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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781686903321

Titolo

Contemporary archaeologies of the Southwest [[electronic resource] /] / edited by William H. Walker and Kathryn R. Venzor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boulder, : University Press of Colorado, c2011

ISBN

1-4571-1156-X

1-60732-091-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (311 p.)

Collana

Proceedings of the Southwest Symposium

Altri autori (Persone)

WalkerWilliam H. <1964->

VenzorKathryn R

Disciplina

979

Soggetti

Indians of North America - Southwest, New - Antiquities

Indians of North America - Southwest, New - Ethnic identity

Indians of North America - Material culture - Southwest, New

Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric - Southwest, New

Landscape changes - Southwest, New - History - To 1500

Land use - Southwest, New - History - To 1500

Ethnoarchaeology - Southwest, New

Human ecology - Southwest, New - History - To 1500

Southwest, New Antiquities Congresses

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"This volume builds on papers presented at the 10th Biennial 2006 Southwest Symposium entitled 'Acts of History: Ritual, Landscape and Historical Archaeology in the U.S. Southwest and Northern Mexico', held in Las Cruces, New Mexico, January 13-14, 2006"--Introd.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction to contemporary archaeologies of the Southwest / William H. Walker and Kathryn R. Venzor -- Materialities of place : ideologies on the Chacoan landscape / Ruth M. Van Dyke -- Procurement and landscape : lithic quarries as places / Christine G. Ward -- The sun dagger interactive computer graphic model : a digital restoration of a Chacoan calendrical site / Anna Sofaer ... [et al.] -- The lay of the land : power, meaning, and the social in landscape analysis / Maria O'Donovan -- Archaeology of the moment : creating place in the Ludlow strikers' colony / Michael E. Jacobson -- Sacred landscapes, sacred acts : the metaphysics of emplaced ritual among northern Paiute



and Hualapai ghost dancers / Alex K. Ruuska -- Fire : accidental or intentional? : an archaeological toolkit for evaluating accident and intent in ancient structural fires / Joe Lally and A.J. Vonarx -- Ancient social boundaries inscribed on the landscape of the lower San Pedro Valley / Patrick D. Lyons, Jeffery J. Clark, and J. Brett Hill -- El Morro Valley as crossroads, El Morro Valley as gathering place : understanding the social landscape of the eastern Cibola region through the archaeological and historical record / Gregson Schachner -- Social identity and memory : interactions between Apaches and Mormons on a frontier landscape / Lauren Jelinek -- Landscape use at San Agustín / Barnet Pavao-Zuckerman -- Ephemeral sites and inertia along el Camino Real de Tierra Adentro : evidence from twelve years of archaeological research / Edward Staski -- Investigating differential persistence of Pueblo populations : a landscape approach / Ann F. Ramenofsky, Michael K. Church, and Jeremy Kulisheck.

Sommario/riassunto

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 lan