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Ancient households of the Americas : conceptualizing what households do
- Title
- Ancient households of the Americas : conceptualizing what households do / edited by John G. Douglass and Nancy Gonlin.
- Publication
- Boulder : University Press of Colorado, c2012.
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- Description
- xviii, 448 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Indians > Social life and customs > Congresses
- Households > America > History > Congresses
- Land settlement patterns > America > History > Congresses
- Social archaeology > America > History > Congresses
- Indians > Dwellings > Congresses
- America > Antiquities > Congresses
- Home economics > America > History > Congresses
- Indians > Antiquities > Congresses
- Note
- Based on papers presented at a session of the 66th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology held in New Orleans in 2001.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- The household as analytical unit : case studies from the Americas / John G. Douglass and Nancy Gonlin -- Occupation span and the organization of residential activities : a cross-cultural model and case study from the Mesa Verde region / Mark D. Varien -- Production and consumption in the countryside : a case study from the late classic Maya rural commoner households at Copán, Honduras / Nancy Gonlin -- Iroquoian households : a Mohawk longhouse at Otstungo, New York / Dean R. Snow -- Activity areas and households in the late Mississippian southeast United States : who did what where? / Ramie A. Gougeon -- The social evolution of potters' households in Ticul, Yucatán, Mexico, 1965-1997 / Dean E. Arnold -- Pots and agriculture : Anasazi rural household production, Long House Valley, northern Arizona / John G. Douglass and Robert A. Heckman -- Hohokam household organization, sedentism, and irrigation in the Sonoran Desert, Arizona / Richard Ciolek-Torrello -- Understanding households on their own terms : investigations on household sizes, production, and longevity at K'axob, Belize / H. Hope Henderson -- Late classic period terrace agriculture in the lowland Maya area : modeling the organization of terrace agricultural activity / L. Theodore Neff -- Fluctuating community organization : formation and dissolution of multifamily corporate groups at La Joya, Veracruz, Mexico / Valerie J. McCormack -- Relationships among households in the prehispanic community of Mesitas in San Agustín, Colombia / Víctor González Fernández -- Interhousehold versus intracommunity comparisons : incipient socioeconomic complexity at Jachakala, Bolivia / Christine Beaule -- Arrobas, fanegas, and mantas : identifying continuity and change in early colonial Maya household production / Darcy Lynn Wiewall.
- Call Number
- JFE 12-4967
- ISBN
- 9781607321736 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 1607321734 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2011051660
- OCLC
- 769429715
- Title
- Ancient households of the Americas : conceptualizing what households do / edited by John G. Douglass and Nancy Gonlin.
- Imprint
- Boulder : University Press of Colorado, c2012.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Douglass, John G., 1968-Gonlin, Nancy.Society for American Archaeology. Meeting (66th : 2001 : New Orleans, La.)
- Research Call Number
- JFE 12-4967