This is the only available volume to summarize current knowledge of prehistoric regional exchange in the American Southwest and Mesoamerica. As such, anthropologists and archaeologists will find it a valuable source of important data for comparative analysis of regional systems relative to sociopolitical organization.
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This review is from: The American Southwest and Mesoamerica: Systems of Prehistoric Exchange (Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology) (Hardcover)
An excellent collection of thoughful review articles on patterns
of ancient trade and exchange. There are nine chapters, covering
the Chaco Anasazi (F. Mathien), Northern Anasazi (E. Blinman & C.D. Wilson),
Hohokam (R. McGuire), marine shell exchange in N. Mexico and the SW (R. Bradley),
Mesoamerican turquoise (P. Weigand & G. Harbottle), Mexico (R. Santley & C. Pool),
lowland Maya (P. McAnany), and southern Central America (J. Hoopes). The
introductory chapter by Baugh and Ericson provides a good
overview of relevant archaeological theory.
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The American Southwest and Mesoamerica: Systems of Prehistoric Exchange is the first of two volumes dealing with North American sociopolitical economies from the Archaic through the Late Prehistoric periods. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
debitage deposits, sumptuary goods, prehistoric exchange, interregional interaction, obsidian trade, sociopolitical complexity, interregional exchange, exchange behavior, exchange studies Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Chaco Canyon, Casas Grandes, Costa Rica, San Juan Basin, Academic Press, American Antiquity, National Park Service, Department of Anthropology, Phoenix Basin, Mesa Verde, Terminal Classic, Southern Illinois University Press, San Juan River, Chichimec Sea, Classic Maya, Middle Classic, Middle Formative, Pueblo Bonito, Frances Joan, Cambridge University Press, University of Texas Press, Basin of Mexico, Rio Grande, Chaco Anasazi, Smithsonian Institution New!
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The American Southwest and Mesoamerica: Systems of Prehistoric Exchange is the first of two volumes dealing with North American sociopolitical economies from the Archaic through the Late Prehistoric periods. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
debitage deposits, sumptuary goods, prehistoric exchange, interregional interaction, obsidian trade, sociopolitical complexity, interregional exchange, exchange behavior, exchange studies Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Chaco Canyon, Casas Grandes, Costa Rica, San Juan Basin, Academic Press, American Antiquity, National Park Service, Department of Anthropology, Phoenix Basin, Mesa Verde, Terminal Classic, Southern Illinois University Press, San Juan River, Chichimec Sea, Classic Maya, Middle Classic, Middle Formative, Pueblo Bonito, Frances Joan, Cambridge University Press, University of Texas Press, Basin of Mexico, Rio Grande, Chaco Anasazi, Smithsonian Institution New!
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- Ripples in the Chichimec Sea: New Considerations of Southwestern-Mesoamerican Interactions (Publications in Archaeology) by Frances Joan Mathien on 10 pages
- New Mexico (America the Beautiful, Second) by Deborah Kent on 9 pages
- Southern Illinois by Rand McNally on 7 pages
- New Mexico (America the Beautiful) by R. Conrad Stein on 7 pages
- Contexts for Prehistoric Exchange (Studies in archaeology) by Jonathon Ericson on 6 pages
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- Geochemical Evidence for Long-Distance Exchange: by Michael D. Glascock on page 8, page 79, and page 83
- Re/presenting Class: Essays in Postmodern Marxism by J. K. Gibson-Graham in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Bone Walker: Book III of the Anasazi Mysteries by Kathleen O'Neal Gear in Back Matter
- The Anthropology of Cannibalism by Laurence R. Goldman on page 101
- The Anthropology of Cannibalism by Laurence R. Goldman on page 101
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