Ancient Households of the Americas : : conceptualizing what households do / / edited by John G. Douglass, Nancy Gonlin.

• TeilnehmendeR: Douglass, John G.,; Gonlin, Nancy,
• Place / Publishing House: Boulder : : University Press of Colorado,, 2012.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 448 pages) :; illustrations

In Ancient Households of the Americas archaeologists investigate the fundamental role of household production in ancient, colonial, and contemporary households. Several different cultures-Iroquois, Coosa, Anasazi, Hohokam, San Agustín, Wankarani, Formative Gulf Coast Mexico, and Formative, Classic,...

Table of Contents

• The household as analytical unit : case studies from the Americas / John G. Douglass and Nancy Gonlin
• Occupation span and the organization of residential activities : a cross-cultural model and case study from the Mesa Verde region / Mark D. Varien
• Production and consumption in the countryside : a case study from the late classic Maya rural commoner households at Copán, Honduras / Nancy Gonlin
• Iroquoian households : a Mohawk longhouse at Otstungo, New York / Dean R. Snow
• Activity areas and households in the late Mississippian southeast United States : who did what where? / Ramie A. Gougeon
• The social evolution of potters' households in Ticul, Yucatán, Mexico, 1965-1997 / Dean E. Arnold
• Pots and agriculture : Anasazi rural household production, Long House Valley, northern Arizona / John G. Douglass and Robert A. Heckman
• Hohokam household organization, sedentism, and irrigation in the Sonoran Desert, Arizona / Richard Ciolek-Torrello
• Understanding households on their own terms : investigations on household sizes, production, and longevity at K'axob, Belize / H. Hope Henderson
• Late classic period terrace agriculture in the lowland Maya area : modeling the organization of terrace agricultural activity / L. Theodore Neff
• Fluctuating community organization : formation and dissolution of multifamily corporate groups at La Joya, Veracruz, Mexico / Valerie J. McCormack
• Relationships among households in the prehispanic community of Mesitas in San Agustín, Colombia / Víctor González Fernández
• Interhousehold versus intracommunity comparisons : incipient socioeconomic complexity at Jachakala, Bolivia / Christine Beaule
• Arrobas, fanegas, and mantas : identifying continuity and change in early colonial Maya household production / Darcy Lynn Wiewall.