Research Catalog

Title

Casas Grandes and its hinterland : prehistoric regional organization in northwest Mexico / Michael E. Whalen and Paul E. Minnis.

Author

Whalen, Michael E.

Publication

Tucson : University of Arizona Press, [2001], ©2001.

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Additional Authors

Minnis, Paul E.

Description

xv, 239 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Summary

• "Casas Grandes, or Paquime, is one of the most important settlements in the prehistoric North American Southwest. The largest and most complex community in the Puebloan world, it was characterized by its principal excavator, Charles Di Peso, as an outpost of the Toltec empire, which used it as a trade link between Mesoamerican and southwestern cultures.".
• "Michael E. Whalen and Paul E. Minnis have worked extensively in the Casas Grandes area and now offer new research arguing that it was not as similar to the highly developed complex societies of Mesoamerica as has been thought. In the first book of its kind in 25 years, the authors analyze settlement pattern data from more than 300 communities in the area surrounding Casas Grandes to show that its Medio period culture was a local development."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Indians of Mexico > Chihuahua (State) > Population
• Indians of Mexico > Chihuahua (State) > Antiquities
• Demographic archaeology > Chihuahua (State)
• Social archaeology > Chihuahua (State)
• Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric > Chihuahua (State)
• Casas Grandes Site (Mexico)
• Chihuahua (Mexico : State) > Antiquities

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-234) and index.

Contents

• Ch. 1. Complex Societies and Regional Systems. The Continuum of Social Complexity. The "Regional System" Concept. Assessing Organizational Structure in Prehistory -- Ch. 2. The Development of the Casas Grandes Concept. Discovery and Description of the Chihuahua Culture. The Chihuahua Culture's Origins and Affinities. The Joint Casas Grandes Project and the New Synthesis. Recent Views of Casas Grandes -- Ch. 3. Establishing a Regional Context for Casas Grandes. Modern and Ancient Environments. Prehistoric Human Ecology. Early Reconnaissance in the Region. The 1989 Reconnaissance. The Intensive Surveys -- Ch. 4. Settlement Patterns in Northwest Chihuahua. The Viejo Period Settlement Pattern. The Medio Period Settlement Pattern -- Ch. 5. Medio Settlement System Analyses. The Settlement Hierarchy. Rank-Size Analyses. The Inner and Middle Zones as Settlement System Components -- Ch. 6. Modeling the Casas Grandes Regional System. The Organization of the Core.
• The Organization of the Periphery. The Rise and Fall of Casas Grandes.

ISBN

0816520976 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

00010489

OCLC

• ocm44632899
• SCSB-8411221

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries