Human Adaptation at Grasshopper Pueblo, Arizona - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Human Adaptation at Grasshopper Pueblo, Arizona write by Joseph A. Ezzo. This book was released on 1993. Human Adaptation at Grasshopper Pueblo, Arizona available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Grasshopper Pueblo is a fourteenth-century settlement site situated on the Salt River drainage in the White Mountains of east-central Arizona.
Grasshopper Pueblo
Grasshopper Pueblo - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Grasshopper Pueblo write by Jefferson Reid. This book was released on 2015-11-01. Grasshopper Pueblo available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Located in the mountains of east-central Arizona, Grasshopper Pueblo is a prehistoric ruin that has been excavated and interpreted more thoroughly than most sites in the Southwest: more than 100 rooms have been unearthed here, and artifacts of remarkable quantity and quality have been discovered. Thanks to these findings, we know more about ancient life at Grasshopper than at most other pueblos. Now two archaeologists who have devoted more than two decades to investigations at Grasshopper reconstruct the life and times of this fourteenth-century Mogollon community. Written for general readers—and for the White Mountain Apache, on whose land Grasshopper Pueblo is located and who have participated in the excavations there—the book conveys the simple joys and typical problems of an ancient way of life as inferred from its material remains. Reid and Whittlesey's account reveals much about the human capacity for living under what must strike modern readers as adverse conditions. They describe the environment with which the people had to cope; hunting, gathering, and farming methods; uses of tools, pottery, baskets, and textiles; types of rooms and households; and the functioning of social groups. They also reconstruct the sacred world of Grasshopper as interpreted through mortuary ritual and sacred objects and discuss the relationship of Grasshopper residents with neighbors and with those who preceded and followed them. Grasshopper Pueblo not only thoroughly reconstructs this past life at a mountain village, it also offers readers an appreciation of life at the field school and an understanding of how excavations have proceeded there through the years. For anyone enchanted by mysteries of the past, it reveals significant features of human culture and spirit and the ultimate value of archaeology to contemporary society.
Human Adaptations and Cultural Change in the Greater Southwest
Human Adaptations and Cultural Change in the Greater Southwest - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Human Adaptations and Cultural Change in the Greater Southwest write by Alan H. Simmons. This book was released on 1989. Human Adaptations and Cultural Change in the Greater Southwest available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Environmental Change and Human Adaptation in the Ancient American Southwest
Environmental Change and Human Adaptation in the Ancient American Southwest - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Environmental Change and Human Adaptation in the Ancient American Southwest write by David Elmond Doyel. This book was released on 2006. Environmental Change and Human Adaptation in the Ancient American Southwest available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume contains a varied and instructive set of studies of human behavioral adaptation to environmental change in the ancient Southwest making significant contributions to southwestern prehistory, settlement pattern studies, agriculture, behavioral ecology, paleo-environmental reconstruction, and statistical and computer-aided modeling.
Western Pueblo Identities
Western Pueblo Identities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Western Pueblo Identities write by Andrew I. Duff. This book was released on 2016-12-15. Western Pueblo Identities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Identifying distinct social groups of the past has always challenged archaeologists because understanding how people perceived their identity is critical to the reconstruction of social organization. Material culture has been the standard measure of distinction between groups, and the distribution of ceramics and other artifacts has often been used to define group boundaries. Western Pueblo Identities argues that such an approach is not always appropriate: demographic and historical factors may affect the extent to which material evidence can define such boundaries. Andrew Duff now examines a number of other factors—relationships among settlement size, regional population densities, the homogeneity of material culture, and local and long-distance exchange—in order to trace the history of interaction and the formation of group identity in east-central Arizona and west-central New Mexico from A.D. 1275 to 1400. Using comparative data from the Upper Little Colorado and Zuni regions, Duff demonstrates differences in patterns of interaction within and between regions with different population densities. He then links these differences to such factors as occupational history, immigrant populations, the negotiation of social identities, and the emergence of new ritual systems. Following abandonments in the Four Corners area in the late 1200s, immigrants with different historical backgrounds occupied many Western Pueblo regions—in contrast to the Hopi and Zuni regions, which had more stable populations and deeper historical roots. Duff uses chemical analyses of ceramics to document exchange among several communities within these regions, showing that people in less densely settled regions were actively recruited by residents of the Hopi and Zuni regions to join their settlements. By the time of the arrival of the Spaniards, two distinct social and territorial groups—the Hopi and Zuni peoples—had emerged from this scattering of communities. Duff's new interpretations, along with new data on ceramic exchange patterns, suggest that interaction is a better way to measure identity than more commonly used criteria. His work offers new perspectives on the role of ritual in social organization and on identity formation in Pueblo IV society and is rich in implications for the study of other sedentary, middle-range societies.
