Death Society And Ideology In A Hohokam Community

Author : Randall H Mcguire
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 042971517X
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death, Society, And Ideology In A Hohokam Community written by Randall H Mcguire and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-08 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a study of more than 200 burials at the US site of La Ciudad (725 AD to 1100 AD), this is an exploration of the meaning of burials as statements on the nature of power relations and social structure. Focusing on the inequalities between the distribution of grave goods and other aspects of material culture, the author argues against trying

Author : Douglas R. Mitchell
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826334619
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ancient Burial Practices in the American Southwest written by Douglas R. Mitchell and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prehistoric burial practices provide an unparalleled opportunity for understanding and reconstructing ancient civilizations and for identifying the influences that helped shape them.

Author : David R. Abbott
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816522316
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Centuries of Decline During the Hohokam Classic Period at Pueblo Grande written by David R. Abbott and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2003-03 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents findings based on new data from major excavations in Phoenix suggesting that the Classic Period at Pueblo Grande was a time of decline for the Hohokam, marked by overpopulation, environmental degradation, resource shortage, poor health, and social disintegration.

Author : Randall H. McGuire
Publisher : Eliot Werner Publications/Percheron Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Marxist Archaeology written by Randall H. McGuire and published by Eliot Werner Publications/Percheron Press. This book was released on 2002-12-31 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich intellectual tradition that offers archaeologists a way around many seemingly irresolvable theoretical oppositions, Marxism deserves a place in the philosophical and substantive debates in archaeology. This book applies Marxist theory to archaeology, explores long-term historical change and cultural evolution, and advocates a dialectical and historical approach to the study of the past. Originally published by Academic Press in 1992, this edition features a new prologue by the author.

Author : Timothy A. Kohler
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816538360
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ten Thousand Years of Inequality written by Timothy A. Kohler and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is wealth inequality a universal feature of human societies, or did early peoples live an egalitarian existence? How did inequality develop before the modern era? Did inequalities in wealth increase as people settled into a way of life dominated by farming and herding? Why in general do such disparities increase, and how recent are the high levels of wealth inequality now experienced in many developed nations? How can archaeologists tell? Ten Thousand Years of Inequality addresses these and other questions by presenting the first set of consistent quantitative measurements of ancient wealth inequality. The authors are archaeologists who have adapted the Gini index, a statistical measure of wealth distribution often used by economists to measure contemporary inequality, and applied it to house-size distributions over time and around the world. Clear descriptions of methods and assumptions serve as a model for other archaeologists and historians who want to document past patterns of wealth disparity. The chapters cover a variety of ancient cases, including early hunter-gatherers, farmer villages, and agrarian states and empires. The final chapter synthesizes and compares the results. Among the new and notable outcomes, the authors report a systematic difference between higher levels of inequality in ancient Old World societies and lower levels in their New World counterparts. For the first time, archaeology allows humanity’s deep past to provide an account of the early manifestations of wealth inequality around the world. Contributors Nicholas Ames Alleen Betzenhauser Amy Bogaard Samuel Bowles Meredith S. Chesson Abhijit Dandekar Timothy J. Dennehy Robert D. Drennan Laura J. Ellyson Deniz Enverova Ronald K. Faulseit Gary M. Feinman Mattia Fochesato Thomas A. Foor Vishwas D. Gogte Timothy A. Kohler Ian Kuijt Chapurukha M. Kusimba Mary-Margaret Murphy Linda M. Nicholas Rahul C. Oka Matthew Pailes Christian E. Peterson Anna Marie Prentiss Michael E. Smith Elizabeth C. Stone Amy Styring Jade Whitlam

