Alliance and landscape on Perry Mesa in the fourteenth century
By: edited by David R. Abbott and Katherine A. Spielmann
Publisher: University of Utah Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Salt Lake City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9781607813316; 9781607813323
Subjects: Indians of North America; Migrations; Land settlement patterns; Excavations (Archaeology); Antiquities; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
Description: "About forty miles north of Phoenix, Arizona, Perry Mesa is today part of Agua Fria National Monument, but during the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries, this windswept arid landscape became the site of numerous farming communities. This book explores why people moved to Perry Mesa at that time. Analyses of Perry Mesa contrast with those of the iconic large-scale migrations in the prehistoric Southwest such as the Kayenta diaspora and the gathering of the clans at Hopi. Unlike those long-distance movements into occupied regions, the Perry Mesa case is one of relatively localized aggregation on a largely vacant landscape. But, as was discovered with the iconic migrations, ethnogenesis (the creation of new identities) took hold on Perry Mesa, making it an extremely interesting counterpoint to the better-known migrations of the period. Contributors to this volume examine the migration process under two explanatory frameworks: alliance and landscape. These frameworks are used to explore competing hypotheses, positing either a rapid colonization associated with an alliance organized for warfare at a regional scale, or a more protracted migration as this landscape became comparatively more attractive for migrating farmers in the late thirteenth century. As the first major publication on the archaeology of Perry Mesa, this volume contributes to theoretical perspectives on migration and ethnogenesis, the study of warfare in the prehistoric Southwest, the study of intensive agricultural practices in a marginal environment, and the cultural history of a little studied and largely unknown portion of the ancient Southwest"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Alliance and landscape on Perry Mesa in the fourteenth century : an introduction / David R. Abbott and Katherine A. Spielmann; title: Climatic, demographic, and environmental influences on central Arizona settlement patterns / Scott E. Ingram; title: The prehistoric food supply : evaluating self-sufficiency of Perry Mesa inhabitants / Melissa Kruse-Peeples; title: Architecture, settlement, and the construction of Perry Mesa pueblos; appendix : bonding and abutting patterns visible in wall corners at Pueblo La Plata, Richinbar Ruin, and Las Mujeres Pueblo / Karen Gust Schollmeyer and Margaret C. Nelson; title: Demarcation of the landscape : rock art evidence for alliance, conflict, and subsistence at Perry Mesa / Arleyn W. Simon, Jennifer K. Huang, Tina C. Hart, and Will G. Russell; title: Plain ware pottery production and exchange : implications for alliance and landscape in central Arizona / Christopher N. Watkins and Sophia E. Kelly; title: Ceramic connections : investigating ties between Hopi and Perry Mesa / Wesley Bernardini; title: Keeping track : ceremonial racetracks, integration, and change in central Arizona / Will G. Russell; title: Evaluating the Verde Confederacy : alliance scale and suppositions in central Arizona / David R. Abbott; title: Dwelling and ethnogenesis on the Perry Mesa landscape / Katherine A. Spielmann.