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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Douglass, John G., 1968-

Gonlin, Nancy.

Society for American Archaeology. Annual Meeting 2001 : New Orleans, La.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Home economics--America--History.

Home economics.

Households--America--History.

Households.

Indigenous peoples--Antiquities.

Indigenous peoples.

Indigenous peoples--Dwellings.

Indigenous peoples--Social life and customs.

Land settlement patterns--America--History.

Land settlement patterns.

Social archaeology--America--History.

Social archaeology.

America--Antiquities.

America.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (472 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boulder : University Press of Colorado, c2012.

Language Note:

English.

Summary:

Several different cultures — Iroquois, Coosa, Anasazi, Hohokam, San Agustín, Wankarani, Formative Gulf Coast Mexico, and Formative, Classic, Colonial, and contemporary Maya — are analyzed through the lens of household archaeology in concrete, data-driven case studies. "This excellent book should be heavily used by anyone with an interest in household archaeology." —North American Archaeologist "There are a number of excellent studies that scholars interested in household archaeology will find highly useful." —Journal of Anthropological Research "This collection underscores the importance of household archaeology to the study of social dynamics." —Choice "This volume is an impressive one. . . . In an era in which household archaeology has become essential to archaeological praxis, this volume is indeed essential reading." —Cambridge Archaeological Journal

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781646420667

1646420667

9781457117466

1457117460

9781607321743

1607321742

OCLC:

781636144

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access