Contemporary archaeologies of the Southwest / edited by William H. Walker and Kathryn R. Venzor.

• Superior document: Proceedings of the Southwest Symposium
• Author: Southwest Symposium (1988- ) Las Cruces, N.M.)
• TeilnehmendeR: Walker, William H., 1964-; Venzor, Kathryn R.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Proceedings of the Southwest Symposium.
• Physical Description: ix, 298 p. :; ill., maps.
• Notes: "This volume builds on papers presented at the 10th Biennial 2006 Southwest Symposium entitled 'Acts of History: Ritual, Landscape and Historical Archaeology in the U.S. Southwest and Northern Mexico', held in Las Cruces, New Mexico, January 13-14, 2006"--Introd.

Table of Contents

Introduction to contemporary archaeologies of the Southwest / William H. Walker and Kathryn R. Venzor -- Materialities of place : ideologies on the Chacoan landscape / Ruth M. Van Dyke -- Procurement and landscape : lithic quarries as places / Christine G. Ward -- The sun dagger interactive computer graphic model : a digital restoration of a Chacoan calendrical site / Anna Sofaer ... [et al.] -- The lay of the land : power, meaning, and the social in landscape analysis / Maria O'Donovan -- Archaeology of the moment : creating place in the Ludlow strikers' colony / Michael E. Jacobson -- Sacred landscapes, sacred acts : the metaphysics of emplaced ritual among northern Paiute and Hualapai ghost dancers / Alex K. Ruuska -- Fire : accidental or intentional? : an archaeological toolkit for evaluating accident and intent in ancient structural fires / Joe Lally and A.J. Vonarx -- Ancient social boundaries inscribed on the landscape of the lower San Pedro Valley / Patrick D. Lyons, Jeffery J. Clark, and J. Brett Hill -- El Morro Valley as crossroads, El Morro Valley as gathering place : understanding the social landscape of the eastern Cibola region through the archaeological and historical record / Gregson Schachner -- Social identity and memory : interactions between Apaches and Mormons on a frontier landscape / Lauren Jelinek -- Landscape use at San Agustin / Barnet Pavao-Zuckerman -- Ephemeral sites and inertia along el Camino Real de Tierra Adentro : evidence from twelve years of archaeological research / Edward Staski -- Investigating differential persistence of Pueblo populations : a landscape approach / Ann F. Ramenofsky, Michael K. Church, and Jeremy Kulisheck.