Ancient Puebloan Southwest
By: John Kantner.
Series: Case studies in early societies
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
Subjects: Pueblo Indians -- Antiquities.; Southwest, New -- Antiquities
Description: "Ancient Puebloan Southwest traces the evolution of Puebloan society in the American Southwest from the emergence of the Chaco and Mimbres traditions in the A.D. 1000s through the early decades of contact with the Spanish in the sixteenth century. The book focuses on the social and political changes that shaped Puebloan people over the centuries, emphasizing how factors internal to society impacted cultural evolution, even in the face of the challenging environment that characterizes the American Southwest."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-313) and index.
Table of contents: title: The ancient Puebloan Southwest : an introduction; title: "The daylight world" : the paleoenvironmental context for Puebloan history; title: Return to Ánosin Téhuli? : the origins of Puebloan culture; title: The wrong middle places? : Chaco canyon and the Mimbres Mogollon; title: The migrations continue : the end of Chaco and Mimbres; title: The AD 1200s : the great Pueblo period; title: The great abandonment; title: Finding Posi : the protohistoric Puebloan world.