The archaic Southwest [electronic resource] : foragers in an arid land / edited by Bradley J. Vierra.

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"Although humans in the Southwest were hunter-gatherers for about 85% of their history, the majority of the archaeological research in the region has focused on the Formative period. In recent years, however, the amount of data on the Archaic period has grown exponentially due to the magnitude of cu...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Vierra, Bradley J. (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Salt Lake City : The University of Utah Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Indians of North America > Southwest, New > Antiquities.
Hunting and gathering societies > Southwest, New.
Excavations (Archaeology) > Southwest, New.
Southwest, New > Antiquities.
Online Access:
EBSCO eBooks: 2017 (EBSCO)
eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2017 (EBSCO)
eBook Public Library Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2017 (EBSCO)
Variant Title:
The Archaic Southwest: Foragers in an Arid Land
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • A history of archaic research in the northern Southwest / Bradley J. Vierra
  • Paleoenvironments of the American Southwest / Stephen A. Hall
  • From the Pleistocene to the Middle Archaic in the Mojave Desert : a past evolving / Mark Q. Sutton
  • The Phoenix Basin Archaic / John D. Hall
  • The Southwest Archaic in the Tucson Basin / James M. Vint
  • The Archaic period in Sonora / John Carpenter, Guadalupe Sánchez, and Ismael Sánchez
  • Archaic transitions and transformations in the Jornada Mogollon region of southern New Mexico and western Texas / Myles Miller
  • Archaic Chihuahua : many points, few sites / A. C. MacWilliams
  • The Archaic of eastern New Mexico / John L. Montgomery
  • Early hunter-gatherer adaptations in the Upper Gunnison Basin of the southern Rocky Mountains / Mark Stiger
  • The rise of broad-spectrum foraging on the Colorado Plateau during the early Holocene / Phil R. Geib and Edward A. Jolie
  • Archaic time and distance in the San Juan Basin / Timothy M. Kearns
  • Ancient foragers of the northern Rio Grande / Bradley J. Vierra, Richard I. Ford, and Stephen S. Post
  • Foragers and early forager/farmers in the Mogollon Highlands / Maxine E. McBrinn
  • A pan-regional overview of Archaic agriculture in the Southwest / J. Kevin Hanselka
  • The southwest Archaic : divergent and convergent perspectives / Barbara J. Roth.