ISBN:
0-933452-84-5
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978-0-933452-84-8
Language:
English
Pages:
XVI, 330 Seiten
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Illustrationen
Edition:
First edition
Series Statement:
School of American Research Advanced Seminar Series [41]
Keywords:
Nordamerika, Südwesten Indianer, präkolumbianisch, Nordamerika
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Prähistorie, NA
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Demographie
Abstract:
Two dozen leading archaeologists isolate a number of themes that were central to the process of increasing complexity in prehistoric Southwestern society, including increased food production, a greater degree of sedentism, and a dramatically increasing population. (Verlagsangaben)
Description / Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Patterns and Perturbations in Southwest Prehistory, George J. Gumerman -- Cultural Evolution in the Prehistoric Southwest, George J. Gumerman and Murray Gell-Mann -- Economic Implications of Changing Land-Use Patterns in the Late Archaic, W. H. Wills and Bruce Huckell -- Adaptive Stress: Environment and Demography, Jeffrey S. Dean, William H. Doelle, and Janet D. Orcutt -- Patterns of Diet and Disease: Health Profiles for the Prehistoric Southwest, Debra L. Martin -- Processes of Aggregation in the Prehistoric Southwest, Linda S. Cordell, David E. Doyel, and Keith W. Kintigh -- Toward an Explanation for Southwestern "Abandonments", Paul R. Fish, Suzanne K. Fish, George J. Gumerman, and J. Jefferson Reid -- Strong and weak patterning in Southwestern prehistory: The Formation of Puebloan Archaeology, Joseph A. Tainter and Fred Plog -- Alliance Formation and Cultural Identity in the American Southwest, Steadman Upham, Patricia L. Crown, and Stephen Plog -- The Scream of the Butterfly: Competition and Conflict in the Prehistoric Southwest, David R. Wilcox and Jonathan Haas -- Drawing the Southwest to Scale: Perspectives on Macroregional Relations, Randall H. McGuire, E. Charles Adams, Ben A. Nelson, and Katherine Spielmann -- References -- Index
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [267]-324"Advanced seminar The Organization and Evolution of Prehistoric Southwesten Society , Santa Fe, New Mexico, September 1989" (letzte Seite)Enthält 11 Beiträge
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