Archaeology without borders : contact, commerce, and change in the U.S. Southwest and northwestern Mexico / edited by Laurie D. Webster and Maxine E. McBrinn ; with Mexican editor Eduardo Gamboa Carrera.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Webster, Laurie D., 1952-

McBrinn, Maxine.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Indians of North America.

Indians of Mexico--Commerce--Mexico, North.

Indians of Mexico.

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

Indians of Mexico--Mexico, North--Migrations.

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

History.

Indians of Mexico--Commerce.

Indians of North America--Commerce.

New Southwest.

Indians of Mexico--Mexico, North--History.

North Mexico.

Physical Description:

xi, 420 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Boulder, Colo. : University Press of Colorado ; Chihuahua [Mexico] : Conaculta/INAH, [2008]

Summary:

Archaeology without Borders presents new research by leading U.S. and Mexican scholars and explores the impacts on archaeology of the border between the United States and Mexico. It offers a synthesis of early agricultural adaptations in the region, groundbreaking archaeological research on social identity, and data previously not readily available to English-speaking readers. The twenty-four essays discuss early agriculture, social identity, and cultural landscapes, as well as economic and social interactions within the area now encompassed by northern Mexico and the U.S. Southwest.

Contents:

1 Creating an Archaeology without Borders / Maxine E. McBrinn, Laurie D. Webster 1

Part I Early Agricultural Adaptations in the U.S. Southwest and Northwestern Mexico

2 The Transition to Agriculture in the Desert Borderlands: An Introduction / Gayle J. Fritz 25

3 The Setting of Early Agriculture in Southern Chihuahua / A. C. MacWilliams, Robert J. Hard, John R. Roney, Karen R. Adams, William L. Merrill 35

4 Modeling the Early Agricultural Frontier in the Desert Borderlands / Jonathan B. Mabry, William E. Doolittle 55

5 Early Agriculture on the Southeastern Periphery of the Colorado Plateau: Diversity in Tactics / Bradley J. Vierra 71

6 A Method for Anticipating Patterns in Archaeological Sequences: Projecting the Duration of the Transition to Agriculture in Mexico-A Test Case / Amber L. Johnson 89

7 The Case for an Early Farmer Migration into the Greater American Southwest / Steven A. LeBlanc 107

Part II Converging Identities: Exploring Social Identity Through Multiple Data Classes

8 Exploring Social Identities through Archaeological Data from the Southwest: An Introduction / Linda S. Cordell 145

9 Archaeological Models of Early Uto-Aztecan Prehistory in the Arizona-Sonora Borderlands / Jonathan B. Mabry, John P. Carpenter, Guadalupe Sanchez 155

10 Interaction, Enculturation, Social Distance, and Ancient Ethnic Identities / Patrick D. Lyons, Jeffery J. Clark 185

11 Networking the Old-Fashioned Way: Social and Economic Networks among Archaic Hunters and Gatherers in Southern New Mexico / Maxine E. McBrinn 209

12 Architectural Metaphor and Chacoan Influence in the Northern San Juan / Scott G. Ortman 227

13 Life's Pathways: Geographic Metaphors in Ancestral Puebloan Material Culture / Kelley Hays-Gilpin 257

14 The Dynamic Nature of Cultural Identity during the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries in Central New Mexico / Suzanne L. Eckert 271

Part III New Research from Northern Mexico: Borders, Contacts, Landscapes, and History

15 Avances del Norte de Mexico (New Research from Northern Mexico) / Eduardo Gamboa Carrera 285

16 Imaginary Border, Profound Border: Terminological and Conceptual Construction of the Archaeology of Northern Mexico / Francisco Mendiola Galvan 291

17 Epic of the Toltec Chichimec and the Purepecha in the Ancient Southwest / Patricia Carot, Marie-Areti Hers 301

18 Mesoamerican Influences in the Imagery of Northern Mexico / Arturo Guevara Sanchez 335

19 Turquoise: Formal Economic Interrelationships between Mesoamerica and the North American Southwest / Phil C. Weigand 343

20 The Cultural Landscape of Cliff Houses in the Sierra Madre Occidental, Chihuahua / Eduardo Gamboa Carrera, Federico J. Mancera-Valencia 355

21 All Routes, All Directions: The Prehistoric Landscape of Nuevo Leon / Moises Valadez Moreno 365

22 Contributions of Walter W. Taylor to the Archaeology of Coahuila, 1937-1947 / Leticia Gonzalez Arratia 373

23 Archaeology and Physical Anthropology: A Reflection on Warfare in the Archaeological Vision / M. Nicolas Caretta 385

24 Pacification of the Chichimeca Region / Martha Monzon Flores 393.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780870818899

0870818899

OCLC:

173659516