ABSTRACT
The archaeological landscape is populated with numerous sites associated with pre-state agricultural groups. When discussing the formation of these communities, archaeologists frequently talk about daughter villages 'budding off, or parent villages fissioning, without detailed attention to the internal dynamics involved. This chapter examines these internal processes and ofTers a model with which to understand village fissioning. It then examines the historically recorded split of the Hopi Village of Orayvi 1 in 1906 to illustrate this model.
