Exploring cause and explanation : historical ecology, demography, and movement in the American Southwest / edited by Cynthia L. Herhahn and Ann F. Ramenofsky.

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"The authors bring together three distinct archaeological themes--historical ecology, demography, and movement--and illustrates how the epistemological issues of cause and explanation link all three major themes into a coherent whole"--Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Proceedings of the Southwest Symposium.
Other Authors: Herhahn, Cynthia (Editor)
Ramenofsky, Ann F. (Ann Felice), 1942- (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Boulder, Colorado : Published by University Press of Colorado, [2016]
Series:Proceedings of the Southwest Symposium.
Subjects:
Indigenous peoples of North America > Southwest, New > Population.
Indigenous peoples of North America > Southwest, New > Antiquities.
Human ecology > Southwest, New > History.
Demographic archaeology > Southwest, New.
Lithic people > Southwest, New.
New Southwest > Antiquities.
Human ecology.
Indians of North America > Antiquities.
Indians of North America > Population.
Paleo-Indians.
New Southwest.
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / General.
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xvi, 398 pages : illustrations, maps, charts ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • The challenges of cause and explanation in historical ecology, demography, and movement / Ann F. Ramenofsky and Cynthia L. Herhahn
  • Historical ecology in Southwestern archaeology : long-term change and extreme events / Ronald H. Towner
  • Terminal Pleistocene Paleoindian ecology and demography : a view from the Southwestern United States / Mary M. Prasciunas, Vance T. Holliday, and Jesse A.M. Ballenger
  • Sunset Crater and Little Springs volcano eruptions : disaster management in the eleventh century AD Southwest / Mark D. Elson, Michael H. Ort, and Kirk C. Anderson
  • Changing landscapes of early colonial New Mexico : demography, rebound, and zooarchaeology / Emily Lena Jones
  • Cause and explanation : considering (and reconsidering) the role of demography in Southwestern archaeology / Jeremy Kulisheck
  • Why all archaeologists should care about and do population estimates / Scott G. Ortman
  • Quantifying morbidity in prehispanic Southwestern villages / Ann L.W. Stodder
  • Demographic patterns in the prehispanic Puebloan Southwest : the role of childhood / Kathryn A. Kamp
  • Ethnogenesis and archaeological demography in Southwest Vecino society / B. Sunday Eiselt and J. Andrew Darling
  • The stress of history : stories of an unfinished kiva / Severin M. Fowles
  • Tracking movement in the American Southwest / Deborah L. Huntley
  • Turquoise trade in the San Juan Basin, AD 900-1280 / Sharon Hull, Frances Joan Mathien, and Mustafa Fayek
  • You get it here, I'll get it there : examining the movement of objects, people and ideas throughout the pithouse and pueblo occupation of the Cañada Alamosa / Jeffrey R. Ferguson [and four others]
  • Modeling post-AD 700 population movements and culture in the Upper San Juan region / Erik Simpson
  • Movement of people and pots in the Upper Gila region of the American Southwest / Deborah L. Huntley, Jeffery J. Clark, and Mary F. Ownby.