Great towns and regional polities
Subtitle: in the prehistoric American Southwest and Southeast
By: edited by Jill E. Neitzel.
Contributors: Neitzel, Jill E.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Amerind Foundation New World studies series ;; no. 3
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Albuquerque
Language: eng
Number of pages: 325
Subjects: Indians of North America -- Southwest, New -- History.; Indians of North America -- Southern States -- History.; Indians of North America -- Southwest, New -- Politics and government.; Indians of North America -- Southern States -- Politics and government.; Indians of North America -- Land tenure -- Southwest, New.; Indians of North America -- Land tenure -- Southern States.; Chiefdoms -- Southwest, New -- History.; Chiefdoms -- Southern States -- History.; Land settlement patterns -- Southwest, New -- History.; Land settlement patterns -- Southern States -- History.; Southwest, New -- Antiquities.; Southern States -- Antiquities.
Description: This collection of archaeological essays, the third volume in the Amerind Foundation New World Studies Series, examines sociopolitical developments in the prehistoric American Southeast and Southwest, two regions rarely discussed together.

The contributors compare change in great towns, regional polities, and macroregions, document the diversity of intermediate-level societies, and search for underlying commonalities in diverse sites such as Snaketown, Pueblo Bonito, and Galaz in the Southwest and Moundville, Kincaid, and Macon Plateau in the Southeast. The chapters are presented in pairs, one dealing with the Southeast and one with the Southwest, and are ordered by successively larger spatial scales.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-320) and index.
"An Amerind Foundation publication."