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Cover 1 Original Title 2 Title 4 Copyright 5 Contents 6 LIST OF TABLES AND ILLUSTRATIONS 9 PREFACE 14 CHAPTER I. THE PLACE AND ITS PEOPLES 18 Concepts and Boundaries 20 The Southwest's Spanish Colonial History 23 Present-Day Native Peoples 26 Peoples of the Southern Southwest 28 Peoples of the Western Southwest 29 Peoples of the Northern Southwest 30 Archaeological Traditions 36 Approaches to the Past 40 CHAPTER 2. NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS OF THE CULTURAL SOUTHWEST 42 Physiographic Provinces 42 Climate 45 Plants 49 Animals 52 Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction 54 Conclusion 61 CHAPTER 3. TOOLS FOR DIGGING INTO THE PAST 62 Beginnings 62 Measuring Archaeological Time in the Southwest 68 Demonstrating Chronology at Pecos 69 The First Pecos Conference 71 Sidebar: Tree-Ring Dating 73 Defining "Archaeological Cultures" 74 Sidebar: Pecos Classification 75 Sidebar: Hohokam Tradition 78 Sidebar: Mogollon Tradition 80 Winds of Change in Archaeological Method and Theory 85 The Rise of Cultural Resource Management Archaeology 88 Developments in Mexico 89 New Directions 91 CHAPTER 4. THE FIRST SOUTHWESTERNERS—PALEOINDIAN AND EARLY ARCHAIC ARCHAEOLOGY 98 The Discovery at Folsom 99 Sidebar: Dates and

Author

Linda S Cordell, Maxine McBrinn

Published

2019

Language

EN