Becoming villagers
Subtitle: comparing early village societies
By: edited by Matthew S. Bandy and Jake R. Fox
Series: Amerind studies in archaeology -- v. 6
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Tucson
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780816529018
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Becoming villagers : the evolution of early village societies / Matthew S. Bandy and Jake R. Fox; title: pt. 1. Population growth and historical process; title: Population growth, village fissioning, and alternative early village trajectories / Matthew S. Bandy; title: A scale model of seven hundred years of farming settlements in southwestern Colorado / Timothy A. Kohler and Mark D. Varien; title: "Great expectations," or, The inevitable collapse of the early Neolithic in the Near East / Nigel Goring-Morris and Anna Belfer-Cohen; title: pt. 2. Constructing early villages; title: "Ritualization" in early village society : the case of the Lake Titicaca Basin formative / Amanda B. Cohen; title: The sacred and the secular revisited : the essential tensions of early village society in the southeastern United States / Thomas Pluckhahn; title: Substantial structures, few people, and the question of early villages in the Mimbres region of the North American Southwest / Patricia A. Gilman; title: Sea changes in stable communities : what do small changes in practices at Çatalhöyük and Chiripa imply about community making? / Christine A. Hastorf; title: pt. 3. Developmental trajectories of early village societies; title: The emergence of early villages in the American Southwest : cultural issues and historical perspectives / Richard H. Wilshusen and James M. Potter; title: A persistent early village settlement system on the Bolivian southern Altiplano / Jake R. Fox; title: First towns in the Americas : searching for agriculture, population growth, and other enabling conditions / John E. Clark, Jon L. Gibson, and James Zeidler; title: The evolution of early Yangshao period village organization in the middle reaches of Northern China's Yellow River Valley / Christian E. Peterson and Gideon Shelach.