Archaeology without borders : contact, commerce, and change in the U.S. Southwest and northwestern Mexico /

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Imprint:Boulder, Colo. : University Press of Colorado ; Chihuahua [Mexico] : Conaculta/INAH, c2008.
Description:xi, 420 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6678461
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Other authors / contributors:Webster, Laurie D., 1952-
McBrinn, Maxine.
ISBN:9780870818899 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0870818899 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • List of Figures
  • 1. Creating an Archaeology without Borders
  • Part I. Early Agricultural Adaptations in the U.S. Southwest and Northwestern Mexico
  • 2. The Transition to Agriculture in the Desert Borderlands: An Introduction
  • 3. The Setting of Early Agriculture in Southern Chihuahua
  • 4. Modeling the Early Agricultural Frontier in the Desert Borderlands
  • 5. Early Agriculture on the Southeastern Periphery of the Colorado Plateau: Diversity in Tactics
  • 6. A Method for Anticipating Patterns in Archaeological Sequences: Projecting the Duration of the Transition to Agriculture in Mexico-A Test Case
  • 7. The Case for an Early Farmer Migration into the Greater American Southwest
  • Part II. Converging Identities: Exploring Social Identity Through Multiple Data Classes
  • 8. Exploring Social Identities through Archaeological Data from the Southwest: An Introduction
  • 9. Archaeological Models of Early Uto-Aztecan Prehistory in the Arizona-Sonora Borderlands
  • 10. Interaction, Enculturation, Social Distance, and Ancient Ethnic Identities
  • 11. Networking the Old-Fashioned Way: Social and Economic Networks among Archaic Hunters and Gatherers in Southern New Mexico
  • 12. Architectural Metaphor and Chacoan Influence in the Northern San Juan
  • 13. Life's Pathways: Geographic Metaphors in Ancestral Puebloan Material Culture
  • 14. The Dynamic Nature of Cultural Identity during the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries in Central New Mexico
  • Part III. New Research from Northern Mexico: Borders, Contacts, Landscapes, and History
  • 15. Avances del Norte de Mexico (New Research from Northern Mexico)
  • 16. Imaginary Border, Profound Border: Terminological and Conceptual Construction of the Archaeology of Northern Mexico
  • 17. Epic of the Toltec Chichimec and the Purepecha in the Ancient Southwest
  • 18. Mesoamerican Influences in the Imagery of Northern Mexico
  • 19. Turquoise: Formal Economic Interrelationships between Mesoamerica and the North American Southwest
  • 20. The Cultural Landscape of Cliff Houses in the Sierra Madre Occidental, Chihuahua
  • 21. All Routes, All Directions: The Prehistoric Landscape of Nuevo Leon
  • 22. Contributions of Walter W. Taylor to the Archaeology of Coahuila, 1937-1947
  • 23. Archaeology and Physical Anthropology: A Reflection on Warfare in the Archaeological Vision
  • 24. Pacification of the Chichimeca Region
  • List of Contributors
  • Index