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Ancient households of the Americas : conceptualizing what households do / edited by John G. Douglass and Nancy Gonlin.

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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Additional Authors
  • Douglass, John G., 1968-
  • Gonlin, Nancy.
  • Society for American Archaeology. Meeting (66th : 2001 : New Orleans, La.)
Description
xviii, 448 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
Uniform Title
Project Muse UPCC books
Subject
  • America > Antiquities > Congresses
  • Home economics > America > History > Congresses
  • Home economics > America > History
  • Households > America > History > Congresses
  • Households > America > History
  • Indians > Antiquities
  • Indians > Antiquities > Congresses
  • Indians > Dwellings
  • Indians > Dwellings > Congresses
  • Indians > Social life and customs
  • Indians > Social life and customs > Congresses
  • Land settlement patterns > America > History > Congresses
  • Land settlement patterns > America > History
  • Social archaeology > America > History > Congresses
  • Social archaeology > America > History
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.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
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.
ISBN
  • 9781607321736 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 1607321734 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 9781607321743 (ebook)
  • 1607321742 (ebook)
LCCN
^^2011051660