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Ancient households of the Americas conceptualizing what households do

Title
Ancient households of the Americas [electronic resource] : conceptualizing what households do / edited by John G. Douglass and Nancy Gonlin.
Publication
Boulder : University Press of Colorado, [2012]

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Additional Authors
  • Douglass, John G., 1968-
  • Gonlin, Nancy.
  • Society for American Archaeology. Meeting (66th : 2001 : New Orleans, La.)
Description
1 online resource (xviii, 448 pages )
Uniform Title
Ancient households of the Americas (Online)
Subject
  • Home economics > America > History > Congresses
  • Households > America > History > Congresses
  • Indians > Dwellings > Congresses
  • Indians > Antiquities > Congresses
  • Indians > Social life and customs > Congresses
  • Land settlement patterns > America > History > Congresses
  • Social archaeology > America > History > Congresses
  • America > 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.
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  • Access restricted to authorized users.
Terms of Use (note)
  • Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
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  • Description based on print version record; resource not viewed.
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.
LCCN
2022667473
OCLC
ssj0000626282
Title
Ancient households of the Americas [electronic resource] : conceptualizing what households do / edited by John G. Douglass and Nancy Gonlin.
Imprint
Boulder : University Press of Colorado, [2012]
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
Terms Of Use
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode
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Available from home with a valid library card
Available onsite at NYPL
Added Author
Douglass, John G., 1968-
Gonlin, Nancy.
Society for American Archaeology. Meeting (66th : 2001 : New Orleans, La.)
Other Form:
Print version: Ancient households of the Americas Boulder : University Press of Colorado, c2012. 9781607321736 (hardcover : alk. paper) (DLC) 2011051660
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