Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-380) and index.
Contents:
Index. Acknowledgments -- Part IV. Introduction. A history of archaic research in the Northern Southwest / Barbara J. Roth -- Paleoenvironments of the American Southwest / Stephen A. Hall -- Part II. Desert Southwest and plains. From the late Pleistocene to the Middle Archaic in the Mojave Desert: a past evolving / Mark Q. Sutton ; The Phoenix basic 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 R. Miller ; Archaic Chihuahua: many points, few sites / A.C. MacWilliams ; The archaic of Eastern New Mexico / John L. Montgomery -- Part III. Plateau and Mountains Southwest. 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 ; Archaic 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 -- Part IV. The Southwest archaic. A pan-regional overview of archaic agriculture in the Southwest / J. Kevin Hanselka ; The Southwestern archaic: divergent and convergent perspectives / Barbara J. Roth -- References -- Contributors -- Index.
Summary:
"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 cultural resource management projects in this region. The Archaic Southwest: Foragers in an Arid Land is the first volume to synthesize this new data. The book begins with a history of the Archaic in the Four Corners region, followed by a compilation and interpretation of paleoenvironmental data gathered in the American Southwest. The next twelve chapters, each written by a regional expert, provide a variety of current research perspectives. The final two chapters present broad syntheses of the Southwest : the first addresses the initial spread of maize cultivation and the second considers present and future research directions. The reader will be astounded by the amount of research that has been conducted and how all this information can be woven together to form a long-term picture of hunter-gatherer life"-- Provided by publisher.
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