Environmental change and human adaptation in the ancient American Southwest /

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Imprint:Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, c2006.
Description:xvi, 344 p. : ill., maps ; 27 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6159259
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Other authors / contributors:Doyel, David E. (David Elmond), 1946-
Dean, Jeffrey S., 1939-
Betancourt, Julio L.
Society for American Archaeology. Meeting (61st : 1996 : New Orleans, La.)
ISBN:0874808537 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780874808537
Notes:Chiefly revisions of papers presented at a symposium held at the 1996 Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting in New Orleans.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-335) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Culture, environment, and adaptation : perspectives from the ancient southwest / Jeffrey S. Dean and David E. Doyel
  • 2. Early people, early maize, and late Archaic ecology in the southwest / Alan H. Simmons
  • 3. Prehistoric human response to landscape change in the American southwest / Michael R. Waters
  • 4. Cross-cultural perspectives on prehispanic Hohokam agricultural potential / Suzanne K. Fish and Paul R. Fish
  • 5. Long-term streamflow reconstructions, river channel morphology, and aboriginal irrigation systems along the Salt and Gila rivers / Donald A. Graybill, David A. Gregory, Gary S. Funkhouser and Fred L. Nials
  • 6. Subsistence management strategies in the Grasshopper region, East-Central Arizona / J. Jefferson Reid, Donald A. Graybill and Ann Clair Seiferle-Valencia
  • 7. Settlement history and environmental variability in the upper little Colorado River Valley, Arizona / David E. Doyel
  • 8. Subsistence stress and food storage at Kiet Siel, Northeastern Arizona / Jeffrey S. Dean
  • 9. The effects of environmental fluctuations on ancient livelihoods : implications of paleoeconomic evidence from the upper basin, Northern Arizona / Alan P. Sullivan III and Anthony H. Ruter
  • 10. Environmental variation and prehistoric culture in the Mimbres area, Southwestern New Mexico / Darrell Creel
  • 11. Tree rings, drought, and the Pueblo abandonment of South-Central New Mexico in the 1670s / James A. Parks, Jeffrey S. Dean and Julio L. Betancourt
  • 12. Sky as environment : solar eclipses and Hohokam culture change / W. Bruce Masse and Fred Espenak
  • 13. The resurgence of the co-evolution of human and natural landscape studies in the American southwest / George J. Gumerman.