Author : Tracy K. Betsinger
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 1683401409
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Odd, the Unusual, and the Strange written by Tracy K. Betsinger and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abnormal burial practices have long been a source of fascination and debate within the fields of mortuary archaeology and bioarchaeology. The Odd, the Unusual, and the Strange investigates an unparalleled geographic and temporal range of burials that differ from the usual customs of their broader societies, emphasizing the importance of a holistic, context-driven approach to these intriguing cases. From an Andean burial dating to 3500 BC to mummified bodies interred in the Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo, Sicily, during the twentieth century, the studies in this volume cross the globe and span millennia. The unusual cases explored here include Native American cemeteries in Illinois, “vampire” burials in medieval Poland, and a mass grave of decapitated soldiers in ancient China. Moving away from the simplistic assumption that these burials represent people who were considered deviant in society, contributors demonstrate the importance of an integrated biocultural approach in determining why an individual was buried in an unusual way. Drawing on historical, sociocultural, archaeological, and biological data, this volume critically evaluates the binary of “typical” versus “atypical” burials. It expands our understanding of the continuum of variation within mortuary practices, helping researchers better interpret burial evidence to learn about the people and cultures of the past. A volume in the series Bioarchaeological Interpretations of the Human Past: Local, Regional, and Global Perspectives, edited by Clark Spencer Larsen

Author : Ian Kuijt
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0306471663
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life in Neolithic Farming Communities written by Ian Kuijt and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-04-11 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on both the results of recent archaeological research and anthropological theory, leading experts synthesize current thinking on the nature of and variation within Neolithic social arrangements. The authors analyze archaeological data within a range of methodological and theoretical perspectives to reconstruct key aspects of ritual practices, labor organization, and collective social identity at the scale of the household, community, and region.

Author : Mauro Puddu
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1789690013
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Funerary Archaeology and Changing Identities: Community Practices in Roman-Period Sardinia written by Mauro Puddu and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses in detail the funerary evidence from burial sites in southern and central Sardinia, proposing an alternative interpretation of the island and of other Roman Provinces in which local communities played an active and creative role in shaping back the Roman-world within the specific material and historical conditions they lived in.

Author : James T. Watson
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 1646420136
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ancient Southwestern Mortuary Practices written by James T. Watson and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2020-08-03 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient Southwestern Mortuary Practices chronicles the modal patterns, diversity, and change of ancient mortuary practices from across the US Southwest and northwest Mexico over four thousand years of Prehispanic occupation. The volume summarizes new methodological approaches and theoretical issues concerning the meaning and importance of burial practices to different peoples at different times throughout the ancient Greater Southwest. Chapters focus on normative mortuary patterns, the range of variability of mortuary patterns, how the contexts of burials reflect temporal shifts in ideology, and the ways in which mortuary rituals, behaviors, and funerary treatments fulfill specific societal needs and reflect societal beliefs. Contributors analyze extensive datasets—archived and accessible on the Digital Archaeological Record (tDAR)—from various subregions, structurally standardized and integrated with respect to biological and cultural data. Ancient Southwestern Mortuary Practices, together with the full datasets preserved in tDAR, is a rich resource for comparative research on mortuary ritual for indigenous descendant groups, cultural resource managers, and archaeologists and bioarchaeologists in the Greater Southwest and other regions. Contributors: Nancy J. Akins, Jessica I. Cerezo-Román, Mona C. Charles, Patricia A. Gilman, Lynne Goldstein, Alison K. Livesay, Dawn Mulhern, Ann Stodder, M. Scott Thompson, Sharon Wester, Catrina Banks Whitley

Author : Jonathon E. Ericson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1489911499
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Southwest and Mesoamerica written by Jonathon E. Ericson and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Regional approaches to the study of prehistoric exchange have generated much new knowledge about intergroup and regional interaction. The American South west and Mesoamerica: Systems of Prehistoric Exchange is the first of two volumes that seek to provide current information regarding regional exchange on a conti nental basis. From a theoretical perspective, these volumes provide important data for the comparative analysis of regional systems relative to sociopolitical organization from simple hunter-gatherers to those of complex sociopolitical entities like the state. Although individual regional exchange systems are unique for each region and time period, general patterns emerge relative to sOciopolitical organization. Of significant interest to us are the dynamic processes of change, stability, rate of growth, and collapse of regional exchange systems relative to sociopolitical complexity. These volumes provide basic data to further our under standing of prehistoric exchange systems. The volume presents our current state of knowledge about regional exchange systems in the American Southwest and Mesoamerica. Each chapter synthesizes the research findings of a number of other researchers in order to provide a synchronic view of regional interaction for a specific chronological period. A diachronic view is also prOvided for regional interaction in the context of the developments in regional SOciopolitical organization. Most authors go beyond description by proposing alternative models within which to understand regional interaction. The book is organized by geographical and chronological divisions to pro vide units of the broader mosaic of prehistoric exchange systems.