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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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. |
Summary |
In Ancient Households of the Americas archaeologists investigate the fundamental role of household production in ancient, colonial, and contemporary households. Several different cultures-Iroquois, Coosa, Anasazi, Hohokam, San Agustín, Wankarani, Formative Gulf Coast Mexico, and Formative, Classic, Colonial, and contemporary Maya-are analyzed through the lens of household archaeology in concrete, data-driven case studies. The text is divided into three sections: Section I examines the spatial and social organization and context of household production; Section II looks at the role and result. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access |
Subject |
Indians -- Dwellings.
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Indians -- Dwellings. |
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Indians -- Social life and customs.
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Indians -- Social life and customs. |
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Indians -- Antiquities.
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Indians -- Antiquities. |
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Households -- America -- History.
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Households. |
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America. |
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History. |
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Home economics -- America -- History.
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Home economics. |
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Social archaeology -- America -- History.
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Social archaeology. |
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Land settlement patterns -- America -- History.
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Land settlement patterns. |
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America -- Antiquities.
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Antiquities. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Added Author |
Douglass, John G., 1968-
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Gonlin, Nancy.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Ancient households of the Americas. Boulder : University Press of Colorado, ©2012 9781607321736 (DLC) 2011051660 (OCoLC)769429715 |
ISBN |
9781607321743 (electronic book) |
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1607321742 (electronic book) |
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9781607321736 |
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1607321734 |
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