 Pobladores of New Mexico
- Jun Oeno Sunseri
- 29 Territorial and Early Statehood Periods
- Teresita Majewski and Lauren E. Jelinek
- PART III: THE STUFF OF HISTORY
- Material Culture
- 30 Built Environments
- Michael Adler
- 31 Cooking Technologies
- Eric Blinman, James M. Heidke, and Myles R. Miller
- 32 Hunting Technologies
- John C. Whittaker and William D. Bryce
- 33 Perishable Technologies
- Edward A. Jolie and Laurie D. Webster
- 34 Iconography
- Marit K. Munson and Kelley Hays-Gilpin
- Landscapes
- 35 Anthropogenic Landscapes
- Christopher I. Roos
- 36 Agricultural Landscapes
- Kurt Anschuetz, Eileen L. Camilli, and Christopher D. Banet
- 37 Movement and Migration
- Catherine M. Cameron and Scott G. Ortman
- 38 Sacred Geographies
- Ruth Van Dyke
- Ecologies
- 39 Weather
- Scott E. Ingram
- 40 Minerals
- Andrew I. Duff, Judith A. Habicht-Mauche, and M. Steven Shackley
- 41 Plants
- Suzanne K. Fish and Karen R. Adams
- 42 Animals
- Karen Gust Schollmeyer and Katherine A. Spielmann
- 43 Humans
- Ann L. W. Stodder
- 44 Spirits
- Scott Van Keuren and William H. Walker
About the author
Barbara J. Mills is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Arizona. She is an anthropological archaeologist with broad experience in the American Southwest, including the Zuni, Chaco, Mimbres, Mogollon Rim, Four Corners, and Hohokam areas. She is the author or editor of 8 books, and over 70 articles and book chapters.
Severin Fowles is an archaeologist with two decades of field research in the American Southwest.
Summary
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.
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