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Mimbres Life and Society
A thousand years ago, village farmers in the Mimbres Valley of what
is now southwestern New Mexico created stunning black-on-white
pottery. Mimbres pottery has added a fascinating dimension to
southwestern archaeology, but it has also led to the partial or
total destruction of most Mimbres sites. The Mimbres Foundation, in
one of the few modern investigations of a Mimbres pueblo, excavated
the Mattocks site, containing about 180 surface rooms in addition
to pit structures. Mimbres Life and Society details the
Mattocks site's architecture and artifacts, and it includes 160
figures, showing more than 400 photographs of painted vessels from
the site. Mimbres pueblos, as early examples of people using
surface room blocks, are ideal for investigating questions about
how and why people moved from earlier subterranean pit structures
to aboveground room blocks. The authors consider the number of
households living at the site before and after the transition, as
well as the lack of evidence for subsistence intensification and
population growth as causes of this transition. These analyses
suggest that each room block on the site housed a single family as
opposed to multiple families, the more common interpretation. There
were not necessarily more households on the site during the Classic
period than earlier. Patricia A. Gilman and Steven A. LeBlanc spent
five seasons excavating at the Mattocks site and many more
analyzing and writing about Mattocks site data. They note that
subtle social differences among people were at play, and they
emphasize that the Mattocks site may be unique among Mimbres
pueblos in many aspects. Mimbres Life and Society reveals
broad-ranging implications for southwestern archaeologists and
anyone interested in understanding the ancient Southwest and early
village societies.
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Engendering Households in the Prehistoric Southwest
The French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss once described a village as \"deserted\" when all the adult males had vanished. While his statement is from the first half of the twentieth century, it nonetheless illustrates an oversight that has persisted during most of the intervening decades.Now Southwestern archaeologists have begun to delve into the task of \"engendering\" their sites. Using a \"close to the ground\" approach, the contributors to this book seek to engender the prehistoric Southwest by examining evidence at the household level.Focusing on gendered activities in household contexts throughout the southwestern United States, this book represents groundbreaking work in this area. The contributors view households as a crucial link to past activities and behavior, and by engendering these households, we can gain a better understanding of their role in prehistoric society. Gender-structured household activities, in turn, can offer insight into broader-scale social and economic factors. The chapters offer a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches to engendering households and examine topics such as the division of labor, gender relations, household ritual, ceramic and ground stone production and exchange, and migration.Engendering Households in the Prehistoric Southwestultimately addresses broader issues of interest to many archaeologists today, including households and their various forms, identity and social boundary formation, technological style, and human agency. Focusing on gendered activities in household contexts throughout the southwestern United States, this book represents groundbreaking work in this area. The contributors view households as a crucial link to past activities and behavior, and by engendering these households, we can gain a better understanding of their role in prehistoric society. Gender-structured household activities, in turn, can offer insight into broader-scale social and economic factors.
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The Chaco meridian: one thousand years of political and religious power in the ancient southwest
In this return to his lively, provocative reconceptualization of the meaning of Chaco Canyon and its monumental 11 th -century structures, Stephen H. Lekson expands-over time and distance-our understanding of the political and economic integration of the American Southwest. Lekson's argument that Chaco did not stand alone, but rather was the first of three capitals in a vast networked region incorporating most of the Pueblo world has gained credence over the past 15 years. Here, he marshals new evidence and new interpretations to further the case for ritual astronomical alignment of monumental structures and cities, great ceremonial roads, and the shift of the regional capital first from Chaco Canyon to the Aztec Ruins site and then to Paquimé, all located on the same longitudinal meridian. Along the line from Aztec to Paquimé, Lekson synthesizes 1000 years of Southwestern prehistory-explaining phenomena as diverse as the Great North Road, macaw feathers, Pueblo mythology, the recycling of iconic symbols over time, founder burials, and the rise of kachina ceremonies-to yield a fascinating argument that will interest anyone concerned with the prehistory and history of the American Southwest.
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The Chaco meridian
Revisiting his ground-breaking synthesis of Southwestern prehistory, Lekson expands our understanding of the political and economic integration of the American Southwest to encapsulate over 1000 years and 1000 km, from AD 500 to the arrival of the conquistadors, and from Chaco Canyon to Aztec Ruins to Paquime and even Culiacan in Sinaloa, Mexico.
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