Hinterlands and regional dynamics in the ancient Southwest / / edited by Alan P. Sullivan III, James Bayman.

• TeilnehmendeR: Sullivan, Alan P.,; Bayman, James,
• Place / Publishing House: Tucson : : University of Arizona Press,, 2007.
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (vi, 291 pages) :; illustrations

Hinterlands and Regional Dynamics in the Ancient Southwest is the first volume dedicated to understanding the nature of and changes in regional social autonomy, political hegemony, and organizational complexity across the entire prehistoric American Southwest. With geographic coverage extending from the Great Plains to the Colorado River, and from Mesa Verde to the international border, the volume's ten case studies synthesize research that enhances our understanding of the ancient Southwest's highly variable demographic, land use, and economic histories. For this volume, "hinterlands" are those areas whose archaeological records do not disclose the ceramic, architectural, and network evidence that initially led to the establishment of the Hohokam, Chaco, and Casas Grandes regional syst ...

Table of Contents

Conceptualizing regional dynamics in the ancient Southwest / Alan P. Sullivan III and James M. Bayman -- Not the northeastern periphery : the lower Verde Valley in regional context / Stephanie M. Whittlesey -- Rethinking the Hohokam periphery : the preclassic period Tonto Basin / Mark D. Elson and Jeffery J. Clark -- The Mescal Wash Site : a persistent place in southeastern Arizona / Rein Vanderpot and Jeffrey H. Altschul -- In sync, but barely in touch : relations between the Mimbres region and the Hohokam regional system / Michelle Hegmon and Margaret C. Nelson -- Making and breaking boundaries in the hinterlands : the social and settlement dynamics of far southeastern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico / John E. Douglas -- Papaguerian perspectives on economy and society in the Sonoran Desert / James M. Bayman -- No peripheral vision : a view of regional interactions from south-central New Mexico / Thomas R. Rocek and Alison E. Rautman -- Direct procurement of ceramics and ceramic materials, "index wares," and models of regional exchange and interaction: implications of petrographic and geological data from the Upper Basin and Coconino Plateau / Sidney W. Carter and Alan P. Sullivan III -- Poor Mesa Verde : so far from heaven, so close to Chaco / Sarah H. Schlanger -- Becoming central : organizational transformations in the emergence of zuni / Andrew I. Duff and Gregson Schachner -- Reconceptualizing regional dynamics in the ancient Southwest : relational approaches / Ruth M. Van Dyke.