04956nam 2200697Ia 450 991037282470332120200520144314.01-64642-066-71-4571-1746-01-60732-174-2(CKB)2670000000161423(OAPEN)1007708(OCoLC)781636144(MdBmJHUP)muse17350(Au-PeEL)EBL3039766(CaPaEBR)ebr10547364(CaONFJC)MIL913674(ScCtBLL)2a1ba9a5-90f7-4c3c-aa29-439cc86f0a04(MiAaPQ)EBC3039766(EXLCZ)99267000000016142320120105d2012 uy 0enguuuuu---auuuutxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierAncient households of the Americas conceptualizing what households do /edited by John G. Douglass and Nancy Gonlin1st ed.Boulder University Press of Coloradoc20121 online resource (472 p.)1-60732-538-1 1-60732-173-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.The household as analytical unit : case studies from the Americas / John G. Douglass and Nancy Gonlin -- Occupation span and the organization of residential activities : a cross-cultural model and case study from the Mesa Verde region / Mark D. Varien -- Production and consumption in the countryside : a case study from the late classic Maya rural commoner households at Copán, Honduras / Nancy Gonlin -- Iroquoian households : a Mohawk longhouse at Otstungo, New York / Dean R. Snow -- Activity areas and households in the late Mississippian southeast United States : who did what where? / Ramie A. Gougeon -- The social evolution of potters' households in Ticul, Yucatán, Mexico, 1965-1997 / Dean E. Arnold -- Pots and agriculture : Anasazi rural household production, Long House Valley, northern Arizona / John G. Douglass and Robert A. Heckman -- Hohokam household organization, sedentism, and irrigation in the Sonoran Desert, Arizona / Richard Ciolek-Torrello -- Understanding households on their own terms : investigations on household sizes, production, and longevity at K'axob, Belize / H. Hope Henderson -- Late classic period terrace agriculture in the lowland Maya area : modeling the organization of terrace agricultural activity / L. Theodore Neff -- Fluctuating community organization : formation and dissolution of multifamily corporate groups at La Joya, Veracruz, Mexico / Valerie J. McCormack -- Relationships among households in the prehispanic community of Mesitas in San Agustín, Colombia / Víctor González Fernández -- Interhousehold versus intracommunity comparisons : incipient socioeconomic complexity at Jachakala, Bolivia / Christine Beaule -- Arrobas, fanegas, and mantas : identifying continuity and change in early colonial Maya household production / Darcy Lynn Wiewall.Several different cultures — Iroquois, Coosa, Anasazi, Hohokam, San Agustín, Wankarani, Formative Gulf Coast Mexico, and Formative, Classic, Colonial, and contemporary Maya — are analyzed through the lens of household archaeology in concrete, data-driven case studies. "This excellent book should be heavily used by anyone with an interest in household archaeology." —North American Archaeologist "There are a number of excellent studies that scholars interested in household archaeology will find highly useful." —Journal of Anthropological Research "This collection underscores the importance of household archaeology to the study of social dynamics." —Choice "This volume is an impressive one. . . . In an era in which household archaeology has become essential to archaeological praxis, this volume is indeed essential reading." —Cambridge Archaeological JournalHome economicsAmericaHistoryHouseholdsAmericaHistoryIndiansAntiquitiesIndiansDwellingsIndiansSocial life and customsLand settlement patternsAmericaHistorySocial archaeologyAmericaHistoryAmericaAntiquitiesHome economicsHistory.HouseholdsHistory.IndiansAntiquities.IndiansDwellings.IndiansSocial life and customs.Land settlement patternsHistory.Social archaeologyHistory.970.004/97Douglass John G.1968-978197Gonlin Nancy978198Society for American Archaeology.Annual Meeting(66th :2001 :New Orleans, La.)MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910372824703321Ancient households of the Americas2229184UNINA