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The Mesoamerican Southwest
Author | : Basil Calvin Hedrick,J. Charles Kelley,Carroll L. Riley |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : WISC:89060390002 |
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This collection of thirteen highly original studies demonstrates the deeply penetrating influence on the American Southwest by a Mesoamerican culture. Many archaeologists have treated the aboriginal American Southwest as essentially self-contained. Contrary to this long-held belief, the impressive evidence from the articles selected and edited for this volume is that throughout its history the Southwest was tied to Mesoamerica by elaborate trade routes along which much of Mesoamerican culture was diffused northward. So complete was this dependence, the editors hold, that American Southwestern cultural development must have more than once been strongly affected by major historical events in far-off central Mexico. The distinguished group of scholars whose work, all dating to the mid-point of this century, is assembled includes Francis Ernest Lloyd, Charles Amsden, Emil W. Haury, Adolph F. Bandelier, Ralph L. Beals, J. O. Brew, J. Walter Fewkes, A. L. Kroeber, and Elsie Clews Parsons. This book of readings is intended as a source book for specialists and students, but will prove fascinating to nonspecialists interested in the American Indian and the Southwest.
The American Southwest and Mesoamerica
Author | : Jonathon E. Ericson,Timothy G. Baugh |
Publsiher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2013-11-11 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781489911490 |
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Regional approaches to the study of prehistoric exchange have generated much new knowledge about intergroup and regional interaction. The American South west and Mesoamerica: Systems of Prehistoric Exchange is the first of two volumes that seek to provide current information regarding regional exchange on a conti nental basis. From a theoretical perspective, these volumes provide important data for the comparative analysis of regional systems relative to sociopolitical organization from simple hunter-gatherers to those of complex sociopolitical entities like the state. Although individual regional exchange systems are unique for each region and time period, general patterns emerge relative to sOciopolitical organization. Of significant interest to us are the dynamic processes of change, stability, rate of growth, and collapse of regional exchange systems relative to sociopolitical complexity. These volumes provide basic data to further our under standing of prehistoric exchange systems. The volume presents our current state of knowledge about regional exchange systems in the American Southwest and Mesoamerica. Each chapter synthesizes the research findings of a number of other researchers in order to provide a synchronic view of regional interaction for a specific chronological period. A diachronic view is also prOvided for regional interaction in the context of the developments in regional SOciopolitical organization. Most authors go beyond description by proposing alternative models within which to understand regional interaction. The book is organized by geographical and chronological divisions to pro vide units of the broader mosaic of prehistoric exchange systems.
The American Southwest and Mesoamerica
Author | : Jonathon E. Ericson,Timothy G. Baugh |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2014-01-15 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 1489911502 |
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Flower Worlds
Author | : Michael Mathiowetz,Andrew Turner |
Publsiher | : University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2021-05-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780816542321 |
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The recognition of Flower Worlds is one of the most significant breakthroughs in the study of Indigenous spirituality in the Americas.Flower Worldsis the first volume to bring together a diverse range of scholars to create an interdisciplinary understanding of floral realms that extend at least 2,500 years in the past.
The Oxford Handbook of Southwest Archaeology
Author | : Barbara J. Mills,Severin M. Fowles |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 929 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780199978427 |
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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.
Religion in the Prehispanic Southwest
Author | : Christine S. VanPool,Todd L. VanPool,David A. Phillips |
Publsiher | : Rowman Altamira |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 2007-01-19 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780759113954 |
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Religion mattered to the prehistoric Southwestern people, just as it matters to their descendents today. Examining the role of religion can help to explain architecture, pottery, agriculture, even commerce. But archaeologists have only recently developed the theoretical and methodological tools with which to study this topic. Religion in the Prehispanic Southwest marks the first book-length study of prehistoric religion in the region. Drawing on a rich array of empirical approaches, the contributors show the importance of understanding beliefs and ritual for a range of time periods and southwestern societies. For professional and avocational archaeologists, for religion scholars and students, Religion in the Prehispanic Southwest represents an important contribution.
The Mesoamerican Ballgame
Author | : Vernon L. Scarborough,David R. Wilcox |
Publsiher | : University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 1993-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0816513600 |
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The Precolumbian ballgame, played on a masonry court, has long intrigued scholars because of the magnificence of its archaeological remains. From its lowland Maya origins it spread throughout the Aztec empire, where the game was so popular that sixteen thousand rubber balls were imported annually into Tenochtitlan. It endured for two thousand years, spreading as far as to what is now southern Arizona. This new collection of essays brings together research from field archaeology, mythology, and Maya hieroglyphic studies to illuminate this important yet puzzling aspect of Native American culture. The authors demonstrate that the game was more than a spectator sport; serving social, political, mythological, and cosmological functions, it celebrated both fertility and the afterlife, war and peace, and became an evolving institution functioning in part to resolve conflict within and between groups. The contributors provide complete coverage of the archaeological, sociopolitical, iconographic, and ideological aspects of the game, and offer new information on the distribution of ballcourts, new interpretations of mural art, and newly perceived relations of the game with material in the Popol Vuh. With its scholarly attention to a subject that will fascinate even general readers, The Mesoamerican Ballgame is a major contribution to the study of the mental life and outlook of New World peoples.
The Architecture of Chaco Canyon New Mexico
Author | : Stephen H Lekson |
Publsiher | : University of Utah Press |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2007-06-13 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780874809480 |
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A fresh volume on the ancient structures of Chaco Canyon, built by native peoples between AD 850 and 1130, that unifies older information on the area with new advanced research techniques focusing on studies of technology and building types, analyses of architectural change, and readings of the built environment, aided by over 150 maps, floor plans, elevations and photos.