Mimbres during the Twelfth Century : Abandonment, Continuity, and Reorganization /

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By examining the economic and social reasons for change among the Mimbres, Nelson reconstructs a process of shifting residence as people spent more time in field camps and gradually transformed them into small hamlets while continuing to farm their old fields. Challenging current interpretations of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nelson, Margaret Cecile, 1951-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 1999.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Mimbres culture.
Land settlement patterns.
Indians of North America > Migrations.
Indians of North America > Land tenure.
Archaeological surveying.
Antiquities.
Archaeological surveying > New Mexico.
Land settlement patterns > New Mexico.
Indians of North America > Land tenure > New Mexico.
Indians of North America > New Mexico > Migrations.
New Mexico.
New Mexico > Antiquities.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Abandonment is no mystery
  • The Mimbres
  • Evidence for Mimbres occupation during the eleventh through thirteenth centuries
  • Occupational histories of four postclassic hamlets
  • Foraging and farming / Margaret C. Nelson, Michael W. Diehl
  • Social contexts of the postclassic / Margaret C. Nelson, Michelle Hegmon
  • Rethinking abandonment.

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