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Title:Archaeology without Borders : Contact, Commerce, & Change in the US Southwest & Northwestern Mexico
Author:Laurie D Webster & Maxine E McBrinn (eds)
ISBN:0870818899 : 9780870818899
Illustrations:14 b/w photos, 28 line drawings, 13 maps, 15 tables
Format:Hardback
Size:155x230mm
Pages:420
Weight: .728 Kg.
Published:University Press of Colorado - February 2008
List Price: 43.5 Pounds Sterling
Availability:In Print
Subjects:ARCHAEOLOGY: North America: Mexico


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 US Southwest. Contributors examining early agricultural adaptations offer models for understanding the transition to agriculture, explore relationships between the spread of agriculture and Uto-Aztecan migrations, and present data from Arizona, New Mexico, and Chihuahua. Contributors focusing on social identity discuss migration, enculturation, social boundaries, and ethnic identities. They draw on case studies that include diverse artefact classes -- rock art, lithics, architecture, murals, ceramics, cordage, sandals, baskets, faunal remains, and oral histories. Mexican scholars present data from Chihuahua, Durango, Zacatecas, Michoacan, Coahuila, and Nuevo Leon. They address topics including Spanish-indigenous conflicts, archaeological history, cultural landscapes, and interactions among Mesoamerica, northern Mexico, and the US Southwest.

Creating an Archaeology without Borders; The Transition to Agriculture in the Desert Borderlands: An Introduction; The Setting of Early Agriculture in Southern Chihuahua; Modelling the Early Agricultural Frontier in the Desert Borderlands; Early Agriculture on the South-eastern Periphery of the Colorado Plateau: Diversity in Tactics; A Method for Anticipating Patterns in Archaeological Sequences: Projecting the Duration of the Transition to Agriculture in Mexico: A Test Case; The Case for an Early Farmer Migration into the Greater American Southwest; Exploring Social Identities through Archaeological Data from the Southwest: An Introduction; Archaeological Models of Early Uto-Aztecan Prehistory in the Arizona-Sonora Borderlands; Interaction, Enculturation, Social Distance and Ancient Ethnic Identities; Networking the Old-Fashioned Way: Social and Economic Networks Among Archaic Hunters and Gatherers in Southern New Mexico; Architectural Metaphor and Chacoan Influences in the Northern San Juan; Life's Pathways: Geographic Metaphors in Ancestral Puebloan Material Culture; The Dynamic Nature of Cultural Identity During the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries in Central New Mexico; Avances del Norte de Mexico (New Research from Northern Mexico); Imaginary Border, Profound Border: Terminological and Conceptual Construction of the Archaeology of Northern Mexico; Epic of the Toltec Chichimec and the Purépecha in the Ancient Southwest; Mesoamerican Influences in the Imagery of Northern Mexico; Turquoise: Formal Economic Interrelationships between Mesoamerica and the North American Southwest ; The Cultural Landscape of Cliff Houses in the Sierra Madre Occidental, Chihuahua; All Routes, All Directions: The Prehistoric Landscape of Nuevo León; Contributions of Walter W Taylor to the Archaeology of Coahuila, 1937-1947; Archaeology and Physical Anthropology: A Reflection on Warfare in the Archaeological Vision; Pacification of the Chichimeca Region; Index.