Spatial Organization and Exchange: Archaeological Survey on Northern Black Mesa (Publications in Archaeology) - Hardcover

 
9780809312146: Spatial Organization and Exchange: Archaeological Survey on Northern Black Mesa (Publications in Archaeology)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 080931214X ISBN 13: 9780809312146
Verlag: Southern Illinois University Press, 1986

Inhaltsangabe

Using data from approximately 45 square miles of land on Black Mesa, Arizona, this book explores culture changes—particularly population increases and decreases—between A.D. 800 and 1150. Analyzing one of the largest archaeological surveys in the American Southwest, these studies go beyond pre­vious efforts to explain culture changes in five ways. First, several hundred sites discovered in the survey are dated through analysis of small characteristics of designs on pottery. Second, patterns of population change are reconstructed more accurately by using dates from these studies. Third, changes in settle­ment types and locations help explain subsistence strategies of prehistoric people. Fourth, design characteristics on pottery and the nature of raw materials used to manufacture ceramic vessels and stone tools provide new information on social networks and exchange ties. Fi­nally, the data are synthesized, providing new explanations of culture change.

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Stephen Plog is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Virginia.

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Verlag
Southern Illinois University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1986
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
080931214X
ISBN 13 
9780809312146
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
400
Herausgeber
Plog Stephen
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