Household archaeology on the Northwest Coast / edited by Elizabeth A. Sobel, D. Ann Trieu Gahr, and Kenneth M. Ames.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gahr, D. Ann Trieu, editor.

Sobel, Elizabeth A., editor.

Ames, Kenneth M., editor.

Society for American Archaeology. Meeting 1999 : Chicago, Ill.)

Series:

Archaeological series (Ann Arbor, Mich.) ; 16.

Archaeological series ; 16

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Excavations (Archaeology)--Northwest Coast of North America.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Indians of North America--Northwest Coast of North America--Antiquities.

Indians of North America.

Indian architecture--Northwest Coast of North America.

Indian architecture.

Indians of North America--Dwellings--Northwest Coast of North America.

Social archaeology--Northwest Coast of North America.

Social archaeology.

Northwest Coast of North America--Antiquities.

Northwest Coast of North America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 285 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Michigan : International Monographs in Prehistory, 2006.

Summary:

Since the late 1970s, household archaeology has become a key theoretical and methodological framework for research on the development of permanent social inequality and complexity, as well as for understanding the social, political and economic organization of chiefdoms and states. This volume is the cumulative result of more than a decade of research focusing on household archaeology as a means to gain understanding of the evolution of social complexity, regardless of underlying economy.

Contents:

Introduction / D. Ann Trieu Gahr, Elizabeth A. Sobel, Kenneth M. Ames

Thinking about household archaeology on the Northwest Coast / Kenneth M. Ames

Houses and domestication on the Northwest Coast / Yvonne Marshall

Architects to ancestors : the life cycle of plankhouses / D. Ann Trieu Gahr

A chief's house speaks : communicating power on the northern Northwest Coast / Gary Coupland

Temporality in Northwest Coast households / Colin Grier

Of a more temporary cast : household production at the Broken Tops Site / David V. Ellis

The Tsimshian household through the contact period / Andrew Martindale

Household prestige and exchange in Northwest Coast societies : a case study from the lower Columbia River Valley / Elizabeth A. Sobel

Households at Ozette / Stephan R. Samuels

Formation processes of a lower Columbia River plankhouse site / Cameron McPherson Smith

Households and production on the Pacific Coast : the Northwest Coast and California in comparative perspective / Jeanne R. Arnold.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781789201789

1789201780

OCLC:

1350572534