Archaeology of the Southwest / Linda S. Cordell and Maxine E. McBrinn.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cordell, Linda S.
Other Authors: McBrinn, Maxine
Language:English
Published: Walnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast Press, [2012], ©2012.
Edition:Third edition.
Subjects:
Indigenous peoples of North America > Southwest, New > Antiquities.
Excavations (Archaeology) > Southwest, New.
New Southwest > History.
New Southwest > Antiquities.
Physical Description:367 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • The place and its peoples
  • Natural environments of the cultural Southwest
  • Tools for digging into the past
  • The first Southwesterners : Paleoindian and early archaic archaeology
  • Transitions to agriculture, 2100 BCE - 200 CE
  • Settlements, farming, and increasing diversity, 200 - 900 CE
  • Social and political organization, 900 - 1250 CE
  • Movement and change during turbulent times, 1150 - 1400 CE
  • Coming together, making communities, 1275 - 1490 CE
  • Transitions, resistance, accommodations, and lessons, 1500 - 1900 CE
  • Looking to the future.