Settlement Patterns in the Americas
Fifty Years since Viru
edited by Brian R. Billman, and Gary M. Feinman
Hardback (Published)
(December 1999)
ISBN: 9781560988267
Price: $45.00
Out of stock
Seventeen distinguished scholars recount the history of settlement pattern archaeology and detail case studies ranging from Alaska to Oaxaca to Peru. The chapters grow out of papers prepared for a symposium at the 61st annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, held in New Orleans in April 1996.
Seventeen distinguished scholars recount the history of settlement pattern archaeology and detail case studies ranging from Alaska to Oaxaca to Peru. The chapters grow out of papers prepared for a symposium at the 61st annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, held in New Orleans in April 1996, commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the start of the Viru Valley survey.
Chapter 1. Settlement Pattern Research in the Americas: Past, Present, and Future Brian R. Billman I. THE DEVELOPMENT OF SETTLEMENT PATTERN ARCHAEOLOGY IN THE NEW WORLD The Viru Valley Project and Settlement Archaeology: Some Reminiscences and Contemporary Comments Gordon R. Willey Three Valleys: Twenty-years of Settlement Archaeology in Mesoamerica William T. Sanders Spatial Scales and Process: In and Around the Valley of Oaxaca Laura Finsten and Stephen A. Kowalewski II. SETTLEMENT PATTERN STUDIES AND THE ORIGINS OF SEDENTISM From Traveler to Processor: Regional Trajectories of Hunter-Gatherer Sedentism in the Inyo-Mono Region, California Robert L. Bettinger Sedentism, Settlement, and Village Organization on the Lower Alaska Peninsula: A Preliminary Assessment Herbert D. G. Maschner III. SETTLEMENT PATTERN STUDIES AND THE ORIGINS OF RANKED SOCIETIES Late Prehistoric Settlements and Wetlands in the Central Mississippi Valley George R. Milner and James S. Oliver The Settlement Pattern of Mississippian Chiefdoms in Northern Georgia David J. Hally Settlement Pattern Shifts and Political Ranking in the Lake Titicaca Basin, Peru Charles Stanish IV. SETTLEMENT PATTERN STUDIES AND STATES AND EMPIRES Reconstructing Prehistoric Political Economies and Cycles of Political Power in the Moche Valley, Peru Brian R. Billman Regional Approaches to the Study of Prehistoric Empires: Examples from Ayacucho and Nasca, Peru Katharina H. Schreiber Reflections on Regional Survey: Perspectives from the Guirun Area, Oaxaca, Mexico Gary M. Feinman and Linda M. Nicholas Settlement Pattern Studies in the Mixteca Alta, Oaxaca, 1966-1996 Andrew Balkansky Conclusions: The Settlement Pattern Concept from an Americanist Perspective Suzanne K. Fish References Index
- Edited by Brian R. Billman
- Edited by Gary M. Feinman
"Readers will find the case-studies especially useful for their excellent and well-illustrated reviews of previous research, along with the presentation of new data and analyses. Also important are issues cross-cutting the individual case-studies." Deborah L. Nichols in Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute "[A]n important and successful book. . . . [I]t provides a fine overview of what settlement pattern archaeology has contributed to anthropology in the Americas." Jeffrey R. Parsons in American Antiquity "The studies in this volume . . . demonstrate the utility of the [settlement pattern] approach and how it has expanded over the last half-century. . . . [I]ncludes state-of-the-art work." Robert Santley in Canadian Journal of Anthropological Research "This set of papers is strong and represents some of the success stories in site-organized settlement pattern work. . . . [A] credit to the grand impact of the family of settlement archaeology approaches in our discipline." Barbara L. Stark in American Anthropologist
—
Similar Books
Patrimonio antes del patrimonio
Una genealogía del pensamiento patrimonialista y la arqueología mexicana en un amplio siglo XIX
From Sedentarisation to the Complex Society
Settlement, Economy, Environment, Cult. Proceedings of the workshops in Lisbon, Tehran and Lima (2016 - 2019)
Volume 21
Toro Muerto, vol. I
A Catalogue of Iconographic Motifs in Rock Art / Un catálogo de motivos iconográficos del arte rupestre
Volume 20
Adolescente de Jalpan
Primer estudio iconográfico y esbozo de interpretación iconológica sobre una escultura huasteca en la Sierra Gorda del Noreste de México
Archaeological Investigations in Guadalupe, Northeast Honduras
Interaction Networks during the Late Pre-Hispanic Period (AD 900-1525)
Volume 19
Flower World – Mundo Florido
Music Archaeology of the Americas - Arqueomusicologia de las Americas
Volume 7
Obsidian Across the Americas
Compositional Studies Conducted in the Elemental Analysis Facility at the Field Museum of Natural History
La fábrica del prestigio en Mesoamérica
Interacciones y alteridad en el Altiplano central durante el período epiclásico (600-900 d.C.)
El Palacio: Historiography and new perspectives on a pre-Tarascan city of northern Michoacán, Mexico
Essai bibliographique sur l’archéologie francophone de la Mésoamérique
Bibliographical essay upon the French-speaking contributions to Mesoamerican archaeology; Ensayo bibliográfico sobre la arqueología francófona de Mesoamérica
Sea Shells in the Mountains and Llamas on the Coast
The Economy of the Paracas Culture (800 to 200 BC) in Southern Peru
Volume 16
Wari Women from Huarmey
Bioarchaeological Interpretation of Human Remains from the Wari Elite Mausoleum at Castillo de Huarmey, Peru
Flower World – Mundo Florido
Music Archaeology of the Americas - Arqueomusicologia de las Americas
Volume 6
Paisajes en un sector de la Quebrada de Humahuaca durante la Etapa Agroalfarera
Arqueología de Tumbaya (Jujuy, Argentina)
Peintures et gravures rupestres des Amériques: Empreintes culturelles et territoriales
Proceedings of the XVIII UISPP World Congress (4-9 June 2018, Paris, France) Volume 2, Session XXV-3
