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Title Ancient households of the Americas : conceptualizing what households do / edited by John G. Douglass and Nancy Gonlin.

Publication Info. Boulder : University Press of Colorado, [2012]
©2012

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Contents The household as analytical unit : case studies from the Americas / John G. Douglass and Nancy Gonlin -- Occupation span and the organization of residential activities : a cross-cultural model and case study from the Mesa Verde region / Mark D. Varien -- Production and consumption in the countryside : a case study from the late classic Maya rural commoner households at Copán, Honduras / Nancy Gonlin -- Iroquoian households : a Mohawk longhouse at Otstungo, New York / Dean R. Snow -- Activity areas and households in the late Mississippian southeast United States : who did what where? / Ramie A. Gougeon -- The social evolution of potters' households in Ticul, Yucatán, Mexico, 1965-1997 / Dean E. Arnold -- Pots and agriculture : Anasazi rural household production, Long House Valley, northern Arizona / John G. Douglass and Robert A. Heckman -- Hohokam household organization, sedentism, and irrigation in the Sonoran Desert, Arizona / Richard Ciolek-Torrello -- Understanding households on their own terms : investigations on household sizes, production, and longevity at K'axob, Belize / H. Hope Henderson -- Late classic period terrace agriculture in the lowland Maya area : modeling the organization of terrace agricultural activity / L. Theodore Neff -- Fluctuating community organization : formation and dissolution of multifamily corporate groups at La Joya, Veracruz, Mexico / Valerie J. McCormack -- Relationships among households in the prehispanic community of Mesitas in San Agustín, Colombia / Víctor González Fernández -- Interhousehold versus intracommunity comparisons : incipient socioeconomic complexity at Jachakala, Bolivia / Christine Beaule -- Arrobas, fanegas, and mantas : identifying continuity and change in early colonial Maya household production / Darcy Lynn Wiewall.
Summary In Ancient Households of the Americas archaeologists investigate the fundamental role of household production in ancient, colonial, and contemporary households. Several different cultures-Iroquois, Coosa, Anasazi, Hohokam, San Agustín, Wankarani, Formative Gulf Coast Mexico, and Formative, Classic, Colonial, and contemporary Maya-are analyzed through the lens of household archaeology in concrete, data-driven case studies. The text is divided into three sections: Section I examines the spatial and social organization and context of household production; Section II looks at the role and result.
Subject Indians -- Dwellings.
Indians -- Social life and customs.
Indians -- Antiquities.
Households -- America -- History.
Home economics -- America -- History.
Social archaeology -- America -- History.
Land settlement patterns -- America -- History.
America -- Antiquities.
HISTORY -- Native American.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Antiquities. (OCoLC)fst00810745
Home economics. (OCoLC)fst00959173
Households. (OCoLC)fst00962162
Indians -- Antiquities. (OCoLC)fst00969313
Indians -- Dwellings. (OCoLC)fst00969330
Indians -- Social life and customs. (OCoLC)fst00969405
Land settlement patterns. (OCoLC)fst00991332
Social archaeology. (OCoLC)fst01122274
America. (OCoLC)fst01239786
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Local Subject Indigenous peoples -- Dwellings.
Indigenous peoples -- Social life and customs.
Indigenous peoples -- Antiquities.
Added Author Douglass, John G., 1968-
Gonlin, Nancy.
Other Form: Print version: Ancient households of the Americas. Boulder : University Press of Colorado, ©2012 9781607321736 (DLC) 2011051660 (OCoLC)769429715
ISBN 9781607321743 (electronic book)
1607321742 (electronic book)
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