ABSTRACT

Recent archaeoglogical work in the American Southwest and Northern Mexico has fueled a great deal of regionally specific research: archaeologists, faced with an avalanche of new and unassimilated data, tend to foucs on their own areas to the exclusion of the broader, panregional view. "Perspectives on Southwestern Prehistory" advocates the larger f

chapter |5 pages

Introduction

The Current Context of Southwestern Prehistory
ByPaul E. Minnis, Charles L. Redman

section Section I|61 pages

Hunters and Gatherers

chapter |6 pages

Introduction

Hunters and Gatherers
ByKatherine A. Spielmann

chapter 2|12 pages

Thermal Maxima and Episodic Occupation of the Picacho Reservoir Dune Field

ByFrank E. Bayham, Donald H. Morris

chapter 3|9 pages

Hunters and Gatherers of the Sonoran Islands

ByMaria Elisa Villalpando C.

chapter 4|10 pages

Hunter-Gatherer Archaeology in Northeastern Arizona and Southeastern Utah

ByWilliam J. Parry, F. E. Smiley

chapter 5|11 pages

Archaic Hunter-Gatherer Archaeology in Northwestern New Mexico

ByBradley J. Vierra

section Section II|95 pages

Transitions to Sedentism

chapter |5 pages

Introduction

Transitions to Sedentism
ByMichael E. Whalen, Patricia A. Gilman

chapter 6|16 pages

Sedentism and Settlement Mobility in the Tucson Basin Prior to A.D. 1000

BySuzanne K. Fish, Paul R. Fish, John Madsen

chapter 8|19 pages

Artifact Assemblage Composition and Site Occupation Duration

BySarah H. Schlanger

chapter 9|13 pages

Patterns of Residential Mobility and Sedentism in the Jornada Mogollon Area

ByDavid L. Carmichael

chapter 10|15 pages

Agriculture Dependence in the Mountain Mogollon

ByRobert J. Hard

chapter |7 pages

Comments

Sedentism, Mobility, and Regional Assemblages: Problems Posed in the Analysis of Southwestern Prehistory
ByMargaret C. Nelson

chapter |7 pages

Comments

Southwestern Sedentism Reconsidered
ByBen A. Nelson

section Section III|58 pages

Elites and Regional Systems

chapter |6 pages

Introduction

Elites and Regional Systems
ByRandall H. McGuire

chapter 11|11 pages

The Identification of Possible Elites in Prehispanic Sonora

ByBeatriz C. Braniff

chapter 12|12 pages

The Complicated and the Complex: Observations on the Archaeological Record of Large Pueblos

ByJ. Jefferson Reid, Stephanie M. Whittlesey

chapter 13|17 pages

Explanations of Population Aggregation in the Mesa Verde Region Prior to A.D. 900

ByJanet D. Orcutt, Eric Blinman, Timothy A. Kohler

chapter 14|10 pages

Elite Formation and Interregional Exchanges in Peripheries

ByR.A. Pailes

section Section IV|91 pages

Protohistoric Period: Transitions to History

chapter |3 pages

Introduction

The Transitions to History in the Greater Southwest
ByWilliam H. Doelle

chapter 15|11 pages

A View from the Protohistoric

ByCarroll L. Riley

chapter 16|19 pages

The Transition to History in Pimería Alta

ByWilliam H. Doelle, Henry D. Wallace

chapter 17|18 pages

Protohistoric Transitions in the Western Pueblo Area

ByKeith W. Kintigh

chapter 18|13 pages

Contact Shock and the Protohistoric Period in the Greater Southwest

ByDaniel T. Reff

chapter 19|12 pages

Tener Comal y Metate: Protohistoric Rio Grande Maize Use and Diet

ByDavid H. Snow

chapter |7 pages

Comments

Prehistoric to Historic Transitions: Chronological Considerations
ByHenry F. Dobyns

chapter |6 pages

Comments

Transition or Period: Systematic Change in the Southwest, A.D. 1250-1700
ByDavid R. Wilcox

section Section V|52 pages

History of Southwestern Archaeology