Southwest archaeology in the twentieth century / edited by Linda S. Cordell and Don D. Fowler.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cordell, Linda S.

Fowler, Don D., 1936-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Southwest, New--Antiquities.

Indians of North America.

Archaeology.

History.

New Southwest.

Antiquities.

Archaeology--Southwest, New--History--20th century.

Southwest, New--Antiquities.

Southwest, New.

Physical Description:

ix, 300 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, [2005]

Summary:

Mesa Verde, Chaco Canyon, Canyon de Chelly, and PaquimC) are as well known to tourists as they are to scholars as emblems of the American Southwest. This region has been the scene of intense archaeological investigation for more than a hundred years, with more research done here than in any other part of the United States. The arid and sparsely populated landscape provides excellent site preservation, while the living native peoples give cultural continuity with the past. With contributions from well-known archaeologists,

Contents:

Introduction / Don D. Fowler and Linda S. Cordell

The formative years : southwest archaeology, 1890-1910 / Don D. Fowler

Paradigms, professionals, and the making of southwest archaeology, 1910-1920 / James E. Snead

Seven years that reshaped southwest prehistory / J. Jefferson Reid and Stephanie M. Whittlesey

Curricular matters : the impact of field schools on southwest archaeology / Barbara J. Mills

The development of archaeology in northwest Mexico / Jane H. Kelley and A.C. MacWilliams

From the academy to the private sector : CRM's rapid transformation within the archaeological profession / William H. Doelle and David A. Phillips, Jr.

Southwest archaeology today with an eye to the future / Linda S. Cordell

Paleoenvironmental reconstructions and archaeology : uniting the social and natural sciences in the American Southwest and beyond / Stephen E. Nash and Jeffrey S. Dean

The first 10,000 years in the Southwest / Bruce B. Huckell

Complexity / Stephen H. Lekson

Ethnicity and southwestern archaeology / Robert W. Preucel

Ethnographic analogy and ancestral Pueblo archaeology / Katherine A. Spielmann

"The feeling of working completely in the dark" : the uncertain foundations of southwestern mission archaeology / James E. Ivey and David Hurst Thomas

Discussion of southwest archaeology in the twentieth century / David R. Wilcox.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-288) and index.

ISBN:

0874808251

OCLC:

60743128

Publisher Number:

9780874808254